Decentralize Gubmint.

George Washington tapped our famous French General Jean Lafitte to design Washington, the District of Columbia.  To lay it out on a map.  With the Capitol Building in the exact center.

Not a state, but a District.  Where the business of our young Country was to be conducted.  

So, knowing that it took weeks sometime to get mail and messages and soldiers to the the more distant parts of our Country, Washington decided to bring all the various parts of Gubmint together.  In one City.  So that we could conduct our Federal business more quickly.  And accurately.  Across the street, not across the Country.  

All that worked up until the time of computers.  Recall the days when "Interoffice Memos" was an 18" tall manilla envelope with a string to tie it shut?  You put stuff for other departments in it and retied the string.  And some lowly MinWager would pick it up and deliver it to another part of the company.  Across the building, or across town.  

Ahhh, but with computers, we no longer needed the pimply-faced delivery boy.  We could send a text message at light speed.  We could hold Zoom calls.  We could conduct board meetings and management meetings and marketing meetings.  And military folks could plan all their skirmishes and wars and bomb droppings, whether down the street or 2,500 miles away.  

In short, having everyone in the same town is no longer necessary.

So I, The Chuckmeister, am suggesting we decentralize Gubmint.  I actually lived and worked in D.C. for a time while protecting everyone from communism.  So I'm familiar with what happens when people get too familiar.  And especially when everyone knows Gubmint workers couldn't be blown out of their jobs with a cannon.  They start to adopt an "us versus them" attitude.  They've circled the wagons are are in a continual Defcon 3 mode.  Making as much as possible for doing as little as possible.

It's time to remove their Binky.

I recommend we split apart the 51 Federal Agencies.  And their 256 Departments.  And their more than 2,000,000 Federal Workers.  Send the Interior Department to Idaho.  The Treasury Department to Denver (it used to be there!).  Health and Human Services should go to Minneapolis, where everybody is so freakin' healthy.  Only the Defense Department, Department of State, and Homeland Security should definitely remain in "The Swamp."  

It would be big of us to offer to send the employees in those Departments and Agencies to their new towns and cities.  But I doubt many would take us up on it.  They're too ingrained in their own idealogies.  Moving their place of employment to a new locale would permit us to hire an all new cadre.  Folks owing their fielty only to the U. S. of A.  

What a concept...  

When Musk overpaid for "X," he immediately fired 80% of the staff.  And things went along swimmingly.  He said they were unneeded unless he was running a Social Engineering effort.  I'm guessing we could shed a whole bunch of the 2,920,000 Federal Employees by simply moving their desks to a new zip code.  

Musk's in charge of DOGE.  He wants to save us $2,000,000,000,000 (with a "T").  This might go a long, long way toward achieving that goal.

What do you think?