“Why not Minot?” A phrase made famous by Air Force recruiters for a long time now.
Minot, North Dakota is in the middle of vast empty prairie and on 30° below zero winter nights outside of town you feel like you could touch the stars.
Another plus is that North Dakotans are a practical phlegmatic people and they’re very, very good at cards. At least some of the money we waste on government salaries would end up in their hands.
I don’t think it was recruiters!
It was just an Air Force joke we all told.
“Why not Minot?”, was always followed with “Because freezin’s the reason!”
And there’s ice fishing...
“Why not Minot?” A phrase made famous by Air Force recruiters for a long time now.”
I would go the other way. Since most of the bureaucrats in the alphabet agencies encircling Washington DC are liberals, I would send them to solidly blue states.
The places I would send them are San Francisco, Santa FE and Seattle. These three places have an extremely high cost of living. Their salaries would get them a 400 square foot hovel of an apartment or they could face a four hour commute (one way) for cheaper housing.
Also, when liberals are in blue states they can’t change the balance of power in local elections. No one in a red state wants an influx of liberals.
By tremendously increasing their cost of living and a Trump salary freeze I think many of them will leave on their own. When one leaves Trump can eliminate the position permanently.
Additionally when whole federal departments are relocated the DC housing market will tank, giving the bureaucrats infesting these agencies a financial enema.
I felt just like that late one night in 1965 way out in the middle of 'no-where' Utah.
A sensation so powerful that it is still with me today.(I felt like I was amoungst the stars)