Vivek Ramaswamy Announces Dumbest Plan Ever To Eliminate Half Of All Federal Employees

Over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy laid out his plan to fire half of the entire federal workforce by using people's Social Security numbers to get rid of them. The plan is to fire anyone whose SSN ends with an odd number, and Ramaswamy is so proud of his idea that he made a point to say that it doesn't violate federal law. This plan was unveiled in a series of just a few tweets, and any plan that can fit into three tweets on social media probably isn't as thought-out as you'd like. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this disastrous idea.

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Over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate at Vivek Rema Swami outlined his plan to help streamline the federal government if of course he ever somehow makes his way into the White House. And his plan is so extensive that he was able to tell the public in just a series of like two tweets on Twitter, which of course is now called X, but I'm never going to call it that. So he put out two tweets outlining his brilliant plan to fire half of the current people working for the federal government. I will read you this insanely stupid plan on day one, instantly fire 50% of federal bureaucrats. Here's how if your social security number ends in an odd number, you're fired. This avoids civil service protections. No bureaucrat can claim their firings were politically motivated. Uh, further firings can be executed with a chisel, but step one needs to be an unrestrained chainsaw or else it won't happen.

So if you're looking at social security number and it ends in an odd number, and you currently work for the federal government, you know exactly who not to vote for. I'm assuming this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard from any Republican presidential candidate so far, like jaw droppingly, stupid by a jaw droppingly stupid person. A smart person would not say something like this. I'm sorry. They simply would not. This man is an idiot. And apparently in the Republican Party, it doesn't matter if you're, you know, uh, just a complete total moron, or if you're actually a scholar, we accept them. All right? Let's put the dumb up on stage and let him say the dumbest things that the country's ever heard Republicans hate the government, right? And, and that's why honestly, I I, I say that people who vote Republican are stupid.

And you may take offense to that. I, I don't care. But you're voting for people who are telling you, put me in a job that I'm telling you this job sucks. The company I work for sucks. Everything sucks. I want to destroy it all. So, hey, give me this job so I can destroy it. Why? Like, what company in this country would ever hire somebody like that? They wouldn't. So the fact that anybody can vote for a government hating Republican to run the government is beyond me. It's like the dumbest thing I can imagine. But that's where we are now. Ramus Swami has not actually explained, as far as I've seen, why we need to fire half of the people currently working for the federal government. He says, you know, we're not gonna lose any productivity. That's a lie. Again, go to any company on this planet. Fire half the

People, immediately tell 'em, get your stuff. Get out the door, and you suddenly watch. I guarantee you, no matter what, they're not going to be productive. Now, if you did it strategically, if you think there is waste, fraud, abuse, or bloat in these government payrolls, you can get rid of people. But you don't do it blindly. You don't do it essentially based on a lottery system. 'cause you may, you know, statistically, everybody you pick based on their social security number, you may be getting rid of all of the competent people and leaving nothing but a bunch of buffoons to run the federal government. That's not a smart idea. That is a very dumb idea from a very dumb person.