I read U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker’s column in the Feb. 16 Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline (“Fiscal reform starts now: The case for Musk’s effort”) with interest, if only to see the degree of distortion of common sense and logic he would employ to justify the events now unfolding in Washington, D.C.
I found myself disappointed, though not surprised.
Rep. Smucker, I’ll address you directly:
Your constituents of every political persuasion wholeheartedly oppose waste, fraud and abuse in our government at any level. If these problems are as egregious in the federal bureaucracy as you claim, one wonders why you and your colleagues have never gotten around to exercising your constitutional duty to fix them in the eight years you have served the people of Lancaster County in Congress.
You also muse about the efforts of another administration to reduce waste in the 1990s and imply that those opposing our present and unconstitutional onslaught are doing so out of ignorance or in bad faith.
Thirty-two years is a long time, Rep. Smucker, so please remind me: Did President Bill Clinton tap an unelected, foreign-born, unaccountable, morally and ethically compromised billionaire with zero days’ experience in government but a laundry list of conflicts of interest to helm his efforts at reform?
Make no mistake, there will come a time when future generations look back on these days to piece together what went so wrong, and I am glad my words will not brand me an apologist for the absolute worst governance in the history of our republic.
Adam Miller
Elizabethtown
