and especially their mission to protect the citizens of vermont advised the city council to one request the cancellation of the planned basing of the f thirty five at burlington international airport and to request instead loan noise level equipment with a proven high safety record appropriate for a densely populated area question any questions from yes please come forward thank you my name is ben mitchell and i'm actually entering the democratic primary for united states house of representatives and i drove all the way up here from westminster to apply the town of burlington in this moment where they have a chance to vote on this issue i do not think that the f thirty five is appropriate for vermont the scale of this machine is totally out of out of scale with the burlington airport it's already closed down over two hundred units of fordable housing for money the lot more affordable housing as you can see from the ballot question preceding this one and it is housed in south burlington so it's not  even it's being imposed upon another town by the town of brewington so it's a little bit like municipal imperialism but more importantly that i think it represents the f thirty five is in some ways the most glaring example of the corruption of the military industrial complex on washington d c we've already spent four hundred billion dollars on this machine and it doesn't even operate  yet not only that we've seen the national guard which i've had many friends in their national guard over the years i know they're all good people doing their jobs following orders to the best of their ability what but the level of corruption of the military industrial complex has gotten to the point where now the military itself is coming in bullying the vote within a town meeting in vermont which is kind of a sacred space and so i encourage the people of vermont the people of burlington specifically to take this opportunity to stand up to the war machine of the military industrial complex we have real priorities in vermont we need people it's very difficult to get through the winter as you know  south as well as up here just making a living there are so many programs that are needed four hundred billion dollars just to give you a sense of the scale of what we're talking about and they're projected to spend another six billion six hundred billion dollars  that's just a projection in the life of this machine to give your perspective four hundred billion dollars you know that we currently as a federal government only spend a billion dollars a year on opiate crisis or the opiate epidemic lie heap which we argue about every year is only four billion dollars this is four hundred billion dollars and it doesn't even work here and so i encourage the people of burlington to take this opportunity in your sacred moment where you get to vote in town meeting issue and to stand up to the military industrial complex even though i'm not from this area i really applaud you guys for having it on the ballot and i hope that you'll take this action th the other members of the public on question six the f thirty five question ok we'll move on to the final advice question on the on the ballot this is an advisory question regarding raising the age of sale for tobacco products and the question is this quote shall the voters of burlington advise the governor and members of vermont national general assembly to support raising the age of sale for tobacco products in vermont from eighteen to twenty one years of age any member of the public have a question or comment on that one twenty pm thanks everybody