Olympic-like Re-locating Sites for The Federal Government: Hey!! Why not?Uncle Sam Going Mobile
by Pat Darnell, Correspondent
20 Mar 08
I think the US Government would have a better chance of surviving the ensuing divisive nature of global politics. Open letter to the Comm-in-chief:
March 20, 2008
Dear Dubya:
"Please unplug DC on your way out. Please sell it to Disney. Then please have our great cities in different states sponsor the Federal Government in increments of eight years."
"It breaks my heart to see my Federal Capital looking so unfriendly. That style of centralized, fortified government locale has lost all its meaning and appeal. Besides, castle balustrade structure was all about ancient day rivaling feudal warlords who provided
protection for local folk. We are the land of the free and home of the brave, still aren't we?"
I think the US Government would have a better chance of surviving the ensuing divisive nature of global politics. Open letter to the Comm-in-chief:
March 20, 2008
Dear Dubya:
"Please unplug DC on your way out. Please sell it to Disney. Then please have our great cities in different states sponsor the Federal Government in increments of eight years."
"It breaks my heart to see my Federal Capital looking so unfriendly. That style of centralized, fortified government locale has lost all its meaning and appeal. Besides, castle balustrade structure was all about ancient day rivaling feudal warlords who provided
protection for local folk. We are the land of the free and home of the brave, still aren't we?""I strongly suggest the beauty that is our heritage Capitol in Washington DC would be preserved as an amusement and entertainment capital. It looks like a ghetto now. Maybe it could start earning afew bucks instead of sucking dollars into its gaping pie hole!"
Thank you for listening
Sincerely,
[add your name]
Or something like that.
Could we have a change of locale every eight years or so: like the Olympics. Salt Lake
City for eight years, then to Fort Lauderdale for eight years, and so on? Why not? Hey even Las Vegas could house the gambling, horny legislators for a term or two. A mobile government is much less a target for terrorist style cheap shot tactics.
It would propel the various state economies into prosperity. Also, natural selection and various tribal-like rivalries, like football rivalries could crop up. We all know how prosperous our national sports programs are. This would naturally extinguish much of the waste of federal governmental bureaucracy. It would create natural attrition, just like Uncle Sam needs in this hour of seven-hundred battlefront lines world wide.
Hey, and also why not limit lame duck re-elected Presidents to only two more years, for a total of six years, in office. We wouldn't have to watch a president going around for the last two years in office looking for things to do. And the additional benefit is off-year Presidential elections. Isn't that exciting??
Faithful Reader -- Please add your two cents, or scents, to this one... [sense, pence, tuppence, coin, bank roll]
>>mpw/ pdarnell real estate correspondent
Thank you for listening
Sincerely,
[add your name]
Or something like that.
Could we have a change of locale every eight years or so: like the Olympics. Salt Lake
City for eight years, then to Fort Lauderdale for eight years, and so on? Why not? Hey even Las Vegas could house the gambling, horny legislators for a term or two. A mobile government is much less a target for terrorist style cheap shot tactics.It would propel the various state economies into prosperity. Also, natural selection and various tribal-like rivalries, like football rivalries could crop up. We all know how prosperous our national sports programs are. This would naturally extinguish much of the waste of federal governmental bureaucracy. It would create natural attrition, just like Uncle Sam needs in this hour of seven-hundred battlefront lines world wide.
Hey, and also why not limit lame duck re-elected Presidents to only two more years, for a total of six years, in office. We wouldn't have to watch a president going around for the last two years in office looking for things to do. And the additional benefit is off-year Presidential elections. Isn't that exciting??
Faithful Reader -- Please add your two cents, or scents, to this one... [sense, pence, tuppence, coin, bank roll]>>mpw/ pdarnell real estate correspondent
3 comments:
Location is irrelevant in the digital age. For that matter, so is architecture.
What is important is "Branding" and that is exactly our government's greatest weakness. Not, a lack of "brand awareness" but, a perceived lack of "brand integrity" world wide.
So, while the mobile government would provide endless yuks, I think the real solution would require more practicality.
I propose moving the entire government to some unused piece of land, somewhere in the vast American outback. The entire batch of checks, balances and bloat could easily be housed in a metal building that, by my calculations, would cost in the neighborhood of 80grrr.
Ponder this query mi amigo; What type of balustrade's does Google's corporate office building sport? After all, they are Big Brother and in a barn burner of a race with Uncle Rupe for world domination. It seems to be working for them.
Greetings all,
Sr. Pribek has a good point. Since the federal government's three branches have become Military, Corporate and Hollywood, all physical locations can be manipulated endlessly. It would be simple to move in, set-up catering facilities, bivouac and start shooting, both figuratively and actually, if need be.
All of the wasted funds could be translated back in to box office receipts with all of the creative financing showing up on film, battlefield or quarterly reports.
Wall Street and the Fed could become partners and arrange the packages necessary to move this entity anywhere.
Really, CAD presence, or even holographic buildings to give everyone something to look at instead of Oprah. Very cheap compared to the crumbling relics in D.C.
Keep the elected at home with their constituents where they can be held accountable. Tele-commuters, save the funds for something their people can use, like health-care or safe bridges, wow.
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