Wasting money on census leases

Here is my letter to President Obama: Enclosed is an April 18 Southeast Missourian article that is an example of how inept our government's (taxpayers') employees are. Surely there are ways to check or have overseers who have some common sense and realize that money from the government doesn't grow on trees but is taken from taxpayers.

GSA spokesman Charlie Cook is unfit to be a part of spending taxpayers' money. Cook admits this has happened all across the nation. This is how many millions of dollars? You have the power to learn how many Census Bureau leases there are nationwide and how much money has been spent unnecessarily.

Your biggest challenge is to clean up our government. If you can't, or will not, do that, you should not start any more programs.

BUDDY PARRISH, Cape Girardeau