Flint bookends the hopes of the American middle class
A Tale of Two Governors...different values and views on government's role.
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(Reuters)
The most appropriate monument for Flint, Michigan, to erect would probably be a large sculpted alpha and omega — or perhaps just a giant pair of bookends. For Flint was where American workers won their first crucial battle for power — and it now appears to be a city whose residents have no power at all.
Roughly 80 years ago, the American working class began its ascent to post-World War II dignity, power and comfort with labor organizing in Flint. Yet in Flint today that same working class has been reduced to impotence and subjected to outrageous governmental neglect.
Among the key players in Flint’s rise and fall are two Michigan governors whose beliefs and actions are radically different: Democrat Frank Murphy in the 1930s and Republican Rick Snyder today. Their opposing views about the role of government in American life — and on whose behalf that government should act — could not be starker.
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