I&#x27;d like to have meaningful public discussion befitting of the size of these financial commitments.<p>For instance, there&#x27;s occasional debate about defunding public broadcasting, which costs 0.013% of F35 + wars.  Planned Parenthood is 0.018% of this. Even the often hotly contested NASA is 0.62% of this.<p>A few years ago, congress was in heated budget debates - trying to knock off PBS to save a buck - but a plane that cost 48,743 times that was never brought up for discussion.<p>Even if you span these budgets over the 20 years of the F35 program, something like planned parenthood cost 0.4% as much.<p>If we can find the time to talk about X as a huge waste of tax payer dollars and have legislation to defund it, surely we can find time to talk about something that costs 25,000% more than X.<p>However, other than an occasional news article and grumble of discontent, nothing actually happens. It moves forward unabated.  That&#x27;s a problem.