Cut the cutting

To the editor:

I am saddened and find it hard to believe everything that has been happening since the presidential inauguration.

Promises were made that Medicaid would not be touched. Promises were made that prices on groceries and gasoline would immediately come down. Promises were made that our brave servicemen and women would continue to be taken care of. The promises in reality were lies.

The recent flash flood in Texas is just one example of how the Trump administration has destroyed life as we know it.

The weather service, which has been constantly improved to protect us from disasters, has been gutted and broken.

Medicaid has been gutted, and 17 million people are going to lose their health care.

Snap and WIC have been gutted, and now children and entire families are going to go hungry.

Our education system has been gutted and is suffering. Colleges are being targeted. Pell grants are being eliminated, making higher education impossible for thousands of students.

Promises were made that Social Security would not be touched, but probably half of its employees have been let go. You cannot call and get a person. You must make an appointment even to talk to someone.

I had a question for the IRS yesterday but could not get a human on the phone. The computer could not guide me, and eventually it just hung up. It happened three times.

All the gutting was supposed to help balance the budget. Instead, it is increasing the national debt by trillions.

The goals of this administration are to create a brain drain to allow more government control and stuff more money in the pockets of the rich, creating oligarchs.

Have you paid attention to the increase in President Trump’s and his family’s net worth? Have you paid attention to how taxpayers’ dollars have been spent for Trump to go on enormous amounts of golf trips?

How, as a democratic republic, can we, including elected officials and appointed judges, let this continue?

We have become the laughingstock of the world. A country that once was a great place to visit is now a country that people in other countries are warned not to visit.

Let’s bring our country back to the great place it was rather than the sad, fearful, and feared country that it has become.

Connie McMahan
Tamp