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up next second part of a special report on the gradual death of a place that was once the heart of the u.s. auto industry special report on detroit coming up. but apparently you see what. 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. that i based 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. don't you know your family you know i know you're on your new year to you. not to scare you but there is a reality that foreclosure could occur and i would expect the sheer because we're pretty certain we've got things out but with a new incoming treasurer the treasurer sets the house right and in my new work starting 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 i'm gay 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 always save money for property taxes and we and you know it's i just have to. care and my faith and you know i'm a christian so i hang on to my three for one of them for the other women got through. december january. february and i know. that when most of those. transitions.

we have seen the way just because. of what is known as the big three. four. and christ. we have celebrated right days and endured dark hours over approximately one hundred years of automobile industry. 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. ask you to ponder the history of our

manufacturing. first misunderstand it is god this is a man doesn't want. in he should not eat. it is gone who are doing man to work by the sweat. and it is gone. he demands that a man should be the head of his home and leadership and example and in truth is. like. magic that's like mike. wallace only police found. ways about. very clearly ok i'm ok you're out let me in i i i'm a day care you work. hard out where i've where are we going to go we've got great growth we've got plenty of gold maybe does combat. like you.

know my money your family or the government you know the ability to earn your taxes . i've never seen these times before detroit. and southeast michigan of michigan as a whole which was once field probably in the top five. of making a person financially independent now it's almost gone full circle and now it is all ranking in the top five. and the union. so.

we're fortunate because they built two new plants and lazy milledgeville the last. you know like when i hired in the one nine hundred seventy eight we had fourteen thousand members at level sixty two right now we've got one hundred thousand in g.m. right now that are probably people. thirty thousand people that somebody may have actually jobs that lost. were never there were they able to take a week of the schedule too many cars. and they don't need really new cars so it's sort of having layoffs you take weeks at your schedule at the plant no. one on the corner and nothing you know 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 the nature of that is to go we will look at it is a bailout you know you're looking at well why should the taxpayers pay that well here here's perspective we're all taxpayers you guys are paying taxes right. now they're saying well you guys make good money you know what happens when you make good money you pay more taxes is going to pay more taxes going to make 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 yes the ripple effect that for every person in automotive anymore right because these people come into town every day so they're frequent stores gas stations you pick things up you know most everybody is here fascinated factory i think it was ninety nine people but united's world belltown and right people want to slander g.m.

and their hourly wages where they work when our people our work right that the town suffer because we don't this is for the effect 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 carpenter brokers termers electricians the nergal on the suffering because you're not well we're not we're not building today we're not people are not spending money today because the on experience might 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 when for size 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 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 they'll say ok do your research come 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 through us 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 and became so far ahead of the american competition that when these vehicles came into the u.s. it was like wow look at those cars from liable it's durable and you know it uses half the gas of the truck that i'm using now. and if you look in the 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. so jam like. what if it is the i don't know. and things of. that joy go over to your idea if you're going anywhere. with 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 into their office you 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 to. talk about flex fuel they put all kinds of money in that research you're talking about clean energy jaja bo. battery people don't want to you know it's easy when gas was a four fifty a gallon they say well you guys build the gas milage no we build what people want

people want trucks they want s.u.v.s for the different things or don't i'm not go go go out there and helped out in one of the small cars of the trailer because everything always the car. a big s.u.v. and the gas mileage is so much what you want to be able to put half the soccer team in it and put your wife and not have to worry about it you know because you know you've bought the best cook county the pie balrog farmer yeah i hope they come back they're back here on the hill but i think they're both those are about a fairly they come up for how much. 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 take

help ten or fifteen different patients to 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 for look here this is something you're never going to see as a light year. and 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 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 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 and and zero eight he actually got hired as a entry level. since. he was laid off on when the crunch started that he was one of the first ones to go . i'm already in the sense that he may have to lead this thing to a war 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

or it off but what i've noticed is gas prices have come down and that's pretty much fell right off. for the skills which we're both wrists from but all your great. my lifestyle is going to be set on the wage that i'm able to make 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. it's it's whatever grew up you know that's how i've grown up that's the majority of my families were to. me like it's been the blood it's in the family you know it's a it's a living. and

. the. last battle. i think the detroit will rebound i think it will rise again ah detroit is it 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 abhi obligation to be committed to help detroit to get back to weird needs to be in bounding up the choice.

that enjoy. this. one way. traffic. and be damned. it's a city that has so much character and so much potential. that you know i really felt like ok with the city it has to change you know in four years the city's going to

be great but the longer it been here and as. what was the auto industry has now collapsed it's really only gotten worse. and you have look. since we started the land bank since i started this whole approach i've had people like it and people who don't like it 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 and obama and i somehow sort of 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 four lindt 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 the whole 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 expansion it's primarily it's this american obsession with growth and expansion. in the u.s.

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 and we can 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 on the street in 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 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 having your own house with your yard in your own garage of 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 at it in the twenty first century smarter and you can be better if we want to be considered the best in the

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