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the way i remember. general motors going bankrupt i remember the feeling of not being surprised at all. for us it was you know good day like any other day. going to work. it wasn't a day like 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 but you have a job it'll be out of which he has reached a deal is going to avoid a certain it's of jeeves subunits goals of the game it's it's it's almost bigger than life it is too rock of gibraltar it can't go bankrupt. it was almost like hearing that. you're a child in your period and it needed to depend upon for your existence is on life

support. there's a chance of snow showers friday's high holding call up thirty degrees thirty fourth detroit's career it was kind of a sad day. but we were just all disbelieving in 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 and we all you have is the hope that they know what they're talking about that you emerge 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. general motors with 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 that's and that's 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 walk around 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 live here work for general motors the buick factories just just a few bars box that way so it was a working class neighborhood it was in a poor neighborhood. most of the people who work in the autumn of the factories did really well. nobody realized how fragile their economy was because it was always their general motors was actually born here in 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 we 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 them 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 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 it's time for the shift to start because you don't hear that anymore. and think. hey how you doing i'm doing aright. yeah i 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 when. it comes on a man. i knew. that. this

was 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 for a job that depended on general motors only three. we're.

now i mean the problem we have is that the legacy of general motors where i'm left to go and 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 now on there's an office building that was once a general motors office building that the milan bank now own so in many ways were

left i'm left dealing with the cleanup of this mass. well these are all tied i i own all they're all sherry's. each one has a different role i guess that our lives that you see here we have a dump truck that we use in our business to deliver different things trees and stone and mulch at 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 that the black truck here to the trailer we move our equipment around that the skin sear that sets over there and the asking mater the one next to the black truck over there is the white blazer and what will you with that is going to say and use

a plane to say and one for the mud one for the sand. my truck here is for you got a lot of from it's flour out here in a farm keep the roads open and stuff i read when i drive to work in the wintertime which also has a plow on it a light 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 that beat forever you want to talk about a sad day of sad days when toyota announced that they their sales are more than what g.m. is you know that's probably a dated fix will be more than the bankruptcy. when

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 at the heart of our membership and deal with any problems that might become before the membership told my dream and i'm going i guess we're in the business of some catholics. all 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 the usual things on the market and you don't have the loyalties that used to have you know people just buying because that's what you bought you know somehow i get to be

uncool to drive a domestic vehicle. i try to be a negative person and try to look at what you need to do right i think there put some people in place where they're going to rights and wrongs and i think they're going to be all straight up maybe fly right i mean and i think feel that their people they all that it's own selves is too good of 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 computer labs everything is kind of right in these halls where so many infamous and. iconic designs were presented right in this very room. i guess what makes me different from many of my other colleagues and students is that i focus 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 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 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 points where pretty 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 just environment around it is just so peculiar. detroit used to be a very diverse city people lived downtown people walked people took a 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 fairgrounds station. was simply 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. engine although it looks a little you know the situation tell us the next round of layoffs think on this

month g.m. said it would like ten thousand of its seventy three thousand positions just like he did his deeds and. 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. and you had people might really not hear from the south and with very little education get hired him 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 naturally i want to be successful financially i want to be successful mentally most of my. what good is what helps me to help people in making wise decisions on stewardship i have a discipline in finances ha specific link the area of accounting. like that. god has me here for such a time as this it is no coincidence that greenery stempel has

a pastor who happens to be an accountant. yes it. is the reason. we are fighting to kind of the financial times where we have got to put some principles in place and here sales to canada because we. know where they currently. regardless of what economy has got steel us ok. and this. i'm trying to be as long as about three weeks and you know me i'm looking for a partner on carving out a place five hundred miles i'm not here for he says that i will come to you for help with live with my first month's rent and i bet if it's possible i guess i can find of her but leave her here that you have a member of the invite you look across three years on motivating people in this day

and time is more difficult than it was when my father was pastorate when people were laid off or greenville's 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 game they come to me as a bishop when i might want to do it and i can't say well in six months planes 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 this time that season these two you brought together in loving unity we pray that we move 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 where actually had so i think the kind of successful city that flint can be is going is going to require that it become cleaner smaller. more sustainable. but 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 owen bank turned it turn to the neighborhood down there where areas were. 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 eyed peas purple holes and they sold out immediately i did not have and so i know that we

have young children i had ten children here teens for fourteen twenty one teach them how to grow how to become a business person and how to understand how girls and may be interested in agriculture and to me it's the social connections to the neighborhood you come to tighten your you build the community around it really i mean i know just from seeing the neighbors come out when we've been out here a lot of times neighbors would come on talk one of you got this going to it's a circus center for them maybe.

it's. just so. if. the folks are left it's crazy just. here waste becomes a fuel friendly to the environment and energy outposts and not the end of the earth russian scientists lead the way in making these innovations a reality the mansion a trophy for fears of nuclear lives the peaceful revolution in atomic energy on

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