[B]Move the US capital to Kansas City[/B]
 

Let's keep the lobbyists from becoming entrenched. Move the capital every 8 years to different regionally located US cities so more people can personally engage with their government. This will also benefit each region economically.

no bold for you!

not a bad idea, either. better yet, don't tell anyone where that city is.

Somebodies been reading their L. Neil Smith. That's a good thing btw.

How bout we just make the president move to a few different cities instead of taking month long vacations.

I think you'll soon discover the lobbyists are like Sioux on horseback compared to our Buffalo herd government.

Better to put a bounty on 'em, and let the DC thugs earn some crack money without harassing the citizens. :shotgun:

Steaks are better in Kansas City. It makes lobbying more appetizing or palatable.

This has been discussed in the UK as well. At least by me, down the pub anyway.

There are large bureaucratic offices that could be moved to cities with higher unemployment. Space isn't at so much of a premium outside London and everything from houses to beer would be cheaper for employees so their pay would go further.

Existing technology and communication mean that there is little difference in working 200 miles away as opposed to 2 or 20 miles away. In fact with the gridlock in Central London it's not as if you can just pop across the capital anyway.

And how much healthier for people to live closer to the countryside, or by the sea. And in the large provinical cites it's not as if staff wouldn't be close to familiar shops and facilities.

Ah well.

[wet blanket]You will lose any efficiency the federal government ever had if you have to re-staff the entire freaking thing every 8 years and train the new employees on what their jobs are. The lobbyists will still follow the money to the new government city. Each capital city will go through terrible growing pains followed suddenly by a horrible economic depression.[/wet blanket]

Any issues with security SG?

Nah. No-one is likely to target a bunch of Civil Servants. They're probably in more danger being based in London than they would be in, say, Blackburn.

And if anyone blew up the Department for Work & Pensions they wouldn't have to be found by the police - everyone receiving benefits anywhere in the country would be out with a portable gallows and a handy lynch mob!

Heh, let's see how Kansas City likes having no representation in Congress.

And the DC government would get some impressive new buildings.

I got to Kansas City on a Frid'y
By Sattidy I larned a thing or two
For up to then I didn't have an idy
Of whut the modren world was comin' to!
I counted twenty gas buggies goin' by theirsel's
Almost ev'ry time I tuk a walk.
'Nen I put my ear to a Bell Telephone and a strange womern started in to talk!
(Whut next! Yeak whut!)
Whut next?
Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City
They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!
They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high,
About as high as a buildin' orta grow.
Ev'rythin's like a dream in Kansas City,
It's better than a magic lantern show!
Y' c'n turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat.
With ev'ry kind o' comfort ev'ry house is all complete.
You c'n walk to privies in the rain and never wet your feet!
They've gone about as fur as they c'n go,
(Yes sir!)
They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!
Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City
They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!
They got a big theayter they call a burlesque.
Fer fifty cents you c'n see a dandy show.
One of the gals was fat and pink and pretty,
As round above as she was round below.
I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel,
But latter in the second act when she began to peel
She proved that ev'rythin' she had was absolutely real!
She went about as fur as she could go,
(Yes sir!)
She went about as fur as she could go!

Dibs on the Pentagon. I could use the extra space.

But what if the people don't want to move? What if they actually like living in London? :confused:

It happened in the olden days... the king would decide to go to a different palace, and the whole court would come along.

Brianna..... :joylove: Do you know "I'm just a girl who can't say no"?