This is our future, America, if we are not vigilant: oil feilds in our National Parks and strip mines in national forests. Our natural heritage going to the highest bidder. We can already see the creep of this idea in the efforts of some states to lease some of their infrastructure, such as tollways and bridges, to for-profit companies. As the crisis in fanance continues over the next couple of years, we'll see more and more cash-strapped states attempting these schemes in order to finance just the basic services.

"Give us money or we'll rape this land."