Our elected officials voted to reduce or kill services for the old, poor and very young in order to “close the gap and save money.”

Then why are these same elected officials voting on bond issues to the tune of $80 million? Where is the savings in that, and are these bonds really needed at this time?

If elected officials want to save money, they should take a good, hard look at the Department of Transportation and what its employees actually do in a day. At any project at any hour of the day, I have seen several employees just standing around, but yet nothing is done and not a word is mentioned.

Or go to the old Digital plant in Augusta where the Maine State Police garage is located. Take a good look at all the new vehicles that sit in rows in the parking lot with dealer tags on the front plates. They’ve been sitting there for weeks, if not months.

These are examples of the wasteful spending those elected officials should be trying to eliminate, and not the services that many of these poor and elderly people desperately need. Elected officials can and must do better than this.

Eric Hamilton

Pittsfield

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