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Roger And Me Essay

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Roger and Me is a documentary that was made in 1989 and it was a Michael Moore film. The film focused on the General Motors (GM) layoffs that happened in Flint Michigan, Michaels home town, in the late 1980’s. The CEO, Roger Smith, decided to layoff over 30,000 people and to close down the GM factory that is in Flint. Smiths new plan after closing the factory is to open one down in Mexico and to hire people in Mexico because the labor cost would be a significant decrease. When Moore found out about the layoffs he wanted to find out more about it and to also speak with Roger Smith. Many of the people of Flint were very angry with Smith. There was a production of people who wanted to interview and talk with Smith and also the people who were laid off and also the people who just lived in the town of Flint. Free enterprise is an economic system in which a private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. In the movie Roger and Me free enterprise …show more content…

I believe that Smith could have and should have spoke to the people of Flint. Smith was not clear on why he was making the layoffs to the workers, but Moore does confront Tom Kay about the issue. Kay’s response was that Smith made the layoffs to increase their profit and they will do that by opening a factory in Mexico and hiring people down there to work for less pay. Moore then was on the hunt for Smith trying to interview and speak with him. Moore spent three year chasing Smith across the country and he never did get to speak with Roger Smith. As CEO Smith should have agreed to at least talk with Moore about the issues that the layoffs have brought and why the layoffs happened. Smith also could have brought up the issues with the higher up GM workers and ask them to lend a helping hand in this

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