Wanted to make this a humorous post but I couldn't help it

So I was hoping to make this post funny, like the one about MTV and My Life As Liz but I couldn't help it. A new fighter jet coming out, the F-35, has got me all riled up. Let me just sum up the bulk of my rant in one single quote from the article. "The program, which is by far the Pentagon’s largest, is expected to cost nearly $300 billion if all of the 2,456 [F-35] planes are purchased in the next 25 years." That's right. $300 billion (http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108749/gates-tries-to-get-f35-program-back-on-course)

So, approximately $120,000,000 for ONE GODDAMN JET?! HAS THIS COUNTRY LOST ITS MIND?! Why do we need another fighter jet? The F-22 Raptor is already probably the most deadly in the sky! We also have the F-117 Stealth Nighthawk. We also have the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Who are we afraid of? Why do we need more? Why are we building more and more and more? Are we not the most powerful country on the planet militarily? Do we have really need to build up our military even more? Why? Why? Why?!

Who are we afraid of? Do terrorists like the ones Fox News and Rush Limbaugh fear monger about really have the technology to threaten an invasion? Are Iraqi suicide bombers going to start showing up on US soil that are going to absolutely necessitate an entirely new line of joint strike fighter jets? Are Afghan Taliban fighters really going to start mounting a major offensive on the west coast? Do we have any other major enemies? I mean those are the only ones who we are having wars against. Those are the ones that we have been taught to fear. Those and the terrorists, which do NOT necessitate a fighter that costs roughly 120 MILLION. But honestly, who else is there to attack the United States?

If we're going to build more fighters, more bombers, more tanks, more everything, shouldn't the government AT LEAST fear monger us in to thinking we need more? I mean come on. Don't make me want to go to war without giving me a reason. Don't make me want to build up our military even more than we already have without giving me an enemy I should be afraid of. The point of this post is just to show how ludicrous we have become. We spend 120 Million on a fighter jet when that money could just as easily be spent on building homes and giving shelter to the poor and homeless. We could spend that on food to give to the hungry. We could be giving it to Katrina survivors who lost Everything. But no. We spend it on more bombs, more bullets and more military just for the fuck of it.

Now I don't know if inflation has changed the numbers on this but I'll just leave you with a quote posted before to end this little rant:

"The cost of one heavy modern bomber is this: A modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine fully equipped hospitals…. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron… Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless."

~President Dwight D. Eisenhower