Dear Editor,

It is shocking to see just how much taxpayer money has been wasted. I recently used the example of Stacy Abrams receiving close to two billion dollars from the Biden Administration for her “climate” non-profit. I asked folks, “How long do you think it would take for you as a taxpayer to store away two billion dollars if you made $50,000.00/year and never spent a dime. They made some guesses but none were close. The number of years it would take is not four hundred years, nor four thousand years, but it would take 40,000 years to earn that money. By the way, that two billion dollars purchased between 40-100 refrigerators that were climate friendly. They must be made of gold and diamonds and instead of a water dispenser it spouts champagne.

Elon Musk believes the Democrats and RINO’s have either wasted or stolen over one trillion dollars…our money! He also believed that people who are collecting social security have had so much of it stolen or wasted by these people over the years that each social security recipient should be making four times the amount they earn now.

Trump’s plan is very simple. We need to get rid of waste and move America away from a service economy back to a manufacturing economy. We need factories. We need steel. We need oil and gas line workers. We need farmers who can raise livestock and not be punished by the EPA. We need truck drivers, HVAC workers, electricians and asphalt layers. If these jobs come back they create tertiary jobs like restaurants, hairdressers, grocery stores, etc.

We need a level playing field. We need tariffs until we can sell for example a $50,000 dollar car in India for $50,000…not $140,000 like today. Only then can we compete in a fair free market with the rest of the world.

We cannot survive when our education is ranked 40 out of 40 nations and yet we spend more money than any other country per pupil. That waste cannot continue.

We need to get rid of NGOs (non government organizations). They wasted and gave kickbacks of billions of taxpayer dollars. If we would get rid of Soros and send him back to England, I guarantee that a lot of the protesting and destruction would stop. By the way, much of the money he uses for these domestic protestors and destroyers of cities were found to have come from your tax dollars that were funneled to his NGOs by the democrats.

Let me end with this… I watched when a rocket was sent to rescue the poor astronauts stranded on that space station because the Biden administration didn’t want Elon Musk to get any credit. Elon was supporting Trump during the campaign so Biden and the democrats said basically, “let em rot up there.” Those are my words but you get the gist. I was amazed and so proud as an American when I saw that booster land upright on the ground. This is the America we can be. We are brilliant, fair, hard working people. Christians we need to pray for our new government and that those on the left who would destroy us would repent. As always, repent, pray, and speak up!

Randy Marple

Shadyside