"The federal government needs to be slashed and the lazy, unproductive workers let go."

Curious how many government workers you know, to be calling so many of them lazy.
Or can you tell they're lazy just by looking at the color of their skin?

I was a Temp for the Federal Government phone banking for FEMA after one of the big California earthquakes. Nobody was lazy. I had to get my ass downtown to the conference room in the Marriott in sub-zero DC weather every day. The Marriott had hot spiced cider which I helped myself to every morning. That was back before the Green Line connector and you had to wait on the windy platform to switch trains.

Maybe government workers are as lazy as you are in your own country.

But here in America, people usually tend to work pretty hard at what they do, and don't mind putting in the hours if they think they're getting things done.

"Here is a little secret for you - there is not a single organization in the world with over 500 people that could not cut 10% of its workforce and see no drop in productivity."

Really.
Which organization of 500 people did you cut 50 workers from, with no impact on productivity?
It's so amazingly obvious when you lie.

"Actually Musk cut about 80%o Twitter staff [now 'X'] and the site is functioning well."

Too many private companies, like govt over time end up with a bloated bureaucracy and if you follow business news you see when a company is 'on the ropes' fiscally, the structure down, eliminating positions and letting employees go to get lean and mean to be able to compete.
#15 | Posted by MSgt

Setting aside that Twitter was a publicly traded company --
It's not a private company's own bloated bureaucracy that is creating headwinds.
It's Trump's Central Planning.

Altogether, Trump's tariffs will raise $2.1 trillion in revenue over the next decade on a conventional basis ($1.5 trillion on a dynamic basis) and reduce US GDP by 0.8 percent, all before foreign retaliation. Including foreign retaliation announced as of April 10, the tariffs reduce US GDP by 1.0 percent.