From: "Geo" 

"Adam"  wrote in message
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> 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. 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.

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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