To the editor: The headline “Trump administration backtracks on eliminating thousands of national parks employees” tells solely a part of the story. All it’s essential to know in regards to the Trump administration might be summed up by two actions in latest days.
The primary is that probationary staff within the Nationwide Park Service have nonetheless misplaced their jobs, cleansing bathrooms and the like. The second is that the State Division could have been preparing to spend $400 million on armored variations of automobiles made by Elon Musk’s Tesla till the media discovered it within the small print of procurement paperwork.
Feed the wealthy, starve the poor — that’s the actual headline of the Trump administration, each in phrase and deed, each intent and impression.
Subsequent step: big tax cuts for the wealthy as a result of “they” have saved a lot cash decimating the federal authorities.
Joel Pelcyger, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The conservative buddies of fired Yosemite upkeep employee Olek Chmura telling him this wasn’t what they voted for should not have been paying consideration.
What number of occasions did they hear Republicans say they needed to shrink the federal authorities to a measurement it may very well be drowned in a bath? What number of egomaniacs strutting on stage with a chainsaw do they should see?
Folks like Chmura’s conservative buddies mustn’t attempt to assuage their conscience as their family members are laid off and nationwide parks endure with decreased workers by saying this isn’t what they voted for. No, that is precisely what they voted for.
Gordon J. Louttit, Manhattan Seashore
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To the editor: The Instances has printed a number of articles on the “work” that the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity has been doing.
Based mostly on the division’s persevering with drama and course corrections similar to firing after which rehiring important staff, I’m considering “effectivity” ought to be not noted of the identify.
Christine Savage, Santa Monica
