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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feds don't like it but many would move for their jobs. They prefer to have "face-time" with others in Washington. I think a department move elsewhere is usually shortsighted. In addition, there is value to having agencies easily identifiable to visitors to Washington ~ they walk down the mall, they see the name on the building "The Department of Agriculture", "The Department of Housing and Urban Development" It is their federal city.[/quote]

Alas, many Americans will have neither the time, means, nor priority to visit Washington, DC, in their lifetime.  In that sense, they would be better served by seeing that the "Department of Education" is located in their home state, or that the "Department of Housing and Urban Development" is only a three-hours drive from their hometown.

People will only prefer "face-time" with others in Washington if they perceive that government power, wealth, influence, and spending continues to grow, aggregate, and amass in the Washington, DC area, as it has by leaps and bounds in the past 25 years.  If you disperse this region's concentration of power and influence and policymaking to the different parts of our country, then federal employees will be happy to serve and work there -- seeing no one place as the most important, elite, or worthy of their "face time" -- which is as it should be.[/quote]

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