June 23, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
I get these email updates from you called "1600
Daily". Ironically enough they
don't arrive daily, but I won't dwell on that because I've got bigger fish to
fry today. This is what you sent me two
days ago:
"Donald
J. Trump is embracing big change, bold thinking, and outsider
perspectives to transform government and
make it work better, and at far less
cost. This new spirit of innovation will make life
better for all Americans by
modernizing
critical IT systems, making government more transparent, and
saving tax payers up to $1 trillion
dollars over the next 10 years."
You know me Mr. Trump, I'm a stickler for the truth and I just
can't let this one slip by without speaking up.
I'll break it down bit by bit for you so you don't get too overwhelmed.
1.
I see no "change" or "bold
thinking" although your "outsider perspective" was on display
quite a bit this week. For instance,
when you were unsure about what our current relationship with Panama is, when
you didn't know that your Sec. of State was endorsing a different Middle East action
plan than you, when you tried to intimidate James Comey into silence by
threatening to release secret recordings (which don't exist) of your
conversations, when you didn't know that we had sold $12 billion worth of
fighter jets to a majority Muslim nation that you said is the world's largest
supporter of terrorism. That's just a
sampling of your "outsider perspective". I guess you are so far outside that you don't
really know what's going on inside.
2.
You have offered absolutely no evidence that the
government is "working better and at far less cost." In fact, the 5 separate Congressional probes
into the criminal activities of your administration are costing the American
tax payer a fortune, not to mention
your excessive travel to your private homes.
In just the first 80 days of your presidency you spent $20 million of
federal money going to Mar-A-Lago. You are, literally, the most expensive
president the United States has ever had.
And you continue to spend and spend while at the same time asking the
government to cut non-defense spending (non-defense spending is all the stuff
that actually helps the average citizen…like food and education).
3.
Your administration has limited federal agency
communications (such as the National Park Service) as well as journalist access
to what should be public information (such as White House briefings) skirting
dangerously close to what looks like limiting the First Amendment. You
hand-pick media outlets to share information with and have actively created a
hostile environment by saying that the media is "the enemy of the
people." This is NOT "making
government more transparent" in ANY way.
4.
The Diet Coke button on your desk is not a
"critical IT system" although it does represent a "new spirit of
innovation".
5.
I would dearly love to see tax payers saving
"$1 trillion dollars." Please
show me the balance sheet so that I can give credit where credit is due. You will remember, however, that there was a
$2 trillion dollar math error in your recent budget proposal so I am a little
wary of your figures.
Oh well, time to get back to weeding.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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