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.
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Move one cabinet agency to a different Trump state—one to Kansas, one to Nebraska, one to Iowa, one to Texas, etc.
Spread the wealth, and let the lobbyists bankrupt themselves with a dozen offices around the heartland.
Not bad idea
Punishment.
Yes! We need to change the employee make up of the fed government so that it is more red. And we need to change the jury pool if there are legal proceedings. If Mueller had to draw his jury from anywhere but DC, he wouldn’t bother with his phony allegations.
How about the entire country entirely? The swamp anti US creatures can play grab-ass with the rest of their liberal heathens in North Korea.
The Dallas office of the FDIC did most of the work in handling the bank crisis. There were 3 other satellite offices for a couple of years in Illinois, Southern Cal, and Jacksonville, FL.
I'd say about 90% were term workers: two years guaranteed, with the govt. option of an additional two years. Management knew they couldn't screw with us, because there was a ton of work, and we'd be gone in a few years.
My coworkers and I did our jobs well, and we were paid well to do it.
The State Department, IRS, and the CFPB should be first to go there.
Great idea. The capital should be in the middle of the country, anyhow.
And it’ll dissolve, or weaken, the far-left communities surrounding DC — those in Virginia, etc.
(Gotta find some way to keep the White House, though.)
“This idea is more civilized than blowing the place up.”
But I was so looking forward to the Big Kaboom.
There is supposed to be an Earth-Shattering Kaboom!
We need to thank those “enemies” doing that to our State Department staff, there.
Fargo ND is nice this time of year.
Agencies that are the least essential get the most miserable locales. With school surplus furniture.
It would not require “Spending billions of dollars”. There is plenty of empty downtowns full of empty retail space as well as empty high schools. Just rent them out, set up the LAN and they would be are good to go. Give them a small pot of money to buy used and furniture from all of the closed schools.
Also, when a federal department is scattered to at least 4 to 5 small towns they should have to fire of 75% of their workforce and be forced to hire locals to replace only 25% of the original workforce.
I would say move them all to Guam except for fear it may tip over.
I have said multiple times, Nothing prevents President Trump from transferring whoever he damn well pleases to Puerto Rico!!
So, LAT, the government moving government employees is a “Trumpian fantasy”?
And you wonder why we now can confirm that you folks live way to the left of 100 on the Bell Curve.
Trump to the leeches: Well, Bye!
Much of the DC bureaucracy needs to be moved to Harare, Zimbabwe along with the whole UN.
I've been in towns in Kansas, shopping on the main street downtown seeing only a few people milling around at noon. So I ask the clerks, when is the busy time? They tell me "This is it.". Scatter government offices to towns like this, and you bring empty towns back to life. With no overcrowding or congestion like in Washington, DC. Brilliant!
Only the military can do that. Common folk don’t have that much weight.
Thanks x1stcav. There should be no more discussion about how people who choose to live in DC don't have reps in congress, blah blah blah, and yes, build housing so the 535 have an approved place to flop (literally, in some cases) and so they quit bitching about how they're not paid enough to maintain two residences, yet somehow manage to be massively rich when they finally leave office.
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