he couldn't even keep up with the. issue became a dinosaur. hello again this is on c.n.n. these are the we can have blind. person of that of documentation about russia still draw a bribe proposing prime minister vladimir putin to run for office and it went to twelve elections but better than ten promises to be in china his modernization an agenda as prime minister has successfully leave the united russia party to victory in parliamentary elections next month and. the palestinian bid for statehood is launched with the united nations and welcomes the world standing ovations at the general assembly in new york a violent crime for the israeli forces are already in the west bank. a finnish

priest is speaking out against the chechen terrorists website finds himself defrocked and disgraced with his plight ignored by the mainstream media. monitor a default is inevitable and evy top officials now it leaks reports reveal the recession could go even deeper than the edge. of next door to used to be home to the booming american car industry is now a costly wasteland staging for our special report. but. you see able to 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 how they how do 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 you're like don't get me no i don't you're earning your new your new ring 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 house right and in my new work

starting the beginning of next year i'll be the president of a think tank of the policy center. of the international 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. i would hope the person in the crowd in his footsteps would have similar views sometimes it comes right down through the week he always save money for property taxes and you know it's i just have to. turn around in my faith we know i'm a christian so waiting on my faith for one of them for that i would have got through.

december january. and february and. if so. then we most of those. transitions. in this. we have seen the rising just because. of what is no. use for. and price. we have celebrated right days and endured dark hours over approximately one hundred years of automobile history. however we have never seen as midnight and now. as we faced since this coming week. is our national lawmakers on capitol hill constantly 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 it is god this is a man doesn't want. in he should not. it is gone who are doing man's a work by the sweat. and it is gone. he demands that a man should be the head of his heart and leadership example and any group is. right. next to right. now he is holy police out. least out. very well but ok i'm going to hear your brother

look me in my eyes i'm a fake here you were. our eyes went out for your pretty girl we gotta let me go we can't let it go because combat. makes me. think oh my mommy really are going to you know the neighborhood earlier. 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. he.

says. we're fortunate because they built to fly in some ways english the last. you know like when i hired in the one nine hundred seventy eight we had fourteen thousand members at level six fifty two right now we've got a hundred thousand in g.m. right now that are probably people. thirty thousand people that somebody may have actually jobs that last. were there were they able to go a week of the schedule too many cars. and they don't really need a car so it's a have

a layoff you take weeks of your schedule should the plant know. i'm not on the corner nothing 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 nation 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 while 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 don't have it 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 that cash yes been there for

a while back that every person automotive anymore right because these people come into town every day so they're frequent stores gas stations you pick things up. here attach the manufacturing i think it was ninety nine people will unite as well small town and right people want to plan a g.m. and their hourly wages what they were when the people are work right at the town suffer because we know it is for a fact if you don't have the money you are in the house business right they pay off or so it affects everybody i have friends or carton or brokers termers electricians in their little on the suffering 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 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 you know 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. i see a lot of hype but i don't really see a lot of effort. and 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 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 the rest of the world was being alert i guess what was kept toyota 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 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 this ashes of of bankruptcy and basically makes g.m. irrelevant. so's jam like hiring whatever this stuff i don't know. and like so. i bet you want to go over to the old idea if you're

going anywhere. this way yeah. there's really no jobs being offered in the automotive design world so it's really hard to say like ok general motors comes in today and offers your job and you take it but for me i wouldn't i don't think i could morally or ethically take the position. that. they did talk about general motors in the id times that he talked about flex fuel they put all kinds of money in that research you talked about clean energy you talked about. 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 goes there's no we don't what people want people want trucks they want s.u.v.s for the different things are doing i'm not going to go go out there and help out of one of these small cars in the trailer because everything outweighs the car. the big s.u.v. and the gas mileage is so much what you want to be able to put half a 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 cook county the piebald the farmer yeah i hope they come back they're back here on the hill. i think they're both goals or whatever but if really they come up

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

general motors as 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 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 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 as a family. i mean it's tough altogether

they got under more for 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 fell right off. this award for the skills which we're both wrists from. my lifestyle is going to be 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 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 whatever grew up you know that's how i've

grown up that's the majority of my families were together more. like it's men the bloods in the family you know it's a it's a living. playing badly. i think in the troy will rebound i think it will rise again ah detroit is a very is a very zillion 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 awful the obligation to be committed to help detroit to get back to where it needs to be in the outing of the choice now. enjoy. this. walk away. from the city. i'm damn.

it's a city that has so much character and so much potential. that you know i really felt like ok you know this city it has to change one four years the city is going to be great but the longer then 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 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 rock 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 flint of the past it's not going to happen it's not going to happen no matter what we do in 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 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 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 in that 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 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 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 in the twenty first century smarter and you can do better if we want to be considered the best and we think it's going to take a major shift in our mindset. way to. lose.

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