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You Fired the Backbone of Detroit Movie Clip Full Cast ReelShort

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00:00Heat, hail, snow, I came in.

00:03I did the work no one else wanted to do.

00:06My back is shot.

00:08My knees scream when I wake up in the morning.

00:10But I showed up every goddamn shift.

00:15You paid us minimum wage and acted like it was charity.

00:18Called us essential, then threw us away like trash.

00:22You know why I stayed?

00:24Webster Motors.

00:26That name used to mean something.

00:27Listen, my father worked here.

00:31I thought, I believed I was a part of something.

00:36Something that helped build America.

00:39When my wife got sick, her health plan was worthless.

00:44I buried her with a pocket full of overdue hospital bills.

00:50My daughter, she won't speak to me anymore.

00:52She says I chose this place over family.

00:55And you know what?

00:57Maybe she's right.

00:59Maybe I did.

01:01But I stayed in Detroit.

01:04I watched jobs disappear.

01:06Factories shut down.

01:08But I stayed here.

01:09Because I thought loyalty meant something.

01:12A pension.

01:14A promise.

01:15That's all I ever wanted.

01:16But instead, I got nothing.

01:19Not a paycheck.

01:20No security.

01:22Not even a thank you.

01:24And you sit in your glass office,

01:27wearing your suit paid for by the bones of men like me.

01:30So don't you dare tell me that I didn't give enough.

01:34We gave you everything.

01:36And you gave us nothing.

01:37There's nothing left for us to give.