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2019-07-02 Government

547 USDA Employees to Move to K.C. - or Else

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Posted by Bobby 2019-07-02 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Dept of Ag has something like 90k employees. A lot of who are food inspectors or Forestry officials and who are outside Washington DC.

Still the Washington DC offices probably have at least 5k employees so these 500+ are just a drop in the bucket.

Btw, 80% of the Dept of Ag budget goes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP aka food stamp) which spends over $100 B per year.

Posted by lord garth 2019-07-02 01:19|| 2019-07-02 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The Trump 'long game.' Sheer genius. I hope he expands the program to include the IRS, DOE, the Pentagon, and others.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-02 03:23|| 2019-07-02 03:23|| Front Page Top

#3 That's convenient to make field trips to Ferguson MO to see first hand the fruits of USDA's largest program.

Posted by Hupaith Theting3224 2019-07-02 05:31|| 2019-07-02 05:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Tough cookies! Suck it up! Get out in the field! With all the teleconferencing available today, there's no need for the centralized bureaucracy.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-07-02 06:13|| 2019-07-02 06:13|| Front Page Top

#5 That's convenient to make field trips to Ferguson MO to see first hand the fruits of USDA's largest program.

That comment will really leave a mark.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-02 07:32|| 2019-07-02 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 the Pentagon

To someplace not in any busy 'fly over' country air traffic patterns should be a first consideration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-02 08:16|| 2019-07-02 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 National People's Radio (NPR) had a long whiny piece on this. Some of the employees are disabled and can't walk the 1,000 miles to Kansas City. Others have families. Yes, families! Can you imagine families forced to live in the uninhabited prairie, hundreds of miles from the nearest Starbucks, surrounded by wild buffalo and savage Indians? Utterly heart-wrenching stuff. Maybe the Army could build a fort or something.

Posted by SteveS 2019-07-02 08:39|| 2019-07-02 08:39|| Front Page Top

#8 They might even have to shop at a Walmart. The HORROR!

Posted by Frank G 2019-07-02 08:53|| 2019-07-02 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Look at the bright side, Ag employees - lots of killer BBQ joints!

Posted by Raj 2019-07-02 09:08|| 2019-07-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#10 And housing prices are a hell of a lot cheaper than around DC.

I'd take the transfer in a fucking heartbeat.

But I'm not a DC government parasite either.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-07-02 09:26|| 2019-07-02 09:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Coming soon:.

Gummit directed transfers to KC are discriminatory and racist.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-02 09:33|| 2019-07-02 09:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Ref #11:. Add Soetoro appointed Federal judge decrees.....

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-02 09:41|| 2019-07-02 09:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Taking federal Ag employees out of DC and centering them where agriculture actually exists is a good thing.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-07-02 11:18|| 2019-07-02 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 I am for musical chairs with all gov positions. If you can't move with the job you are not the right person for the job. Right now in D.C. get fired in one gov dept and get hired in another. With regional musical chairs - fired and stay fired. Win win for the public! Sort of survival of the fittest the rest of the public has to live with.

Posted by 3dc 2019-07-02 12:50|| 2019-07-02 12:50|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City here I come
I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one
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I'm gonna be standing on the corner
12th Street and Vine
I'm gonna be standing on the corner
12th Street and Vine
With my Kansas City Baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine
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Well I might take a plane
I might take a train
But if I have to walk I'm going just the same
I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy little women
there and I'm gonna get me one

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Recon performed already by Fats Domino

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-07-02 14:40|| 2019-07-02 14:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Re #14: 3dc, welcome to the world of the military. He has been in the Air Force for 9 years. He is at his third duty station: Washington state, England, and now Langley AFB, VA. He expects to be transferred again in a year or two.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-07-02 15:16|| 2019-07-02 15:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Sorry, the second sentence should read: My son has been in the Air Force for nine years.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-07-02 15:49|| 2019-07-02 15:49|| Front Page Top

#18 And....you must become a Royals fan.

*568 file resignations*

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-07-02 17:49|| 2019-07-02 17:49|| Front Page Top

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