Welcome to Government by YOYO

Snip: My son had a yoyo. I wonder where it went.
Snipe: It might now be in the felon’s administration.
Snip: I don’t understand.
Snipe: it’s up, it’s down. It’s high, it’s low. It’s here, it’s gone.   Here are just a few examples:

     First: 25% Tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico are going into effect at Midnight.
     Then: Some products are exempt for a month. Then, we’ll see. Or maybe more. Or not. 

     First: We want to arrange a peace deal.
     Then: We’ve disinvited one participant in the deal and stopped negotiating.

     First: I will lower prices on groceries on day one.
     Then: Lowering prices is hard. 

     First: There will be no more unelected bureaucrats running things.
     Then: May I introduce the head of DOGE, an unelected bureaucrat.

     First: We will immediately deport millions of illegal criminals.
     Then: Oops – some of these detainees are citizens, others are let go since we have no way to house them.

     First: We will be saving billions of dollars.
     Then: We will be using the billions and saving the tax cuts for billionaires.

     First: We will cut myriads of jobs from the IRS to save money.
     Then: The IRS can no longer run programs to detect tax cheaters. 

     First: Immigration should be controlled.
     Then: Any (white?) immigrant with $5 million dollars to spend can come on in as a citizen.

Snipe: And of course there is more. I’d like to know the real cost of thousands of deportations, of lawsuits levied as a result of some of the felon’s Executive Orders.
Snip: What can we do?
Snipe: We used to go to town hall meetings with our elected officials but now they are afraid we might criticize them so they won’t attend any more town halls. We could write to them but chances they will never see or hear about any of the letters, emails, phone notes. They remain too protected by ‘appropriate staff’ who read the notes.
Snip: I was writing to my senators the other day and found the addresses of five different offices.
Snipe: Maybe some should be closed. That is one way to cut wasteful spending in the government.
Snip: Should I just copy my letter and send it to every office? Would that make it more likely to be read?
Snipe: I doubt it. But if you want to try, let me know how that turns out.
Snip: I believe there is spending that could be cut, don’t you?
Snipe: Undoubtedly. But it should be done thoughtfully. If I wanted to reduce the amount of clothes in my closet, I don’t just grab a bunch and pitch them. I’d probably end up with 4 pair of slacks and no shirts to go with them. If it’s time to clean out the cabinets I don’t simply hire post-teens and say, “Have at it. The more you pitch the more you’ll be paid.” By the way, I hear that some of those now pitching for DOGE are making more than the employees pitched. Guess we just keep trying to do what we can do to smooth things out. Write, call, text. Let them know your thoughts. After all, they are our employees. Maybe we should be the ones doing the firing. 

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