Posted on 05/23/2019 3:00:27 PM PDT by RightGeek
Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.
Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) two small but important agencies within the USDA are unhappy with Perdues plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the countrys agricultural centers.
This move does not serve a public purpose, Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. Employees dont want to move, and it doesnt make sense for them to move.
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Winch added that since ERS employees joined AFGE earlier this month, six employees have already quit their jobs with the government agency in response to the planned move. He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.
A Washington Post report cited an estimate that the ERS used to see roughly one non-retirement departure per month but that pace has doubled since October. NIFA reportedly has also seen people leave.
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Perdue and his staff have narrowed the list of places where the two agencies could go down to three from an original 130 -- with Kansas City, the state of Indiana and North Carolinas research triangle in the Raleigh-Durham area on the shortlist. St. Louis, Mo., and Madison, Wis., are two alternate locations.
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Quit now! Please.
Exactly! Move them to Kansas!
Who wouldnt 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.
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).
Kansas or from there to North Dakota!
Many of us work remotely now because of the cost of living in DC. If these folks dont want to accept a reassignment, theyre welcome to seek employment elsewhere. There will be plenty of people lined up to take their jobs.
(Im a little suspicious... a bit early in the game to be resigning.)
That’s one way to get rid of a bunch of useless bureaucrats -— no unemployment and no retirement checks.
The sweet sound of the swamp draining ....
Good way to get rid of parasites.
“...are unhappy with Perdues plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the countrys agricultural centers...”
Oh, like where Americans live?
And I’m suppose to care, why?
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.”
Agriculture Dept. needs to be based in the heartland.
“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?
If to best drain the swamp, you need to move agencies out of DC, that is just fine with me.
Those places are too nice.
Sidney Nebraska needs a boost. Lots of wind, they could make new USDA offices very “green,” lol.
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!
This is Winning!
Good start...
Every federal department should do the same. Best way to drain the swamp.
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