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Thread: Should Bureaucracies Be Close To Their Funding Or Mission?

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    Should Bureaucracies Be Close To Their Funding Or Mission?

    The Department of Agriculture head decides to move part of his department to fly-over country in the middle of the people they serve, and those employees whose jobs are moving to drastically cheaper cost-of-living and accessible environs go bonkers —

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/polit...s-city-perdue/
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    First--I dismiss the cost savings that are claimed only because of many personal experiences in this type of "project" and I know how illusive those savings can be. In the end, they become an accountants dream---what do you want the answer to be.

    As to the promised improvement in services---I'd be a wait and see skeptic....and to the hardship of such a move---suck it up boys and girls, that happens in the private business world all the time---you are acting like a bunch of spoiled kids.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Always respect your opinions Dave, so just lets don't rock the boats.
    Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.

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