State Department RIF’s begin

And the soon to be unemployed Striped Pants brigade is very unhappy. Good day all. The reductions in force, another word for layoffs, has begun at the United States Department of State. Hundreds of useless globalists and Islamophiles are being show the door.

A story in Politico has been published written by one of these worthless drones over the shock that once again, President Trump and his administration are serious about draining the swamp. In this case, they are clearing the air at Foggy Bottom. Here is what Max Bergmann wrote in Politico:

The deconstruction of the State Department is well underway.

I recently returned to Foggy Bottom for the first time since January 20 to attend the departure of a former colleague and career midlevel official—something that had sadly become routine. In my six years at State as a political appointee, under the Obama administration, I had gone to countless of these events. They usually followed a similar pattern: slightly awkward, but endearing formalities, a sense of melancholy at the loss of a valued teammate. But, in the end, a rather jovial celebration of a colleague’s work. These events usually petered out quickly, since there is work to do. At the State Department, the unspoken mantra is: The mission goes on, and no one is irreplaceable. But this event did not follow that pattern. It felt more like a funeral, not for the departing colleague, but for the dying organization they were leaving behind.

As I made the rounds and spoke with usually buttoned-up career officials, some who I knew well, some who I didn’t, from a cross section of offices covering various regions and functions, no one held back. To a person, I heard that the State Department was in “chaos,” “a disaster,” “terrible,” the leadership “totally incompetent.” This reflected what I had been hearing the past few months from friends still inside the department, but hearing it in rapid fire made my stomach churn.

In other words, all the phonies, frauds, traitors and the left over bagmen for Felonia von Pantsuit are being show the door. Good. It’s long past time to get rid of all these One World Government types who long ago, if they ever knew, that their job was to support the interests of the United States of America, not the United Nations or The European Union.

Dropping in on one of my old offices, I expected to see a former colleague—a career senior foreign service officer—but was stunned to find out she had been abruptly forced into retirement and had departed the previous week. This office, once bustling, had just one person present, keeping on the lights.

This is how diplomacy dies. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. With empty offices on a midweek afternoon.

When Rex Tillerson was announced as secretary of state, there was a general feeling of excitement and relief in the department. After eight years of high-profile, jet-setting secretaries, the building was genuinely looking forward to having someone experienced in corporate management. Like all large, sprawling organizations, the State Department’s structure is in perpetual need of an organizational rethink. That was what was hoped for, but that is not what is happening. Tillerson is not reorganizing, he’s downsizing.

Translation: The perpetual bureaucracy thought they could keep control and make noises “Change” while doing nothing more than moving people from one office to another. Funny how that works out when someone comes in who ran a company that needed to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Secretary Tillerson took a look around and saw just what a complete mess the State Department has become over the decades. And you morons in the Striped Pants Brigade thought you could just play your usual games.

Tillerson has canceled the incoming class of foreign service officers. This as if the Navy told all of its incoming Naval Academy officers they weren’t needed. Senior officers have been unceremoniously pushed out. Many saw the writing on the wall and just retired, and many others are now awaiting buyout offers.

Buy out offers? What do they think this is? The Dreaded Private Sector?

He has dismissed State’s equivalent of an officer reserve—retired FSOs, who are often called upon to fill State’s many short-term staffing gaps, have been sent home despite no one to replace them. Office managers are now told three people must depart before they can make one hire.

That means he thinks that the State Department is way overstaffed with coat holders, rumpswabs and layabouts. Basically the Department has far more people then they need, or can afford.

And now Bloomberg reports that Tillerson is blocking all lateral transfers within the department, preventing staffers from moving to another office even if it has an opening. Managers can’t fill openings; employees feel trapped.

Well, they can always hand in their notice and go to work in a private sector job suitable to their experience.

Despite all this, career foreign and civil service officers are all still working incredibly hard representing the United States internationally.

Well, that would be a first. Representing the United States instead of selling us out?

How do you manage multimillion-dollar programs with no people?

Cancel them and return the funds to the treasury?

Who do you send to international meetings and summits?

How about no one? Why do you need to go to it. What is it’s purpose? How will this benefit the United States? My guess is, they don’t.

Maybe, my former colleagues are discovering, you just can’t implement that program or show up to that meeting.

Oh the Shock! Oh the HORROR! You can’t just spend money and go on expensive junkets to places like Paris, Geneva or Brussels and sit around stuffing expensive caviar and champagne into your pie holes. Oh woe is you.

State’s growing policy irrelevance and Tillerson’s total aversion to the experts in his midst is prompting the department’s rising stars to search for the exits

In other words, Secretary of State Tillerson isn’t paying any attention to the moonbats, morons and idiots who, for the last 30+ years, have screwed up the entire world and done serious damage to the United States. By rights, after the Soviet Union collapsed, we should have taken control and put our foot down. Instead, incompetent fools such as yourself have done just the opposite. Now we’re paying the price for your incompetence. Or should I say, now your incompetence is finally being dealt with.

Perhaps Tillerson, as a D.C. and foreign policy novice, is simply being a good soldier, following through on edicts from White House ideologues like Steve Bannon. Perhaps he thinks he is running State like a business. But the problem with running the State Department like a business is that most businesses fail—and American diplomacy is too big to fail.

Perhaps you and the others like you have forgotten that “Diplomacy” isn’t the end all and be all of foreign policy. We’ve watched for decades as the “Professional Diplomats sold out United States interests time and time again for the sake of “Diplomacy.” Now you have an administration of true outsiders who flat out don’t care what you have to say. They have a mission, and it’s to Make America Great Again and then Keep America Great. Step one is clearing away the dead wood.

Thatisall

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