The list includes the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which serves as FBI headquarters, the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the Old Post Office building, where President Donald Trump once ran a hotel, and the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C.
    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Petition to meet stupid with stupid: start a national movement to relocate the federal administration buildings to the geographic center of the U.S.
      Land is cheap, will soon be rendered unusable by climate change. Why not prop up those dying communities with good paying federal jobs?

      • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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        3 days ago

        Would love to see a dem administration (if we get one again) use this as an excuse to go WFH and spread federal jobs out across America. In some ways it made sense to have most of government centralized in one place, but that’s no longer necessary. Would love to see these jobs offered remote, especially since a lot of them are well paying with pensions. Plus, DC has a huge congestion problem, and all the commuters are bad for climate change. I know a lot of DC economy depends on commuters, but I think it’d be better long term.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 days ago

    soo… create a ‘sovereign wealth fund’ of incredibly unstable cryptocurrency but sell the actual stable values (land) to private entities so we can pay more to lease them than having value owning them.

    what a giant grift. who the fuck would possibly think this is in the nations best interest? where the fuck is congress?

    • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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      4 days ago

      No, he’s not getting the money. Rather, it’s the private entities that will bribe him or give him money who will end up getting the better hand from the privatization of public property like these buildings and buying them up at a steal.