I’ve worked for the Federal government most of my adult life - first as an Army officer, then as a Federal law enforcement officer, and now in the civil service.
I also worked in the private sector for a few years, so I’ve got experience in both sides.
There’s just as many lazy people in the private sector as in the government.
The difference is private sector workers get fired from one job and then simply move to another private sector job. They never leave the private sector or start their own businesses. It’s harder (but certainly not impossible) to fire a lazy government worker. Typically, they just get transferred to where they can do the least amount of damage.
Damn straight!
Private sector jobs (with the exception of large corporations with unions) tend to weed out the losers and governmental organizations either ignore the losers or shove them off on some other department.
And still collect their pension for "doing the least amount of damage".