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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]dc has seen decades of near uninterrupted growth in wealth and spending for decades, since the real gutting the country suffered in the 70s into the 80s and the boom bust of the barry years.

most of that has been a jobs and real estate bubble around the federal government,

even if it isn't out of contempt for any of the beneficiaries in a generation of shrinking prosperity and obvious incompetence, corruption and empty propaganda on all sides of public and private employment, it's not sane or rational or healthy to assume the local gravy train will continue indefinitely into the future.

it strains credulity to pretend these institutions are going to last another 50 years or longer without profound corrective changes or implosion of public infrastructure and institutional collapse on the level of south africa or the complete bifurcation into corrupt wealth and poverty you see in England

a real progressive outlook would be a desire to redistribute the federal budget more equitably throughout the entire country and put the infrastructure of the city to some better use for it's residents than essentially an economy based only on tourism and servant industries [/quote]

I do not think there is anything economically unusual about jobs and commerce clustering in a capital city ….[/quote]

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Do you go to any other countries? It is normal that your department buildings are located in your capital city.

Plus another PP already posted that the vast majority of Fed jobs are actually not in DC area.

Finally, sending the HQ buildings off outside the city would make them less responsive to the public. The most dysfunctional agency I know is FDA which is way out in MD and seems to view itself as not actually obligated to be responsive to public concerns. Those in DC seem much more sensitized to the political oversight from the admin and Congress. [/quote]

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