DRAINING THE SWAMP

Here is my solution to draining the swamp in Washington, D.C.   Hiring new leadership is not enough.  I say physically move it.  With today's technology, there is no need for people working together to be physically located all in one office building.

Here are the number of employees in the departments in our government:
Department of Agriculture over 109,000; Commerce over 43,000; Education over 5,000; Energy over 110,000 employees;  Health and Human Services over 67,000;  Homeland Security over 240,000; Housing and Urban Development over 10,000 employees; Labor over 17,000 employees; Interior over 71,000; Justice over 113,000; State over 18,000; Treasury over 115,000; Transportation over 58,000 and, last but not least, Veterans Affairs over 235,000 employees.   (This adds to 1.2 million employees.)

I've skipped the Department of Defense because the majority of employees in that department are our service people around the world.

Of course, not all of these people work 'inside the beltway' but I think too many do.  Here's what we do:  Relocate these departments out of D.C.  Not all workers of course, but just as many as possible.

Here are some suggestions off the top of my head.  Send the Ag workers to live and work in  Ames, Iowa. Send the Department of Labor workers to live and work in offices in Detroit, Michigan. Relocate the Department of HUD to offices in Gary, Indiana.  Relocate the Department of Education to Fargo, North Dakota.  Relocate the Department of Energy to Enid, Oklahoma.  Relocate the Department of Health and Human Services to Biloxi, Mississippi.  How about relocating the Department of Homeland Security to Tuscon, Arizona - near our southern border?   We could put the Department of Transportation in Nome, Alaska (maybe we could locate them on the end of the 'bridge to nowhere').  I really don't care which cities they go to, just get them out of Washington, D.C.

Okay, you get the idea.  Move those workers outside the 'beltway' and, I think, their whole mentality will change.  Stop insulating our government and it's employees from the people - the real people. Make them live with that 'deplorable, fly-over crowd'.

Just think what a boom to the local economies it would be, for whatever cities are chosen, to have all these bloated salaries emigrate.  Local small businesses will thrive.  Think how all these relocated workers will effect the school districts into which they move.  (Sorry, it may be difficult to find private schools in some of these cities.)  (If you're worried about the empty offices in D.C., we could mete out those unused offices to the homeless.)

Warning!  Instead of watching local government road crews leaning on shovel handles, people may take up watching government employees taking two-hour lunches.

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