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Spread the swamp? Trump administration wants to move government offices out of Washington
Los Angeles Times ^ | 12/7/17 | Evan Halper

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dc; swamp; trump
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To: WMarshal

I don’t think it was recruiters!

It was just an Air Force joke we all told.

“Why not Minot?”, was always followed with “Because freezin’s the reason!”


61 posted on 12/07/2017 12:46:14 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Black Agnes
Dormitories and offices that are neither air conditioned nor heated.

To reduce our carbon footprint.

62 posted on 12/07/2017 12:47:12 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: x1stcav

Leavenworth KS would be a constant reminder that there is alternative housing should they go too far afield ...


63 posted on 12/07/2017 12:48:48 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: kevao

Precisely.


64 posted on 12/07/2017 12:49:12 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: x1stcav

How ever setting up a tent city for them
a few miles south of Yuma AZ might work.


65 posted on 12/07/2017 12:50:26 PM PST by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain wodsView Replies, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: x1stcav

Who knew “Trumpian” would become an adjective?


66 posted on 12/07/2017 12:51:21 PM PST by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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To: blueunicorn6

For yrs i have thought that DC should be moved to state of Kansas...plenty of flat land and plenty of space.


67 posted on 12/07/2017 12:51:57 PM PST by Karoo
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To: WMarshal

And there’s ice fishing...


68 posted on 12/07/2017 12:52:50 PM PST by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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To: x1stcav

The EPA should go to Alaska


69 posted on 12/07/2017 12:55:23 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: x1stcav

I like it. Don’t we have a bunch of closed down military bases Trump could use to house a few of these agencies. Like HUD and the Dept of Education? :-)


70 posted on 12/07/2017 12:57:47 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: x1stcav

***We need to move the Capital to Lebanon KS***

Why not Wichita, KS! That way Criswell of Criswell Predicts will have gotten ONE right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Criswell


71 posted on 12/07/2017 12:59:54 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: x1stcav

I have long argued that the best indicator that the swamp is being drained will be a significant decline in housing prices in the DC area. If that happens, Trump is succeeding. But if they continue rising, the swamp denizens will have bested him.


72 posted on 12/07/2017 1:03:11 PM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

True story told to me by a best friend and damn-near brother. In the early 80s he was being recruited by the Air Force and he was requesting bases in Italy, Germany, etc. The recruiter said that he should ask for three: 2 maybes and a sure thing like Malmstrom Air Force Base in the event the other two were not possible. Needless to say he started his Air Force career guarding nukes in Montana, our home state. While “hobbiting” in the silos there he got real tired of rabbits tripping alarms.

He ended his career as a Master Sergeant (E-7 I think) and ended up marrying an Air Force Captain anesthesiologist on the down-low shortly before they both left the service. He is a great guy.


73 posted on 12/07/2017 1:05:06 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: x1stcav

Use the same strategy obamsky used for relocating illegal aliens all cross the blue country...


74 posted on 12/07/2017 1:06:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: x1stcav
Congress actually passed legislation back in the 1950s to decentralize our government agencies (for National Security reasons). It was never implemented! In the age of the internet and teleconferencing..., it could easily be implemented BUT NEVER WILL BE (for obvious reasons)!
75 posted on 12/07/2017 1:06:27 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: cgbg

You win the thread. They will be safe up there & will not suffer the effects of Global warming.


76 posted on 12/07/2017 1:06:34 PM PST by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: WMarshal

“Why not Minot?” A phrase made famous by Air Force recruiters for a long time now.”

I would go the other way. Since most of the bureaucrats in the alphabet agencies encircling Washington DC are liberals, I would send them to solidly blue states.

The places I would send them are San Francisco, Santa FE and Seattle. These three places have an extremely high cost of living. Their salaries would get them a 400 square foot hovel of an apartment or they could face a four hour commute (one way) for cheaper housing.

Also, when liberals are in blue states they can’t change the balance of power in local elections. No one in a red state wants an influx of liberals.

By tremendously increasing their cost of living and a Trump salary freeze I think many of them will leave on their own. When one leaves Trump can eliminate the position permanently.

Additionally when whole federal departments are relocated the DC housing market will tank, giving the bureaucrats infesting these agencies a financial enema.


77 posted on 12/07/2017 1:06:47 PM PST by zookeeper20
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To: kevao
"Remove all the swamp monsters from Northern Virginia, and it would be a red state again!"

It will help the traffic jams too! I just read that some Virginia tolls were up to $40 during rush hour(s).

78 posted on 12/07/2017 1:07:24 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: armourenthusiast

I think almost $45 on Monday morning. Good thing our overlords are well paid.


79 posted on 12/07/2017 1:09:32 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: x1stcav

Where does the “big one” go, the IRS?


80 posted on 12/07/2017 1:10:48 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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