FEDERAL GARAGE SALE? 

Greece, you may have heard, is putting some of the Greek islands up for sale ... well, parts of the islands anyway. Mykonos, for instance. Greece is doing this to pay off mountains of debts. There are about 6000 Greek islands .. presumably some of them will be sold in their entirety.

Well now! Does that give us an idea? Our debt is getting up there. We're not Greeks yet, but we're close. So let's sell something! We don't have all that many islands, but maybe a state or two? Any nominations? Sorry .. but I would put California on Craig's list first. With California in private hands we would be rid of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Henry Waxman and the entire city councils of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Soviet Monica.

Seriously though (and I was only kidding a little) ... the largest landowner in the United States is the Imperial Federal Government. Maybe it's time to start selling off some of those holdings. Many years ago some real estate experts suggested that our entire federal debt could be satisfied by selling the Presidio, Fort DeRussy, Camp Pendleton and Fort Ord, all military installations, to private real estate investors. It's too late for the Presidio and Fort Ord .. but there's still plenty of land to sell. The problem, of course, is liberals and environmentalists. Oh how they hate the concept of private ownership.