The economy would be better off. We’re giving money to unproductive, useless people and organizations. We might as well flush the money down the toilet. “But they’re consumers!” So what. They do not produce anything useful. You don’t create a job just for the sake of a job. To paraphrase Peter Schiff, you want to create jobs that maximize labor productivity. All of those government employees will have to find real jobs in the private sector. They will have to worry about themselves and how to feed their families, not everyone else.