Congressman Joe Wilson, how does your brain not explode?

Here's a quote from an op-ed for the Aiken Standard written by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC):

Last month, the Department of the Navy announced its decision to locate F-35 Joint Strike Fighter squadrons out of the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort installation. This will result in the creation of 1,532 military jobs with an additional 200 jobs being created in the private sector.

Then, few sentences later, he asserts:

The federal government should not be growing when so many Americans are out of work.

Huh? I mean, does he listen to himself, or what's his problem? Last time I checked, the Department of the Navy was the federal government. So when the Department of the Navy puts new F-35 Joint Fighter squadrons somewhere, what we see is the federal government growing, Mr. Congressman Wilson. But you've just said that this "will result in the creation of 1,532 military jobs," Mr. Congressman Wilson. So how can you also say that federal government should not be growing in times of unemployment? Do you even understand what you're saying? Like here, for example:

Gone are the days of failed Stimulus Plans that only led to higher unemployment rates, the loss of 1.8 million jobs in the private sector, and increases in the federal deficit to over $14 trillion.

What exactly is the economic difference between the government employing people to fix bridges versus to fly F-35 fighter jets? Wait, I think I know the answer to that one. The latter happened in your Congressional District. So why not be honest and just write:

When so many Americans from my Congressional District are out of work, the federal government should be growing only there and nowhere else, so that they keep voting me into the House.

For those seeking further amusement, here's what Rep. Joe Wilson said after House passed a bill repealing Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:

We just repealed Obamacare!

It must be strange to live in Joe Wilson's world, where when the military sets up a new fighter plane base it doesn't mean that the federal government is growing, and where passing a meaningless bill which in the current political situation has absolutely no chance of becoming new law means that you've enacted new law.