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I think most of you are aware...
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that this is the first major plant closing...
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to take place in Flint.
Let me rephrase that.
:08:08
This isn't a plant closing.
It's a loss of one product line.
:08:20
My friends and I decided to pose
as a TV crew from Toledo...
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to sneak inside the factory.
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I wasn't exactly sure
what a TV crew from Toledo looked like...
:08:28
but apparently the ruse worked, as we
filmed the last truck going down the line.
:08:42
What's everybody so happy about?
We just lost our jobs.
:08:48
Everybody's applauding.
They just lost their jobs.
:08:51
We're trying impress upon the employees
that are being laid off...
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that there is nothing out there for them...
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to depend upon for the future.
:09:00
The best thing Michigan and GM can do
is get rid of Roger Smith...
:09:04
and them other sons of bitches.
:09:06
That seemed to be
the general consensus...
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as I talked to many GM workers
about their chairman, Roger Smith.
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- What would you like to tell Roger Smith?
- I'd tell him to retire.
:09:16
He can't look an auto worker
in the eye, because...
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- He should be feeling guilty.
- Most people are hungry. He's not.
:09:22
I'd tell him to get off his big bucks...
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and start giving some of it
back to its workers.
:09:28
I'm sick and tired of these damn fat cats.
:09:32
I could say a few choice words,
but I'm a lady and I was raised a lady...
:09:36
so I won't say what I really feel...
:09:40
but I could use some unsavory language
as far as the fat cats.
:09:44
Fire Roger Smith!
:09:47
There were those
who had a different opinion in Flint...
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like Tom Kay,
a spokesman and lobbyist for GM.
:09:53
I'm sure that Roger Smith...
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has a social conscience
as strong as anybody else in the country.
:09:59
Because a guy is an automobile executive
does not make him inhuman.