From Dr. Robert Lautzenheiser

Monroe

To the Editor:

This letter is in response to John Waelti’s column on government spending. As a retired professor of economics he failed to mention that government (state, local, federal, public schools, post office, etc) is the biggest business in the United States. The state, local and public schools are required to have budgets and balance their books or they will lose their credit rating which will increase the interest on future loans. This does not seem to apply to the federal government. The interest that the federal government is paying for money borrowed is more than the present budgets for the military and Social Security combined. If the spending is not curtailed the interest will increase. With that increase will the government actually have less to cover Medicaid, Social Security, and EBA cards? What happens to the people of the U.S. if it goes bankrupt? Greece was almost there but was bailed out by the European Union.

No business or citizen can survive when more money is spent than taken in. The government has been run by politicians that have little or no business knowledge for as long as I have paid attention to government since John F. Kennedy. Trump is the first business man to hold the office of President and recognizes the true problem. He has placed Elon Musk and his team to do the first audit of the government since 1946. They have found fraudulent payments made from agencies which the pervious directors bureaucratic staff should have found and corrected but did not. The new directors are now aware of the problem and can address the issues. DOGE is pointing out the problems to the directors and congress and they need to address the issues.

Mr. Waelti and the Democrats take offense to what Musk, DOGE and Trump are doing because they are billionaires. Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer have all said in the past that fraud and waste are a problem but did nothing to correct since 2008. They are now complaining because Trump is doing what he said he would do and attempt to reverse the spending. If it is corrected Medicaid, Social Security and other federal Programs can be saved. Trump and Musk also understand as businessmen that if the correction is not accomplished the citizen of the U.S. will potentially lose those benefits and if bankruptcy occurs, the bureaucrats will lose their retirement and medical plans.