On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Neil Mahoney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Because people lie.
Because people believe in their own invisible spaghetti monster.
Some people even when they accept the money will hate the new state because their invisible spaghetti monster tells them too.
In light of all this, it's really a pretty bad investment.
Sort of like paying premium to buy a dog to bite you.

Why would someone bite you, if they agreed to the sale and took the money?

Also it would have to be an investment. Just like buying a run down house. You go in and invest heavily and fix it up. This would mean schools, roads etc.

A last point. You don't buy a run down house that does not have potential to be a good investment.

To answer Phil's question, yes, they would become full citizens.

The Philippines was a place that we took with our war machine. It was not something the people agreed to do. By definition you will get resentments and future problems if you kill your new citizens and torture them to death as we did there in the 1914s or so.

Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.