did all your homework Wrote:
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> > > The simple solution is more commercial office
> > > space in the burbs and beyond. Lots of
> > technology
> > > firms could set up shop further west but the
> > high
> > > paid CEOS all live inside the golden belt (
> > mclean
> > > , dc , arlington ect.) and don't care how far
> > > their worker slaves have to travel.
> >
> >
> > It's not the tech firms, it is the Feds. We
> need
> > to just get over a centralized government. Put
> the
> > USDA in Kansas where they belong, put ICE in
> West
> > Texas or Southern Arizona, put the IRS
> anywhere,
> > FAA in Omaha, FBI and NTSB in Denver, EPA to
> > Houston, etc. Modern technology allows for
> these
> > massive organizations to be headquartered
> anywhere
> > in the U.S. and still function effectively. Why
> > should a GS9 endure a two hour commute from
> > bumfuck Virginia or even Pennsylvania to work on
> a
> > computer terminal connected to the commercial
> > internet. F'ing ridiculous.
>
>
> Quite true - we live in physical space very
> differently now then earlier when everything
> needed to be physically close to each other.
> Would be a boon for local economies if you could
> move huge government operations to destitute
> areas. Cheaper for the government too with cost
> of living pay. Move IRS to Appalachia fuckers
> there would kill for 70k per year jobs if they
> could get off the Oxy.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-spread-the-swamp-20171207-story.html