Support for federal workers

by Russ Lawrence, Hamilton

I am profoundly disgusted by the scorn and humiliation being heaped on our federal employees, our neighbors and friends who work hard to accomplish the tasks that we the people, through our elected representatives, have asked them to do. The wholesale and indiscriminate firing of federal employees is endangering the public and the nation.

I strenuously object to having an unelected, unaccountable, part-time unpaid intern with no government experience in the Oval Office dismantling the government in ways that have already proven harmful to public safety and the general welfare. Those of us with long enough memories will recall what happened the last time such an intern had private access to the Oval Office and its occupant.

Senators and Representatives: do your job. Fire Elon Musk. Take control and make hard decisions—it’s what we sent you to Washington to do, not just to sit on your thighbones cheering the inexperienced and haphazard wrecking crew currently masquerading as our “Department of Government Efficiency.” Congress created those programs, it’s Congress’ job to manage them, not a handful of stooges at DOGE. Keep our federal employees at work doing the jobs we have asked of them, and tax the uber-wealthy to pay for it. “Government Efficiency” isn’t measured in dollars saved, it’s measured in lives improved. Keep that in mind.

Thank you, federal workers, you are valued and we appreciate what you do.