Maintaining the Military

Open Email to House Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader elect Mitch McConnell:

Dear Speaker Boehner and Sen. McConnell,
The Washington Times says, "Politically motivated budget cuts and a hiring freeze have left the Navy with a shipyard workforce incapable of maintaining even its most valuable hardware, including the fleet of hunter-killer submarines and aircraft carriers that are crucial to projecting U.S. force across the globe".
Whether we like it or not, it is the responsibility of the United States to keep peace around the world through military capability. Decreasing military capability leads to world political unrest, as we have recently seen through the programs of Pres. Obama and military budget cuts through sequestering.
You have recently passed a $1.1 trillion budget, of which a large part was the Defense Bill. Consistent with my previous writings, is now time to review the details of the $1.1 Trillion Bill, not only to take out the pork and other irrelevant expenses, but also to beef up the military, which includes the Navy. If you can't do that now, because Democrats still control Congress, put it on your agenda for one of the first things to do for the new January Congress.
Total expenses are important, and a $1.1 trillion budget is excessive. It must be cut. In order to make the total cut and at the same time increase military budgets, consider those other items I have previously mentioned, such as eliminating the Department of Education and cutting back on grants and other public taxpayer expenditures for universities and healthcare. In simpler terms, cut food stamps and have the previous recipients start work in the shipyards. We did in World War II and we can do it again now.