News Is Selling Alaska Back to Russia a Viable Solution for the U.S. Debt Crisis?

[Borek]

was proposed on one of Polish forums I visit now and again.

Sell Alaska back to Russia for 10 trillion dollars.

Not only it will pay US debt, but it will also mean that someone else has to deal with Palin.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

It would probably be better to sell Louisiana back to France and let them rebuild New Orleans.

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[NeoDevin]

Sell off each state, one at a time.

 

[Garth]

Give Wall Street back to the Edwards family: http://www.glamro.gov.uk/adobe/edwards.pdf !

The fortune is said to result from a lease in 1778 by a Welshman, Robert Edwards, of approximately 77 acres of land in New York forming what is now a significant part of Manhattan and on which stands not only Wall Street and Broadway but such valuable properties as The Stock Exchange and The World Trade Centre. The land was leased to the brothers John and George Cruger for 99 years with the condition that thereafter it would revert to the heirs of Robert Edwards named in the lease as his brothers William, Jacob, Leonard, Joshua, John and Thomas and his sister Martha. The lease expired in 1877 and ever since families called Edwards have been trying to stake claim to the fortune on the basis that they were descended from one of Robert's heirs.

Its not worth anything now in any case...

Garth

 

[drankin]

Alaska turned out to be one of our most strategic acquisitions into the Union both militarily and financially . Sell it to Russia? Not smart.

Besides, the fact that we have a defecit isn't the problem, it is HOW we got the defecit We would end up selling the whole damn country if we don't fix how we got the defecit in the first place.

 

[lisab]

was proposed on one of Polish forums I visit now and again.

Sell Alaska back to Russia for 10 trillion dollars.

Not only it will pay US debt, but it will also mean that someone else has to deal with Palin.

Oh, I'm all for it - even though I have a lot of family there (they're all a bit strange, anyway)! Nice, out-of-the-box thinking...

 

[CaptainQuasar]

We could also have the U.S. Mint print a ten-trillion-dollar bill and use that. I bet it would be worth more than ten trillion dollars, 'cause there would only be one of them in the world. Rarity, supply and demand and all, don'cha know. It could have Bush's picture on it.

Hey buddy, got change for a ten trillion?

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[OAQfirst]

We could also have the U.S. Mint print a ten-trillion-dollar bill and use that. I bet it would be worth more than ten trillion dollars, 'cause there would only be one of them in the world. Rarity, supply and demand and all, don'cha know. It could have Bush's picture on it.

Hey buddy, got change for a ten trillion?

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http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230287873772

Too expensive for my tastes.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Too expensive for my tastes.

Heh heh, yeah, good find. I should send him an email an ask, can you send me a really, really high-resolution scan of that?

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