Government agencies

by Charles Sleath, Hamilton

The Trump administration is bragging about saving billions of dollars by eliminating government agencies and laying workers off, in order to eliminate waste and fraud. I would like to know where the money is going that they claim they are saving. Will we be paying less Federal taxes? Will we see an increase in our take-home pay? Waste and fraud is not prevalent in most government agencies. The fraud is in the elected body of the Congress and Government Administration. People working in the different agencies, i.e.  the Forest Service, the BLM, the CDC, the EPA, OSHA and MSHA, the Social Security Administration, and all other government agencies that serve “We the People,” consider themselves public servants. The elected politicians, including the President and his cabinet, should consider themselves public servants, but it appears they are only concerned with their own desire to become wealthy and to hell with the people! If anyone is at fault it is “We the People.” We elected the wrong people to represent us in Washington. Let’s elect new people next time.