I'd love it if we'd re-allocate some defense spending, but I find this argument pretty disingenuous. The LHC cost about 4.75 billion during construction, and r

I'd love it if we'd re-allocate some defense spending, but I find this argument pretty disingenuous. The LHC cost about 4.75 billion during construction, and requires a yearly operating budget of around 1 billion dollars. The total cost estimate for finding the Higgs was about 13.25 billion. The B-2 bomber program cost 44 Billion (or an average cost of 2.1 billion per unit), but it resulted in considerably MORE jobs over a much longer time span, also led to several innovations in manufacturing/radar/ECS/Material science, and it costs LESS to maintain per year at ~850 million a year for all 21 units. This all for a program that had immediate and obvious applicability (we got a physical object out the other side with clear purpose), and it was STILL the object of intense budgetary concerns. Basically - It was a costs DISASTER and it was only 4 times the cost. Not saying I'd rather have more bombers than another collider, but this is not the argument I would make...