Billionaire Vivek Tells Federal Workers Getting Fired Will Be Good For Them

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The new pick to head the non-existent department of government efficiency, billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, told a gathering at the Aspen Security Forum that laying off federal workers will be "good for many of the individuals who make a transition from government service back to the private sector."

Vivek also said he doesn't believe "that the highest and best use of any of those talented people is what they're doing in the federal government today."

Ramaswamy, along with his co-chair of the fake department, richest man in the world Elon Musk, have promised to lay off half the federal workforce and cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. Ramaswamy also admitted in the forum that laying off millions of federal employees isn't about saving money but about an "overgrown federal government that is doing things that were never supposed to be done by the federal government in the first place."

With the U.S. at 4% unemployment and private sector employment essentially full, it is unclear what jobs Ramaswamy thinks will be available for the millions of American workers he is pushing to make unemployed.

https://meidasnews.com/news/billionaire-vivek-tells-federal-workers-getting-fired-will-be-good-for-them

[Redleg]

1. He shows contempt for those of us who chose public service

Fuck that guy.

[underpants]

11. Vivek would have been let go before his probationary period ended

[MontanaMama]

2. I'm not saying that people like this POS may

have targets on their backs for saying things like this...but if it happened, I wouldn't be surprised.

[dlk]

3. Who does this little weasel think he is?

He apparently doesn’t have a life. Otherwise he wouldn’t be so hyper-focused on harming others. Like Musk, all of his riches haven’t bought him happiness or peace of mind.

[alarimer]

4. Fuck this guy.

Most of the people working for the federal government are doing jobs with no functional equivalent in the private sector: fisheries biologist, meteorologists, infectious disease specialist, park rangers. They are dedicated professionals. Vivek and his ilk have no fucking clue.

[haele]

9. There's little profit in the projects the Federal Government does.

However, there's a lot of profit resulting in or supporting the projects the Federal Government does for the common good.

The only folks who don't profit a lot from the Federal Government are the actual Federal Employees.

Haele

[Irish_Dem]

13. The billionaires think they can privatize all these services, then fire people.

Then pocket the cash.

[alarimer]

19. Yes, but privatizing government services is always more expensive.

Employees will be paid even less (and federal employees don't make a mint). BUT the companies take their cut first. And everything gets worse.

It will also completely devastate economies of Virginia and Maryland, as well as DC.

[Irish_Dem]

24. The obvious goal is to make DC a ghost town.

Fire most of the federal workers and then move what is left to good forsaken spots in red states.

Yes privatizing means the billionaires make hue profits.
So of course it is more expensive to the customers.

It is a scam and rip off.

[travelingthrulife]

25. But they aren't making money for him so they are useless.

These people are really demented.

[genxlib]

29. The ones that do have private equivalents often result from the Federal Government

If there are private equivalent...

They are often funded by the government through grants or procurement

or

Are hired to perform functions in response to regulations such as wetlands permitting

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. When they're unemployed he'll call them lazy,

parasites, people undeserving of benefits like unemployment (which I'm sure he'll lobby to abolish). Oligarchic pigs are so predictable.

[Bettie]

36. Do you really think that they plan

for unemployment benefits to even BE available anymore?

Remember, the people who will be in charge of things have NEVER once wondered if they can stretch a paycheck until the next one, never had to take a calculator to the grocery store to make sure they had enough money, never had to eat ramen and peanut butter for that last week of the month...and it shows.

Wonder when the last time that any of them had to interact with an ordinary person who wasn't serving them.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. How much is he expecting to take in personally on this boondoggle.

Losing your income isn't exactly fun and games.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Federal budget is about $7 Trillion a year.

We can assume the billionaires are quite eager to get their hands on that pile of money asap.

[BoRaGard]

7. G.O.P. Billionaire Bros get off pissing on the proles

no respect

[magicarpet]

8. Once the services governmental employees are privatized.

The government workers let go by Eloon and Vivek will now be free to go out into the hot sun and pick the lettuce that migrant workers used to pick and box for the grocery stores.

Wages and benefits might take a major hit,.... but that is free market capitalism.

[MontanaMama]

14. Project 2025's Russell Voght said that their goal

was to put EPA employees and other civil servants into "deep trauma". This is beyond disturbing. I don't know how they can be stopped.

