June 1 - A Day of Infamy for Detroit

[Lowell]

It is a double witching day for Detroit.

1. Mighty General Motors is bankrupt and now Government Motors with uncertainty, job loss and more suffering in sight.

2. The mini-Berlin Wall of our border just grew higher and is now sealed to all but the passport-bearing. While old enemies in Europe freely cross borders, we must face indignities, more delays and snooping to visit another part of our town, our friends and relatives with whom we have been at peace for almost 200 years and our allies in war today.

The first event was inevitable and self-made, the second ridiculous, avoidable and insane.

The damage to our metropolitan economy by these combined events is terrible and huge. We are left to suck it in on our own and figure our way out of this growing mess on our own. Like it or not it is our mess. Time to start digging -- harder.

Thank goodness for the bread and circus of the Red Wings or this would be a truly gloomy day.