trade policy those terrified and fully consuls putting a damper on this year s detroit motor show washington correspondent reports. shine the hubcaps revs the engines and break out the blonde models the detroit auto show is back. it s still the biggest and for mere auto show in north america but this huge market automakers flock to the motor city every year and put on slickly produced reveals and performances but among the usual heavyweights like toyota and ford with are the germans. audi b.m.w. di miller and porsche are all big names that you won t see at the auto show this year volkswagen was the only german car maker that bothered to show up it could be a sign that the germans don t think detroit is worth coming to any more but it s hard to deny the politics also plays a role. here. at volkswagen s press conference this year the
and political choices and models we have chosen. the wealth moved out of detroit. it left the poorest behind, and now they are having to take the burden of the destruction of something they didn t have a piece in making, and i just really want to say i don t think detroit s going to be the last city going through this. indeed. well, we hope it will be. and we hope this gets resolved soon. thank you so much. thank you. we ll be right back. rd. he thought it was the end of the conversation. she didn t tell him that her college expenses were going up. or that she maxed out her card during spring break. when the satellite provider checked his credit, he found out his daughter didn t pay her bills. but he s not worried. now he checks his credit report and score at experian.com, allowing him to keep track of his credit and take a break of his own. experian. live credit confident.
to do with urban areas and the poor and especially the young people in this country, but i m pretty cynical about talk of a revival in detroit. i ve been hearing it since 1967 when they had the riots which was the same year they had other riots. i don t think detroit is coming back any time soon, because i don t think people are willing to put in either the sustained effort or the tremendous resources that would be needed to bring detroit back. yeah, the big story in terms of the demographic story of detroit we have population figures here that give you a sense of what happened to the city. i mean, it was a city of almost 10 million people in 1950 and now 700,000. that is 1.3 million people leaving in half a century. there were the riots and then there was tremendous white plight. the city is 80% african-american. hundreds of thousands of white people left and now sort of form a ring around in the suburbs and it s entirely segregated.
i don t think kathleen sebelius is joseph stalin, as newt gingrich does. i have not seen 30 to 40 million people slaughtered. see, i think it s a blunder, too. the obama collectivization. in terms of the reaction. i think dan bought into the whole clint eastwood half baked in america. come on. it s a good ad. it s a good ad. i love america. i just think it s absurd to suggest that the future of america lies in the model of detroit. i m not as optimistic that s not what the ad said. can you do me a favor. can we not talk about the ad? seriously, it s just an ad. it s just an ad, just stop this, this is stupid television. you don t think detroit is a model for america? population is less than 750,000. you know, few decades ago it was the fifth largest city in
it s easy to see the headlines and think detroit is a city in ruin but there s also imagines of this. new jobs in what once made detroit great, the auto industry. a job at a place like ford is not about being on the line or punching the clock. it s about one thing, opportunity. this is a career. when you come into ford you re guaranteed. you ve got your life set out ahead of you. i knew how hard the work was here and i was like i m an academic and i don t know if i can handle it but i went for it. vanessa who got her degree in literature now work with her mother laura, a 23 year ford vet that couldn t be happier. ford is it. ford pays your bills, you support ford. it s a great thing to have and pass on to my daughter. a few years ago things didn t feel so good. vehicle sales dropped by more than a third and the auto industry shed about 200,000 jobs. everybody was nervous.