State Dept. Cuts 1300 Stsffers jobs.

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Trump is trimming the fat in Washington.

Cuttung unnecessary spending. About time


State Department cuts over 1,300 staffers as part of Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul

All of which will be rehired by the next administration – along with thousands of other jobs in other departments and agencies.

 

[eagle1462010]

All of which will be rehired by the next administration – along with thousands of other jobs in other departments and agencies.

Dems live taxes and big govt

 

[Darkwind]

Fair enough. Florida’s made moves to localize, and that’s worth noting. But not every state’s ready. After the Lahaina fire, Hawaii’s warning system failed outright—no sirens, no evacuation alert, just smoke and wind. A cell phone can’t help if the grid's down or the message never comes. FEMA’s funding for hazard mitigation was on the chopping block last year—exactly the kind of quiet role you don’t notice until it’s too late.

That is on Hawaii, not the Feds.

 

[Seth]

That is on Hawaii, not the Feds.

You're right that the state bears responsibility—but so does the federal side when FEMA funding for mitigation gets slashed. This wasn’t just a local failure. It was a system meant to protect people, and it broke in more than one place.

 

[eagle1462010]

You're right that the state bears responsibility—but so does the federal side when FEMA funding for mitigation gets slashed. This wasn’t just a local failure. It was a system meant to protect people, and it broke in more than one place.

I love how those who love big government as almost a person. The people fund tje Fed, States fund the Fed....

Be better to cut out the middleman the Fed and States handle it.

 

[Darkwind]

You're right that the state bears responsibility—but so does the federal side when FEMA funding for mitigation gets slashed. This wasn’t just a local failure. It was a system meant to protect people, and it broke in more than one place.

There is a criminal conspiracy surrounding the fires in Hawaii as well. I do' think this is a good example, and given the actions of FEMA in North Carolina in the aftermath of that hurricane -- I do' remember its name -- and agents deliberately picking and choosing who gets aid based on political ideology, I have to agree with Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security.

FEMA needs to go away until a way can be found to take the partisanship out of it. Guess what? That will never happen if it is controlled by D.C.

The best plan is to send the aid to the States (I oppose this too) and let the people who actually care about recovery over politics.

 

[citygator]

Elaborate?

You see to be in short supply of compassion. I thought I’d show you some .

 

[Seth]

There is a criminal conspiracy surrounding the fires in Hawaii as well. I do' think this is a good example, and given the actions of FEMA in North Carolina in the aftermath of that hurricane -- I do' remember its name -- and agents deliberately picking and choosing who gets aid based on political ideology, I have to agree with Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security.

FEMA needs to go away until a way can be found to take the partisanship out of it. Guess what? That will never happen if it is controlled by D.C.

The best plan is to send the aid to the States (I oppose this too) and let the people who actually care about recovery over politics.

I love how those who love big government as almost a person. The people fund tje Fed, States fund the Fed....

Be better to cut out the middleman the Fed and States handle it.

If the problem is federal corruption, the answer isn’t to hand the wheel to fifty different drivers with fifty different priorities. That’s not decentralization—that’s fragmentation. FEMA didn’t fail because it was too big; it failed because it was underfunded, politically manipulated, and gutted of oversight. Cut it loose and you don’t solve the problem—you bury the evidence and leave smaller agencies to drown in its wake.

States do matter, but when disaster hits like a freight train, we need a national response with national reach. Otherwise, we’re one governor’s grudge or one missing line item away from watching aid stall while people die. You don’t fix a broken roof by removing the rafters—you fix the rot and reinforce the beams.

 

[marvin martian]

In my 45 year public and mainly private sector career, I saw a score of mass layoffs including my own on a few occasions. Rarely was anyone missed after they were gone, personally or functionally. My 5 years as a civilian DoD employee were spent in an agency (DLA) that could have been entirely removed with little impact on DoD's operations.

The 1,300 or so State Department employees who got their pink slips yesterday were, statistically speaking, 90% voting Democrats, and I doubt that any of their functions was important to the country.

It would be very interesting to follow their career paths and see how many of them actually are forced to get real jobs to support themselves - jobs in private industry where they are "at-will" employees and can be removed again if they are not productive. Frankly, I rather doubt it. They will go to work for other government agencies, non-profits, NGO's and such, maybe do something equally worthless for a state or local government.

But it would be interesting to know.

I'm sure they're going to sue the government for firing them, and tie up more time and waste more money making the government defend themselves against a lawsuit the plaintiffs are certain to lose.

 

[Failzero]

Taking Draining the Swamp to Suicidal levels ( Well Done ! )

 

[jbrownson0831]

All of which will be rehired by the next administration – along with thousands of other jobs in other departments and agencies.

Vance won't rehire them facediaper. If they can remember how to actually work, they will need to find real jobs.

 

[Lisa558]

So 5200 welfare recipients go on unemployment. Taxpayers are screwed either way.

But it costs us less. Some of those government employees hanging around the pool every day last summer were earning $180,000 a year.

 

[marvin martian]

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The State Dept should follow up with investigations into those people.

 

[Lisa558]

It’s a lot less crowded at the grocery store and matinee movies during the week since Trump called them back to work, too.

The government workers used to LAUGH about it to me.

 

[Lisa558]

The State Dept should follow up with investigations into those people.

The State Department, and government in general, has so many DEI employees hanging out in the halls like you wouldn’t believe.

 

[Lisa558]

Both I and someone I know took pay CUTS to get out of our government jobs - held for less than a year - because they were boring, infuriating, and a big waste of our talents. A bunch of “make-work” projects that never saw the light of day.

 

[Mac1958]

How do you know they aren’t necessary?

They couldn't care less.

And such a question wouldn't even occur to them to begin with.