Friday, January 14, 2011

Jets to kill, or crops to nourish?

1.The United States intends to buy a total of 2,443 aircraft for an estimated US$323 billion, making it the most expensive defense program ever.[10] The United States Air Force (USAF) budget data in 2010, along with other sources, projects the F-35 to have a flyaway cost that ranges between US$89 million and US$200 million over the planned production of F-35s, depending on the variant.[11][12][13][14] Cost estimates have risen to $382 billion for 2,443 aircraft, at an average of $92 million each. In January 2011, the F-35B production is being delayed for two years to allow for changes to be made.[15]
 -wikipedia

2.What would it really cost to end global hunger? The United Nations estimates that it would take at least $30 billion per year to solve the food crisis, mainly by boosting agricultural productivity in the developing world. Over the decade that it would take to make sustainable improvements in the lives of the 862 million undernourished people, that amounts to $300 billion.
-Los Angeles Times


Is it finally time to begin my tax evasion? I would rather never recieve a tax return again, and give the proportional percent of my income that would have gone to taxes, and donated it to feeding the poor. Only  2,443 airplanes? in two years? at the expense of the money we could have prevented 16,000 deaths a day due to epidemic level world-wide starvation. We have now entered the newest phase of the cold war,  U.S.A verses the China, lets not criticize the rich for selling our jobs to the east, lets blame the east for taking them!?!  Lets give the rich $382 BILLION DOLLARS to waste on a program which is now becoming obsolete in the face of the Chinese stealth strike fighter the J-20, who cares about feeding the world's poor? Roughly 75% of this backwards country I live in proclaims to have Christian faith, so they should under stand when Christ called Peter out for harming the roman soldier:

 
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place! 1  For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.
For those who will propose I'm taking this out of context lets refer to the prophet Isaiah concerning the national attributes of the coming saviour:



He will judge disputes between nations; he will settle cases for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, 1  and their spears into pruning hooks. 2  Nations will not take up the sword against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.


So what's the correct choice for spending  $382 Billion dollars? For planes for murder? or money better spent on the long term solution towards world peace as directed under teachings of Christ?

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