In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may

A or D. I think I'm going with A. At first I thought I and II, but that wasn't an option. I don't like III because nothing in the argument supports how many gov't workers are civil service employees. As for #2, the argument implies that it is hard and costly to fire them, but that doesn't mean workers are not actually fired, even though it costs a lot of money to do it. There could be no more workers this author thinks should be fired, but it cost the government a bunch of money to do it. Also, with #2, we don't know whether the author thinks it is a good thing that these workers be fired. All we know is that it is very difficult to fire them. This author could think that these employees should be counseled until they perform better, rather than being fired. I don't see in the argument where we can actually support the author's view on what action should be taken regarding employees that loaf. Third third issue is that the statistic is about Civil Service employees, which we believe to be government employees, but # II is about government employees. Because the author does not excplicitly state that Civil Service = all government employees, we cannot make that leap for the author in this logic and II has another reason it is not supported.