I live in Queens, NY and I can tell you its money. Money is what runs this country and NY is the money capital. We have Wall Street here. You hit Wall Street and you hit the whole thing that drives Western society - Money! Why do you think Bin Laden chose NYC? He knew that alot of the stock market companies were located at the WTC.
You make a good point and a good point for dispersing all our financial and governmental functions to different and smaller centers with fewer critical people in each location. With phones, video and internet connections how important is "face time" and everyone being in the same place all the time? It's no longer necessary.
Personally I don't think all the congress and senate should be in the same buildings at the same time.
I don't think the VP should even be in DC at the same time as the POTUS.
How about putting some functions in say, Kansas or the Dakotas for example?
Yeah I guess your right, that was the plan, bring down the money and the leadership at Washington. Well if they hit NYC again, they`ll be killing Muslims also because there is one hell of a lot of them who live here as well. Too bad we can`t move Wall street to the top of Michael Moores fat head, or maybe we can lie and say Bush now resides fulltime in Paris.