[mhking]

My wife (She-who-must-be-obeyed) came up with something like your idea. It reduces the hassle of tax dollars being spent to do the research necessary, plus it still accomplishes the earlier idea of moving some of those government lands into the private sector.

I kind of chuckled and asked her, you mean your family with the 200 some-odd folks we see at Family Reunion every year? She says, "Yep. We all get to share the 40 acres."

I asked her, you want to start a new kind of "Family Feud?"

She shrugged a little. "Hey, why not?"

[daviddennis]

Part of the sheer genius of this idea, you must realize, is that most of the land is worthless. It would cost much more to take advantage of it by hooking up electricity, sewers, phone lines and so on than it would be worth in the first place.

Excellent article, by the way. Did you know Jackson got his start by promising dramatic improvements in education ... and then used most of the grant money to line his pockets? Embarassing. It's even more embarassing when you see that people listened to him for so long, and some do to this day.

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