Not the same group, but still applicable.
Really. Well, they will shut down your government and then what will you do? /s/
We need subordinates to justify being promoted and we need more money. Hear that, Congress?
How many live in the national capital region, not just in the District of Columbia? 40%, 50%, 60%?
They absolutely embody this bizzare Federal teat paradigm -- 'If we're in DC, with our insane per diem, then no one will care when we sked our cjerks in Puerto Rico, Vegas, Phoenix, SanFran, and the one upcoming next month in Denver'.
Not the same group, but still applicable.
Our HQ is in DC but in the last three years nearly every new hire our division has brought in is staying where they are and working remotely. We’re scattered all over the country now.
I can understand the top agency folks being in DC because they need proximity to the hill, but us rank and file folks don’t need to be there.
There was a need and a reason for ‘centralized’ government offices, 100, 200, 500, 1,000 years ago. Making decisions from such huge distances was next to impossible, which is why representative government was born, and people that represented ‘local’ views and needs needed to be sent to a central location for decision-making.
We no longer have the same problems of centuries ago. We can make instant decisions, over the phone and internet and via radio and TV. And, people can travel all over the world in a matter of hours if bodily presence was required.
Thus, no need for a Washington DC or even state offices or city offices. Heck, even cities aren’t needed, since transportation is easier and quicker and communications can be used for instant decision-making on a local and national and international basis.
IOW, the way we are organized today, especially when it comes to governments, is way outdated.
“It is neither cost-effective nor practical to relocate the headquarters of federal agencies away from Washington, where Congress is best equipped to hold political appointees and agency leaders accountable for their actions.”
How ‘bout we just disband you.
Walmart’s hiring.
I’d take this proposal a little more seriously if Hawley and Blackburn weren’t proposing to move the Agriculture and Education Departments to their respective states.
It’s an OK idea on one hand. On the other hand, we don’t want those people polluting decent parts of the country. Leave ‘em there
political appointees and agency leader who commit crimes can better be held accountable in locations where juries are less biased...
There should be NO “American Federation of Government Employees.” All government unions need to be disbanded and outlawed.
The DOE should be moved to Albuquerque...
I like the idea, except I hope Senator Marsha Blackburn(from Tennessee) doesn’t bring some big department to Middle Tennessee where there already to much growth and too many people and traffic Jams, now if she could bring some growth about 50 miles or more from Nashville that would be nice or anywhere else in Tennessee that isn’t plagued by to many people living in it’s area.
We either have to change this government abuse or change the name of the town to Trantor DC
If AFGE is against it, then it must be a good idea. ;-)
So if 85% of federal employees already live outside of DC, what’s the objection?
If you add Virginia and Maryland to the numbers it’s probably far short of 85%. But a lot surely do work in various administrative offices, law enforcement offices, legal affairs, welfare administration etc.
I think the people of the states would object but I would move DC to the 4 corners of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Or as another poster once replied to me - move it to Guam.
Federal law must be changed to be “Right to Work”. Federal laws that force federal workers to join and pay dues to unions are Unconstitutional.
JoMa