why should only federal employees get paid for not working. why can't fast food employees or people that drive for uber? why put federal employees into a privileged position and then force me to pay for their holidays?
Do fast food workers not deserve PTO as well? What is with your race to the bottom, to make everyone except the super rich suffer? Perhaps we should be looking to improve the conditions for all workers, rather than slashing the meager benefits that already exist?well if that's a fact then why even discuss the national debt problem at all since it will never be solved.
Because it affects us all when our debt hits 300% of GDP, our economy collapses, and the USD becomes worthless.so your whole thing is, let's not make small changes because so far we haven't been able to make larger ones. that doesn't seem very rational 
My point is you can make all the small changes you want to the detriment of 99% of the population, and all you will do is slow the speed the of debt increase and never actually halt or reverse it. If you want to solve the problem and not just delay it, then we need much larger scale changes.