Vivek Ramaswamy, who is too rich to settle for buying himself a fancy car to assuage his mid-life crisis, decided instead to run for president said, "I've fired underperformers in the private sector. I'm going to do it for probably 75% of the people who work as federal bureaucrats in the government in Washington, D.C."

We need Goofyhoofy here to give us a rendition of how this is false. The fact is that some areas in the US Government are recognized around the world as working very well and very efficiently besides how the workers there feel about it. :)

I remember well that at one point some Republicans were attempting to privatize the IRS' dunning letter system. (A dunning letter is a collection notice sent to a customer explaining that a payment they owe is overdue.) Now this software would print and mail collection letters for certain debt on a schedule for about 2 years with escalating messages - all legal. The people dunned could also set up dispute resolution - there are valid disputes. Not all debt went to this system, but most of it did. It was very efficient and other countries studied the system to increase their debt collection.

At one point the privatize everything folk wanted to privatize this. But how it would work was the computer part would be done by the private sector, then the actual person to person collection work would go back to the IRS. Why go back? The IRS already tried using private person to person collectors and the people's rights were trampled. Turned out you needed a skilled workforce who were trained on those rights for the best results.

We would lose money and control by privatizing the dunning letter system.

Moral of this story: If you want to have a nightmare state where your rights aren't considered and no one pays attention to whether you have a legitimate complaint or that you actually are harmed or don't owe the money, go ahead and fire that 75%.