Economics 101: More F-35's less butter, schools, roads, bridges, healthcare, ....

[think]

U.S. military expects to pay $1.5 TRILLION for the F-35 over it's lifetime:

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/384088/the-pentagons-15-trillion-mistake/

US military equipment graveyard:


Source for more pix: http://piximus.net/others/the-largest-cemetery-of-old-military-equipment



America's infrastructure gets a D+ from the American Society of Civil Engineers:

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/


America's schools ranked "average" and 17th in the developed world overall:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/best-education-in-the-wor_n_2199795.html


America's healthcare ranked worst of the developed world's top 11 countries & it costs more than the rest of them:

http://time.com/2888403/u-s-health-care-ranked-worst-in-the-developed-world/


Isn't it time America reevaluated it's priorities?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Just one F-35(b) costs more than the entire operations of the Illinois State Courts,

with more than 102 counties, 11,000,000 in population, and every judge in 25 circuits, every appellate judge (we have 5 districts, plus the Workers Comp Division) and every supreme court judge, every single clerk, every sheriff, multiple court buildings, electricity, computers, everything.

The F-35 runs (well, that might be debatable) $335,000,000 per copy. The ENTIRE Illinois court budget is only $300,000,000.