Brace yourself for Trump’s future

Brace yourself for what Donald Trump told you he is going to do. He has hired two billionaires to run a new government efficiency program, one of whom, Elon Musk, has received billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives for his personal businesses over the years. One wonders if he will stop the flow of government money to himself?

Just a cursory look at Project 2025 reveals spending cuts to most social safety-net programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Veterans Administration. Oh boy, I can’t wait to see how that rests with the voters who voted for President-elect Trump.

He has alluded to pardons for Jan. 6 lawbreakers after they nearly overthrew the government in 2021 and caused $30 million worth of damage to the Capitol Building. He has said he wants to cut taxes and regulations and probably add another $7.8 billion to the national debt, just as he did in his first term. So there you go, a one-term, twice-impeached, convicted felon will be sworn in again as president, and his voters will get exactly what they deserve. But we will not — we deserve better.

Michael Perham

Clermont

An end to annoying ads

The elections are finally over, and all of the candidates’ political commercials are gone from the airwaves. Great!

Also, the Dec. 7 enrollment date for Medicare supplement plans has passed, and all those plan commercials are gone, too. Tremendous!

Now, let’s eliminate all of those annoying prescription drug commercials that Big Pharma is paying millions of dollars a day to blanket the airwaves.

Only doctors need to have that information, no matter how you dress it up with pretty pictures. And listen closely: Have you ever heard all of the possible side effects?

W. Rick Garr

Fort Lauderdale

Secret Service doesn’t need a revamp

How do you “re-imagine” the Secret Service (“Secret Service director vows reorganization,” Dec. 5)? One of your jobs is to protect those under the agency’s defensive umbrella. That part of the mission hasn’t changed since Lincoln was assassinated.

Now, those protected may have expanded, but basically it involves guns (or explosives) and line of fire.

What exactly has to be re-imagined? Manpower and diligence is an obvious requirement that requires constant practice to make perfect and yes, the Secret Service has to be right 100% of the time. Nobody remembers near-misses, everybody remembers Ford’s Theater and the Texas School Book Depository.

Don Duenes

Orlando