The TL;DR version of this article breaks it down to this: _And as John DiIulio has argued, an increase in the size and capacity of the civil service would mean fewer contractors and less wasteful spending, and hence would amount to a substantial decrease in the actual size of government. Convincing most Republicans to see things that way, however, won’t be easy. At a minimum it would require a national GOP leader who can see past conventional ideological categories, understand the advantage of compromising with Democrats when it comes to policy on government employees, and guide his party in that direction. If Scott Walker manages to win the Republican nomination, it will be because he did precisely the opposite._ I've never worked in a union and have gone out of my way to avoid them, turning down jobs that require union membership and the like. I have, unfortunately, had to deal with union workers in a number of my roles, most specifically in telecom where field techs and some low...