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a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is all you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. of him right now on the freeway system of the tricky construction of word not only did we have nine mile backup in hazel park but we're about to see some improvement on eight mile on the detroit self-heal border as crews are close to wrapping up that ridge project the way i remember general motors going bankrupt i remember the

feeling of not being surprised. at all. for us it was you know a day like any other day. going to work. it was in the daylight shocking news it was more like the inevitable death of a very old member of the family i felt like ok now. we can move on to have a job it'll be easy to eat has reached a deal is what it was or if it's of subunits of good deeds it it's it's it's almost bigger than life just a rock of gibraltar it can't go bankrupt. it was almost like hearing that. you are a child in your period that you depend upon for your existence is on life support.

there's a chance of snow showers friday's high holding to about thirty degrees thirty fourth detroit's current really it was kind of a sad day. but we were just all of this belief and all that it actually happened. when you have when you're supposed to have some of the smartest guys in charge of things and they say bankruptcy is the way to go i guess. is the hope that they know what they're talking about that you have emerged from that become a better company. they're the type of company that's always said oh it will just make what the people want. but obviously that's not what they were doing. the bankruptcy of g.m. was kind of you know it it's not really a popular thing to say around detroit but. i was actually pretty excited because i thought for once. maybe this big company had a chance to change. you. since two

thousand. oh it's still saying to sixty you know it's. this was this is like. where i played i remember you know playing with my old trucks and this and this for trailing i remember seeing you know in the afternoon the school kids coming and going and then at a different time in the afternoon watching the factory workers walk to work many

people just walked out here in america now everybody drives people drive to the end of their driveway to pick up their mail. but then there's a different kind of a community. is a great neighborhood really. most of the people who lived here worked for general motors and buick factories just just a few bar voc that way so it was a working class neighborhood it was a poor neighborhood. most of the people who work in the automobile factories did really well. nobody realized how fragile their economy was because it was always there general motors was actually born here and flint grew up here. people worked in the factories especially in the after the one nine hundred forty s. made very good wages. more than

a college graduate would make. you look at. this house like thousands of others. was abandoned and when people leave they don't take their houses with them and they also don't pay taxes anymore on the property and so my office. is responsible for tax collection and when people abandon their property and stop paying taxes we take that to court to get a judgment and take ownership of the property so this house now is owned by the land bank we get those properties and we try to make a decision about what to do with with with all these thousands of abandoned houses . that brings back a lot of memories and that heard that bell ring. really. funny

because the sounds that i remember. i remember the church bell ringing and then i remember the factory whistle ringing you know the factory whistle saying fan for the shift to start course you don't hear them anymore. and think. hey how you doing i'm doing aright. think so you know this is the house i lived in when i was a little boy oh yeah yeah yeah well welcome back oh yeah exactly. and i'm on the camp. that. this is a city of about one hundred ninety thousand people and we had eighty thousand

people working for general motors so the odds are if you had a job in flint it was a job working for general motors or a job that depended on general motors wintering . we're.

now i mean the problem we have is that the legacy of general motors is what i'm left with i deal with empty houses where g.m. workers used to live with empty buildings where general motors used to have factories with wide open space that used to be a factory and it's now empty you know piece of abandoned property that we're now on there's an office building that was once a general motors office building that the milan bank go on so in many ways were left i'm left dealing with the cleanup of this mass.

well these are all vied i own all they're all sherry's. each one has a different role i guess in our lives that you see here we have a dump truck that we use in our business to look for different things trees and stone and bolted things or here we have the box man which if we want to move things around and i get what you put things inside plus we hook the bug truck which is the black truck up over there you go to the mud dogs and we haul at the black truck here to the trailer we move our equipment around that the skin sear that sets over there and they ask evader the one next to the black truck over there is the right blazer and what we do with that is go to the sand use a plane of say and one for the mud one for the sand. truck here is for you got a lot of fun explore out here in

a farm keep the roads open and stuff and when i drive to work in the winter time which also has a plow on it and i when i drive in the summertime it gets better gas mileage has six owner in it and this is my wife's car. general motors have been number one forever they've been the ones to beat forever you want to talk about a sad day sad days when toyota announced today that your sales are more than what g.m. is and you know that's probably a dated fix will be more than the bankruptcy hey.

i'm the president of u.a.w. local six fifty two which stands for the united auto workers union and what i do is i'm in charge of the ministration of the hall of our membership and deal with any problems that might become before the membership. joel might very well i'm good i just we're in the business of selling tallackson right i think they got them in stock years ago you didn't have to worry about market share because you know it was just a given that people bought because that's what their dad drove or you know you this is what you buy and then slowly you know by not paying attention to things on the market and you don't have the loyalties that used to have you know the people just buying because that's what you bought you know somehow it got to be uncool to drive a domestic vehicle.

