The F-35 has not enabled any military victories, but it has consumed so much money that we could just write $64k checks to every American instead. Which option would make this nation stronger?
Actually $51k. Over 66 years. Comes at around $780 per year. If it were paid off only by Americans. It will be used and paid for also by Brits, Australians, Israeli, Japanese and about 10 other nations.
Can you point out any specific ways in which the F-35 project actually moved science forward, even indirectly?
How many JWST-scale projects could be funded with that money?
For more fun facts, JWST has employed 1200 people in the world, F-35 has produced around 250,000 jobs.
So F-35 has produced more jobs per dollar than JWST so from that perspective it is a steal