On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:20:11 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:24:58 -0400, PeterD wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:48:09 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Hilarious "Solution" to Budget Deficit:

Sell California to China for $10 Trillion ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Hey, not that funny, it might work. But, think of the new wall we'd
have to build...

You mean to keep people *in* California before the sale or to keep
people from going back after?

To keep them in! And as well, we could put one-way turnsiles every
mile for anyone who wants to leave and go there. But one-way: you go,
you stay.