Is It Time To Move the Capital?
Newsweek,
by
James Piereson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
3/16/2023 10:05:08 AM
The City Council of Washington, D.C., recently approved legislation to reduce penalties for violent crimes, despite a recent surge of murders, carjackings, and robberies in the city. It was in keeping with similar measures approved in recent years in cities around the country to defund the police, reduce cash bail, and eliminate penalties for minor crimes like shoplifting and drug possession. Congress rightly overruled the measure under the city's home rule charter, but it was a sign of what's to come from D.C. city government.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
thomthomp 3/16/2023 10:22:04 AM (No. 1426509)
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan:
"(D.C) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
privateer 3/16/2023 10:28:29 AM (No. 1426512)
Shouldn't that read 'Capitol'? And they already stole the 'Capital'.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
joew9 3/16/2023 10:34:54 AM (No. 1426518)
Oklahoma. Being in the center of the country it is better protected from invasion.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 3/16/2023 10:41:59 AM (No. 1426522)
The Departments should all be moved out of DC and to different cities around the County.
And, dismember the FBI and scatter the functions out amount the States.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/16/2023 10:42:51 AM (No. 1426523)
Leave it where it is. If one moves the Crapitol, that means land in some other part of the country will be used. Even deserted in southwestern Texas is more valuable doing nothing than having DC on it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/16/2023 10:45:24 AM (No. 1426529)
The problem with DC isn't location but concentration of influence and power. When everyone thinks alike then no one is thinking. Something like 6 of the wealthiest counties in the US surround DC. Federal Department HQs should be scattered across the country. Remove like think from the government bureaucracy.
And move the UN to Lebanon or some other s hole where they aren't living in luxury ans exposed to reality.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/16/2023 10:49:03 AM (No. 1426536)
By all means let's make them a state, they're so well run.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 3/16/2023 10:49:34 AM (No. 1426539)
Please don't move it to Texas.
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I stopped going into DC as crime is everywhere. Especially young teenagers who don’t even know how to drive are committing armed carjackings just for the thrill of being behind a wheel. My daughter was an RN at a DC hospital and quit because this democrat city is not safe. Even the tourist areas that were once considered safe have become unreachable because the Metro system is now unsafe.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/16/2023 10:59:28 AM (No. 1426552)
Now do away with the capital police and allow no armed security within city limits. It would be a dem dream come true.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FLCracker 3/16/2023 11:02:12 AM (No. 1426556)
Yes! Put it in Kansas or wherever the geographical center of the country is.
The District of Columbia was organized (I use the word laughingly) when the country only existed on the East Coast. They put in at, pretty-much, the center then.
And make it a law that jury pools for Federal cases must come from all 50 states-plus, and not just the tiny little district about the government buildings.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/16/2023 11:07:33 AM (No. 1426561)
Move the capital to Havana.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GlueHorse 3/16/2023 11:08:21 AM (No. 1426562)
The Geographic Center of the Lower 48 States is located north of Lebanon, Kansas. That's 45 miles from Fort Knox, Kansas.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Citoyen 3/16/2023 11:20:24 AM (No. 1426569)
Per the Constitution the US Congress has control over the District of Columbia. There has been legislation granting power to the city but the congress can still make itself felt. It’s way past time for Republicans to law down the law and fix the pathologies that the incompetent fools, put in place by stupid voters, have inflicted on Our capital.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/16/2023 11:22:03 AM (No. 1426572)
I find it interesting that Congress was able to overrule the DC city Council, which seems to indicate they have more jurisdictional control and oversight.
