USAID is a good place to start reducing expenses

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Usaid cuts a good
Start reducing expenses

Re: “The closing of the USAID was first an idea of ​​the Clinton era” (page A7, February 13).

Today, I read the letters to the publisher on the “terrible disappearance of Usaid”.

I hope these writers and others read Mark Thiessen’s opinion in Mercury’s news. Thiessen clearly declares the history of the USAID agency and the lack of surveillance. Obviously, it is quite legal to move USAID to the State Department where there will be surveillance and a management of the USAID.

Some of the USAID expenses help poor countries using food aid and medical vaccines, and they should continue.

I hope most Americans will be able to understand that our federal government has exceeded, and we now spend nearly $ 900 billion in taxpayers, each year, simply paying the annual interest on our debt of 36 billions of dollars, And that should increase.

Therefore, it is obvious that many government programs should be cut to stop excessive spending.

Brian McCormick
San Jose

Scan changes to
Usaid not a new idea

Re: “The dismantling of Trump of the USAID Immoral” and “Congress cannot allow the end of the USAID” (page A6, February 13) and “The closure of the USAID was first an idea of The Clinton era ”(page A7, February 13).

Interesting is the juxtaposition of two letters to the publisher and a comment on the next page on the dismantling and restructuring of the USAID by Marc A. Thiessen. This shows that we, ordinary people, generally do not have the first -hand experience or knowledge of many questions relating to our federal and state governments.

A perfect example – Thiessen’s comment – reveals the story and the problems involved to try to dismantle and restructure the USAID at the time of the former president Biden (as a senator) and the former President Clinton .

Now I am perfectly to provide necessary help for hungry and oppressed people in foreign countries. What I do not support is the waste and fraud of the government that we all know, or that we have a meaning, occurs daily in Washington, DC and Sacramento. The Trump administration seems to try to institute a government policy that has been launched for decades.

Dan Casas
Saratoga

Savings at Federal
Agencies will go to Rich

No one mentions that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s examination of our government agencies can be done without closing them first.

Second, if you think savings will be used to reduce our debt, think again; They just try to justify huge tax gifts to the richest people in the world.

If that suits you, wait for an America from which you will not recognize or will not be proud.

Rich Lee
San Jose

Lamar’s message was
bigger than music

Re: “Kendrick Lamar is” not like us ” – yet with a major change – at the Super Bowl” (February 9).

Hip-hop music is one of the most essential aspects of black culture in the United States, and the powerful messages that these songs can communicate should not be ignored.

Hip-hop songs are a way to talk about the soul to the listener, and Kendrick Lamar used gender as a medium to talk about the oppression that blacks continue to face, and as a call to forget The origins of our country – we would not be the country that we are today without the contribution of African -Americans during the construction of our union.

As Lamar says well: it’s bigger than music.

Erika Bodoh
San Jose

To save money, DOGE
should start in Pentagon

Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense, Robert Storch, was recently dismissed by the Trump administration, as well as more than a dozen other IGs from the Federal Agency. A year ago, IG Strch said that the soldiers exceeded his needs in spare parts nearly a billion dollars. Add to that the painful fact that the Pentagon recently failed in its seventh consecutive audit.

Indintments, the Senate Republicans offer to increase the military budget by $ 150 billion.

The OIG oversees and examines the efficiency, efficiency, financial health and agency safety they serve to ensure their effective operation by preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuses, a role that Doge d ‘Elon Musk claims that he is loaded. If Musk and Doge were really interested in the effectiveness of the government, they would start at the Pentagon first.

Warren Seifert
Gilroy