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

[travelingthrulife]

27. Russel's a good Christian boy.

[Bettie]

37. Whose beliefs are as far from the purported

words of Jesus as they can possibly be.

[obamanut2012]

10. Fuck him

I have been in public service for decades, and have always worked with earnest, smart, hard-working people, working for teh public good. Guess making money for him is more important than the public good.

[underpants]

12. They are really after benefits

Public section jobs have always had really good (massive scale collectively bargained) benefits. It’s a huge selling point even if the pay isn’t that great.

That’s what they are after.

[travelingthrulife]

28. Yes. and those benefits are meant to keep good employees from fleeing to

the private sector.

This is going to be unimaginably tragic.

[Diamond_Dog]

15. I will never understand how anyone

who is not a billionaire votes Republican.

[Deep State Witch]

33. God, Guns, Gays, and Abortion

They fire up the culture wars to distract the masses from the oligarchs.

[Jit423]

16. "Civil Service" once had a meaning that the likes of Musk and Vivek will never understand.

People who hate the Feds because of what they say are too many regulations just want the private sector to have free reign on employees with no protections whatsoever. A lot of very meaningful projects were built with a civil service made right after WWII. Those projects made it possible for lots of people to live in the states like TN, TX, LA, UT, and more.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. He Must Be Really Bad Ar Math

There are around 2 million civilian employees of the federal government.
Half that workforce is a million.
To save $2 trillion, each employee would carry a total cash load of $2 million, EACH.
I think those employees would be quite surprised that their total compensation and carrying costs are that high. It would mean they all make $1.8 million per year!
The guy is discussing a fictitious government function using fictitious numbers to get a fictitious cost analysis.
Or maybe he just can't multiply & divide.

[tenderfoot]

20. He's not a billionaire.

But he is a huge asshole.

[Hugin]

21. This guy who got a total of a vote and a half in the retrumplican primary is telling us how things 'aughta be...

What's this billionaire crap. Cash out, Vivek. Let's see the money.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

22. My new name for Vivek: Fuzzy Math-aswamy.

[patphil]

31. How about Ramaswampy?

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

34. Sure, that works too!

[Redleg]

35. I like "Ramasmarmy"

I wonder if these assholes are just seeking more attention. "Look at me, I'm important because I'm incredibly wealthy." I like Paul Krugman's recent characterization of their ilk as "...billionaires who don't feel sufficiently admired."

[moondust]

23. And slaves benefited from slavery.

Is he from Floriduh?

[Wounded Bear]

26. Funny how "tough love" always seems to emphasize the "tough" without much love...

[patphil]

30. So they want to deport over 10 million immigrants and fire millions of federal workers?

And add a massive tariff on foreign goods sold here?
Oh, and cut back on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Benefits.
That will crater our economy big time; possible actual depression.
It would also push the world economy over the edge.
If all this is done, there will be riots in the streets, massive civil disobedience, mass arrests, and perhaps a whole bunch of people getting killed.
This is the future Trump promises for America.
He is in the process of setting up the team that will do all this.
Ramaswampy is just another billionaire who couldn't care less what the cost to America is, as long as he gets to tear it down his way.

[Deep State Witch]

32. Sounds Like What They're Going To Do

Is fire all of those people with clearances and specialties, then make them go out to Federal contracting companies to find work doing the same thing they were doing in the government. Without the retirement and good benefits. "Oh, you're an agricultural specialist working on climate-resistant wheat? Tough shit. Go work at McDonalds."

[struggle4progress]

38. I wonder if being vivisected with a chain saw would be good for Vivek

It might be character-building experience

[Hekate]

39. Federal government isn't supposed to make a profit. Now pardon me while I heave on him.

[Mossfern]

40. There will be an impact on State and County programs as a result

I worked for the equivalent of a Welfare to Work program at the County level, that got its funding from the State which I think was reliant of Federal funding. I know that all my work was monitored by the State.
If Federal employees are fired and State funds are cut, the State workers will lose their jobs and then, down the line, County workers - so vastly MORE unemployed.

On top of that, the people who use/need the resources that the County provides will lose all educational and training programs and supports like child care, food stamps and transportation. And THEN Republicans will call these clients lazy and cut any more resources that they may need.

Ugh!

[Rebl2]

41. How about

this Vivek. No salary for the President or senator’s and cut the pay of representatives in congress. Smaller salaries for cabinet members. No firing of federal employees unless they are not doing their job.