American voters and taxpayers, it's time to wake up and clean house in Washington ("Secret Service allowed armed man with criminal record on elevator with Obama," Oct. 1).

We have the VA scandal with cooking the books and stealing our tax dollars in the form of bonuses they did not earn while lawmakers in Washington gave the agency another $17 billion without firing anyone or prosecuting anyone.

Now we have the Secret Service not protecting the president. I don't know about other taxpayers but I have grown sick and tired of government employees spending my money and not doing their jobs.

J. Heming, Baltimore

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