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  1. Another example of why we need to STOP sending Aide overseas. We have our own folks that need help
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  2. I am Canadian and my wife and I moved from America a year and a half ago after spending six years there. We were treated like dirt and the violence and bad attitude is off the charts. Everything is a competition so people will not help you because they do not want you to get ahead. The obesity is off the charts and you will see most people are enormous and are deeply offended that anyone even the Dr advise them to exercise and eat less. Violence is a heart beat away and you had better watch your step. The women are something else and are loud and belligerent and demanding their rights and if you are thin and attractive you are shunned or threatened with bullying or just plain bullied by other women. If you are polite and nice you are considered soft and a target of derision. Then there is the weird religious groups that permeate society and I often think it strange a country so filled with religion is one of the most violent countries in the world. America is all about what you have materially and it is rare to be liked for who you are as people here are very superficial and if you are of no use to them they will quickly abandon you. Americans are obsessed with sex, drugs, alcohol and the size of their house. Children are emotionally abandoned as their parents are too busy working all the time so that they can aquire things to appear rich. Corruption is so rife that if you have integrity you are considered strange and old fashioned and on your high horse. Of course not everyone is like this but it is so prevalent that society is crumbling fast.
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  3. We are giving billions of dollars of our taxpayer money to Ukraine and we have cities like Jackson, Mississippi that need serious help!
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  4. Housing isn't affordable. Healthcare isn't affordable. Food isn't affordable. Fuel isn't affordable. Educations aren't affordable. What more do you expect?
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  5. I honestly can't fathom as working middle class living in such city. This summer I left a very good paying job in Baltimore, MD. I just quit the job and moved to GA. Found a job and took 30% salary cut. I and my family couldn't be more happier. I was able to afford a brand new house and I don't even make 6 figures and my wife stays home with kids.
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  6. We can't talk about any third world country when our country looks like this! This is beyond sad!
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  7. This is the future of ALL of America if we dont start holding our politicians accountable.
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  8. Okay boss, you hit home on this one. As usual, your content and research is solid however there are a few items I would like to bring to your attention. Background-wise, I spent six years, feeding, clothing, and housing the homeless in Chattanooga, TN. I did it for another four years in Wichita, KS and four more years in Sioux Falls, SD. My experience was first hand, as a ministry, face to face, dealing with the homeless and the municipalities in addressing the issue. In my experience, the population of homeless breaks down like this: 1/3 are totally committed to the lifestyle. They've checked out of our culture, they don't care to make a deposit to get the power cut on, they don't care to live the lifestyle the vast majority of Americans still choose to live. These people are sane, intelligent, healthy, some very well educated, many very talented, and refuse to remain a part of this culture we have crafted. And they do well in that world. Their numbers continue to grow at a higher rate than the other 2/3rds and at some point they may become a force we will have to deal with, like it or not. These folks look at life and their values system is a vast departure from the American norm. The second third are folks who are just totally incapable of helping themselves and there is no social net to help them. When I was feeding in Chattanooga, there was a man with some form of epilepsy who could not keep food on his fork from plate to mouth. Twice a week I fed him in the same fashion I fed my one year old child. I was told innumerable times by other homeless that those were the only two solid meals he got in a week. I believe that several other members of his community started helping him. But for him, there are twenty others I can bring up as bad or worse with no one to help them. I could help that one and I did, but he was but the tip of the iceberg. Social services has nothing for this segment, hospitals won't take them in, no sanitariums, nothing, just whatever charities and ministries that step forward to help is it. Point is, about a 1/3 of them cannot help themselves, they truly are society's refuse. The last third is a bit more complicated. These are what I called the "one-handers." One helping hand and they'd gladly rejoin society. Some are dodging ages old arrest warrants or lawsuits, many are families trying to stay together while ADC agents are actively trying to take the children, many have accrued onerous indebtedness that once they have a paycheck (turn up on the radar), the court