I disagree.  Freeloading would be drawing welfare.  I worked 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week providing a service for real people.  I once received a tip of $100 on top of the $50 fare... and it was very rare that I was not tipped.  I provided good service.

 

There are folks who attach themselves to 'honest types' and milk them until they are dry.  Some are your every day criminals and others are the kind that think because you give of your own accord, you should give still more... and more... and more.  Both type will suck on you 'till naught is left but an empty husk.

 

In its current form, the federal government is a parasite that gives no benefit... except that which is required for its own survival.  To blithly suggest it can be gotten 'rid of' is naive in the extreme... bordering upon insanity.

 

The federal parasite will not ever give up its host and it will commit all manner of atrocity to see to it that you, I and everyone else stay put in our roles as hosts for its appetites.

 

While I speak of it as a single entity, in point of fact... it isn't.  That's what makes it so horrible.  The 'Fed' is composed of, literally, over 2 million individuals that, likely as not, are good people whom I'd probably like well enough on an individual basis. 

 

Thus it is that we find ourselves oppressed by little old ladies who would bake us cookies if we asked and earnest gentleman who will attempt to help us navigate reams upon reams of red tape.  Never before has oppression come in such a soft, fuzzy package.  And it gets still worse!

 

Those were just the direct employees of the Federal government.  This evil machine has rigged things in such a way that good people who would never dream of harming anyone or stealing so much as a penny from anyone are, by default and willful ignorance, harming and stealing from people who they have never met... harming and stealing from people who are not yet even born and worse still, convinced they have the right!

 

One can think back somewhat wistfully to the days of Stalin and Pol Pot... vile dictators who played no games about what they were.  This current manifestation of tyranny in the form of unka sam and all the little sammies... fluffy bunnies armed with bullwhips, tazors and handcuffs.  It's Stalin re-incarnated as a hundred million tribbles.