Homan’s ‘fixation’

Re: “Editorial: We want Tom Homan to fixate on crime in Massachusetts,” March 27. Attorney General Maura Healey, during President Trump’s first term in office, brought 100 lawsuits against his administration. Taxpayers in Massachusetts paid for Healey’s fixation during Trump’s first term in office. The baton was passed to the current Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who appears eager to sue the president during his second term.  For Healey to state that she can’t understand why President Trump’s (border czar Tom Homan) seems fixated on Massachusetts is laughable. What isn’t a joke is that 370 criminal aliens were picked up in the latest sweep by ICE agents.

Donald Houghton

Quincy

Standing up

Re: “Editorial: Why aren’t Dems condemning anti-Tesla violence?,” March 28. Both of our political parties are sealed cocoons of party propaganda, the Democrats more tightly than Republicans. Only the brave legislator or the rare courageous one will buck the party leader.

Consequences for standing up to the party line are ostracism, diminished funding and poor committee assignments. Unhinged Democrats must, absolutely and positively must, defy all policies Trump supports, including the DOGE effort of Elon Musk. Thus, they cannot condemn the violence against Tesla vehicles and dealerships, even if they agree with what Musk, at Trump’s behest, is doing.

Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati, Ohio

DOGE

During his Fox News interview, Elon Musk said that the DOGE effort “might be the biggest revolution in the government since the original revolution.”

Being that I’ve heard that the $36 trillion debt our country has accrued is “unsustainable” and even an “existential threat,” shouldn’t the Trump administration take this “revolution-like” DOGE effort to reduce government waste, fraud, and abuse in a far more serious light?

In the early 1940s, the U.S. was embattled in World War II. The Roosevelt administration enacted the top secret Manhattan Project with the goal of discovering and harnessing the power of atomic energy as a game-changing weapon. And it lived up to expectations.

I recommend the Trump administration enact a modern day Manhattan Project by opening up the DOGE effort to every American citizen with a monetary incentive called the “DOGE One Percent Rule.”

For any viable idea/suggestion that a citizen submits to DOGE that proves to either save money or enhances revenue, the citizen would receive a one-time, 1% commission on the economic impact of his/her idea.

This would light a fire under the best and brightest financial minds in the country to come up with innovative cost-saving and revenue-enhancing ideas. And although 1% is a nominal percentage, when dealing with the gargantuan numbers of the US federal government, that could still amount to millions of dollars in a one-time payoff.

If the Trump administration wants to telegraph that it truly is serious and behind DOGE’s efforts, it needs to open it up to the whole country and enact the DOGE One Percent Rule.

Eugene R. Dunn

Medford, NY