Originally Posted by Tsunami

I've been wondering for years why countries stopped selling their land. We bought Alaska and Louisiana and most of our other territory back in the day. Nowadays when Mexico or Russia or Kenya needs a loan they should just sell us a new state/vacation spot instead. It seems like a much better way to build overseas bases than defending South Korea or invading Iraq, and probably cheaper too.

Not that we have any extra cash lying around. Ironically, 70% of the people in Louisiana and Alaska would be against buying a new territory.

Originally Posted by the makeout hobo

The biggest problem with that is: do you really WANT the hordes of Mexicans or Kenyans or whatever that would come along with it? We're not going to just brush them all off of the land when we get it. The reason it was ok to sell Louisiana or Alaska is because basically no one was living there. Very few places are like that today.

Originally Posted by Tsunami

I have no problem adopting the entire world into our nation as long as we do so by peaceful means and not by force. And actually Louisiana was populated since at least 12,000 BC by tribes including the Chitimacha, Coushatta, Choctaw, Tunica-Biloxi, Cherokee, Houma, Atakapa, Caddo, Washa, Chawasha, Tunica, Bayogoula, Acolapissa, Quinapisa, Mugulash, Tangipahoa, Okelousa, and Adai peoples, and Alaska has been populated even longer by the Aleut, Inupiat, Yupik, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and Eyak, among others.