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Will Trump offer to buy Greenland? Or offer Greenland residents $100K each to become American citizens? It could become the 51st state.
Wyoming would no longer be the lowest population state.

i WENT TO WEST ANCHORAGE H.S. UNTIL MY JR. YEAR,WE MOVED TO FAIRBANKS JUST BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE IN 64...i GRADUATED LATHROP H.S.,
IN 65....THAT'S 10 YEARS (THE FIRST TIME TO ALASKA)...B

I GUESS U DID NOT CATCH THIS PART........LOWEST TEMP I HAVE EXPERIENCED IS NEGATIVE 54
(FAIRBANKS)

"We want Greenland to be the Greenlanders, and we're not for sale. We are not to be taken over," Møller said.

Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland's minister of natural resources, business, energy, justice, and gender equality, said in June that she sees much of the American administration's interest in Greenland as an opportunity for collaboration. But she said the way Trump is going about it is wrong.

Naaja Nathanielsen is Greenland's minister of natural resources, business, energy, justice, and gender equality. Mark Adam Miller

"I think if we take the temperature down a bit and de-escalate the conflict level and the rhetoric, I think we can, in agreement with each other, find many paths forward that are mutually beneficial for both the US and for us," Nathanielsen said in June. "But we don't appreciate being talked about as a commodity, as something you can buy or sell or acquire or take. That is, of course, offensive to all people."

In an email on Tuesday, Nathanielsen told Business Insider that she stands by what she said in June.

"The people of Greenland find the current situation unsettling, and it causes a great deal of anxiety," she wrote. "We will continuously promote the idea of alliances and partnerships over colonialism. We have had our share of that."
The debate heats up

Denmark, Trump has argued, is not doing enough to safeguard Greenland. "We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security," Trump told a group of reporters on Air Force One on Sunday.

The same day, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urged the US in a statement to "stop the threats against a historically close ally." Frederiksen has previously rejected Trump's suggestions outright, telling him that Greenland is not for sale and that any idea of annexation is "absurd."

Frederiksen has warned that any US military action against Greenland would severely damage NATO unity, raising questions about whether the alliance could withstand such a conflict between allies.

On Tuesday, major European leaders, including those from France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Denmark, released a joint statement defending Greenland. "Greenland belongs to its people," the statement said. "It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

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homeagain wrote: WE IDENTIFY THE CONTINENTAL USA AS "":OUTSIDE:"" OR THE LOWER 48, WE DO NOT LIVE IN A FORGIVING ENVIRONMENT, WE SEE THE WEAKNESS OR LACK OF WILL POWER IN THE 'OUTSIDE' AND SHAKE OUR HEADS AT HOW SOMEONE COULD LIVE THAT WAY....JUST OUTSIDE OF TALKETNA ...U R IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY,NO ONE FROM THE OUTSIDE UNDERSTANDS THAT......IT'S AN ALASKAN THING, U WON'T UNDERSTAND......SELF RELIANCE, GUTS TO PIT YOURSELF AGAINST NATURE AND KNOW U MAY BE KICKED IN THE BUTT,BUT DO IT ANYWAY....

And yet, for some odd reason, you support spending $4 Trillion a year in federal tax dollars to support individual charity programs that allow people to live like that . . . quite the dichotomy.

And yet, for some odd reason, you support spending $4 Trillion a year in federal tax dollars to support individual charity programs that allow people to live like that . . . quite the dichotomy. PER PS

THE ISSUE AT HAND IS CHOICE.....THOSE ABOVE DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE....THUS A HELPING HAND UP...NOT A HAND OUT.

IF SOLITUDE,QUIET,SELF RELIANCE,COURAGE AND INNOVATION IS IMPORTANT AND HIGH PRIORITY,THEN U ELECT TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE NORM....A WAY OF LIFE THAT IS HARD BUT SOUL SATISFYING.....SOME PEOPLE R COMPLEX AND DO NOT FIT THE MOLD. THERE R A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN ALASKA THAT R RUNNING FROM SOMETHING/SOMEONE AND JUST WANT TO DISAPPEAR INTO THE DENSE WOODS. MISFITS WOULD BE ANOTHER SECTOR......HAS BEERN TRUE FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

Except that is precisely what federal and State charity programs have become . . . multi-generational handouts. You can qualify for (un)Affordable Care Act subsidies at 400% of the poverty level, which is around $100K a year in earnings. Section 8 housing expects you to pay 30% of your income and the program supplies the rest. Guess what "the rest" happens to be when your monthly income is $0 . . . free to you rent is what "the rest" is. And you'll then also qualify for the maximum benefit under the SNAPS program . . . before you know it someone with $0 income (who works for cash on the side and has no documentable income) is, all by itself, more than the median income of a single worker who is paying taxes to support those charity programs. That's a "handout", not a "hand up" when you can make more income from government charity than the median income.

One friend has a theory about the DNC. They hate Americans who aren't on government aid of some type. They prefer people dependent on some form of government assistance. They think it will deliver them more votes.

After Trump's two wins and Republicans holding onto the House again, they need to reevaluate their policy.

Many of the people I know who are dependent on government aid don't think they are. They believe they are due their benefits because they worked for them their whole lives and don't think they are dependent on Democrats for them to continue.