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Stunning Snobbery: Former USDA Scientist Laments Agency's Move To Missouri As The Death Of Expertise
 [Red State] If there is one good thing we can point to ‐ without question ‐ that Donald Trump has done for the American people it is expose the absolute and utter elitist snobbery of the D.C. intellectual/government class.Case in point: a stunningly whiny and clueless op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday from a former USDA scientist complaining about the Department of Agriculture moving to Kansas City. Agriculture Secretary George Perdue announced last year that the agency would be moving in an attempt to get closer to the "stakeholders". The deadline has come and gone and, unsurprisingly, only 45 of the 568 employees have chosen to move with their employer.
Out of the blue, in August 2018, agriculture secretary George "Sonny" Perdue announced that my agency [would be moving]. He claimed that this would lower costs and bring us closer to "stakeholders." That stated justification was a fig leaf for the administration’s true intentions. We didn’t need to sit next to a corn field to analyze agricultural policy, and Perdue knew that. He wanted researchers to quit their jobs. One hardly knows where to start with this blatant snobbery, it is so insanely condescending. Crane-Droesch uses scare quotes around "stakeholders" and therein lies the red flag that signals the tragic disconnect between the D.C. elite and the average American. He thinks it is some kind of propaganda tool. It doesn’t even occur to him that he actually works for those stakeholders. It should excite him to be closer to the people he is literally paid to serve. Joni Ernst gets it. Joni Ernst Posted by: Besoeker 2019-10-22 |
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