From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:4497bed2{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Nah they'll spend that sort of loose change on tea & bickies. It's what
>> I find so darkly humorous i.e. that the cash being talked about is chump
>> change for a gov & yet politically it's such a charged issue.
>
> It's not chump change.

To you or I it is a fortune capable of buying a lifetime of women &
cars but it's chump change to the treasury.

> Sure what one branch makes selling our info might be
> but combine all those plus all the public lands that are rented to corps at
> far below fair market value and we are talking in the billions of dollars.
> As an example, public airwaves generate vast amounts of money, we should
> also charge fair market value for logging on public lands, drilling oil and
> gas on public lands, etc.
>

Yeah but what's next? Tax details? Health details? Criminal Details?

Already they're looking to automate crim record checking such that teachers
can use it (to check that they're not employing a paedophilic thieving
fraudster).

If so... then may be.....

Adam


> Information is a natural resource, if you look at all the natural resources
> our government gives away we could be talking billions and billions of
> dollars.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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