TRUMP: MOVE AGENCIES' HEADQUARTERS OUT OF DC SWAMP

100,000 Jobs Can Be Moved

“Knee High By The Fourth Of July.”  Any bureaucrat working for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington DC, regardless how high or how low, who does not know what this means, should be fired.

How can someone living in Washington DC know more about agriculture, ranching, et al, than the people who live on and work the land?  Have these DC bureaucrats even MET a farmer or rancher?

LOCAL RESIDENTS LOVE THE LAND: MAKE BETTER USDA EMPLOYEES

If re-elected, Trump plans to move more agency headquarters out of the Washington DC area.  During his first term, a pair of science agencies in the Agriculture Department relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, a decision that led to a mass exodus of employees (AKA arrogant Swamp creatures) because they did not want to work with & live with the very farmers and ranchers they are regulating.  The Trump Administration also moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado.  The Biden Regime recently announced plans to move the BLM back to the DC Swamp, far away from the land they are overpaid to manage.

“We will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington swamp . . . And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America,” Trump said in a recent announcement on Rumble.

He also said that if re-elected, he would move to make agency inspectors general “independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee.” Currently, inspectors general are housed in the agencies they oversee which leads to bias in favor of the departments they are supposed to objectively investigate.

“PUBLIC SERVANTS” WILL START SERVING AMERICANS AGAIN

President Trump had to fight the DC Swamp and Deep State his entire tenure.  In 2019 I advised him to sign an executive order to move the Department of Agriculture’s headquarters to Iowa, the biggest corn-producing state in the USA.

Or, move it to Texas, the largest beef-producing state in the USA. How about moving the USDA Headquarters to Washington State, the highest apple-producing state?  Wheat production?  Move USDA HQ to either North Dakota or Kansas.  The average man or woman on the street in America’s breadbasket knows more about agriculture, ranching, farming, fruit growing etc. than the average person raised on the East Coast.

The American Midwest is the breadbasket of the United States, if not the world. The people born and raised there know far more about corn, wheat, beef, apples et al than the white-collar paper-pushers in the DC Swamp. And they will not see themselves as superior to farmers, ranchers & other food producers because they identify with their friends & neighbors.

USDA “RURAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICES” IN BIG CITIES!  REALLY?

In the 1990s this writer had my law office in an older building in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon.  For those who know nothing about Oregon, allow me to explain: Oregon is replete with all kinds of farms, orchards, vineyards, ranches, etc. who grow & produce way too many products to name here.  NOT one of these producers can be found in downtown Portland, yet the USDA Rural Development office was NEXT DOOR TO MY LAW OFFICE.

The great majority of Oregon’s producers are found at least 100 miles away from Portland. Indeed, most rural areas are 200–300 miles from Portland. Why was the so-called “Rural Development” office in a major metropolitan city?  Was that because the arrogant bureaucrats refused to “lower” themselves to live in the communities that house the very Americans they are supposed to be helping?* Is that because the DC Swamp is afraid to hire locals who really know what “rural development” is all about?

FOR COASTAL LIBERALS** WHO HAVE NEVER “LOWERED” THEMSELVES TO UNDERSTAND “FLYOVER COUNTRY:”

“Knee High By The Fourth Of July” is a popular American agricultural saying that has been cited in print since at least 1854.  If a corn crop has reached the height of a man’s knee by Independence Day, then it is growing well, and should produce a bountiful harvest.

This writer was visiting a corn producing state in the Midwest the last two weeks of June 2019.  The corn was ankle high.  Locals said it was like that all over the Midwest, due to flooding and other weather patterns they experienced that spring.  How many Swamp creatures working in the Department of Agriculture know this?  How many even care?

*This American checked on the USDA website and found that the USDA’s “rural development” office is still in downtown Portland.  In the 1990s, the “rural development” office was on the third floor of an old building, built in the 1930s, probably with relatively modest rent, next to my law office.  These arrogant bureaucrats are now housed on the 18^th floor in a relatively new building with much higher rent.  The Federal Bureau of Land Management is on the 11th floor in the same building.  Were I still practicing law, I could not afford office space next to the federal “rural development” office nor the BLM office in this newer building.  Trust me when I say: there is NO land or agriculture to manage in downtown Portland.

**Big City Liberals are an arrogant, “I am superior” lot, with little empathy for others.  I lived among them for 40 years.  A memory from several years ago still sticks in my head.  As the economy under Obama/Biden was stagnating and many were suffering from long term unemployment in the other 49 states, North Dakota’s economy was booming. I had read about how North Dakota was not participating in the bad economy because, before the nation’s economy tanked, ND had implemented a statewide plan to develop their mineral resources, that is: fossil fuels.  I thought this was rather impressive so I mentioned it.  One Liberal in the room scoffed and retorted: “Who wants to live there?  No one knows where it is.”  Another Liberal claimed the nation’s economy was in great shape because SHE had just got a big raise.  Oregon’s unemployment rate was very high at that time.