Sell Detroit.

OK, you are probably worried about the economy right? Who isn't. With all the joblessness and underemployement out there it is getting to be a scary world. So what do we do. One thing that makes me loose my cool is when I hear some airhead at a dinner party say: "Well, at least they're doing something!" I like to think that we pay the political elite to do the "Right Thing." So what is the right thing to do in our current economic mess. We need money to pay for all the economic malfeasance. We don't need to saddle our children with debt. We don't want to print money until our dollar is worthless, along with our retirement savings. So what is the right thing to do?

Sell Detroit. OK, here's how it works. Remember your history lessons from high school? You know the ones where they talked about the Lousiana purchase. That is a prime example of why we need to sell Detroit. At the time, the French under Napolean's leadership, were fighting just about everybody. And they needed money for to pay for the war.

Now Napolean had just wrested control on the Lousiana territory from Spain. It was worth a bunch. The problem was he couldn't very easily put it up for bids now could he. The British were not about to give Napolean a bunch of money to keep on fighting him. The Russians were to self absorbed to bother. Spain has just lost control to the French. So about the only people left were the Americans. Napolean needed money, and not the problems that came with adminstrating a large territory across the ocean full of Spaniards that most likely didn't even know Spain had lost control of the territory. Americans were all about Manifest Destiny and making their rightful place in the world. We certainly didn't want the English to get their hands on such a prize because then they could block our access to the port of New Orleans, and access to the Missippi river. For that matter, the French could do the same. So, Napolean sold the territory to us (US) three weeks after wresting control from Spain, for a meager $15,000,000.

Fast forward to 2009. Detroit can't seem to build a car that Americans will drive, and is sucking billions of dollars OUT of the US treasury just to stay afloat. Canadians on the other hand seem to have a great affection for Detroit iron. They also don't seem to mind ripping the ore out of the ground to build the beasts, or providing the oil to run them down the road. So, why not save the billions we're dumping on that vacation paradise and instead sell that veritable oasis for a few hundred billion to put back in the treasury?

I decided not to try to finish this thought later. It seems that nobody cares.