Editor, Gazette-Journal:

As Thomas Edison, one of the great inventors of our lighting systems today said, and I quote, "Yes we need to return to the government looking after a defense of our people in America and get out of the peripheral social aspects of business." There was an old saying at our shipyard by Mr. Huntington, "We will build good ships at a profit, if we can; at a loss, if we must."

How true it is of the United States government today that you and I have supported and it is a never-ending endeavor, because what the president can’t dream up, the Congress will certainly dream up in their provincial areas all over our country. And, of course, the citizens of our country become intoxicated by what they consider to be freebies and things they can’t possibly do without.

Then come the responsible citizens that want to curtail and limit this largesse and they become a selfish small group of people that make a lot of money, but pay over 60 percent of what it c...