finances are now more vulnerable than at any other point since two thousand and eight. all right so i want to stay with us here in our next a motor city madness in a ghost town the second part of a special report on the slow death of a city that was once the heart of america's car industry that's next right here on not saying. but. what. this person will be the chairman of the genesee county land bank and we'll have to be responsible for its operations as well so not just understanding the finance side of the work but also understanding communities and how neighborhoods are stable. i basically had three choices one was to continue what i'm doing now to stay in the political world. 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 in you know was almost ready to make that move but i really felt like this third option of running my own policy center was a better fit for me. i flush it down you know you're like the sending of gambino i know you're harming your new year do you worry 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 power see right in my new work starting at the beginning of next year i'll be the president of a think tank of a 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 they and always being so such a humanitarian very very socially conscious i would hope the person in the crowd in his footsteps would have similar views sometimes it comes right down to there we always save money for property taxes and you know it's i just have to. share in the my faith but you know i'm a christian so i hang on to my faith of the world and for that we're going to got through. february and. then we most of those.

transitions transformations. in this. we have seen the rise in just the decline. of what is known as the big three. general motors ford and chrysler. we have celebrated great days and endured dark hours over approximately one hundred years of all the mobility 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 that it is god this is of a man doesn't work. then he should not be. it is a dog who ordain men to work by the sweat. and it is gone he demands that a man should be the head of his home. in leadership in the example and in provision. acts like. all these oh yes police found the police about right but. very well with ok i won't take your your out. let me my mama take care you work. your way out where i fare out we go after any girl

we got let me go we got plenty of gold because combat. make me happy. and i'm like no man gradually or the thing with you nothing new for you to get out here. i've never seen these times before detroit. and southeast michigan of michigan as a whole which was once viewed probably in the top five. of making a person financially independent now it's almost gone full circle and now it is you know ranking in the top five of the us in the union.

we're fortunate because they built two new plants in lansing with a still that. 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 under a thousand in g.m. right now that are permanent people. thirteen thousand people that's how many may have actually jobs been lost. we're nor there were two able to go a week on the schedule too many cars. and they don't really need cars so it's sort of having a layoff week so your schedule at the plant known we're. not

quite a bell out body am i don't think the government should put any more money there until general motors shows that they can be a viable company for the long term and that there is a reasonable chance that any loans that the government would make would be paid back to the taxpayers and they used you know we we all look at it as a bailout you know you're looking at well why should the taxpayers pay that while here here's a perspective we're all taxpayers you guys are paying taxes right now now they're saying while 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 rate to 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 the trickle effect that every version automotive anymore right because these people come into town every day so they're frequent stores gas stations you pick things up. here attached manufacturing i

think it was ninety nine people to unite us with downtown and right all the people want to slam a g.m. and their hourly wages what they what people are work right that the town suffer because it wouldn't be as trickle effect if you don't have the money on her on the tops business right they they offer so it affects everybody i have friends or carpenter brokers termers electricians unearth they're the one that suffer and because you're not we're not we're not building today we're not people we're not spending money today because they honestly it's why it suffer. as it emerges from bankruptcy the once mighty general motors corporation could 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. 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 with g.m. and they might say one thing to you in the beginning you know they'll say ok do your research two up with an idea the bottom line is there i'm going to listen to it they don't consider ideas unless there's some hot sketch on the wall 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 when 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 the american truck. you know for decades they're using the same basic chassis that was developed you know 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 year you know a company that's rising from this ashes of of bankruptcy and basically makes g.m. irrelevant. so it's g.m. like hiring anyone after this stuff i don't know. and thinks of. that and you want to go over there would i be happy going anywhere. at this point yeah. there's really no jobs being offered in the automotive design world so it's really

hard to say like ok general motors come see you 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 that position. they did talk about general motors being behind the times that he talked about flex fuel they put all kinds of money in that research you're talking about clean energy talk about. battery people don't want to you know it's easy when gas goes a four fifty

a gallon they say well you guys build the gas bills there's no we build what people want people want trucks they want s.u.v.s for the different things you're doing i'm not going to go go out there and helped 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 is so much but 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 county the piebald or on the farm or. yeah i hope they come back they're back here on the hill. i think they're both those or whatever but if the they come up here. is they have home depends on how the news media spins in oh i'm all yours and while they make too

much money or how do you know we how do you do you know what we do i mean i could pick out ten or fifteen different patients that make twice as much money as we make an hour that are doing a lot of us that we're doing these people who are physically working and doing things well look here this is something you're never going to see it's a white year and you know you don't want to see this they're called piebald. this is exciting. for. general motors is if it's not relations you it might be your neighbor or somebody you knew 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 and four generation families that are there. my son's name was rollin green when he got out of high school he always wanted to follow in the footsteps of working at general motors 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 . 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 is 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 are tough but what i've noticed is gas prices have come down and that's pretty much fell right off. for these gifts which with us from. my lifestyle is going to be on the wage that i'm able to make the things that i'm able to do and you know of actually i'd like to have a family and be able some my kids 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. it's it's whatever grew up that's how i've grown up that's the majority of my families were to.

it's been the blood it's in the family you know it's it's a living. i think that detroit will rebound i think it will rise again detroit is a very zillion people. people came here with great expectations i believe that many people can look back over their lives and and really honestly say you know detroit was a very good to me and i feel. the obligation to be committed

to help detroit to get back to where it needs to be. value of the soil well the way he lived and enjoy the law. that he. was what we're now and he and. with a human or. q when you. see you. it's a city that has so much character and so much potential. that you know i really felt

like ok you know the city it has to change you know in four years the city is going to be great but you know the longer i've been here and as. what was the auto industry has now collapsed it's really going on worse. human. since we started the land bank since i started this whole approach i've had people who like it and people who don't like us or 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 barack obama and i somehow sort of 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 in 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 us we've had this. you know antiquated notion of our manifest destiny that will simply go west and get bigger in there 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 word expansion

primarily it's this american obsession with growth and expansion in the u.s. most american cities have barely one hundred years of history in the difficulty is that in many cases flint detroit both being 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 the cycle. i think for a long time this notion in america that bigger was better was simply an undisputed 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 the 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 all 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 at it in the twenty first

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