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another aid package to stave off the fall because of the i.m.f. warrants the global economy is in a perilous state with the west e.u. close to falling back into recession. but next a report on the gradual death of a place that was once the heart of america's car industry. but. it. seems like. this person will be the chairman of the genesee county land bank and will have to be responsible for its operations as well so not just understanding the fighting outside of the work but also understanding communities and how neighborhoods are stable how do. i basically have three choices one was to continue what i'm doing now to stay in the political world and be a local policymaker and then maybe you know move on to some other office the other

choice was to go work for the new obama administration and i was very interested and spent a lot of time talking to the to the people in the white house and you know was almost ready to make that move but i really felt like this this third option of running my own policy center was a better fit for me. don't you know you're like those and you don't gamble you know i don't you're earning your new year to you. not to scare you but there is a reality that foreclosure could occur and i would expect to share because we're pretty certain we've got things nailed out but with a new incoming treasurer the treasurer sets the house right and my new work starting the beginning of next year i'll be the president of a think tank of the policy center. to be a national organization to support the same kind of policies that i've developed

here in michigan and particularly in flint with mr kildee and always being so such a humanitarian very very socially. i would hope the person in the crowd in his footsteps would have similar views sometimes it comes right down to there we go we save money for property taxes and you know it's i just have to. say on my faith well you know i'm a christian so i hang on to my faith rather than for that i would have got through . december to. february and. if. and when most of those.

transitions. we have seen. the decline of what is no. use for. and christ. we have celebrated right and endured dark hours over approximately one hundred years of automobile history. however we have never seen as midnight and now. as we faced see this coming. as our national lawmakers on capitol hill contemplate whether or not they will extend much needed financial assistance to these crucial american automobile manufacturers. but those of you who think that this is not a spiritualist. as you to ponder the history of our

manufacturing. first let's understand it is god this is of a man doesn't work. when he should not eat. it is gone who are day man to work by the sweat. and it is. he demands that a man should be the head of his home and leadership example and any provision. like. magic map right. now these older crowd. pleasers about. very rarely i'll take a i'm ok you're out. let me my mama take care you. are out where i've where are we going to go figure out where to go where you're

going to go where does combat. take me. oh my money your family or the government you know the living here. i've never seen these times before detroit. and southeast michigan of michigan as a whole which was once failed probably in the top five. of making a person financially independent now and you know it's almost gone full circle and now it is you know ranking in the top five of a porous and the union. he. says.

we're fortunate because they were built to fly instantly as english the laws and. you know like when i hired in the one nine hundred seventy eight we had fourteen thousand members at local six fifty two right now we've got a hundred thousand and g.m. right now that are permanent people. thirteen thousand people that's how many may have actually jobs been lost. were there were they able to go weak on the schedule too many cars. they don't really need cars so it's sort of having a layoff take weeks or years you know your old plant down. on the corner that's right you know more bailout money g.m.

i don't think the government should put any more money there till general motors shows that they can be a viable company for the long term and that there's a reasonable chance that any loans that to government would make would be paid back to the taxpayers and the nation that is joe we we all look at it is a bailout you know you're looking at well why should the taxpayers pay that well here here's a perspective we're all taxpayers you guys are paying taxes right now now they're saying well you guys make good money you know what happens when you make good money you pay more taxes it's better to pay more taxes but if you're making good money these are middle class people attach rates. main street there are spending the money to make the world go round and there's a lot of things attached to it yet in her book but that every person automotive anymore right because you know these people come into town every day so they're frequent stores gas stations you pick things up you know most everybody is here attached made factory i think is ninety nine people are nice as well small town and

right people want to slam a g.m. and their hourly wage is what they what people are work right that the town suffer because we don't live as trickle effect if you don't have the money or her props business right they pay off or so it affects everybody i have friends or carkner brokers termers electricians the nergal on the suffer and because you're not well we're not we're not going today we're not people are not spending money today because they on history x. y. and suffer. as it emerges from bankruptcy the once mighty general motors corporation will become the smaller general motors company half its brands are being sold off or phased out leaving only chevy buick g.m.c. and cadillac and the new g.m. reportedly is considering changing its logo background from blue to green to emphasize its commitment to smaller more fuel efficient cars the city i've seen

them before they went bankrupt and i've seen them after and honestly i don't see any change. i see a lot of marketing. and i see a lot of hype but i don't really see a whole lot of effort. in the twenty first century making a car that gets twenty mpg just isn't acceptable i've worked on projects which i am and they might say one thing to you in the beginning you know say ok do your research come up with an idea bottom line is there i'm going to listen to it they don't consider ideas unless there's some hot sketch on the war and i think that's just completely backwards of how a car company should operate they were so focused on just making one type of pickup truck changing the headlights you know for them changing the grille was

a major evolution. for decades while the americans had their head in the sand the rest of the world was being alert i guess what what's kept toyota honda and you know all these japanese companies so far ahead of the u.s. is just their incredible quality became so far ahead of the american competition that all these vehicles came into the u.s. it was like wow look at this car it's reliable it's durable and you know it uses half the gas of the truck that i'm using now. and if you look at american truck. you know for decades they're using the same basic chassis that was developed back in the sixty's or seventy's.

