Letter to the Editor: Fewer plane orders puts the U.S. economy in a more precarious position in the world

"Sequestration" is not the term that I consider to be the best to describe what President Obama is trying to do to our nation, but as we are seeing, he plans to do whatever he wants to do! His budget request for 2013 was to retire 300 airplanes while buying 54 new ones. The deletion is after retiring 700 more airplanes than it purchased. At the founding of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, we had 12,300 planes we have 5,200 today. The last time the U.S. bought so few aircraft was 1915 for the aviation section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, an Air Force predecessor.

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