I've tried to avoid politics on my blog, but that is about to change. So no matter who you want to blame for the United States economic crisis it is clear the government doesn't have any good ideas how to fix it. I have some serious ideas, yet what fun would it be to focus on those. What could I possibly have in mind? We the tax payers are paying for storage of untold thousands of secret documents, and occasionally some of them get released after they are deemed and/or censored safe. I think that the U.S. government has some information in files that are deemed secret yet pose no risk to national security, and could be wildly profitable. Currently the government just announces they are going to release designated files and they become available to the public; I think this should continue, yet I think this process could be modified to provide much needed cash. The premium price I propose would be for early release and the limited rights to
individual specific media formats; Movie; T.V.; Internet; T.V. news;
Printed news; Books, etc. All deals would of course contain a royalty
clause for smaller yet continual revenue flow; no contracts would be
forever exclusive and other parties could produce materials
based from public records after they have been released to the public. I
think all items should be subject to public auction to avoid any
'behind door deals' or any unforeseen manipulations, as well as public right to know who made the purchase, and how much money we the people received for the privileges. I'm fairly sure the entertainment industry would pay a premium for the opportunity to view and produce materials from certain types of government information. For example I think the uncensored U.F.O. files or the files for the J.F.K. assassination would be top picks.
I think it's about time these files were open to the public, so why not make a buck on it? With the J.F.K information I find it very hard to believe something that happened over 48 years ago should remain a secret. I have no idea why the J.F.K. files are off limits and I wonder if it is because of some misguided honor to the Kennedy family. It's not quite clear why, and that is a problem. There are other files that are mysteriously still off limits with no real explanation as to why. I understand that some U.F.O. files would contain current military information, and that should of course remain off limits for the near future. Yet with very few exceptions information 40 years and older as well as the non-military stuff should be public, and uncensored; or at least minimally censored. I mean what is the point of releasing pages and pages of blacked out text? This information after all is the property of the U.S. tax payers, and if we are not allowed access to information we pay for we should at least ask 'Why?'. I don't think that this is going to happen, nor do I think it will fix the economic crisis or even stop the ever increasing national deficit, but it would add revenue to a damaged system that doesn't seem to know how to manage a budget. The next step would be to hold politicians accountable, but I think that is a topic for another time in another Blog.
