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Imagine walking down a neighborhood with a deep feeling of awkwardness and emptiness from a dead silence resembling a ghost town. Flat pieces of wood board up the abandoned homes and thick grass wraps around a rusty swing set in one of the yards. Down the street a sign that reads, “Welcome to Flint,” appears to be faded and hidden between dead trees. Around the 1980s, Flint, a city in Michigan, was in a catastrophe because General Motors’ (GM) plant-closings led to the crisis of assembly line workers’ layoffs and home evictions. Michael Moore, a former editor of Mother Jones, directed the documentary “Roger and Me” to inform viewers about GM’s bad treatment towards assembly line workers. More than 20,000 of the lower class workers were eliminated from their jobs. Most of the wealthy people did not help the misfortunate and did not show any concerns for the families evicted from their homes. “Roger and Me” demonstrates how upper class societies generally ignore the lower class because they do not care that thousands of poor people were laid off from work and evicted from their homes. When Moore interviewed Tom Kay, a GM lobbyist, it was clear that Kay showed little concern over the lower class workers w