NASA too afraid to name JWST costs

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n...wst/index.html

This POS has already cost $3.5 billion and is slated to cost *at least*
$6.5 billion before it gets off the ground and I wouldn't be surprised
that it heads towards $10 billion before it gets axed. It needs to be
killed now before it eats up NASA's entire budget. This thing is a
black hole

That $3.5 billion spent has resulted in no more than a full-size
mockup, a few mirrors and the sunshield (basically a foldable tent).
Why oh why didn't they just build another Hubble-clone for a couple
hundred million or maybe even $1 billion?!! I'd rather see NASA spent
all this cash handing it over to the commercial companies like SpaceX
and Sierra Nevada so we can get people back up into space. Smaller
science missions are also being jeapordized because of JWST.

Worst of all is that NASA simply does not want to name the estimated
cost of JWST for fear of being punished.