I agree with the statement in your recent editorial regarding the Stealth bomber that ”the Stealth bomber isn`t clearly essential to our military security, and it may never be.” We are negotiating with the Soviet Union concerning the elimination of nuclear weapons and the reduction of strategic weapons by 50 percent. In addition, we recently destroyed the final number of intermediate range missiles as agreed to in the INF treaty.
And, there are prospects for the reduction of land forces by our country and the USSR.
All of these actions are in keeping with the desire of reducing tensions between the U.S. and the USSR. We don`t need the Stealth bomber at any price, and certainly not at $500 million each.
Cuts in the federal school lunch program have kicked 3 million needy children off the program`s rolls. There are now upwards of 3 million homeless Americans. It will cost $51 billion to repair or replace approximately 577,000 bridges; some 4,000 bridges have been closed. Community health centers serve only 5 million of the 25 million poor who are eligible. Approximately 37 million Americans do not have health insurance. It is obvious that there are many more important needs for our tax dollars than building Stealth bombers.
