This chart was recently released by the State Dept...there's a long way to go.
Posted on 11/25/2017 5:22:50 AM PST by Libloather
I have 2 reasons for not being immediately upset over Tillerson’s actions.1. When is the last time State Department employees drove across the country, stopping to talk to people all along the way? Are they aware of how hard it has become for many people to make a living? Do they realize that 40% of American children are being born out-of -wedlock, and that most non-married parents split up by the time their child turns 5? Have they thought about the ramifications of this on the child or on society? Are they aware of how much of our infra-structure is falling apart? Do they have an out-dated image of America as an economic powerhouse where almost everyone is doing well, such that we have an endless amount of resources to support other countries?
2. How much of the money America gives away is actually spent on the medical or infra-structure projects it was meant for? Why haven’t we asked why hospitals, bridges, or schools aren’t being built in countries such as Afghanistan, Uganda, and Liberia even though we have funded them? Where has the money gone?
Critics say our foreign aid has been used by foreign leaders to either line their own pockets and/ or to buy support from influential people. This buffers the leaders from having to respond to what their citizens need.
Let us focus more of our resources on rebuilding our own country. While this will leave us less to give away, if we require accountability, the aid we give will make more of a difference.
Anyone that promotes the notion that diversity rather than competence is our strength should have his next bypass operation done by a diversity hire.
This chart was recently released by the State Dept...there's a long way to go.
They make appointments to meet with their equally feckless, talentless counterparts of other regimes.
We need to raze Foggy Bottom to the ground and salt the earth. Build a very small facility somewhere else and then take job applications for only the needed positions, excluding anybody who ever once worked for the State Department.
Long ago the laws were put into place to place most government employees out of the reach of the politicians at the top. The idea being their jobs could not be used for political favors.
The huge problem with that was the leftists patiently loaded all the positions with their cronies anyway thus allowing the Left to run things even when conservatives were in power.
I am not sure which of those two systems are better or worse and right now I am inclined to think that at least with everything being political positions Conservatives would have a chance at making needed changes. Also, government jobs would possibly be more short term thus not creating all the embedded deadwood sucking up taxpayer money. There would be far fewer government employees coasting to a 20 or 30 year retirement.
“The huge problem with that was the leftists patiently loaded all the positions with their cronies anyway thus allowing the Left to run things even when conservatives were in power.”
So what we’ve had is a working level cadre of liberal/socialist/ Marxists embedded in our bureaucracy that have been made immune from having to carry out the high-level policies of each administration and they have used that immunity against having to follow the current leadership by public employee unions or whatever you choose to call them. People acting with impunity knowing full well that their leaders are almost powerless to stop their perversion of authority.
I am daily watching with wonderment at how this unholy alliance is thwarting President Trump’s agenda. It isn’t enough that the GOPe is openly defiant, it’s virtually everyone in Washington who is at odds with his policies using their government jobs in such a way as to delay the implementation of the new administration’s direction and they are getting away with it.
I mean when foreign Embassies, Consulates and other US Government offices refuse to take down Obama’s picture and replace it with Trump’s as required by law, we see the dimensions of the problem. Hat’s off to Tillerson, Pruett and others who, unlike Sessions have the fortitude and resolve to do the jobs the way that they had agreed to in their pre-appointment interviews with the President.
It is much nicer seeing the Boo Hoo girl, rather than photos of Helen Thomas.
Oh much longer than that, at least since 1914 and the racist Woodrow Wilson.
It’s just got much worse since then.
Smells like “About Time” to me.
Ten months after the inauguration, and Trump has finally started to fire Obama appointees.
It's not winning.
It's a failure of leadership.
Trump seems disappointed with Tillerson. I'll take his opinion over Gingrich's.
The other key words are "failure to nominate" which seems to be the case in most of these vacancies. There are no nominees for the Egypt, Turkey, South Korea, Jordan, Qatar, Syria, or Saudi Arabia. Some of the Assistant Secretary slots have no nominees. We're talking the Middle East and Korean Peninsula, two areas on the verge of erupting.
Then get rid of them and replace them. The work doesn't go away just because the job is vacant.
Here's a list of vacancies, filled slots, and nominees as of November 16. Link
A lot of seemingly important countries with nobody in charge.
That was my favorite part of the article. The writer utterly failed to make a compelling case as to why what’s happening is legitimately a “Bad Thing” and instead focused on “Tillerson isn’t checking the right boxes!” as a complaint.
GFY, SJW. Burn the State Department to the ground.
“Then get rid of them and replace them. The work doesn’t go away just because the job is vacant.”
I have to believe that as with all government agencies, the DoS has plenty of deadwood. Plus the new Administration probably will defocus on stuff that the RATs loved but was of no value. Government isn’t a jobs program, but that’s how the RATs always see it. During the Obola years, the DoS went from 57,000 to 74,000 employees, it needs a huge cut.
I see what you did here!
Ambassadors are deadwood? Who knew?
“Ambassadors are deadwood? Who knew?’
Why would you “exempt” them? You’re “good” with a holdover ambassador from the past administration? Left to do whatever the past administration wanted done? I find your thinking surprising unless you’re a never Trumper.
There aren't any holdovers from the prior administration - Trump requested that they all resign back in January - Link. And 11 months later he hasn't nominated replacements for most of them. So are all ambassadors deadwood? Really?
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