Hey Detroit....I Just Annexed You To Canada ah?

The city of fire and flame (actually I don't know their city catch phrase, so I'm assuming here) seems to be making headlines more so than usual these days. It appears as though the auto industry of our fine country is soon to be road kill on a lonesome highway. Ironic don't you think that the country that invented the first automobile, thanks to Henry Ford, should have got out of the business of producing such products 40 years ago? Now I suppose that we could sit around and blame uncompetitive labor practices or unfair competition from abroad for the short comings of this blue collar enterprise but that would lead to some long winded debate that, to be quite frank, I just don't have the 'drive' for this evening. So, let me go on record to place the blame squarely where it's deserved....Detroit.

Some would say Detroit doesn't deserve to be blamed for this. Two such naysayers that would be included in that list of objectors would be Detroit's former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and GM's CEO Rick Wagoner. Unfortunately Kwame Kilpatrick is unable to comment on the matter as he is currently serving a 120-day sentence and facing a $1-million restitution fine after pleading guilty in September for lying under oath. Kwame, or 'the kam' as his buddies call him, also is responsible for some of the worst courtroom fashion atrocities since Dennis Rodman (ok, not from Detroit, but he played ball there for 8 years). The second dissident of my above claim would be GM's CEO Rick Wagoner who plans to spend ten hours in one of his companies lovely hybrid Chevy Malibu's driving to Capital Hill to beg for a lump sum of $12 billion to keep the company afloat. While it is an American past time to 'road trip' and explore our fine country at the helm of the wheel, the best time to do this typically isn't when the company you manage is about to implode and vaporize 100 years of operational history. I tried to reach him for comment on this matter but couldn't get through as he was having engine trouble somewhere outside of Toledo.

The solution here isn't an easy one......some people might even get a little teary eyed when the reality hits them that the city that gave us Rosa Parks, Ted Nugent, Robin Williams, and Eminem has now been annexed to our friends in Canada. Then again, others probably won't notice. Start the bulldozers Toronto...you might want to push this little gift into lake Erie.