OPINION:
People in the normal workforce have always put up with firings and layoffs when conditions change (“Trump cans thousands of ‘probationary’ federal workers,” Web, Feb. 14). It was a hidden figure that so many government employees did not work in the office, but at home. Many do not want to return to their offices; businesses would be justified in firing them for this, so why can’t the government do the same? Officials need to manage taxpayer money better.
It also appears that there are a great many jobs that are political appointments, and they need to be done away with immediately.
Furthermore, the federal government wastes billions of dollars maintaining unused buildings and other property that could be sold to help reduce our deficit. And another money maker: more oil and gas drilling. That will not only lower gas prices at the pump, but it will also help with the deficit — and again fill the strategic oil reserve that is at its lowest level in nearly four decades.
JOSEPH J. ROTHENGAST
Raleigh, North Carolina
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