Pete Buttigieg

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264 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2024 last heard 11 Apr

Pete Buttigieg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Yeah.
But usually they make difficult decisions to try to make other people better off.
This person has made decisions to make himself better off.
That's definitely happened.
If you're the kind of person who can pay a million bucks for the entry fee to Mar-a-Lago, then you're doing great.
Everybody else is hurting right now.
He can't hear us.
We have a lot of merch pictures.
This is Raymond.
But look at what happened when they came in.
If this is actually about government efficiency, then the problem you would be solving, which is a real problem, is that in the federal government, it is too hard to reward your top performers.
So you could be somebody who could be commanding a multimillion dollar salary in the private sector, working on something wildly important, but there's just no way that you're getting, you know, you're in your particular pay grade, same as everybody else.
and to remove your bottom performance.
Like a lot of people who've been in and out of business and government will tell me, like when I was in the private sector and the public sector, actually like the top 10% were pretty much the same, these amazing driven people.
You know, the government ones weren't compensated as well, but they were purpose driven.
But the bottom 10% was completely different because I couldn't do anything about the bottom 10%, right?
So imagine if Doge had come in
And they had gone through every department and said, OK, we're going to create a way to reward the top performers.
And we're also going to analyze either whose job description is no longer needed or their job performance is not there.
And even though it's painful, even though maybe it's politically tough, we're going to show them the door.
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