Time to move the US capital?

I mean if you want the teeth rattled out of your brain as you travel across I-70. Take your chance on getting murdered easily when you cross the missouri river, get offered meth in every hillbilly alcove on your way to St Louis, and then end up in the murder capital by capita when you get to St Louis, then Mizzou is the place for you.

God himself wouldnt visit Missouri.

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Thatā€™s where I did boot. The place is lost in the middle of the woods. As far as Iā€™m aware, basically the only thing off post were motels and strip clubs.

Eww you went to a strip club in a Missouri? What is wrong with you?

Thatā€™s kind of every post, though. Motels, strip clubs, tattoo places, payday loans and used car dealers.

I was in boot, I didnā€™t actually get to go off post.

Not that strip clubs are my scene.

They might have had those other things too. I donā€™t know.

Good, you then saved yourself from a lifetime of incurable nastiness.

I have been there many times, will be there many more times. I have hit every restaurant in the District, Pentagon City, Crystal City, etc, etc. It takes a long time and several visits to really capture everything the area has to offer.

So long as there is a District of Columbia, it gets three electoral votes even if the only voters are a couple homeless guys sleeping on the steps of monuments.

It would be closer to the work. China, North Korea, Russia, all much closer.

What are you going to do with the Whitehouse, the giant capital building, The supreme court, The Pentagon, all of those monuments and museums? There is a zero percent chance that the capitol will be moved.

Low rent housing.

This is true, which is anther reason moving the capital to the geographic or popular center of the USA is a good idea, Both locations are on or next to the Black Hills and Ozarks mountain ranges under which a bunker could be built to serve as the capital.

D.C. is a indefensible swamp near the coast.

You assume we would move all of the capital, when in fact the main benefit of moving the capital when in fact one of the main benefits of moving the capital is to get our congressmen away from all the corrupting grandeur.

ideally in a relatively isolated place that canā€™t support such a population.

Iā€™m thinking the actual geographic center of the USA which just happens to be in the black hills of South Dakota near Mount Rushmore. There is plenty of rock to build monuments, little water to support a large population, and a mountain under which to build a nuclear bunker.

Which really should be the new capital itself both for security reasons in an age of nuclear weapons and to help keep out lobbies for lack of room in said bunker for anyone but congressmen, their families and staff.

We might expect said capital to only be occupyed during the relatively few times in the year where they are all together otherwise congress can and should work remotely from their districts and states.

The ideal place to move the capital would be to the population or geographic center of these united States. Both locations just happen to be near or on the Ozark and Black hills mountain ranges in which a new nuclear proof Capital bunker could be built.

There is no need to move any of the federal agencies as they would ideally be dispersed across the country over time. Simply build a big bunker for Congress to occasionally hold formal sessions, when they are not voting remotely from among their constituencies in their districts and states.

The propose of the senate was originally to protect the federal nature of the Constituitonal system in defending the self-governing interest of the states.

This of course largely fell apart with the 17th amendment , anther stereotypically inept idea pushed by progressives in the first era when they monopolized control of all information for most Americas.

The senate was NEVER suppose to represent people, that is the job of the house but rather protect the right of the people to vote with their feet. A right that is of course the single most important right for any minority.

A State has nothing to do with how many people(People move around like the wind) you have and is instead entirely about the ability to govern and sustain yourself interpedently of other states.

Indeed the Senate exist to help states defend that right.

I agree with @Samm D.C. is a city not a state. D.C. has no natural resources nor means to support itself outside of a single industry which frankly half the country already wants to move or abolish.

When that half of the country is successful there will be almost nobody in Washington D.C. as there is no other industry or resources to support them.

Itā€™ll be the first place to go under water when the oceans rise. Or, maybe second, after New Orleans.

The ground level of the Capitol is 88 ft asl. The base of the Washington monument is 30 ft asl. Maybe they can turn it into a lighthouse to guide ships coming in to dock at the Capitol. :wink:

It could have on the banks of the Susquehanna, but Alexander Hamilton had to trade for the Potomac in order for Southern States to agree to debt assumption. :smile: