Bullshit. I earned less as a civil servant for the Federal Government, not more.

Statistically government employees make much more than their private sector counterparts for the exact same job description. Just compare a janitor at a school with cleaning staff at some bank or company.

Plus you have to add in all the added benefits, job protections, and pensions. You don't get too many people able to retire at 55 like many governments employees can.

Is not government. Governments are not Corporations, nor could they ever be run as such - because Corporations don't have civil responsibilities.

Crony capitalism is where government picks favourites and subsidizes certain corporations they like. This means stuff like giving the Beer Store a monopoly, or creating quasi-government corporations like the LCBO or Hydro One or Canada Post. Or giving gigantic sums to GM or Bombardier.

You would rather just cut them off entirely, and sit idly by while the crime rate shoots through the ceiling?

I would give them a broom and have them sweep the downtown or employ them to clean TTC washrooms or take tokens in return for a wage instead of giving them a bunch of money for doing nothing. I'm okay with welfare-for-work. I'm not okay with welfare-for-nothing.

You mean like Bombardier? Or Chrysler? Or U.S. Steel? Or IBM? Or Enbridge? Or Air Canada? Or the BBC?

Yup almost all of those are examples of companies that the government has wasted billions and billions of our money on in return for poor performance. Instead of letting them fail and having stronger competitor spring up to replace them the government instead gives them our tax money to keep them going in return for those company than funnelling tens of millions to the political parties in fundraising donations.