i try to be a negative person and i try to look at what we need to do right now i think there put some people in place where they're going to write some wrongs and i think they're going to be all straight up maybe fly right i mean and i think they owe it to the people they all that some cells to get a company to see that disappear you know from the landscape of the of the nation. g.m. donated this building to c.c.'s to use. it's kind of turned into this. at the center of design in detroit with the college that i it's and. just down the hall is the clay studio the computer labs everything

is kind of right in these halls where so many infamous and. iconic designs were presented writings very room. i guess what makes me different from many of my other colleagues and students is that i focused mainly on sustainable transportation and solutions for the environmental problems that we have today. coming from car design in a more sustainable way and looking for solutions to the problems it's just it's just crazy that now we're in the space where so many of those problems were helped to create. i think general motors at one time represented kind of the pinnacle of the industrial era. how company could become so dominant in the market just through sheer brute force. general motors simply

became too large for their own good it's so many brands that they couldn't even keep up with and they just basically became a dinosaur. i guess it's just almost fitting that the solutions are going to come from the same place but generally the problems and hopefully you know myself and the people of the school can do our best to find those solutions. the fisher body plant where much all cars were built from g.m. before they had their own design all the design work and all the body work was done by fisher. to me it just represents the glory days of detroit and it's just so strange to see to see this

site and. and environment around it is just so peculiar. detroit used to be a very diverse city people lived downtown people walked people took the tram in a sense it was one of the most european cities and it's designed densely populated easy to get about and it had a very very good public transportation system grand central or great station. was socially the hub of that the epicenter of of the trains and the trams that ran all around the city. so when the automobile. basically came

to be general motors saw. the troll is then the public transportation as cover titian for their new product in order to eliminate it basically bought up that industry and saw to that it was not going to be around so the people in detroit were basically forced into the automobile. the general motors it will go you know the situation tell us the next round of layoffs to come in this month g.m. said it would change the rules and would see me three thousands that were decisions

just like he says. the early sixty's six two three four five six those are what i call the innocent years you know people begin to make good money things begin to turn around here for african-americans and we as kids begin to experience a better life than our parents did. you had people migrating up here from the south and with very little education get hired right away at the plant you know people were coming up here by the bus loads you know and it really built the middle class in southeast michigan so now that you see that lifeline is not gone but it has

changed drastically i want to be successful spirit i want to be successful natural i want to be successful financially i want to be successful mentally commands are not. good at what helps me to help people in making wise decisions on stewardship i have a discipline in finances ha specifically the area of accounting. that. god has me here for such a time as this it is no coincidence that really greece temple hands a pastor who happens to be an accountant.

resources. we have a financial plan of the financial times where we are back to put some principles in place a good sales to can. because we. are very current. we gossip what the economy has got steel us ok. and this is what i'm trying to be as long as about three weeks you know me and whatever apartment are very proud place five hundred miles north of forty years is that i'll come to you for help with live with my first month's rent and i bet if it's possible i imagine find a car but leave her here they know in the v.a. and. you look across three years on motivating people in this day and time is more difficult than it was in my father's pastorate when people were laid off

during those decades of you knew how when you would be returning to work so my father's days of motivating was i think a little easier then my day they come to me as a bishop when i'd want to do it and i can't say well in six months things will be better i don't know so we have to exercise a greater faith in god. we were right. but we thank you for this day and for those timeless even these two you brought together in loving unity we prayed as he moved toward the nuptials.

communities all across this country don't know it but they're one decision away from being the next flint michigan. i think the cities in america that are willing to rebuild themselves and not simply pretend that we are the city that we used to be ironically are the cities that are going to be best positioned for growth in the future. now it's a city that is built for twice the number of people that we actually have so we

think the kind of successful city that flint can be is going is going to require that it be calm cleaner smaller i'm more sustainable. but that also not every you know ever again. become dependent on one company. we've got thousands of abandoned houses we've got more houses than we have people so rather than simply selling those properties off to speculators that's the whole idea is that we get the property into the hands of land bank turned it turn to the neighborhood you know there were areas where the. phase one was we had gardens this spring i'm going to go more to southern food because i went to the farmer's market this year and the first day the crowd of people black purple holes and they sold out a media i did not have and so i know that we have young children i had ten children

here teens were fourteen twenty one teach them how to grow how to become a business person and how to understand how gross and maybe interested in agriculture i mean to me it's the social connections of the neighborhood you come to tied in your you know you build a community around it really i mean i know this from seeing the neighbors come out when we've been out here a lot of times neighbors would come along talk one of you got this going to it's a circus center for them every. year for. i pod touch from the. video on demand off season my old. feeds now in the palm of your.

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