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it doesn't matte much to those who lose them. Unemployed is unemployed. And there is no evidence the private sector is bouncing back. Nor are regulations as much to blame as some like to pretend. The fact is people elsewhere work for a lot less. And they don't have healthcare attached to employment (They have UHC). So, as much as some like to think all would be fixed this way, it won't. Most those people are not leeches, but workers doing a job. You may not want that job done, but it is a job and requires work.
Let us take the federal DOEd (ED) as an example. Its annual budget is $68.1 billion, and it "serves" 54 million students (all in state, local or private schools). That makes an annual average per student cost to taxpayers of $1,260 (not couting other federal education aid from HHS (head start) and Agriculture (school lunch program) departments. Measured another way, federal spending on K-12 education increased from 0.27 percent of gross domestic product in 1965 to 0.57 percent today. Needless to say, student performance did not improve due to that nearly 50% increase in federal funding.