How Bush's $200 billion F-35 order could be spent
How Bush's $200 billion F-35 order could be spent each year.
The same amount of money (in US dollars) could be spent on:
- Providing clean water and sewage $37 billion
- Halving world hunger $24 billion
- Preventing soil erosion $24 billion
- Providing reproductive health care for all women $12 billion
- Eradicating illiteracy $5 billion
- Provide immunisation for every child in the developing world $3 billion
- Control the spread of HIV/AIDS $10 billion
- Control malaria in sub-Saharan Africa $3 billion (State of the world report 2005).
- Another $80 billion would meet basic human needs for everyone on the planet (UNICEF state of the world's children report)








