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I can't do much by way of protest, so I began calling and e-mailing my congressman and 2 senators each and every day to leave an opinion on my cause du jour.
There are too many issues to address, so although I sometimes comment about USAID or Ukraine or the USPS or Medicare or NIH/CDC/FDA or . . . (you get the picture), most of my contacts regard social security, medicare or medicaid. This article really steamed me, so I composed tomorrow's calls/e-mails to say this:
It would seem that an administration that allows an unelected, drug-addled billionaire to “take a chain saw” to agency after agency in pursuit of waste, fraud and abuse would be appalled at a recent abusive public action by another unelected, unconfirmed official. Where are you? Are you seeking the resignation and/or firing of the current acting commissioner of Social Security? Are you speaking up? I don't hear you. When Leland Dudek cancelled the vital records contracts with the state of Maine he admitted it “would result in improper payments and potential for identity theft” that leads to fraud. This was a punitive, retributive act, certainly inspired by a thin-skinned president, but allowed by legislators like you who DO NOTHING. If you don’t speak out against retributive acts, then you are complicit in their enactment.