i look at g.m. and i see. kind of the past. and that's what's hard for me about. thinking about working for something like that it's like why would i want to go into the past and for me i would want to work for the next g.m. you know a company that's rising from this ashes of of bankruptcy and basically makes g.m. irrelevant. soz jam like. whatever this stuff i don't know. and accept. that you want to go over there would i be happy going anywhere near this foot here things. there's really no jobs being offered in the automotive design world so it's really hard to

say like ok general motors comes in today and offers you a job and you take it but for me i wouldn't i don't think i could morally or ethically take the position. that. they did talk about general motors being behind the times to. talk about flex fuel they put all kinds of money in that research you talked about clean energy jobs have zero. battery people don't want you know it's easy when gas was a four fifty a gallon they say well you guys build the gas guzzlers no we build what people want

people want trucks they want s.u.v.s for the different things are doing i'm not going to go go out there and help out a one of the small cars in that trailer because everything always the car. it's a big s.u.v. and the gas mileage and so much what you want to be able to put half the soccer team in it and put your wife in it and not have to worry about it you know because you know you've bought the best economy the piebald or on the farm or here i hope they come back they are back here on the hill but i think they're both goals or whatever but if they leave they come up here in washington is their home depends on how the news media spends you know i'm all yours and while they make too

much money well how do you know we how do you do you know we you i mean i can take help ten or fifteen different patients and make twice as much money as we make an hour that are doing a lot of the word on these people who are physically working and doing things. look here this is something you're never going to see it's a right year. you know you don't want to see this they're called piebald. this is exciting. for. general motors as if it's not relation to you it might be your neighbor or somebody new so it's kind of a family run business you know myself i'm third generation my father was working

there and you have a lot of two three or four generation families that are there my son's name was rollin green but he had a high school he always wanted to follow in the footsteps of working in general motors and and zero eight he actually got hired as a entry level. since. he was laid off one when the crunch started hit he was one of the first ones to go but i'm already in the sense that he might have to leave the state to get work and that's something we've never had to face as a family. i mean it's tough all they gather they got under more gas prices went up about building gas guzzlers so everybody switched to you know going green you know you got to go green something energy efficient fuel efficient and so then at that point when i got laid off i started to

look into the windmill industry for alternative energy because that started to take rate up but what i've noticed is gas prices have come down and that's pretty much fell right off. this award for the skips which we're just from. my lifestyle is going to be on the wage the i'm able to meet the things that i'm able to do and you know eventually i'd like to have a family and be able to make is to college and things like that hard to tell where we're going to end up and what's going to be a decent career i would like to say that i'd be working for general motors and that's where i would like to work. kids it's whatever grew up my let's how i've grown up that's the majority of my families were to. me like it's men the bloods and the family you know it's a it's

a living. the . last battle. plan i think that detroit will rebound i think it will rise again oddly troy is who is a very zillion people haha people came here with great expectations i believe that many people can look back over their lives and can and really honestly say you know detroit was a very good to me and i feel awfully obligation to be committed

to help detroit to get back to weird needs to be. in the. battle that enjoy. this. moment who brought. her. and her and. it's a city that has so much character and so much potential. that you know i really felt

like ok you know this city it has to change you know in four years this is going to be great but for longer and then here and as. what was the auto industry has now collapsed it's really only gotten worse. and you know i look. since we started the land but since i started this whole approach i've had people like it and people who don't like us our reaction that i felt that i've heard more recently is

a reaction to this idea of shrinking the city of intentionally trying to redesign the city to make it a smaller and i think better place this is where. a lot of criticism was because they think that brock obama and i somehow. hatched a plan to demolish american cities so this one says every day the obama administration gets scarier and scarier first they take over the financial institutions then private industries like g.m. now big brother is coming to bulldoze your home. what i think is not a valid criticism is that we have to rebuild every neighborhood and we have to somehow recreate the flint of the past it's not going to happen it's not going to happen no matter what we do and it

shouldn't happen and so i reject that criticism that somehow by acknowledging that we should be smaller that that sounds like defeat. in the u.s. we've had this. you know antiquated notion of our manifest destiny that will simply go west and get bigger in this has allowed us i think to make the mistakes of forgetting what's left behind. the notion that bigger is better is a fallacy a false promise it's not true it comes from the american west we're experiencing it primarily it's this american obsession with growth and expansion. in the u.s.

in most american cities have barely one hundred years of history and the difficulty is that in many cases flint detroit both in prime examples we've had one period of growth followed by one period of decline in we can't see far enough to realize that that's not the birth life and death of a city but it's a cycle. i think for a long time this notion in america that bigger was better was simply an understated fact for most people there was no reason to assume otherwise people didn't have. the long term vision to think that we could ever run out of space because we had so much of it people didn't have the vision to see that small coming out of our

tailpipes could possibly do us harm and today we're paying for that but at the time it was simply just this deep love affair that we had with space and this whole notion of the american dream of having your own house with your yard in your own garage and you each have a car that's of great but is unnecessary. the fact that g.m. was so out of touch with the rest of the world i think that's directly connected to the fact that the united states was so out of touch with the rest of the world as a people were always wanting to be the best and in the twentieth century what we thought was the best was bigger and we were definitely the best in the twenty first century

smarter and you can be better if we want to be considered the best of anything it's going to take a major shift in our mindset. some . food to eat the food. quality is good they want to be of the same. thing. in.

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