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Originally Posted by Guest
The State Department has over 30,000 employees!!
First step?
Get rid of every person with the word assistant in their title....no questions asked, no study required...just hand out the pink slips.
Come the following Monday AM no one will even know they are gone.
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The "assistants" are ALL back in D.C.
About half the employees working in embassies are local national hires.
Most of our embassies are just covers for intelligence organizations, other than the consular section. Perhaps they should chip in to pay a little more than just rental space.
There is a bit of waste in the State Dept, but considering the size of our overseas presence, the budget is small in proportion. Even our embassy perimeter security is local hires. The small USMC security detachment at each embassy is there primarily to protect the classified material.
Just my opinion based on my observation.