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Scientists flee USDA as research agencies move to Kansas City area
The Hill ^ | 07/15/19 | Rebecca Beitsch

Posted on 07/15/2019 5:11:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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To: GreyFriar

SEE; the Soviets knew ahead of time that the Swamp Creatures would win their war for them without a shot fired!


141 posted on 07/15/2019 10:38:35 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: pepsionice

F#CK’EM!


142 posted on 07/15/2019 10:53:20 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Dee Cee is where I'd rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a White House view
I love ya but gimme Pennsylvania Avenue...

Sorry folks, but no one guaranteed you a job for life. You serve at the pleasure of the President, remember?

Report to your new boss, Hank Kimball, at the COOP Monday morning. Dress casual. Pack a lunch and bring your own flyswatter, you'll need it...

Enough of the sitcom humor, let's get real here. KC may not be inside the beltway, but it's not Hooterville, either. They've got electricity and everything! I live in Kansas and we don't appreciate being treated like some kind of backwater hayseeds. We're among the people you are supposed to be serving, remember?

Won't be happy here, huh? Well, that goes both ways - we don't want to pay a bunch of east-coast prima donna beurocrats to rule over us. Why don't you make it easy on all of us and JUST QUIT? We'll get along just fine without you.

143 posted on 07/15/2019 11:06:55 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Lurker

Actually what they are worried about is that they will not have clandestine lunches and dinners, (paid by politicians and special interest groups), where they plot how to write reports that will allow the special interest groups to sue them in order to settle on the course of action that the special interest groups, and politicians, wanted.

It doesn’t matter what the current administration wants, these bureaucrats answer to the special interest and the Dem politicians.

Moving them out of D.C. makes the strategy meetings with the special interest groups and politicians harder to do under the radar because they will be easily seen in a smaller city with more conservative values. The politicians will need to file the travel/hotel vouchers for a trip to K.C. and having secret meetings will be almost impossible.


144 posted on 07/16/2019 1:06:27 AM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: yesthatjallen
“I am appalled with the Trump administration’s decision to force hundreds of Washington-based USDA research staffers to uproot their lives to Kansas City in order to keep their livelihoods,” Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), who sponsored the legislation, said in a statement when the move was announced

We moved 13 times in 22 years in the Air Force, cry me a river.

145 posted on 07/16/2019 1:36:28 AM PDT by DaveArk
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To: yesthatjallen
“I am appalled with the Trump administration’s decision to force hundreds of Washington-based USDA research staffers to uproot their lives to Kansas City in order to keep their livelihoods,” Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine)

No one is being forced. If they are worth what they are being paid, then someone else will hire them if they decide not to move. But if they're not, then they have a problem. The government is typically quite generous with relocation benefits, and some who have been vegetating there for years will be eligible for early retirements.

146 posted on 07/16/2019 2:13:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m sure Kansas City doesn’t want those _____s, either.


147 posted on 07/16/2019 2:24:51 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Dilbert San Diego
For example, they would have a higher standard of living in KC, assuming they have the same salary and benefits, compared to their lives in expensive metropolitan Washington.

Not necessarily. They would keep their GS levels, but they are getting "locality pay" adjustments in the DC area because it's a high-cost area. Those adjustments would most almost certainly be lower once they move.

148 posted on 07/16/2019 2:28:33 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Oops...

“would almost certainly be lower”


149 posted on 07/16/2019 2:30:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
Hmmm...headscratcher...be closer to those you are supposed to be serving??? Makes no sense...

In the article, It is well stated. Their clients are not farmers. They are politicians.

150 posted on 07/16/2019 2:39:49 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Dittos, midwestern universities could replace every one of these bozos in an hour, and do more research and less politicking.


151 posted on 07/16/2019 2:57:46 AM PDT by MrKatykelly (Hello)
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To: Fresh Wind
Not necessarily. They would keep their GS levels, but they are getting "locality pay" adjustments in the DC area because it's a high-cost area. Those adjustments would most almost certainly be lower once they move.

I think the big issue is jobs for spouses. Many of them likely have their own careers. If the other spouse stays in DC they have the added expense of 2 households plus commutes, etc..

152 posted on 07/16/2019 3:13:32 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: yesthatjallen
More bad news for the swamp creatures ...

DENVER (AP) - Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner says the Trump administration is moving the headquarters of the federal government's largest land agency to western Colorado.
Gardner said Monday the Bureau of Land Management's Washington office will move to Grand Junction.
Gardner didn't say when the headquarters would move. A Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman in Washington said she couldn't confirm or deny the move. She declined to give her name.

153 posted on 07/16/2019 3:13:57 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: marktwain

Hmmm...headscratcher...be closer to those you are supposed to be serving??? Makes no sense...
In the article, It is well stated. Their clients are not farmers. They are politicians.

...I was sarcastic


154 posted on 07/16/2019 3:14:39 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: rb22982

surprised they haven’t shopped an obama judge to play Junior Executive Branch mini-president yet to veto this.


155 posted on 07/16/2019 3:55:16 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - rever.)
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To: EVO X

Betcha they weren’t particularly upset when many military bases were closed or downsized a few years ago impacting far more people. But now that they themselves are affected, they are freaking out.

Boo f’n hoo.


156 posted on 07/16/2019 5:14:51 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: yesthatjallen
USDA Jobs in Kansas City, MO
157 posted on 07/16/2019 5:21:59 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: DaveArk
We moved 13 times in 22 years in the Air Force, cry me a river.

How many times did you do it on three months notice with the government not paying for cost of the move?

158 posted on 07/16/2019 5:24:44 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: yesthatjallen

Culling out the dead wood


159 posted on 07/16/2019 5:28:43 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: yesthatjallen
“Moving these researchers out of Washington puts them out of earshot from policymakers. A lot of the research that scientists and economists do at [USDA] has policy implications and members of Congress need this information and need to have face-to-face meetings with these researchers,” Rebecca Boehm, with the Union of Concerned Scientists, told The Hill.

yeah - way more important to be face-to-face with your handlers than where the work is supposed to be done....electronic data can be found and seen like clandestine meetings can be kept secret....

160 posted on 07/16/2019 5:34:46 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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