: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...
:09:08
as I talked to many GM workers
about their chairman, Roger Smith.
:09:11
- 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...
:09:19
- He should be feeling guilty.
- Most people are hungry. He's not.
:09:22
I'd tell him to get off his big bucks...
:09:25
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...
:09:49
like Tom Kay,
a spokesman and lobbyist for GM.
:09:53
I'm sure that Roger Smith...
:09:55
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.
:10:03
I've talked to enough of them.
I know what their concerns are.
:10:06
He has as much concern
about these people as you or I do...
:10:11
and nobody likes to see anybody laid off
or put in a hardship situation.
:10:16
- Have you ever talked to Roger Smith?
- Sure.
:10:19
What kind of man do you find him to be?
:10:21
A very warm man. I have...
:10:25
A warm man?
:10:27
Did I have Roger Smith judged all wrong...
:10:29
simply because he was eliminating
30,000 jobs from my hometown?
:10:34
I decided to find out.
:10:36
I wrote. I phoned. I faxed. I tried
every means of communication available...
:10:40
but nothing got me any closer to Roger.
:10:43
I was left with no choice.
:10:44
I got in the car and drove
about an hour south of Flint to Detroit...
:10:48
to the world headquarters
of General Motors.
:10:51
My mission was a simple one:
:10:53
To convince Roger Smith
to spend a day with me in Flint...
:10:55
and meet some of the people
who were losing their jobs.