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Neil Kellen's avatar

This is probably outside of any possible realm, but imagine, after DOGE gets done axing all sorts of departments, the remaining departments get spread out geographically. Department of Agriculture could move to Nebraska. Department of Defense should move to, say, San Saba Texas, CIA headquarters should move to Nome Alaska, etc...

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Matt's avatar

cia headquarters to the Mariana Trench

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WP William's avatar

i had Puerto Rico in mind...near the largest of the landfills

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carily myers's avatar

lol, like and af

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shayne's avatar

The Dept of Education into the closest dumpster.

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CH's avatar

I had a very interesting conversation with a school principal who thinks it needs to be eliminated. He brought that up which surprised me.

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SusanMc's avatar

Fed Ed dictates every move the locals make with the blessing of our equally corrupt state departments of education.

Both exist for themselves- crass bureaucrats/educrats who haven’t educated one child. The siphon taxpayer $$$ & use it to keep their existence existing for the sake of existing.

Every $ bestowed upon the individual states (& on down to individual school systems) comes with HUGE STRINGS attached.

Many dictates conflict with local mores & belief systems. NO local control anymore.

Electronic records are kept on every child for life. Common Core ushered in Data Mining on a massive scale. Teachers are inundated with “paper work,” checking off boxes, busywork, leaving limited time for genuine teaching.

We have SEL (Social Emotional Learning) which probes into personal info of children & seeks to cure what ails them. We have CRT (Critical Race Theory) which divides kids according to oppressors & oppressed. Kids just accept each other until adults mess with their minds. These programs are causing anxiety in many children then SEL, etc. swoop in to “help” fix them. Right.

Sound familiar?

Cause a problem; then “fix” it (their way).

A child psychologist told me his clinic load exponentially exploded when Common Core was implemented. Never had he seen so many anxious & disturbed kids. He & his wife removed their own school age children from public schools & recommended the same when I asked his advice about a friend’s grandchild. Her family were at wits end over her school system & what was going on; I consulted him as to where they could get help (he was located 3/4 across the country from them. I thought he could direct them to someone he know in their area. He ended up telling me the real solution is to leave the public school system).

TMI

Our education system is broken as far as truly educating our children. It only provides jobs all the way up the chain.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Nowhere in the Constitution does it authorize a Dept of Education. It was unconstitutional to begin with, so it "should" be easier to eliminate.

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MommaBear5's avatar

Homeschoolers know this. I knew.

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Yuma's Freezing's avatar

And set that dumpster on fire. With a flamethrower.

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Dena's avatar

Along with the evil, corrupt Ed. unions!

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PEL's avatar

And the CFPB. It sounds good but is mainly a way to skim $ off the private sector.

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Valerie's avatar

I’ve been saying this for a year! The departments need to spread out and be in the places where they operate most…. Border security should be in TX or AZ, dept of interior in Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, etc.

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shayne's avatar

I reckon when work on the border wall is up and running, President Trump should take a page out of Hadrian's playbook, and build forts every five miles along the wall with military personal and heavy armaments. I'd be fine doing this on both south and north borders.

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dan herrick's avatar

In Hadrian's day a day's travel was about 25 miles. We could legitimately put the forts a little farther apart.

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shayne's avatar

Yep, we sure could Dan.

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NormaJeanne's avatar

It sure would make a positive impact on these economies.

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Credenda's avatar

How about moving the UN 100 miles East!

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79SmithW60's avatar

Perfect! We can just eminent domain the land for an illegal alien processing station to send them back to their original countries. Sorry UN, we need this facility to process all of your people back to your respective countries. I think the estimation is over 160 plus countries with illegal alien representation that have come here...

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Valerie's avatar

Is 100 miles enough?

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dan herrick's avatar

I think it gets them past the edge of the continental shelf!

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Yuma's Freezing's avatar

Park them next to the Titanic.

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Aloha50's avatar

That's the second best option, the first being total elimination. But yes if elimination not happening then do this

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SusanMc's avatar

The UN is our enemy right on US soil. How stupid of us.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Instead of being consolidated in "Rome", that would make sense. The 'poor' lobbyists would have travel all over the country to buy their influence! LOL!

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John infinity N's's avatar

I think all unconstitutional useless bureaus should be relocated to the pits of hell where they came from.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

I just realized an unexpected benefit of this: decreased lobbying.

How many power hungry people will respond to an job posting for a position in Lincoln Nebraska, or Nome Alaska, or San Saba Texas,...?

Not to mention the cost lobbying firms will have to manage by having offices all over the country.

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Jen's avatar

what a fantastic idea. love it!

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Valerie's avatar

This exactly!

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Juju's avatar

You should add your idea to the new website they created to get ideas from the American people.

https://forum.policiesforpeople.com/

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CH's avatar

Yes! In addition, the billions being sent overseas ends and Trump also confiscates funds from human traffickers and drug dealers (which he plans to do based on executive orders he wrote in his 1st term).

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dan herrick's avatar

I have long been suggesting that one of the smallest changes to improve the mess would be to completely outlaw air conditioning in any structure within the DC beltway. No grandfather loophole.

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dan herrick's avatar

Another tool is to remove phone service from government buildings. We already have tools to shut off cell service in an area, and wire service has always been easy to interrupt. This one just improves government efficiency disruptively.

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Emumundo's avatar

I’ve thought we should do that in Florida. There will be fewer, but better, Floridians.

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AngelaK's avatar

Sorry, that is absolutely insane!

I have lived in NYC in July (in my youth and teens) without air-conditioning and it was unpleasant but doable.

I have spent time in Greece in the summer without air-conditioning,..due to its dryness, the 90+ heat was doable and tolerable.

I live in South Florida now, and the heat and humidity factor is undoable without air conditioning. Not to mention how historically, and scientifically, working in heat makes workers unproductive as heck.

It just is not doable or tolerable in the south of the state.

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Cheryl Caraglior's avatar

Not doable in the

Panhandle either.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

once I interviewed for a job in Pensacola and would agree.

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Peace's avatar

It certainly IS doable to live in the south without air conditioning as I can personally attest to. I grew up on the coast of Florida and we didn't have air conditioning until I was a teenager. It was helpful to have an attic fan which pulled air through open windows. I do remember in school my clothing sticking to the varnish on the desk seat when I would go to stand up due to the heat melting the varnish. Doable, but certainly not ideal!!

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SusanMc's avatar

I’ve read before…this idea of spreading out across the country guvmint agencies. Brilliant! Then perhaps these bureaucrats will be more accountable to real people.

In DC they are ALL together at same parties, meetings, clubs…. no wonder The Swamp came into existence.

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Peter GL's avatar

Nome Alaska! Brilliant, that way they can keep a close eye to their archenemy Russia!

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shayne's avatar

I like what you're saying!!!

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Susan Banks's avatar

The Treasury had moved to Reno, Nevada a few years ago. I think you are right Neil.

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carily myers's avatar

lol, like and agree

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