GPS Upgrade Behind Schedule and Over Budget

"Available", "accessible" to the public - but free?

Whose 5.8B do you think they are talking about?

5,800,000,000 of the US public's dollar bills. I guess the saving grace is we are inherently bad with numbers. Was it any other country's 5.8B that would be 5,800,000,000,000 "bills".

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later you're talking real money.

Bush pushed us into the trillions. Now we're just spending like drunken sailors.

Forget GPS for the next ten years.

Not to defend Bush so much as to point out that it is Congress who appropriate funds.

I can assure everyone that the military will NOT let the GPS system go down.

They have no desire to mothball the cruise missiles and other GPS-guided weaponry and switch the remainder of the equipment to INS (Inertial Navigation System). They do not want give up one-meter acccuracy for a hundreds of meters.