$85,000,000 of our tax dollars in the drink.

An 85 million dollar plan to keep us safe from terrorists with box cutters by using interceptor missile crashed and burned in the North Pacific Ocean earlier this week.

This "Missile Defense Shield" program is a reprise of the glorious Reagan boondoggle, "Star Wars".

Could you imagine what you could do with 85 million dollars? I can. I know that my research would be funded till the end of time. Eighty-five million dollars could go a long, long way to building solar and wind farms to supplement our energy needs. It could go to job training, homeland security that would guarantee that our ports are safe, and education (remember all those chidren that are left behind?).

Instead, our government thinks it wise to drop 85 million dollars into the Pacific in the form of a missile.

Way to go, dumbass.