MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

Have not seen that.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

IOW, as you see it, the "ship of state" should be a ponderous and very costly cargo steamer captained by despots with a conscripted crew - a monster boat of the Marx & Hegel Red Star Line that depends entirely on a ballast of bureaucrats and petty tyrants to stay afloat. This leviathan, of course, bears no resemblance to the trim, sleek, cost efficient, and speedy yacht designed and built by Madison & Co, captained and crewed by free American citizens.

FYI: Throughout our history, all policy, foreign and domestic, stems from the White House and depends on the President's ideology. Congress is one of three equal branches of our American government, it has no power to "reign" over either of the other two. The fundamental concept is separation of powers.

Those of us who have studied the history of our American government know that, over many decades, the State Department evolved into a self-serving entity with an agenda of its own. State has often butted heads with the president in setting its own foreign policies. Over time, a culture of deeply embedded bureaucrats working in foreign environments were heavily influenced by the traditions and the demands of the country in which they worked. A kind of political Stockholm Syndrome developed in which the foreign officers experienced a psychological alliance with the host country.

There is, however, a stunning contrast between the agreeable diplomatic relations of State Department officers who have worked for years in nations friendly or allied with the United States and the departure from American interests by those who work in countries that are unfriendly, even hostile, to the US.

Here’s How Much Red Tape Trump Has Cut.

It is way past time for a major dump of bureaucratic ballast, fish bait, chum for the sharks, food for the Orcas.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Anarchy would be great---

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Vote democrat.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Nope, not how I would categorize what I wrote, though I'm not surprised you would take what I wrote to that extreme.

woodguru

Unless it's stocking the swamp with slimier creatures, which is what has happened, "Trump" people are getting rid of the best workers in agencies across the board so that the new regimes can gut their functionality.

Hug

The best workers are no good to us if they are anti-American Socialist and Communist, which many of them must be. It appears that all the agencies are riddled with such workers.

bggamers Loc: georgia

At this point and time in history looking across the great divide in this country good luck with that wish but I second the desire for it

bggamers Loc: georgia

If you enjoyed being handed a bunch of lies and deception and taxed to living on the street as the newest crase in Cali move there. Most of us want our government to work for us not against us to help us prosper not shove us down the toilet flush us into poverty

debeda

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I'll go along with you and Bggamers on that.

debeda

Big Kahuna

If I worked in the State Dept as a demonrat my morale would be low too. Just knowing that Trump was weeding out the corrupt ovommit holdovers would cause me to worry about losing my job security and my cush pension for working against the American people and not supporting a duly elected President. I hear hitlery rotten clinton, Bathhouse Barry and the whole morale of the demorat party is at an all time low too knowing that their corruption is being exposed more each day.

debeda

milamber

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