USDA staffers quit en masse as Trump administration eyes moving offices out of DC

Fox News ^ | 5/23/2019 | Andrew O'Reilly

[livius]

Quit now! Please.

[Karoo]

Exactly! Move them to Kansas!

[wgmalabama]

Who wouldn’t want to move from DC to any of those three places. Relocate them next to chicken houses, feed lots and pig lots. Yum. The smell is so good for us in flyover country. Big cities eating our food and shipping us their garbage and waste sludge. No thanks. Burn the cities down.

[MuttTheHoople]

Move EVERY government office out of DC! I think North Dakota would be a good spot for most of them.

I say go to the Geographic Center of the Continuous 48 States, which is Lebanon, Kansas.

Nice open farmland, where plenty of gubmint buildings can be built. Because it's so isolated, the gubmint workers and elected officials won't be sideswiped by distractions like restaurants, movie theaters, crack houses, Asian Massage Parlors, etc. They can do their business, then go home to live under the laws they wrought. We can allow Washington to go sink back into the fetid, malaria-ridden swamp it came from.

We'll call the new National Capitol after the greatest President of the past 50 years, Trump, D. R. (District of Reagan).

[Grampa Dave]

Kansas or from there to North Dakota!

[Not A Snowbird]

Many of us work remotely now because of the cost of living in DC. If these folks don’t want to accept a reassignment, they’re welcome to seek employment elsewhere. There will be plenty of people lined up to take their jobs.

(I’m a little suspicious... a bit early in the game to be resigning.)

[LTC.Ret]

That’s one way to get rid of a bunch of useless bureaucrats -— no unemployment and no retirement checks.

[RetiredTexasVet]

The sweet sound of the swamp draining ....

[Bonemaker]

Good way to get rid of parasites.

[Bonemaker]

“...are unhappy with Perdue’s plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country’s agricultural centers...”

Oh, like where Americans live?

[stevio]

And I’m suppose to care, why?

[Vince Ferrer]

This is fantastic. I have been supporting this since the inauguration, and I am glad someone is trying it. There is no logical reason not to have a department of agriculture in an agricultural state. The department will have a great selection of local people to hire that grew up around agriculture, maybe went to an agricultural school at the local state universities, and may actually be involved in agriculture themselves, rather than some generic clone graduates from Yale or Georgetown who got their master’s in “ruling class studies.”

[MayflowerMadam]

Agriculture Dept. needs to be based in the heartland.

[Bonemaker]

“Exactly! Move them to Kansas!”

What do you you have against Kansans? Do you want to turn it purple like the former state of Virginia?

[Robert357]

If to best drain the swamp, you need to move agencies out of DC, that is just fine with me.

[RegulatorCountry]

Those places are too nice.

Sidney Nebraska needs a boost. Lots of wind, they could make new USDA offices very “green,” lol.

[Big Red Clay]

I hear the Cabela’s headquarters building is available. They would definitely be in the heart of USD of A as in Agriculture country. Come on DJT, the panhandle would be a great place for these folks. Only a few hours from Aspen!

[KC_Lion]

Thank You for the ping.

This is Winning!

[SuperLuminal]

Good start...

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Every federal department should do the same. Best way to drain the swamp.