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2004-06-19 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Zenster 2004-06-19 12:08:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I doubt they're as concerned about artillery as millions of starving and desperate Norks streaming South to the promised land when it all collapses....

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2004-06-19 12:21:12 AM|| 2004-06-19 12:21:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd love to see them move the US Capitol from DC.

Get States to give up land somewhere in the center of the USA.

Would need to be geographically centered (Central or Mountain time zone), mild climate, adequate water, highway and railway nearby, space for a large airport.

Actually, this is beginning to sound like Colorado Springs. Peterson AFB, Cheyenne Mountain, Ft Carson, US Northcom HQ (Thats the Homeland Defense HQ), Bunch of communications stuff up the road in Denver (All those "Giant Golf Balls" you see at Buckely AFB when you fly into Denver).

Plenty of land, plenty of tech workers (plenty of them unemployed in Denver from all the dead telecom compnaies), great climate - the Olympic training center is there.

Plus its far away from the coasts, etc.

Keep the "historical" capitol there, with the museums, etc. Move the Supreme court first, then the Congress, and Whitehouse after that, then follow it with various heads of departments. Leave some of them in DC, like Defense (Pentagon). Move some other depts to other cities: move the SEC to NY, look at LA (Fed Communications Commission), SanFrancisco (Health & Human Services), Chicago (Dept of Agriculture), Seattle (FAA), St Louis or KC (Transportation), etc.

State Dept would go to where, NY (UN)? Nah, put 'em in Cleveland.

Decentralize.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-06-19 1:21:24 AM|| 2004-06-19 1:21:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt they're as concerned about artillery as millions of starving and desperate Norks streaming South to the promised land when it all collapses....

Run for the border!!!

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-19 1:36:41 AM|| 2004-06-19 1:36:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Right, now that the Yanks are moving away from the DMZ, I am scootin'

Posted by Capt America 2004-06-19 1:53:59 AM|| 2004-06-19 1:53:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 HHS to San Francisco? nah, East St.Louis, IL., and while we're at it, BIA to Bismark, ND.

Posted by Don 2004-06-19 7:39:58 AM|| 2004-06-19 7:39:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 State Dept to Barrow Alaska.

Posted by ed 2004-06-19 9:10:17 AM|| 2004-06-19 9:10:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 OS-

State Dept would go to where, NY (UN)? Nah, put 'em in Cleveland.

..My home town is the LAST place that DoS would want to go. The greater Cleveland area has one of, if not THE highest concentrations in the country of survivors from the Hungarian Revolution along with refugees from the old WarPac countries. (Not to mention, sadly, a large number of former SS collaborators from the Baltics). Put some of these folks in front of some striped pants idiot who used to sing 'Detente' and 'coexistence', and the guy from State is likely to find himself with a few concrete blocks around his feet and explaining himself to the fish off the Gordon Park breakwater....

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-06-19 10:54:44 AM|| 2004-06-19 10:54:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 The headline writers missed another golden opportunity:
"Roh in Row Over Relocation Poll"

Posted by Mike 2004-06-19 11:52:07 AM|| 2004-06-19 11:52:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 State Dept to Barrow Alaska.

I'm with you on that one, ed. Maybe the cold weather will make them sluggish enough so they can't do as much harm. Such a "punishment assignment" would certainly be fitting for the current crop of incompetents at DoS.

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-19 12:54:55 PM|| 2004-06-19 12:54:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 State Dept to Barrow Alaska. No exercise walks for Staties there. They will get eaten by polar bears at certain times of the year. No kidding!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-19 1:13:59 PM|| 2004-06-19 1:13:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Alaska Paul: That's not a bug, that's a feature!

OldSpook: No need to move H&HS, or Education for that matter. Just enforce the actual Constitution - which does not list their functions among the enumerated powers - and disband them altogether (and cut federal taxes by whatever percentage those depts. leech out of the federal budget).

Of course, the people there might have trouble finding jobs, since they'd have to, you know, work, but what the hell; lower taxes spur growth, so there would be jobs available if they wanted to get off their butts. Or maybe they could earn a living making the talk show rounds whining about how unfair it is.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-19 4:35:11 PM|| 2004-06-19 4:35:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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