It pains me to correct the author of a letter in the April 24 edition titled “Letter-writer calling citizens ‘misinformed’ was himself misinformed,” but it must be done for the sake of clarity.
First, according to the Treasury Department, Trump left office with the national debt rising by $7.8 trillion and Biden left with an increase of $8.4 trillion. To be fair, no president is an island unto himself as they inherit the spending programs of previous administrations that can greatly affect those numbers.
Second, Elon Musk has no authority to hire or fire any government employee. He serves in an advisory role tasked to help identify areas of cost saving and ways to streamline government services. The decision to hire or fire staff comes only from the director of that agency.
Third, to suggest that he is arbitrarily targeting anyone without any data to back up that claim is ludicrous. And so is your assertion that those cost savings are earmarked for Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies.
Half of the claims made in that letter are either provably false or gross exaggerations better suited to an episode of “The View.” In my opinion, the answer to the question you posed as your closing remark is “Yes.”
Mike Armour