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Trump too impatient

Hopefully some of your readers will respond to the questions posed at the end of this letter. During my career, I worked in the oil fields, at Hanford, Boeing and as a teacher. In each of these endeavors, I started work by observing operations and absorbing information for two or three months while fulfilling my assignments. This allowed me to use my skill sets to improve system processes and successfully integrate change.

President Trump apparently does not subscribe to a learning curve, and as a result he is getting low ratings and negative opinion polls. Past presidents have waited in the wings to get up to speed.

If President Trump could start over, do you think he would do things differently? Or, seeing how thing are going now, will he start anticipating results of his actions before implementing them?

Tom Bennett

Moses Lake

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