What Rick Tumlinson of Space Frontier Foundation is advocating is that the U.S. Government should pay private companies to build a base on the Moon and to allow these companies to lease out those facilities to agencies like NASA. Another idea is to let private companies design the exploration vehicle, which would be funded by the Department of Transportation and to allow agencies like NASA to lease them out as well. In this case I could see it as a good way to place these kinds of assets into the hands of private industry and as a result, transpose the interests of private industry off the planet and onto the moon.