Thanks colorado tanker. If we pay for it, it's ours. Period.
There's gold and silver in the asteroids, titanium as well, rare earths -- we should be well on the way to coining US gold/silver currency in space, fabricating ablative-shielded reentry shuttles, and landing a few trillion in US coin. With an unexpectedly low face value.
Reminds me of the mining colony setting for the movie Outland. A lot of money could be made out there.