Political cartoon by Etta Hulme. This cartoon appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A bar graph is painted on the wall, showing an increased military budget from 1982-1986. A man is in the middle of painting the bar for 1987, which is higher than the previous year. The man painting the bar is standing on a ladder, which has been partially cut down by a man with an ax, so that the painter can not complete the graph. The man with the ax is wearing a shirt that says "public opinion."