The timing is perfect to decentralize DC
American Thinker,
by
Carlisle Johnson
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
1/3/2021 6:42:06 AM
Much has been written about the pandemic-driven favorable aspects, promise, and implications of virtual working compared to traditional in-person interfaces. We are all woke to the now known to be unnecessary complications, inconveniences and costs of physical offices, urban crime, commuting, and virus-transmitting.
Much less has been written about virtual management's implications for decentralizing the federal government and putting the decision-makers physically among the decision-affected — real instead of virtual reality.
How about considering the following departmental tectonic shifts: Interior to Wyoming, Utah, or Colorado; Agriculture to Iowa, Nebraska, or South Dakota; and Commerce to Florida or Louisiana?
Regulators of the environment could literally step out their back doors
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 1/3/2021 7:14:17 AM (No. 647848)
I like it but I thought Pres. Trump had started the dispersal.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
redraider 1/3/2021 7:38:44 AM (No. 647864)
Back when messages were hand written and sent by courier.....Washington DC made sense.
Now, with the interwebs, e-mail, and Zoom meetings....like buggy whip makers, pay phones, and lamplighters..... the need for GOVERNMENT in a centralized location has passed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fordtran 1/3/2021 8:19:05 AM (No. 647900)
Move the Dept. of Energy to Midland/Odessa in the Permian Basin and a stone's throw from the windfarms at Ft. Stockton. When the bureaucrats come down with some nonsense, the local drillers, tool pushers and roughnecks could "get in their face" ala Maxine Waters.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Edgelady 1/3/2021 8:23:40 AM (No. 647904)
Yes, decentralize - and impeach Nancy. Not just of leadership, but out of the House. Expose her for the traitor she is.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 1/3/2021 8:38:01 AM (No. 647929)
You do realize most of the people working in governments, federal, state, county, city, are Marxist Communists. Who in their right minds would want more of these Marxist Communist traitors in their community to change the vote and control of their local governments. They are doing that fast enough without government moving them in and destroying the greatest communities in America.
That is exactly why the Marxist Communist Obama administration ordered all communities, old and new, must have their Marxist Communist government controlled (ordered) fair share of there Marxist Communist people in the local populations. To get political control over the local people by Lucifer's servants of evil.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GO3 1/3/2021 10:03:56 AM (No. 648031)
Like #2 said about modern communications, there is no need for a yuge five sided puzzle palace across the river from DC. The Pentagon was necessary when we needed 10 people to draft, finalize, encrypt, and send messages to commanders overseas, but all of the manpower is superfluous now. The amount of work now consists of projects designed to fill those unneeded slots even though they aren't remotely related to training and warfighting.
Just my suggestion: Move the Army component to Ft. Leavenworth; Navy to Newport, RI, Marines to Quantico, and AF to Colorado Springs under reality-based staffing. Keep the JCS ops center and bulldoze the rest of the structure. Oh, and keep the snack bars. I don't share #5s worry about the federals infiltrating communities to a great extent, because whenever an agency moves even 100 miles most of the affected employees would rather commit suicide than move away from their precious DC/NOVA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 1/3/2021 12:05:52 PM (No. 648138)
Wouldn't it make more sense to just retire half (or more) of them and not pay for them to relocate? Most are not going to work any harder than they aren't right now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 1/3/2021 12:18:46 PM (No. 648150)
That's it. Get the wealth out of DC. Spread it around the country. Turn Washington into a ghost town
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 1/3/2021 12:31:41 PM (No. 648157)
#4 It is necessary to do the same with Mitch McConnell who has strong ties to Communist China through his wife who is Chinese and the daughter of a shipping magnate with contract with the CCP. Ultimate irony? Elaine Chau, Mitch's wife is the US Secretary of Transportation. Can you spell collusion???
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 1/3/2021 1:45:53 PM (No. 648208)
What, and ruin the country in multiple locations instead of just D.C.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/3/2021 8:13:24 PM (No. 648399)
If the Democrats end up in charge of the federal government, the Democrats will never allow the federal agencies now located in DC to be decentralized to various States around the country. The Democrats want those agencies to remain centralized in DC so that they can control the “Deep State” super bureaucrats who are appointed to run those federal agencies.
Anyone who has been paying attention to what has been happening with the Democrats in DC since Trump was elected, should recognize that the Democrats by hook or by crook, intend to control the entire federal government in DC permanently, while reducing the wimpy Republicans to a perpetual losing and minor political party.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/4/2021 2:49:30 PM (No. 648904)
Antarctica is big enough to disperse all of Washington DC to various locations. Bonus - no electrical grid.
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I love this idea, since not only would it save taxpayer money, it would also frustrate lobbyists, requiring them to spend more of their own money and time trying to influence (read: buy) people!! It would also expose these offices to the effects of their policies on the lives and livelihoods of the people who actually make this country run, people OUTSIDE the DC cocktail circuit!!