Many of our public school teachers are garbage, but their unions protect them. This is why so many private schools stomp their faces into the ground. If we had a real free media and a populace that gave a damn, there'd be a lot more attention given to the fact that America is getting far worse results for its money than many other nations.

Not all teachers are bad. But many are. And our system is broken as hell. That was my point, not some idiotic straw man argument that all teachers are awful teachers and bad people, which is what you responded to. Good job, you avoided the point. Presumably that's a concession. You can't make legitimate points on a topic when you're afraid to address it.

And you mentioned VERY FEW other government job positions, representing a tiny minority of the plethora of wasteful, inefficient government workers.

http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/index.shtml

Many of those agencies should be privatized or shouldn't even exist. All of them are inefficiently managed and wasteful, because they exist to serve corrupt aristocrats, rather than to get jobs done. Our lazy and apathetic populace allows for this, continuing to support the aristocracy (Democrats and Republicans) every election. Regardless of how hopeless the situation is, it's still plagued by government cronyism, which is the topic of this thread.

Many people with worthless, wasteful, unproductive positions don't hate themselves. They're too stupid and apathetic to care. They get a paycheck. They could care less whether it's from someone else's labor.

You don't care that some work so that others can be worthless? That's pretty disgusting.