If I am ever elected President the first thing I do is hire Jack Welch as my Chief of Staff with orders to implement Six Sigma across the entire Fed payroll, with the goal of reducing head count 20% in three years. Then I tell him to take it to the next step and start eliminating programs to further reduce staff count.
Then I move the remaining Social Security Admin staff to Detroit, or even better, hire the unemployed THERE instead of moving clerical workers.
Then I move the Agriculture Department to St. Louis and do the same thing.
Until the Washington DC real estate market starts to implode I will not be happy.
To reduce Washington control decentralize the remaining DC agencies and spread out the jobs to places that are in need of those jobs more than the nomenclature in DC.
Make it that the Press will have pretty much NOTHING to cover in DC - let them move to Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland; then they will start to reaquaint themselves with reality!
I am also a fan of spreading the Federal Government out of DC.
When, for example, the VA is not allowed, by law, to have a communication with the Pentagon it becomes irrelevant to have them in the same town.
The same with the FBI and the CIA.
Plus, in a time of war it is always more effective to spread your resources outside of a single 20 square mile area.
Not bad, not bad at all. I do like your idea of moving whole departments out of the D.C. area. I can imagine lot’s of heads exploding. From the drones to the Real Estate Agents.
Next let’s require each state to provide state of the art teleconference centers for their Senators and Representatives so they can stay at home in their districts and be available to their constituents instead of hiding in D.C. most of the year.
I LOVE your ideas!!
One more thing.
Seal our borders and start deporting.
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