[Brian Griffin]

One thing that might be done is to move federal employment to cheaper places to live, think Peoria, IL, Flint, MI, Scranton, PA, Erie, PA, Youngstown, OH, etc.

In DC, high federal salaries drive local housing prices higher, high local housing prices drive federal salaries higher....

[Carl Vehse]

Brian Griffin @4: "One thing that might be done is to move federal employment to cheaper places to live, think Peoria, IL, Flint, MI, Scranton, PA, Erie, PA, Youngstown, OH, etc."

That action is described by the medical term, "metastasize".