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To: Snowshoe who wrote (39771)	10/18/2003 12:26:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

SS, the aurora in Alaska wasn't priceless. US$7.2 million and that included all the oil, gold, caribou and local human population too [who probably weren't consulted about their place being sold]: atozkidsstuff.com <America bought Alaska from Russia on March 30, 1867. President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of State, William H. Seward, was responsible for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The USA paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska. The NARA site has a copy of the cancelled check online that you can view. When the agreement to purchase the Alaska territory from Russia was struck in 1867 by Secretary of State William H. Seward, there were many in the lower 48 states who were critical of the secrecy that had surrounded it and of the high price tag. Critics of Seward's agreement to purchase the Alaska territory from Russia referred to the plan as "Seward's Folly." They mocked his willingness to spend so much on "Seward's icebox" and Andrew Johnson's "polar bear garden." Gold was discovered in 1896 at Bonanza Creek, setting off the great Klondike Gold Rush. Oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in 1968. The oil fields at Prudhoe Bay are the largest in North America. The Trans-Alaska pipeline was built and completed in 1977 at a cost of $7.7 billion. An oil spill by an Exxon tanker in Prince William Sound in 1989 damaged pristine coastline and led to battles between environmentalists and the oil industry. The beautiful scenery, national parks, and wildlife are Alaska's main natural resources and tourist attractions.... > Everything has a price. Even the priceless things have a price. Human life has a price and it's so embarrassingly low that people refuse to admit how low a value they put on it, making hypocritical assertions that "you can't put a price on human life", which they immediately do, of a very low amount. For example, they could, instead of buying some wine, smokes and a big tank of gas for the dirty great SUV, give the money to $ill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is working to defeat malaria and real human life killers. They could give the money to form a New United Nations to provide political stability to the world and save swarms of lives from carnage and avoid the vast cost of military posturing. Louisiana had a price on it too. Everything humans do has a price, acknowledged or unacknowledged, quoted in dollars of the day or in adrenaline dosage to the brain or some other way, such as suicide bombing, or working towards some goal flat out. Even the non-monetary prices can usually be converted to dollars with a bit of discussion. A bit like the story of some handsome, famous guy asking the beautiful young woman whether she would have sex with him. No? Well what if it was for $10 million. "Well, that's an awful lot of money. I suppose so." "How about for $10?" "Hey, what do you think I am? A prostitute?" "Well, we've already established that. Now we're just haggling over the price". Mqurice