Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Spread the swamp? Trump administration wants to move government offices out of Washington
Los Angeles Times ^ | 12/7/17 | Evan Halper

Posted on 12/07/2017 12:17:03 PM PST by x1stcav

Amid the talk of draining swamps, restoring political might to blue-collar America and turning off the spigot of taxpayer cash that showers Washington, a familiar battle cry is ricocheting through this city: Move the bureaucrats out.

It has the ring of a Trumpian fantasy. Dislodge arms of the federal government from Washington and reattach them in faraway places, spreading the wealth generated by these well-paid agency workforces and forcing senior bureaucrats to face the people they affect.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dc; swamp; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-132 next last
We need to move the Capital to Lebanon KS, build dormitories for the scum to live in ninety days during the Spring and again in the Fall and they can eat in cafeterias.

The rest of the time they can spend with us schlubs that elected them.

1 posted on 12/07/2017 12:17:03 PM PST by x1stcav
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: x1stcav
Move the bureaucrats out.

Genius!

2 posted on 12/07/2017 12:19:24 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

This idea is more civilized than blowing the place up.


3 posted on 12/07/2017 12:19:40 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav
We need to move the Capital to Lebanon KS,

How about Leavenworth?

4 posted on 12/07/2017 12:19:46 PM PST by gubamyster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

Good idea.

This will make the government employee bureaucrats wet themselves.


5 posted on 12/07/2017 12:20:52 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

That giant sucking sound is the whoosh created by the collapse of the Maryland and Northern Virginia property markets.


6 posted on 12/07/2017 12:21:00 PM PST by ameribbean expat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

I like it


7 posted on 12/07/2017 12:21:06 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pgkdan

Indeed


8 posted on 12/07/2017 12:21:19 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav
"move the Capital to Lebanon KS"

Whereever it is, there needs to be a 50 mile no-go zone for realestate development surrounding the site in order to keep out the lobbyists and other hangers-on.
9 posted on 12/07/2017 12:22:34 PM PST by indthkr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

Spread the GD beast all over the backwaters of the nation. Nobody would work for it. The lobbyists couldn’t do their evil deeds. People with tar, feathers, pitchforks, torches and rails would have much easier access to their tormenters. It’s a win, win, win, win all the way around.

“We need to find out what we can move,” said Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Youngstown, Ohio.

Ryan is asking the wrong question. It should be “What little, itty bitty part of the government really, truly needs to stay in Washington DC?”


10 posted on 12/07/2017 12:22:36 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

International Falls would be perfect in the wintertime


11 posted on 12/07/2017 12:22:56 PM PST by Spruce
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

bump


12 posted on 12/07/2017 12:23:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

Move them to Cuba!


13 posted on 12/07/2017 12:23:17 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

Oh No, can’t have that.

Anyone who’s been to DC understands the reality of the place: gilded offices, opulent streets and buildings, leafy suburbs filled with expensive neo colonial houses and late model cars.

The bureautrash will only leave when they are dragged out by wild horses.

Walking around the place just astounded me. All I could think of was, “so this is where all the money goes to”.


14 posted on 12/07/2017 12:23:53 PM PST by Regulator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: indthkr

Ring with guards, sensors, drone patrols.

Ankle bracelets for the residents.


15 posted on 12/07/2017 12:24:14 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

Spending billions of dollars to set up other locations and to move the bureaucrats out there will accomplish what exactly? Same functions. Same procedures. Same bureaucracies. Same results. Just money down a rat hole.


16 posted on 12/07/2017 12:24:39 PM PST by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ameribbean expat

Remove all the swamp monsters from Northern Virginia, and it would be a red state again!


17 posted on 12/07/2017 12:25:00 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Spruce

half there and half Barrow Alaska


18 posted on 12/07/2017 12:25:31 PM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Boss Trump.45 has gotta be channeling me!!!!!!
************************************

How great we are!
;)
Dick G aka; Gunny G @ Planet WTF!
******************************


19 posted on 12/07/2017 12:26:19 PM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav

“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.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 12:26:50 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-132 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson