Support for DOGE should cross party lines
To the editor:
I’m sure we all have many friends on both sides of the political aisle. Over the years, I have intentionally refrained from revealing my own personal positions on either side because I value each of their political opinions and their friendships. That being said, I will again try to remain neutral in this discussion.
As a member of the Baby Boomer generation, I can remember back in the ’60s all of us hippies wanted to change the world. Well… it looks like we did, just not in the way it was expected.
One of the major focuses of the current administration is the country’s debt and spending deficit. Most of us know the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt. That number is expected to increase by about $2 trillion a year at the current rate of governmental spending.
The average American can’t comprehend those numbers. So let’s put it in the perspective of a typical household budget. If a family earned $80,000 last year, it would have spent every penny of that. In addition, they would have added ANOTHER $30,000 on their credit cards… this in spite of having a current balance of over $560,000 already on the credit cards! With that understanding, anyone with a checkbook (does anyone write checks anymore??) and a family budget can see this cannot continue without a major course correction.
The country’s credit rating has already been downgraded because of our deep budget deficit and ever-increasing debt. This administration is trying hard to address that debt. The current administration is being led by a businessman. He has brought in another businessman to oversee and help form a newly created committee to address this deficit. It’s called the Department Of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE). Its purpose is to eliminate wasteful spending, fraud, and inefficient use of taxpayer money.
Government has gotten too big and there are too many special interest groups, many with specific earmarks to support their own pet projects. DOGE is looking at all the waste. A leaner, trimmer, more efficient government is what the public demands in order for this country to survive.
Whether you support the current administration or not, everybody in the country should all support the creation and mission of DOGE.
Alan Bosworth
Cape Coral