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2006-12-26 Home Front: WoT

New Rural Sales Pitch: Work Outside D.C.'s Fallout Zone

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Posted by .com 2006-12-26 08:10|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Should be decentralizing the government anyways.

Interior to Denver (nearer to all those federal lands out west).

SEC to NY (NYSE nearby, etc).

You could split up the DoD:
Airforce to Colorado Springs
Army to Ft Hood
Navy to Norfolk
Marines to San Diego
DoD itself: somhwere in the center-south of the US (Dallas?)

NSA, CIA, etc - all should have either the HQ or a large sub-HQ out of the DC area.

etc.

Put the agencies AWAY from DC, and nearer to what they manage.

Problem is: it would kill lobbyists.

I say : GOOD!

Posted by OldSpook 2006-12-26 10:51|| 2006-12-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 ...My Ladyfriend is from Winchester (her dad is still a prominent physician there) and she suspects that the good people of Winchester might have something to say about this before it is all over. It is still a fairly small city, and distinctly wary of outsiders.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-26 11:29|| 2006-12-26 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Anybody been to the FBI's massive fortress-like facility on the west side of the Appalachians? It's pretty cool. Maybe a glimpse into the future of hardened and dispersed civilian facilities. Will DC be deserted 50 years from now?

Posted by fmr mil contractor 2006-12-26 12:06|| 2006-12-26 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 DC will be deserted before that if we dont secure the borders against entry of WMD and terrorists - they get lost in the noice of the huge number of illegal aliens and large volume of drug smuggling.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-12-26 13:14|| 2006-12-26 13:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Problem is: it would kill lobbyists.

Problem? WTF sorta "problem"? [/sarcasm]

Regulating campaign spending and eliminating lobbyists remain the two most critical reforms of American government if we ever wish to become a two party system once again.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-26 15:40|| 2006-12-26 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 An even wider dispersal of US government offices is far, far overdue. Remember the anthrax attacks? Congress shut down even though no one there was made ill. They had no other place to convene, a real no-brainer status quo.
In attention, attention needs to be paid for make the US society as a whole more resilient in case of a pandemic or an NBC attack. Katrina disclosed many vulnerabilities which need to be addressed.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-26 19:32|| 2006-12-26 19:32|| Front Page Top

#7 There goes the yearly Apple Blossom Festival.

Posted by Asymmetrical T 2006-12-26 20:40|| 2006-12-26 20:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Feds expecting Dubya-GOP and US NPE to glow-in-the-dark??? ANOTHER OUTSTANDING REASON FOR "REGIME CHANGE", which of course means in WASHINGTON DC, NOT THE PRO-TERROR, ANTI-US ROGUES. Since no defense is 1000% perfect, "minimizing" risks > somehow comes to mean TO BE AFRAID OF WAR = TAKING WAR TO THE ENEMY/"OVER THERE". WAR 2006 > can wage as long as PC WE DON'T DESTROY ANYTHING OR INVADE ANYONE, DON'T POLLUTE THE ENVIRO, DON'T HURT OUR ENEMY'S FEELINGS, GIVE THEM ALL OUR $$$, etc. The burden is on the USA AND ONLY USA to prove that when Radicalists-Terrorists point their AK47's + RPG's at us, just becuz they shoot at us doesn't mean they intended to hurt or kill us, ergo we are at fault for shooting back + starting a combat fracas which we have to pay for.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-26 22:33|| 2006-12-26 22:33|| Front Page Top

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