Roger and Me takes place in Flint, Michigan. The film shows Michael Moore’s quest to hunting down GM CEO Roger Smith. His intent is to interview M. Smith after the layoffs in Flint. The layoffs began when Mr. Smith deemed the best course of action for GM in the “recession” was to move manufacturing plants from Flint to Mexico. The results began with thousands unemployed and resulted in over 100,000 unemployed. The Flint economy and local government was funded through the General Motors. The results were catastrophic. The opening act of Roger and Me should a massive parade. The parade showed a city revolving around the welfare of GM. Michael Moore analyzed the perspective that almost everyone born in Flint has or was working for GM. The result was a society built with one large stone as a foundation. This city was stilled lifted from what POP calls the American Golden age (76). When the layoffs first began, it occurred as stagflation. Unemployment went up to 6.2% and inflation increased greater than normal.
From the beginning of Roger and Me the society was built like a Strict Father Model; GM was the father. The layoffs according to GM were necessary for the system as a whole to …show more content…
Without the creation of the factories the families, and workers would have never originally migrated there. Looking back at the industrial revolution, workers poured all over Michigan for its car factories. According to POP Flint’s population in 1900 was 13,000 and by the time 1929 came around it was at 150,000 (55). Most of these individuals were unskilled labors searching for work. When GM left it had left a society based around one thing, building cars. The education system provided pushed students to become better workers. Everything that happened in Flint was created by GM in some sort of form. Only a few decades later GM went into foreclosure and was bailed out by the American Federal government. Was it in the best interest of Flint, for GM to
From the beginning of Roger and Me the society was built like a Strict Father Model; GM was the father. The layoffs according to GM were necessary for the system as a whole to …show more content…
Without the creation of the factories the families, and workers would have never originally migrated there. Looking back at the industrial revolution, workers poured all over Michigan for its car factories. According to POP Flint’s population in 1900 was 13,000 and by the time 1929 came around it was at 150,000 (55). Most of these individuals were unskilled labors searching for work. When GM left it had left a society based around one thing, building cars. The education system provided pushed students to become better workers. Everything that happened in Flint was created by GM in some sort of form. Only a few decades later GM went into foreclosure and was bailed out by the American Federal government. Was it in the best interest of Flint, for GM to