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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>From:</span></b><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><b>Subject:</b> Outsourcing Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adrian wrote<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>… moved parts of the Department of the Interior to Colorado during his first term, and wants to distribute Washington's swamp around the United States more during his second term…-Kelly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Colorado is the most logical place I can think of for the Department of Interior. That one is a no-brainer. I picture the kinds of people who are really well-suited for that kind of work: flat-brimmed Stetson with four dents in top, olive trousers, khaki shirt, looks kinda like… well… me. I don’t care how good the job is, I would never neeeeever live in DC, no way Jose. Denver area, sure, in a heartbeat. OK then, what kind of person goes to DC to work for the Department of Interior please? People with an eye to climb the political ladder, not those who are best suited to DoI stuff or life in the Denver area. DC is overcrowded, dangerous and expensive as all hell. Denver is really nice. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>…One might go a step further, and wonder why most of these departments need to be in a single central location at all…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>They don’t, and there are huge disadvantages to having all that in DC. The bureaucracies attract all the wrong kind of people. They meet in bars in the evenings and corrupt each other.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>… Department of Energy have shown that it has begun to more fully distribute itself all over the US…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Adrian the space biz was intentionally scattered to hell and gone back in the old days so expertise could survive in case the commies nuked us, but even more importantly, to get the congresscritters to support the space program because they had NASA dollars coming into their states and districts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>While space stuff was scattered to hell and gone, bureaucratic power was centralized around DC. Then… times changed. Now there really isn’t good justification for scattering our space stuff and every justification for scattering bureaucracies. Oh this useta drive me up a tree, since I was travelling a lot to subcontractors. Soooo damn much time was wasted in the air, and it was always to places I just really didn’t wanna go.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Elon Musk came along and realized he needed to build rockets and satellites with all his subcontractors right there within a coupla hours drive at most from the launch site. This is sooooo much more efficient. Efficiency doesn’t matter to a bureaucracy, but it does to a private business. Now, bureaucracies will work better if they are scattered to hell and gone: it is cheaper living out there, and the bureaus stop attracting those who are really looking for DC power jobs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>