Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Let me get this budget thing straight. We’re over $16,500,000,000,000 (trillion) in debt. So, let’s give the Muslim Brotherhood, certainly not a friendly government to the U.S., or Israel $250,000,000 (million), 20 F-16 fighters and 200 M1A1 Abrams tanks. Then, give the Palestinians $500,000,000 (million).

A year ago, Obama and then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta cut $500,000,000,000 (billion) from defense. Then a sequester, which Obama insisted upon, came into effect, cutting an additional $43,000,000,000 (billion) from defense, in effect cutting 1/6th of their annual budget this year. $2,400,000,000 (billion) in aid to Pakistan, $2,200,000,000 (billion) for free cell phones for the poor, in addition to the annual cost for welfare alone, $700,000,000,000 (billion) plus additional costs for Medicaid, another $500,000,000,000 (billion).

The White House solution sold to our shipbuilding community? Blame the Republicans for the sequester. Re...