$1 trillion budget f-35 wasteful spending?

Hi just watched the youtube link as being a brit it's a program we don't see. Having worked in the defence aircraft industry in the UK and been involved in the F-35 development (JSF) I've always been sceptical of this aircraft series. Really not impressed.

Right now our military is performing better than our schools. The military has kept us safe for years while in education our test scores are dropping, the dropout rate is going up and our schools are falling apart but the schools have the latest computers with flat screen monitors that sit idle most of the time because the teachers don't know how to use them. The trillions spent on the war on poverty and we have more people living in poverty now than when the government started the war on poverty back in the 1960's. In both examples the government has not solved the problem. This same argument has been made every time the military gets a new weapon. I am sure that the technical problems can be worked out.

If we cancel the order of the 187 F-22 then it will cost more per unit where the 187 will make it far easier to fix. Where the B-2 is a 2.2 Billion dollar each plane because the total cost was so huge. I mean it is far more cost effective to build all of them for the future.

Without all these trillion dollar spending on unnecessary fighter jets again, how in the world can Lockheed Martin, General Dynamic; Boeing or EDS going to make another trillion in annual profit at our expense, then can go ahead to contribute million to the politician and political party's election campaign fund. Just do the math, the reason is quite obvious, spending trillion in education and health care will not guarantee the defense contractors big annual profit again as promised by politician.

My issue here is that we're wasting our time talking about a jet, instead of dealing with the real issues facing our budget. Let's go into fantasy land. Let's pretend a moment. If you eliminated the entire US military, eliminate all funding for research and design, if eliminate the entire US budget, and left only Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid... We'd still be broke. The amount of money we are investing into "health" and social security is in the red. It costs too much. But instead of dealing with these huge issues, we're talking about the $1 Trillion dollar F35. But oh a trillion is a lot... right? Yeah, until you realize that's been the cost spread over the last 14 years. That $1 Trillion figure includes all the R&D from the start of the program back in 1997. That's $71 Billion dollars a year. Comparatively, the department of health and human services is spending $81 Billion dollars this year alone. But again, the point is if we had no military whatsoever, we'd still be broke. The cost of these social programs is killing us. And worse, haven't we seen where socialism (government taking money from the people to give to the people) does not work? Venezuela? Cuba? Russia? China? Socialism destroyed those countries. Why are we trying it here? And throwing money at education also doesn't work. The US spends more per student than any other country. Yet other countries routinely makes us look stupid when our students compete against their students in literature, science, math, and Geography. Hello?!?! We need to spend less money on education, and make people more responsible for their own learning. The socialist way hasn't worked. And as a last point... the main, number one purpose of the federal government, is to provide for defense. That is its singular most important duty. Yet here we are complaining about defense, and asking to spend more on programs that the government shouldn't be doing anyway, and at the same time are the cause of our problems. No, we need to cut spending on education and health, and keep the advanced fighter jets. We have done it your way for the last 40 years, and that why we're in this mess.

For me yes because when the Armageddon hit in our world no money would be in our life to be gain because it's Jehovah Gods government will rule

I think investing more on their military facilities are too much exaggerated since they have almost everything on military and it's not necessary to invest more. 1 trillion dollars is not a joke, in fact if they will invest it in other things like health, commerce, tourism will give them a good results.