Economist says Alaska is money pit, should have been sold to UK/Canada instead.

Started by katmai, November 10, 2009, 07:46:47 PM

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KRonn


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Without Alaska, Sarah Palin would not have developed any foriegn affairs experience.  You can't see Russia from anywhere else in the US of A you know.

grumbler

Quote from: KRonn on November 12, 2009, 02:21:00 PM
I bet the author is just a racist, and anti-Inuit!   ;)
Well, anyone who has tried to use their software is gonna be anti-Inuit.
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JacobL

Should we Auction off Alaska to try and recover some investment money?

KRonn

Quote from: grumbler on November 12, 2009, 02:52:32 PM
Quote from: KRonn on November 12, 2009, 02:21:00 PM
I bet the author is just a racist, and anti-Inuit!   ;)
Well, anyone who has tried to use their software is gonna be anti-Inuit.
Ba-ding!   :lol:

The Brain

 :huh: I thought the Treaty of Tortillas between Jaron and katmai gave Alaska to katmai.
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Neil

I've been dealing with a Lithuanian girl recently who was educated in the Soviet Union.  She was shocked to discover that Alaska wasn't leased for 99 years like Hong Kong.  Of course, she just chalked it up to yet another Russian lie.
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Quote from: Neil on November 13, 2009, 07:44:46 PM
I've been dealing with a Lithuanian girl recently who was educated in the Soviet Union.  She was shocked to discover that Alaska wasn't leased for 99 years like Hong Kong.  Of course, she just chalked it up to yet another Russian lie.
I've never heard that one myself, but apparently a lot of Soviet immigrants in my junior high school social studies class did think that.