If that's true, then why are they able to get away with the deplorable jail conditions in DC?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/16/2023 11:28:40 AM (No. 1426580)
Everything that lives off, and surrounds the Capital, will move with it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Catherine 3/16/2023 11:47:02 AM (No. 1426597)
# 3 - No! Not Oklahoma. This is a nice, quiet state. How about New Mexico. Lots of nothing there. Build the Capitol in the desert somewhere.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Krause 3/16/2023 11:48:35 AM (No. 1426599)
Keeping as many criminals as possible on the street is a great idea! Nothing wrong with more crime! These politicians are really smart!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/16/2023 12:00:53 PM (No. 1426604)
Moving it entirely isn't feasible even in this time of hi-speed internet streaming. Nor is the Four Corners area a good choice - people need reliable water and that territory is in the desert. But I have long advocated that the DC bureaucracy should be broken up and moved to the heartlands. Most of the Dems will not be willing to move to 'Kansas' though it would be much less expensive than DC.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
kono 3/16/2023 12:03:57 PM (No. 1426605)
Hm, nope -- needs more crime, not less. At least that seems to be the perspective of folks who not only don't withdraw from the harebrained idea of defunding police and eliminating bail, but actually double-down by upping "reparations" tribute payments to seven-figure levels. (Our Board of Stupidvisers in SF ought to be billed for the cost of their handouts and then serve time for trying to shake us down for it.)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
keep_right 3/16/2023 12:05:42 PM (No. 1426606)
Lebanon Kansas sounds like a perfect new site for our Capitol! Let Virginia and Maryland duke it out over her inherits the cesspool DC has become. And yes, the headline misspells Capitol.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TJ54 3/16/2023 12:07:55 PM (No. 1426608)
No just abolish 90% of the federal bureaucracy. The Dem’s plantation slaves are causing the crime there
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
padiva 3/16/2023 12:08:05 PM (No. 1426609)
Instead of DC statehood, for federal representation (congress critters and senators), north of the Potomac is included in MD. South of the Potomac is included in VA.
Puerto Rico and nearby islands included in FL.
Guam etc included in HI.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Citoyen 3/16/2023 12:21:31 PM (No. 1426615)
Washington DC is the capital of the United States. Congress meets in the capitol building.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 3/16/2023 12:23:07 PM (No. 1426616)
Beijing would put them closer to their puppet masters.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 3/16/2023 12:26:00 PM (No. 1426623)
Notwithstanding the real possibility that no sane citizen would want to welcome the dysfunctions of dc, methinks it is is better to institute some adult tough love..to provide consequences for aberrant behaviors. Public safety is a major responsibility of government, and in DC it is failing. if dc moves, so will it’s denizens and issues…no matter where they go, there they are…so fix it in place
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Laotzu 3/16/2023 12:36:03 PM (No. 1426638)
Start with relocating all federal agencies to at least 200 miles from the Capitol. No State permitted more than one until every State has one.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/16/2023 12:36:56 PM (No. 1426639)
Wouldn't it be ironic if the capitol was moved to Richmond, Virginia.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/16/2023 12:41:17 PM (No. 1426647)
It needn't be a distant move... 150 miles due east should do the trick.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 3/16/2023 1:19:40 PM (No. 1426692)
By no means should we move the Capitol. We should, on the contrary, demand that Congress reassert its Constitutional authority over the District of Columbia and put down the insurrection in which its black residents have been engaging. Concomitant with that, all federal government departments established or created since 1959 should be disbanded and all employees thereof discharged to seek employment in the private sector. Yes, I know I am dreaming, but allow me my reverie. It's far superior to our reality.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/16/2023 1:39:24 PM (No. 1426701)
Scatter it far and wide. See how Agriculture likes Kansas, Energy likes Odessa Texas, Education likes South Louisiana. I'm sure there's plenty of room for others in Alabama, Montana, and Minnesota.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Starlifter Nav 3/16/2023 2:13:56 PM (No. 1426719)
It may or may not be time to move it... nut it IS time to learn to spell it.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/16/2023 10:01:48 PM (No. 1426948)
I prefer the independence Day solution.....
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 3/16/2023 10:44:56 PM (No. 1426963)
I see what you did there, #33!! LOL!!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
danu 3/17/2023 1:50:21 AM (No. 1427013)
only on the condition that the crooks must remain--in the gulag.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 3/17/2023 6:24:47 AM (No. 1427086)
Move it to Mexico City so Congress can be close to the people they represent. Either that or Kyiv.
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A crazy idea? Maybe. But not nearly as crazy as the people running D.C.