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Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves (MAGA)
NY Times ^ | 11/24/17 | GARDINER HARRIS

Posted on 11/25/2017 5:22:50 AM PST by Libloather

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To: Libloather

To a Liberal like Gardiner Harris, the concept of a hugely “bloated, unaffordable bureaucracy” NEVER enters his/her little walnut brain. You know....”money grows on trees” to a liberal.

The “State Department” founded in 1789 spends 47.4 billion each year and has 30,266 employees who’s “average” pay is bumping up against 100k. They allegedly administer to affairs between the US & 180 countries.

In lieu of these facts, Gardiner Harris’s article in the Slimes is an atrocity. The American People cannot afford 30,266 100,000 dollar a year “bureaucrats” to essentially do very little. I say cut em down to 15,000.Go T-Rex!


41 posted on 11/25/2017 6:32:42 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Those are the equivalent of Prez Ford’s whip inflation now (WIN) buttons.


42 posted on 11/25/2017 6:33:27 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: elpadre
The Soviets infiltrated State Department in the 50’s and 60’s. Were they ever expunged??

Considering it's now 2017, all have retired or died...

43 posted on 11/25/2017 6:34:38 AM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Cen-Tejas

It would take a bodyman-level asst to CINC two days to call all 180 countries and say ‘here’s our foreign policy with y’all in four sentences; I’ll call ya back if it changes”.


44 posted on 11/25/2017 6:40:23 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: Sacajaweau

I can see their usefulness and importance. Government is a top down entity. specialized secretaries are needed for regions and topics as a whole. One person cannot do or decide it all .... just keep the oversight working properly and it’s okay.


45 posted on 11/25/2017 6:42:34 AM PST by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Libloather

Most of the top Latino and African American(I think that means Negroes) employees are political and affirmative action hires whose ability to do the job was not deemed relevant or whose job was to just decorate the office and constantly check for Party Correctness..


46 posted on 11/25/2017 6:42:39 AM PST by arthurus
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To: Libloather

This propaganda piece is a hoot!

OMG Tillerson has fired half of the diplomats that are equivalent to 2 and 3 Star Generals!

Wait, what?

Theses assholes think they are equivalent to 3 Star Generals?

State Department is full of do nothing lunatics, homosexuals and communists, Tillerson is actually DOING his job.

KEEP PURGING ON!!!!


47 posted on 11/25/2017 6:46:47 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Hah! You’re rockin’ ‘em and sockin’ ‘em today, buddy! Great stuff!


48 posted on 11/25/2017 6:55:53 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Please tell me I don’t ever have to see her smug- ugly face ever again!


49 posted on 11/25/2017 6:55:55 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Libloather
The only career diplomat I've ever known well was a fellow student at the Air War College. He was a State Department nominee to attend the College. They could send one every year. He was a really sharp guy. I've often wondered if he was sent to the College to get him out of the way for a while.
50 posted on 11/25/2017 6:58:14 AM PST by JoeFromSidney
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To: Guenevere

51 posted on 11/25/2017 6:59:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: exit82

“The State Dept. has been an enemy to the Republic for 75 years.”

It’s also been home to a flock of queer men. But then I guess we’re talking about the same people aren’t we?


52 posted on 11/25/2017 7:09:32 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Libloather

But it was ok when Obama did it.


53 posted on 11/25/2017 7:09:52 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ConservativeMind

“The State Department must be fumigated.
It is a cesspool worse than Hollywood. “

But so is the Justice Department, but I don’t see Sessions acting similarly. I think the good people of Alabama are sadly getting a real view for the first time of their former “senior Senator!”


54 posted on 11/25/2017 7:12:09 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Rome2000
OMG Tillerson has fired half of the diplomats that are equivalent to 2 and 3 Star Generals!

I think you put your finger on a key part of the problem at the State Dept.

It also made me laugh to read some of them have been re-assigned to help clear the State Dept's FOIA backlog.

55 posted on 11/25/2017 7:15:05 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Libloather

Sounds the alarm? Get the hell out and don’t come back and take your alarm with you


56 posted on 11/25/2017 7:18:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Libloather

Our State Dept has been full of America haters for decades. One world B.S.
Get rid of em ALL.
your average garbage man could have done a better job than this bunch has done.


57 posted on 11/25/2017 7:25:06 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

This valley girl stoopid?


58 posted on 11/25/2017 7:26:01 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: captain_dave
“When the trough runs dry the pigs will leave.”

But only after the pigs eat each other.

Only then will a few pigs leave, Al Franken and that old dude from Michigan cases in point.

59 posted on 11/25/2017 7:26:01 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: usconservative

“Diversity is nothing more than code for the incompetence and bloat that exists in our Federal Government. Oh hell, government at every level!”

And these worthless turds probably have a union of some sort to battle with Tillerson on every dismissal. I understand that we’re opening an “embassy in Antartica,” so maybe a lot of these folks who resist the administration can be “reassigned” there.


60 posted on 11/25/2017 7:35:12 AM PST by vette6387
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