What could America do with $200 billion dollars?

[Bright Eyes]

I was reading an article (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=259x10109) about this new fighter plane for the Air Force. It costs 200 million dollars a unit, with the US expected to spend over 200 BILLION all toll for these new killing machines. Thats billion with a B.

My question to DU is this; What better way could the US invest all this taxpayer money instead of in this monstrosity?

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/09/f35_wideweb__470x314,0.jpg

[Uben]

1. Pay off some debt nt

nt

[bullimiami]

2. as least the money is buying some technology, research and hardware.

what has the hundreds of billions dropped into iraq bought?

Power. Nothing else.

[Bright Eyes]

3. That money could be better spent

feeding the poor, sheltering the homeless, UHC, new schools etc. Don't you think? The development and research alone cost 40 billion.

[bullimiami]

5. of course it could be better spent but my point is its not totally thrown away like the iraq money.

[unhappycamper]

4. Nice pic.

Just like an auto show. Except it's a tad expensive and doesn't fly very well.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. They didn't invite Crow, Servo, Joel, or Mike to the unveiling?

[leftofthedial]

7. give more tax breaks to the wealthy

[fascisthunter]

8. Pay Back some of the Debt Owed to China? (nt)