Monday, December 03, 2018

Move the bureaucracies out of D.C.!

Michael Ledeen writes in PJ Media,
...Don’t be so surprised at the violent opposition to voter ID laws; the wrong side might win if that were instituted.

These are not so much matters of principle as matters of money. And as Washington booms—and man, does it ever—the corruption spreads and deepens.

What to do? Unless you believe the police and the FBI can effectively thwart it (and you’d be foolish to believe that; just look at the corruption of the Bureau, far greater than anything I ever imagined), you’ve got to move at least some significant parts of the system out of D.C. Once upon a time, when most sensitive messages were carried by couriers, it was imperative to have all the agencies here in one place. That no longer applies. Messages now move through the ether at the push of a button, and the offices between which they move can be anywhere. So get the corruptible Washington bureaucrats out of town, and into flyover country, where there’s less corruption, fewer fancy restaurants, and maybe even decent public schools.

There are plenty of benefits out there in real America. Doesn’t it make sense to have the Department of Agriculture in Nebraska? Wouldn’t it be an improvement to relocate special operations from the Pentagon to, say, Alabama? And just think how much better off we could be if CIA were taken out of the Washington policial/social cesspool and quietly moved to West Texas.

Sure, there are corrupt people everywhere. But we need to encourage virtue. And there’s a great deal more virtue in the hinterland than in the capital.
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