thought of the day 2009 09 10 - national debt

Watching the news tonight the national debt is projected to head towards $9 Trillion dollars. I have a solution though. China, you have a lot of people, lots of crowded cities. I'll sell you Texas. You don't have to ship all your cheap crap through Long Beach anymore, the air pollution in Dallas pretty damn nearly matches Beijing. Texas for nine trillion, what do you say?

And think about it America, what did we get from Texas besides Chuck Norris as Walker Texas Ranger? You got what? The city where JFK got shot, George W. Bush and a larger border with Mexico to police. I mean sure, Chuck Norris is so awesome he could police the entire border single handled but that doesn't break even. We can move NASA's command center from Houston to somewhere else. Aside from having to show my Visa if I want to go to Bone Daddy or listen to some music in Austin, there's really no downside to selling Texas.