Editor,

By the time this letter is published, President Trump will have laid out his 2018 national security strategy. Included in his agenda will presumably be terrorism, ISIS, illegal aliens, North Korea, Iran and so forth, all of which are a threat to our national security.

However, the biggest threat to our security is our trillions of dollars in national debt (owed mostly to communist China) and our elected officials on both sides of the aisle (including the president) who want to raise the debt ceiling once again. What should happen is to stop spending, especially unconstitutional spending.

"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you should do is stop digging."

John P. Fitts

Noel