This sounds like a plan that the US would do well to emulate. Get the concentration of government out of DC, spread agencies around, get more government employees living and working among the citizens whom they are supposed to be serving—seems like a winning proposition to me.
Better idea: Devolve power back to the states, and let states do it. With federal block grants if needed. Nobody needs a freaking Fedzilla.
I propose a constitutional amendment to decentralize the legislative branch of government. Make them remain in their home districts/states and to have contact with their body electronically. No more DC parties and back room deals. Go to work for their constituents like they were hired to do.
Why do we let our servants run our lives?
Actually, during the 1950s (cold-war peak), Congress actually passed a law requiring the decentralization of federal agency headquarters to cities throughout the country! Naturally..., nothing ever happened, in fact, the law may still be on the books!
Alaska passed a law requiring their Capitol to be moved from Juneau to Anchorage years ago (Juneau can only be reached by sea/air), nothing ever happened!
“This sounds like a plan that the US would do well to emulate.”
Only if the department let go of their current employees from the D.C. area and the new hires were from the local area. To do otherwise would be spreading the past from the wound to the rest of the body.
Agreed. Leave our Senators and Congresscritters in their home states, well away from the Swamp. Leave the agencies around normal people, rather that in an elitist enclave protected from the negative effects of government bloat. I would love to see President Trump put that vision in his agenda for Campaign 2020.