Cut the F-35 order by about 1,000 and we could house/feed the homeless till the year 2100.

Aye, the F-35's been a fair disaster.

It certaintly hasn't gone smoothly but to cut the F-35 order at this point would be meaningless and just be a bigger waste of R&D.

The F-35 is a better hybrid the the F-22 at hitting both land and air targets and therefore honestly more likely to be effective then the F-22 in most cirucmstances we find ourselves in.

Well, we can house and feed the homeless now.

The problem with the homeless isn't resource based, it's logistics based essetially.

Most homeless people  we're talking a family sleeping in a car their week because their apartment leases don't line up.   

For the Chronic homeless, those who are homeless all the time there are generally two great challenges.

1)  Mental Illness.  Due to Mental illness and a right to choose ones own medical treatment a large number of homeless are mentally ill.

2)  Drug/Alchohol abuse.   You can't get into a shelter or housing program if your under the influence, for obvious reasons.

with the amount of guns the US has, why do you need an actual army? Just do what the Swiss does and have a civilian army who are decently trained. This way, it would be far cheaper and help to quickly lower your debt

Essentially because


A) THe US isn't surrounded by a ton of allied democricies.

B) The US wouldn't have NATO, the US mostly being NATO.

C) The US doesn't have an extensive network of tunnels and fallout shelters like Switzerland does.  The Swiss fallout shelters make it so that they can essentially "Turtle" and avoid the effects of some of the more powerful modern weapons until A or B arrive.

D) We don't have the Swiss Alps.  Most of the US would be terrible for civilian army defense which requires a lot of hiding places.

E) The US is essentially too spread out.  Despite most of their army being civilian they do draft all of their citizens and force them in the army for a few years.  Teaching a lot of them how to use modern weapons like fighter plances.  We wouldn't have enough to succussfully cover all our borders this way.

F) A lot of our most valuable states are on the edges.  Want are Technology?  You only have to go as far as California.

Want oil?  Texas is right there and can be accessed by sea.  So essentially playing on D and E... an "enemy" Nation could just nibble at the edges.

Actually Switzerland is EXACTLY what some of the more influential of the founding fathers wanted us to be, which is why for example.... Thomas Jefferson thought it was not only a right to own a gun but a duty as a citizen.  It'd be great if we could be like it, but the Swiss just have a lot of advantages at being the Swiss.

Oh and G.

Sadly the Army is actually are best "Social tool" for uplifting the poor... just in general. Let alone the US... and one of the best social tools out there to improve the lives of our citizens in general.

It's funny, even PTSD actually brings the armies suicide rate and depression rate only down to national averages.