WHY would we INVITE D.C. CANCER to The Heartland?
I vote, ‘NO!’
Right in the middle of Kansas. I also really think Georgia should move the capital out of Atlanta.
Doesn’t Denver, Colorado, or Boulder, Colorado, can’t remember which, have the “shadow government” poised to relocate there at any given threat?
Hell no why let them infest a conservative area, and to take over places like Iowa.
The problems of DC would exist wherever the nation’s capital is located. They aren’t problems because of the physical location, they are problems because of the function of the place.
I do think that federal agencies should be moved out to various places. If each agency were in a different part of the country, some of the toxic DC culture might be neutralized.
The only thing they didn't mention was the punishment building located in Barrow, Alaska.
ABSOLUTELY. In fact, in an earlier life, I actually worked for the US government in one of the (many) agencies that we hate. Guess what - the people there were great, they did their job, they lived conservative lifestyles (even more conservative than me), and they NEVER had any political agenda.
Those are the people we NEED in government...not a bunch of Deep State types who think that the world revolves around them and if we don’t bow, it’s only because we’re TOO STUPID to know better.
Even better, move most of them to the mid-east.
Especially the State Dept. - ship them to Baghdad.
No and hell no. It’s bad enough we have these criminal bastards in charge, but at least we have them congregated in a single enclave. I’d prefer to keep it that way rather than spread the rot all over.
I often said, move it to Lincoln Nebraska, the near middle of the country now, and design it more efficiently.
Keep historic D.C. For the tourons
Bump
With the advances in communications this should be a no-brainer. Move DOTransportation to Detroit. Agriculture to Kansas City. Energy to Dallas. That would be good for starters. However, it is not the Executive branch that won’t consider it, it has been the Congress that opposes decentralization because it wants everything under its thumb.
A better move would be to the middle of the Atlantic at forty fathoms below sea level.
Not cities; small towns, with no ballet nor opera. West Plains MO, Washington KS, Graysville IL, Pawhuska OK Kit Carson CO etc., no Ivy Leaguers would go ever, so graduates of state colleges would have to step up and take those jobs.
I want the swamp drained! Not relocated. No thanks.
Living in Virginia. I say that this is a grand Idea !
Imagine what a different world we might live in if members of Congress rarely traveled outside their district or state and conducted the “peoples’ business” from a high-tech room in their home office that enabled them to debate, sit on committee, question witnesses and vote via teleconferencing. This idea for Congress and state legislatures is as old as the integrated circuit.
Such a system would eliminate the high costs of constantly transporting, housing, and protecting 535 politicians, their staffs and families. It would also force members of Congress to practice some loyalty to, and feel the unique pains of the voters who elected them. Most senators and representatives today are more loyal to each other–including those across the aisle–than they are to their own constituents. A stay-at-home Congress would be less likely to adopt an imperial mind set fostered by a fawning Capitol press corps and White House dinners in regal settings.
An Electronic Congress would reduce the pressure lobbyists and other special interest groups have on Congress because Congress would be decentralized. In such a setting a senator wouldn’t have to run public opinion polls. He could simply drive around his state for a week, mingle with the people, and he would get their unvarnished viewpoint. . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312127/posts
No!!!! Why pollute decent Americans?
Not just no, but hell no!
We don’t need or want the swamp creatures out here in God’s country.