Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up, head ‘em up, move ‘em out...
Morgan Freeberg on Peggy Noonan and That Ilk:
Make the Congress and the bureaucrats live in barracks and eat at the commissary. And no lobbyists permitted within the bounds of the reservation after sundown...
Put ’em all there, and maybe some of Montana’s cowboy heritage might rub off.
(I had originally considered a location near Minot Air Force Base, but that part of the country is entirely too urban.)
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Morgan Freeberg on Peggy Noonan and That Ilk:
Our country is supposed to be dedicated to the concept of federalism: Minimal powers accorded to the overall, centrist government, with the balance of power devolved to “the States respectively, or to the people†as mandated by the Tenth Amendment.And C.G. Hill adds:
Yes, believe it or not, that is the intended design: People in Tallahassee should not be deciding how fast you can drive in Broken Bow, Nebraska, and people in Atlantic City shouldn’t be voting on the capacity of the automatic pistol you bought in Colfax, California.
And yet, we have a nation’s capitol. It is surrounded by a beltway. Good conservatives like Peggy Noonan, Earl Warren, Anthony Kennedy, et al, cross over that moat surrounding the castle. And they become hard-core left-wing radical fringe extreme liberals.
It’s the power. All that power sucked into the gravity well that is at the galaxy’s center. They don’t believe in local government anymore. They don’t believe in local intellectual acumen anymore. Once they are part of the octopus’ head, they don’t think the tentacles can be trusted with anything anymore.
...this is a really good argument for moving the seat of government to somewhere like East Jesus, Oklahoma, just to discourage the sort of people who (1) would really like to lord it over the rest of us and (2) can’t bear the thought of living in a place where you can’t swing a dead cat and hit restaurants of twenty-seven different ethnicities.I’d go for (say) a 30-mile-square reservation on the border between Garfield and Rosebud counties in Montana. (Nearest “big city:†Billings, about 100 miles by road.)
Make the Congress and the bureaucrats live in barracks and eat at the commissary. And no lobbyists permitted within the bounds of the reservation after sundown...
Put ’em all there, and maybe some of Montana’s cowboy heritage might rub off.
(I had originally considered a location near Minot Air Force Base, but that part of the country is entirely too urban.)
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Yeah, I read your rotating capital city idea, and I like the way you think! But a move like this would disrupt things for a while, and it might be a long while (c.f., Brazil’s transition from Rio to Brasilia). It would also make being a politician a little less fun, and I’m all in favor of that!
Of course the real answer is to claw some of the power back from Washington, but with the courts viewing the Tenth as a dead letter and given the kind of people who make careers in politics, I don’t see that as at all likely.
Of course the real answer is to claw some of the power back from Washington, but with the courts viewing the Tenth as a dead letter and given the kind of people who make careers in politics, I don’t see that as at all likely.
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