Re:Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
by MistahKoala on Sunday December 11, 2016 @04:19AM
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Would the German experience of transitioning from Bonn to Berlin be of much relevance here?
Re:Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
by mschuster91 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:56AM
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It's STILL not completed, over two and a half decades after the wall fell. The amount of money wasted is incredible (7.5M € in 2016 in direct costs, http://www.merkur.de/politik/hendricks-stellt-bericht-zum-bo...), not to mention wasted time and the loss of efficiency because teams and management are split across Germany.
Re:Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
by MistahKoala on Saturday December 17, 2016 @08:12AM
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Really! I had no idea. I barely ever see a reference to Bonn in anything I read about Germany these days; I'd formed the impression that everyone had moved in the 90s.
Re:Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:51AM
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(a) The difference between moving civilians and moving military personnel is that if a civilian doesn't want to go they can just resign, but if the military person doesn't want to go they have to suck it up and go anyway. (b) The "good" government pension hasn't been available since the 80s, (b') uprooting your family and moving hundreds of miles away is a pretty big blow to stability.
Also, the DoD makes fast changes like this all the time as the result of BRAC. Government employees don't tend to just up and change jobs - they are career workers who like the stability and promise of a pension.