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Redistribute defense funds

We live in the richest country in the world, but every day I see more and more people begging on street corners. Yesterday, I saw a veterans group panhandling for change because the government cut their funding. Yet we still fund the Department of Defense (or should I say Department of War) full tilt.

Instead, why don’t we cut Defense about $300 billion and use that money to get this country back on track. We don’t need the F-35. It’s a fiasco. Manned aircraft are a thing of the past. We have drones. We have guided missiles. We don’t need bombers. If we want to take out a dam or knock out a power grid, we can do it with computers. We sabotaged Iran’s A-bomb facility a couple of years ago. We have been in over 20 wars since the last great war. Do we never learn?

It’s time we had a Department of Peace. We need to sweep all the crazies out of power and return to a more civil society, a more egalitarian society.

Norm Ellefson

Spokane

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