As we watch the economic disaster created by incompetent government oversight and  overregulation, it is amazing to watch that same entity destroy the world of information management.
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Information that is not accessible is useless.  The basis for NIST guidelines is to deny access to information.  It does nothing to facilitate access to information.
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The cost of doing business in support of government-sponsored information gathering (research) will sky-rocket as a result of these regulations.  Who will pay for this?  The same folks who will pay the economic bailout costs - taxpayers.
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It is amazing how once great America now elevates to positions of leadership, complete idiots!  These are people who by and large have never done anything practical in their lives - simply gone to school, published some papers and entered into an idealistic dreamworld of contrived bureaucratic <i>solutions</i>.  These are people who do not care about cost, benefit, efficiency, productivity.  They build their empires on the backs of the people, sacrificing public interest on the altar of <i>government</i>.
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Just a reminder - every dollar the government spends is a dollar that you don`t get to spend - that is, unless you are a government employee, or worse-yet, a welfare recipient!