If an Axe Falls in a Small Town Does it Make a Noise?

So, what became apparent months ago today becomes a reality. I saw the live reports from my hometown on CNN today at work, and then this story featured on their front page. Look ma, we're famous.

People had been worried about the air park closing since I was a little kid. Guess they don't need to worry anymore. Not about that anyway.

Any chance we could apply for some of that wallstreet bailout money that all the K street lobbying firms are being hired to jockey for? Wilmington doesn't have a lobbyist you say? How about some of that big-auto money? No, I mean the new big-auto money. Still no? Maybe there's none left over after you give so much cash to GM's Bob Lutz, who ran the biggest auto maker in the world directly into the ground before calling global warming a "total crock of shit". But, hey, forgiveness is divine.

Really though, hear me out. If big auto could spare just one half of one percent of that $75 billion you're going to give them (with no actual equity stake in the auto industry), it would make all the difference in the world. We're not an "integral American industry" you say? Shit, we're not even a swing county?

That's cool. Don't sweat it. Mount Saint Helens and Flint probably kick ass by now anyway, so at least there's a blueprint. Everybody goes through the occasional period of 30% unemployment, right? I'm sure it's good for the soul.