Tried that on a couple of young Obamabots in the 2008 election. I asked them to name a successful, efficent government run agency. Their answer...USPS.
Pointing out how much money it was losing they said the problem was taxes that were too low and unfair competition from the private sector.
Classic liberal idiocy.
Damn. They're half right. The USPS isn't losing the money that you hear in the headlines. They're being robbed of much of that. USPS is a successful, and reasonably efficient example of a government run agency, only, they're only a quasi government run agency. For example, I can't think of any other government run agency that has invested heavily in automation, rightly or wrongly, and has actually shrunk the work force. Rightly or wrongly. This last round of closures has hurt the business, but the USPS will plod along and pretend that everything is skittles. This pretend parlor game of having the USPS run as an independent, free business, while being under the control of Congress, has indeed reaped some efficiency.
Unfortunately, they then stumble into the idiocy of "taxes too low and unfair competition with the private sector" as reasons for the money loss. It's utter ignorance of what they speak, and the necessity to regurgitate headlines, professorial puke, and what they read on twitter that leads to such un-insightful comments.