Trump's Stop Madness caused lasting damage

To break down with relief that the longest closure of the US government has finally been halted is the harsh reality of President Trump's reprehensible madness.

Paying salaries to the 800,000 federal employees who had been without pay since Christmas will not restore them. Sacrifices have been made that can not be repaired. Many federal contractors are poorer after being found without income for the 35-day partial closure. The effect of training has been pbaded on to workers such as food truck vendors who rely on their belongings for lunch. Personal stories of despair abound. The closure cost the economy $ 6 billion, according to Standard & Poor's, a financial rating company. That's more than the $ 5.7 billion Trump asked taxpayers for a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Evil goes beyond the concrete, beyond the lost money.

Trump's decision to close much of the government has weakened confidence in all of this. To what extent is an institution that can be seriously damaged stable because Congress would not approve money for a wall that Trump promised Mexico to finance? What foolishness this nation must turn to those who once thought that it was a place of sanity. His threat of shutting down the government in three weeks he does not receive funding from the wall tempers any relief with turmoil, doubts, worries and apprehension, especially for those who have suffered so much.

The closure is the legacy of the president and further evidence that he is unfit for the position.

Trump was proud to have the closure from the beginning and now he is recovering his character of bolchia with a narcissistic stench. Despite all his New York bluster, Trump was beaten by a nice Californian lady. But the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (D), is not a winner. This shameful saga does not have a winner. The United States, their people and their reputation are the losers because of Trump.

The damage is demonstrated by people like Charles M. Smith.

Smith, of Bowie, Maryland, is a proud employee of the 32-year-old Internal Revenue Service. Now, he said, "my heart and my spirit of public service are broken."

Smith had plans to increase his pension by retiring after the age of 62. But then, Trump has arrived. "This is my fifth stop," Smith said. "It will be my last. … This madness has arrived and now I want to leave. Smith, 59, decided to retire earlier.

In conversations and emails, he discussed his decision and his youthful eagerness to work for Uncle Sam.

"Over time, I found great pride and great satisfaction working for the government. I thought I would make a valuable contribution to my country by choosing the public service, "he said. He remembered hearing of the call for President John F. Kennedy. "Do not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." I've responded to President Kennedy's call and I have devoted my entire career to the public service, "Smith said." But President Trump has changed all of this …. The rhetoric and the rhetoric. lies uttered by Mr. Trump and his allies changed everything. "

Smith's attitude has also changed over the last two days of last week. At his first meeting with him on Thursday, he announced that he would retire in June, kicked out of government, disgusted and frustrated by the closure. He did not want to be named in an article "because of possible retaliation by the administration or others".

Smith is no longer afraid to be identified. His early retirement, he decided, will be even earlier than expected. He will apply for retirement upon his return to work. "The news that the government will open for three weeks does nothing for my broken heart and mind," he said on Twitter Friday night. "As soon as possible, I will submit my application for retirement with a date of 28/02/19."

You can thank Trump for driving a dedicated public servant out of the public service.

"My country, which I grew to love, is not the same," Smith said by e-mail. "We are more divided and polarized than ever before. Our government is broken and does not work. This pawn leaves this game of political failures that takes place almost every year. "

This judgment hit Smith stronger than the others.

"I'm done with this ride of uncertainty," he said in an interview. "I do not feel valued anymore as a federal employee. … I lost that pbadion. … I am not ashamed to confess that I cried because of that … and because I have the impression that the current closure has taken me. … I lost the dignity of public service. I have lost the honor. "

Smith is not alone. The financial and emotional burden that the Trump closure has had on federal and other employees is a national shame. We all lose when federal employees lose the dignity of the public service.

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