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2017-04-29 Home Front: Politix

Tillerson eyes cutting 2,300 jobs at State Department

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-29 06:53|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 In an interview with NPR that aired Friday, Tillerson said he intended to reorganize the department to make it more efficient and focused.

Leaving a small, skeletal staff in D.C. and moving the remainder of the operation to Mitchell, Indiana would produce even more efficiency.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-29 08:05|| 2017-04-29 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 ..also cuts down on those after work dinners in the right restaurants with the Donk media people.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-29 08:56|| 2017-04-29 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Slashing USAID budget and recouping tax dollars wasted on projects that shouldn't have been funded most certainly will meet Resist-ance.

Posted by Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-04-29 09:11|| 2017-04-29 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Slashing USAID budget and recouping tax dollars wasted on projects that shouldn't have been funded most certainly will meet Resist-ance. Posted by Whavish Thusoling

If 'regime change' is no longer your central thesis, then USAID becomes irrelevant.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-29 09:14|| 2017-04-29 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 2300 jobs. It's a start. State has about 70,000 employees. That's about a 3% reduction. Seldom does one see any cutbacks in Federal government. Bigger and bigger government is the Beltway Party model for securing more and more votes.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-29 09:31|| 2017-04-29 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Seldom does one see any cutbacks in Federal government

Seems confined to DoD and troop strength that yo-yos, usually years behind the 'need' curve.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-29 12:04|| 2017-04-29 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 The way to keep the corruptocrats at bay, move the operation away from them and then cut off the budget to the riff raff.

Posted by newc 2017-04-29 13:24|| 2017-04-29 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Tillerson Seeking 9% Cut to U.S. State Department Workforce (Bloomberg headline).

Bloomberg story has the same numbers - 75000 total employees and 2300 cuts but they say that equals 9%.

Is math really that difficult?

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-28/tillerson-said-to-seek-9-cut-to-u-s-state-department-workforce

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2017-04-29 21:01|| 2017-04-29 21:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Is math really that difficult?

this is media
this is fake math

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-29 21:42|| 2017-04-29 21:42|| Front Page Top

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