Reply to Possible for Trump to move federal agencies to "flyover country"?

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Possible for Trump to move federal agencies to "flyover country"?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eight pages of smug bureaucrats worried about their Beltway home value. Don't worry guys, there are Whole Foods and Trader Joes in flyover country. And with the Ivy League using geographic affirmative action, your little tikes will have a better shot at Yale via the rust belt![/quote]

Whatever!  I could sell my home here tomorrow and live like royalty in my home town.

What a lot of you do not understand are the couple of points a PP made. First, the vast majority of jobs are outside the DMV.  So you wanna cut 25% right off the top?  Fine, but it is going to hurt those areas more that cannot absorb the job losses like the DMV can.

Second, say an agency relocates to Michigan.  You think it is moving to Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor or Howell?  It would move to Ann Arbor, Detroit or maybe Grand Rapids or Lansing - all within 2 hours from the biggest city in the state and cities that are doing ok or on the upswing.  You wanna move the agency to Tenn?  Sure ain't moving the agency to Humboldt or Kingsport.  It would be Nashville or Memphis - maybe Knoxville or Chattanooga.  No one is moving to Memphis and all of the other cities are doing ok.  So, the places the agencies would likely move are major metro areas or developed smaller cities where this already some things happening.

Finally, my job does not "need" to be located in DC.  Most of my "clients" are in field offices anyways and I am on the road 25%-50% of the time.  But based on metrics studies done before I started, DC is the most cost effective  place to officially "deploy" me because off all the transportation options and its central location regarding my clients.  If this is a serious notion and not "spite," I would be interested in seeing the efficacy analysis for such a move. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics