F-35 fighter pilots to wear $400,000 helmets

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13. Don't raid the public treasury to funnel money to the "defense" industry

That kind of expense has to be justified.

These F-35's aren't particularly defending America.

I'm walking around America every day and never once has an F-35 swooped in to defend me from anything.

That's not saying eliminate the military altogether. Not sure where you got that from. Certainly not from anything I said.

But yes do think about where this money is going and who benefits from it. And whether it is really making us any safer. What threat is it protecting us from? Would it be smarter to use that money for something else like repairing bridges, funding schools, or planting trees?