Roger and Me

In the documentary Roger and Me, By Michael Moore, the General Motor's factories closed and layed off thousands of Flint Residents. The city of Flint then built a multi-million dollar mall with an indoor ferris wheel, in which they also added a Luxury Hyatt hotel that was meant to pull in more tourists. They thought that adding these attractions would help the city of Flint's cashflow. The Flint residents made very large commitments to help their hometown, by trying to think up all kinds of ideas and events to make themselves and their town money.

When over 30,000 auto workers lost their jobs it put a large damper on the community because that not only minimizes the towns wages, but minimizes its economy as a whole.Just one example of this would be like when a lot of people in a major community go under it sucks the town down with them, because its not only jobs going under and the workers finances, but it then starts affecting things like the schooling around that area and when the schooling gets worse the childrens learning environment starts to take a plunge as well. This can then affect the childrens interest in school and can sometimes lead them to be more prone to violence and other illegal activities.

The main reason Flint is in such a bad condition all goes back to the GM factory. When a city like flint takes such a huge hit by all the job losses it did it is hard to recooperate and fix the damage that has been done. Like stated in the first paragraph they have done a lot of different things to try and rebuild Flint and make it into a better place. Sadly, but true for a city to work and be successful it needs money for fuel. This day in age that same statement applies to almost everything.