Spending

I just read an article about the spending that goes on in our government, and the biggest "budgest buster" in the Pentagon is the development of the new F-35 fighter jet program. This plane, which is currently being produced by the Lockheed Martin, was supposed to be an "economic" substitute for the current fifth-generation fighter jet, the F-22 raptor (this is the most expensive plane in the world, costing approximately $350 dollars per plane), by only costing $122 million. The government plans to buy 750 of these planes. Also, the cost of running the program has increased, however, and only threatens to get higher (298 billion dollars). I just brought this up in order for us to see what the government is really spending its money on and ask why they are doing so.