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'Old people'? You mean citizens who paid taxes to finance social security and medicare for previous generations of retirees? Scandalous - how dare they.

...and to infrastructure and public services and creation and maintaining of them.

Such things actually make up a fairly small portion of government spending.

http://usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2009_US_total

Further, ask yourself who makes a profit on public service - the child who is poorly educated by a failing school, or the teacher who is overpaid to provide that service?

Old people are ordinary citizens and all ordinary citizens with either die early or become old people. Unions are also collective groups of ordinary citizens. Thus following the money leads to ordinary citizens.

I sympathise with your first sentence and mostly agree with it. The second is wrong, even if you don't understand it as it was meant, as government employee unions.