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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs NK tests nukes, Tillerson says his No. 1 priority is shrinking the State Department.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/us/politics/diplomacy-tillerson-says-his-top-priority-is-efficiency.htmlSecretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said Thursday that the most important thing he could do during his tenure was to make the State Department more efficient, and in a lengthy letter to employees he promised that the efforts would yield significant savings.
To his critics, his remarks and the letter outlining his proposals were simply more evidence of their contention that the former petroleum engineer is still acting like a corporate chief executive and not the nations chief diplomat.
In the letter, Mr. Tillerson wrote with a businessmans shorthand that his plan contains seven ambitious proposals with investments that will generate a minimum deliverable of 10 percent ($5B) in efficiencies relative to current (FY2017) spending over the next five years, with an aspirational general interest target of up to 20 percent ($10B).
The most important thing I can do is to enable this organization to be more effective, more efficient and for all of you to take greater satisfaction in what you do day in and day out, Mr. Tillerson told a gathering of embassy employees in London.
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And what about furthering the diplomatic interests of the US?
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As NK tests nukes, Tillerson says his No. 1 priority is shrinking the State Department. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Sep 2017
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msongs
(67,199 posts)1. he could give up his salary and stop using government transportation nt
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)2. We are so fucked in more ways than one
Raster
(20,996 posts)3. Rexxon is a businessbot, not a diplomat...
... The State Department DOES NOT NEED ambitious proposals to generate deliverables in efficiencies in current spending....hrumpf, hrumpf. The State Department needs diplomacy and diplomats with a genuine understanding of world events and foreign cultures.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)4. Apparently Tillerson is convinced that the State Department . . .
Is supposed to be a profit center.
This is what happens when you let bean counters into leading government roles.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. Way to go, asshole.
Could this administration possibly be any more incompetent?
dalton99a
(81,084 posts)6. Pretty sure diplomats can be measured on metrics like oil rig workers
Bettie
(15,998 posts)7. It would seem that all of our diplomacy these days
is being done via Twitter.
Why would we need a State Department when we have the military?
Oh, I am so sick of all of this. Can someone wake me up, because I think I must be having a terrible, terrible dream.