What we voted for: State Department to lay off 3,000 useless employees

[marvin martian]

This is good news!

Another campaign promise delivered by President Trump!

New: State Department Letting Go Almost 3,000 Workers

State Department to lay off nearly 3,000 employees in significant workforce reduction.

redstate.com

On Friday, the State Department is expected to lay off or accept the voluntary resignation of nearly 3,000 employees, in a move that, all told, is supposed to result in a 15 percent reduction in the State Department's workforce.

"The departments, bureaus, offices and domestic operations have grown considerably over the last 25 years, and the resulting proliferation of bureaus and offices with unclear, overlapping or duplicative mandates have hobbled the department's ability to rapidly respond to emerging threats and crises or to effectively advance America's affirmative interests in the world," a senior State Department official said.

The official added that there are "more than 700 domestic offices for 18,000 people."

"A lot of this, as we said, covers redundant offices and takes some of these cross-cutting functions and moves them to the regional bureaus and to our embassies overseas, to the people who are closest to where diplomacy is happening, to empower them with the resources and authorities they need to be able to carry out the President's foreign policy."

 

[JanetTheGreat]

Good. The Federal Government needs to be downsized.

 

[excalibur]

No doubt many are Øbama or Biden political hacks, subversives no longer at work against America.

 

[marvin martian]

No doubt many are Øbama or Biden political hacks, subversives no longer at work against America.

For sure. The undercover enemies of America need to be routed out and removed.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

For sure. The undercover enemies of America need to be routed out and removed.

The Department of Education needs to abolished.

 

[marvin martian]

The Department of Education needs to abolished.

I believe that is what Linda McMahon was hired to do. I expect it to be gone before President Trump's term ends.

 

[JWBooth]

The Dept. of State should be folded up and brought to an end. In the past 25 years it has been nothing more than a jr. adjunct of the DoD.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

The Dept. of State should be folded up and brought to an end. In the past 25 years it has been nothing more than a jr. adjunct of the DoD.

I also believe the Postal Service should be wrapped up into the Department of Commerce.

 

[BluesLegend]

Government is in SHOCK over layoffs. Your government mooching sponge job is supposed to be a job for life.

 

[Foxfyre]

This is good news!

Another campaign promise delivered by President Trump!

New: State Department Letting Go Almost 3,000 Workers

State Department to lay off nearly 3,000 employees in significant workforce reduction.

redstate.com

On Friday, the State Department is expected to lay off or accept the voluntary resignation of nearly 3,000 employees, in a move that, all told, is supposed to result in a 15 percent reduction in the State Department's workforce.

Yes we voted to downsize government and make it affordable, effective, efficient. And of course that means downsizing the work force, most especially when we can operate efficiently and effectively without that personnel. It doesn't matter whether they are great wonderful dedicated people. If they aren't needed and aren't required to deliver necessary government services, they should not be on the payroll. The private sector will no doubt hire the good ones.

The Democrats of course will accuse the Trump administration of eliminating critical services without a single clue of what the laid off personnel were actually doing. It's just like they say eliminating USAID will kill millions of people and won't even consider that less than 10% of USAID outlay was getting to anybody who needed it and that 10% will continue but will be administered elsewhere in the State Department.

Honesty is not a strong suit of the TDS afflicted.

 

[Blaster]

Bloated Government.

 

[Independent thinker]

I also believe the Postal Service should be wrapped up into the Department of Commerce.

I actually think the postal service should be sold off to the highest bidder, like UPS, Fedex, or even the likes of Amazon or even Walmart.

 

[Doc7505]

This is good news!

Another campaign promise delivered by President Trump!

New: State Department Letting Go Almost 3,000 Workers

State Department to lay off nearly 3,000 employees in significant workforce reduction.

redstate.com

On Friday, the State Department is expected to lay off or accept the voluntary resignation of nearly 3,000 employees, in a move that, all told, is supposed to result in a 15 percent reduction in the State Department's workforce.

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Now there's got to be more cuts in Federal employees.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

I actually think the postal service should be sold off to the highest bidder, like UPS, Fedex, or even the likes of Amazon or even Walmart.

I would rather it not be in the hands of a corporation like Amazon or Walmart. They'd charge you for it. Not a good idea.

 

[1srelluc]

Great place to start too, it's full of leftists.

 

[1srelluc]

Another source:

US State Department Begins Laying Off More Than 1,300 Employees​

The US State Department began laying off more than 1,300 employees on Friday as part of President Donald Trump's campaign to massively downsize the federal government workforce.
www.barrons.com

The US State Department began laying off more than 1,300 employees on Friday as part of President Donald Trump's campaign to massively downsize the federal government workforce.

A State Department official said 1,107 members of the civil service and 246 Foreign Service employees were being informed that they were being fired.

The layoffs at the department come three days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to begin carrying out mass firings of federal workers.

The conservative-dominated top court lifted a temporary block imposed by a lower court on Trump's plans to potentially lay off tens of thousands of government employees.

From WSJ:

MSN

The department on Friday began notifying the employees being let go, including more than 1,100 civil servants and around 250 foreign-service officers, according to internal department documents and officials familiar with the matter.

 

[22lcidw]

I also believe the Postal Service should be wrapped up into the Department of Commerce.

The government employees in charge are corrupted and part of the chain of the George Carlin Club for their level. Help no one.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

The government employees in charge are corrupted and part of the chain of the George Carlin Club for their level. Help no one.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The Private Sector is corrupt. The Government is corrupt. There are no ethics in either, sadly.

 

[marvin martian]

I actually think the postal service should be sold off to the highest bidder, like UPS, Fedex, or even the likes of Amazon or even Walmart.

Just eliminate it altogether. The private companies do a far better job, for far less cost. They can absorb the USPS's few remaining duties, which seem to mostly be delivering junk mail and employing useless civil "servants".

 

[Independent thinker]

I would rather it not be in the hands of a corporation like Amazon or Walmart. They'd charge you for it. Not a good idea.

The US postal service has a bad business model - charge all of their losses to the US national debt. Surely it costs more than 73 cents for them to send a letter from the state of Maine to Hawaii.