From CBS news. It doesn't work, and it will never work (more, more, more).

The *tests* alone cost $85 million a piece.

The budget for missile defense for fiscal year 2005: $10.2 billion.

Budget for FY 2006: $8.8 billion

Likely total cost of the missile defense system: as much as 1 trillion dollars by 2030.

Cuts in the 2006 Bush Budget include cuts in Medicaid, cuts in education, and drastic cuts in or the outright elimination of hundreds of programs that actually make people's lives better, including food stamps, Head Start, the EPA, OSHA, the CDC, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Not that I'm bitter.