CARTOON: No laughing matter

I and many of my friends find the cartoon “Useful and Wasteful Spending” next to the Editorial on page A4 on July 27 reprehensible and disgustingly offensive. At 80 years of age and once a military man, as many of my friends are and were, I cannot believe that our society and culture could exist without the powerful military and defense programs implemented and exercised during our entire history as a nation and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice to preserve it.

To think that anyone would compare arts programs as being superior to our missile defense programs and on a higher priority for “Useful Spending” is an insult to any thinking patriotic citizen of the United States of America. Without such as our Missile Defense Programs there would never be such as arts programs. In fact, all our citizens might be speaking German, Japanese or another language. All citizens are free to exercise their interest in arts programs, as they should be, only because of our nation’s defense programs and defense expenditures throughout our nation’s great history. This cartoon is demeaning and disgusting to be seen our local newspaper. I would expect to see it in the NY Times or Newsweek magazine.

DAN BROCKWAY SR.

Post Falls