the latest thank you dr milledgeville lucia balls for giving us your perspective on all of this he's attorney and chairman of the new black panther party and that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered our t. dot com slash usa check out our you tube page you tube dot com slash r t america and come back in a half hour for more news. shows that so much different if you use it if you are on the sofa in turkey in the movie geopolitically order in the middle east and the arab world news anchor making a bid to play the role of the regional hegemon on the back of.

but. i. see cable like. this 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 private side of the work but also understanding communities and how neighborhoods are stable how do. i paste in 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. i fluff it down your mother your name you know i don't you're doing your duty are you. not to scare you but there is a reality that foreclosure could occur and i would expect the share because we're pretty certain we've got things nailed out but with a new incoming treasurer the treasurer sets the policy right and in my new work starting the beginning of next year i'll be the president of a think tank

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 and always being so such a humanitarian very very socially conscious i would hope that the person that followed in his footsteps would have similar views sometimes it comes right down to either we where we save money for property taxes and you know it's i just have to. say i mean my faith. i'm a christian so i hang on my faith working for that or we're going got through. server january february. february and.

then when most of those. transitions. we have seen just the decline. of what is known as the big three. four. and christ. we have celebrated great days and endured dark hours over approximately one hundred years of almost deal with 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. asked you to ponder the history of our manufacturing. first let's understand it is god this is a man doesn't want. in he should not eat. it is gone who are dame men to work by the sweat. and it is god he demands that a man should be the head of his home and leadership example and in provision. way. back to nothing right. now yes only about the least about the. very real love again i'm going to take your rather let

me my momma take care you. know not where i'd where are we going to go if we got married go we go where nicole where does combat that make me. take all my money they are the family you know the really good 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 you know it's almost gone full circle and now it is you know ranking in the top five of the porous in the union.

we're fortunate because they built to fly in some ways english they'll be lost and . you know what 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 hundreds of thousand and g.m. right now that are permanent people. thirty thousand people that somebody may have actually jobs that lost. were nor there were fabled he took a week of the schedule too many cars. and they don't really need cars so it's sort of having a layoff you think weeks or years ago you know at the plant down. from

downtown are now finding out more bailout money g.m. 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's a reasonable chance that any loans that the government would make would be paid back to the taxpayers and they say 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 so now they're saying well you guys make good money you know happens when you make good money you pay more taxes is going to pay more taxes but if you're making money these are middle class people attach rate for main street. there are spending the money to make the world go round there's a lot of things attached to it yes and what are the fact that for every person in 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 a test made factory i think is ninety nine people the knife is worth well town and right all people want to slander g.m. and their hourly wage is what they what people are work right that the town suffer because we don't this is for a fact if you don't have the money you are on the tops business right they they offer so it affects everybody i have friends or carkner brokers termers electricians a nurse who want to suffer and because you are 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 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 an 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 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 c.m. and they might say one thing to you in the beginning you know say ok do your research top of 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 and 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 own 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 an 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 his ashes of of bankruptcy and basically makes g.m. irrelevant. soz jam like sharing it whatever this stuff i don't know. and wakes up. and you want to go over there idea if you're going anywhere near this foot here because. there's

really no jobs being offered in the automotive design world so it's really hard to say like ok general motors comes to 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. 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 your dog about clean energy talk about. that every 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 killed or you know we build what people want people want trucks they want s.u.v.s for the different things they're doing i'm not going to go out there and hold on to one of these small cars that trailer because everything always the car. the big s.u.v.s the gas mileage and so much what you want to be able to put half the soccer team at 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 yeah i hope they come back they are back here on the hill may i take your girl with goals or whatever but if really they come up for how much you want is their home

depends on how the news media spends and you know i'm all yours and while they make too much money well how do you know how do you do you know we do i mean i can fix help ten or fifteen different patients that make twice as much money as we make an hour that are doing a lot of the word doing these people are physically working doing things will look here this is something you're never going to see it's a white year. you don't want to see this they're called highballs. this is exciting.

general motors as if it's not a relationship you it might be your neighbor or somebody you knew it was 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 there 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 in zero eight he actually got hired at the entry level. since. he was laid off on one of the crunch that it he was one of the first ones to go. i'm already in the sense that he might have to leave the state of the award and that's something we've never had to face is a family. i mean it's tough all they gather they got under mortar 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 her it off but what i've noticed is gas prices have come down and that's pretty much coloring off. for the skips which we're both years from. my lifestyle is going to be on the wage that i'm able to meet the things that i'm able to do and you know of actually i'd like to have a family and be able to make it 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 you're my let's how i've grown up that's the majority of my families were to become more. like

it's men the bloods and the family you know it's it's a living. playing badly. i think the detroit will rebound i think it will rise again ah detroit is a very resilient people haha 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 has a very good to me and i feel hot the obligation to be committed to help detroit to get back to where it needs to be in the outing of detroit. that enjoy. this. great. thing. i'm. here.

it's a city that has so much character and so much potential. that you know i really felt like ok well this city has to change you know in four years the city's going to be great but the longer i've been here and as. what was the auto industry has now collapsed it's really only gotten worse. and you know i look. and since we started the land back since i started this whole

approach i've had people who 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 the rock obama and i somehow. actually planned 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 but 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 and 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 expansion and primarily it's the american obsession with growth and expansion. in the u.s. most american cities have barely one hundred years of history in that 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 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 you people didn't have the vision to see that the smoke 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 we were definitely the best at it in the twenty first century smarter it's going to be better if we want to be considered the best and we think it's going to take a major shift in our minds. to . be a good game going to be

a good way. to. to to. everything

. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything is off. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. the mission free critic a should be free. or a judge is free the maintenance free. three stooges free. the old free broadcast clothing video for your media projects a free media gone to our tea dot com. wealthy british.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much cause or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. if

. he. if you. believe. it.