Dude wants to sell Alaska?!?!
This is funny...By Steven MufsonWashington PostThe prospect of once again hitting the federal debt ceiling has provoked the ritual round of hand-wringing about the intractable nature of this $16 trillion conundrum. But there is a simple, elegant option that involves no tax increases, no spending cuts and just a bit of imagination.Sell Alaska.That's right. Put the entire state -- from Juneau to Deadhorse, from the Bering Strait to the Beaufort Sea -- on the auction block.Absurd? No more absurd than the spectacle taking place right now as we skid closer to the "fiscal cliff."...
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