will garnish so much they have nothing left to live on. So what's the point of working? Point is this segment, this 1/3 of all homeless are pushed there because they fell afoul of a very unforgiving system, judicial and societal. With a good attorney and a compassionate judge, most of these people would be back to work in no time. And they would return to normal society again. But without that one helping hand to help keep the family together, to arrange rational garnishment to recoup debts, to reconcile an old warrant for disorderly conduct or fleeing the scene of whatever, they will get locked up and will have to appear undefended before a judge who in all likelihood will remand them without regard that they've lived the last eight years without offense. I do take exception to your repeated use of mental illness in the community. Take ANY American, deprive him of regular meals for two weeks and very irregular sleep with spotty hygiene opportunities and tell me they won't get 'loopy.' The simple fact is this, most Americans have not experienced hunger, physical insecurity, and lack of sleep for any protracted periods. Most Americans put into those circumstances would fold like a lawn chair. These people are tough, but more importantly, they are survivors of adverse circumstances and living conditions. I saw no more evidence of mental illness, alcoholism, or drug use in their community than I did at work, church, or the local filling station. The problem is we are looking for a reason to not help, to not get involved, to wash our hands of participating in a solution. The fact is, the problem with damaged people is that they know they can survive. And that frightens normal Americans. Now one can argue harshly about all of this and that is their right. When I first went into that ministry in 2001, I had the standard Republican attitude about the homeless. I was wrong and so are most people. But here is the final point, while many choose to argue, they choose to argue because they do not choose to help. To help their fellow man where his homelessness is not his problem but rather an effect of another underlying issue. A third of them we cannot help because they reject our lifestyle. But we can help 2/3's, but that would involve enabling ministries and many other charities to take the fight to the street. There are plenty of people willing to take this on, but there is institutional and civic resistance to it. The municipalities resist the help through onerous licensing and permitting for the charities, law enforcement preys upon people trying to get help by surveilling and arresting people in line for a meal, the list goes on. We've created the problem by creating a culture, a legal system, and a social order that is so harsh and unforgiving that perfectly capable and rational people choose to affiliate with society's refuse rather than continuing to participate in it. Cancel culture = Counter culture.
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  9. My Connecticut residents were u at
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  10. Was homeless for 3 years from drugs, crazy thing is I bet are many Americans that are a couple paychecks and/or bad decisions away from facing the same dilemma. Got clean and sober and have remained strong since February 2018 and will never forget the cold nights, hungry days and hopeless mentality.
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  11. Requesting the federal government to help get rid of their corruption problem is like asking the mob to help clean up an organized crime problem.
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  12. Sometimes boring is good.
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  13. As a Mexico born Mexican living in the US, the reason as to why u rarely seen Hispanics living in the streets is because of our culture; families are close knit and hard working people and we allow large family members to live together for the better or worse
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  14. It's been nearly two years now since I moved from my hometown of Seattle, Washington to a small town in central Kentucky. Absolutely the best decision I've ever made. Safe, friendly, affordable and clean. No more traffic, homeless encampments everywhere with violence and drugs, and constant drama. Life is wonderful in small town America!
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  15. Hard to believe..in my using days I was homeless in skid row and the tenderloin..never was hurt nor attacked...maybe because I was a drugged out...thank you God for 4 years of sobriety...
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  16. I'm an aircrew member - been traveling the entire U.S. for some 4 decades. Anywhere in California was historically the most desirable layover you could bid. That and Portland OR, Seattle, and Denver which are now CA lite. Most of my adult life I figured I'd like to eventually live anywhere in the state. About 10 years ago things started to drastically decline, and now you couldn't pay me to move there. Most major cities are disgustingly filthy insane asylums without walls. It's completely out of control. I avoid going there to the extent that I can. Once-gorgeous places like San Fran, LA, and San Diego are post-apocalyptic sh*tholes. The few nice places are shrinking safe havens floating in a sea of human detritus. I feel bad for the sane people in CA who are not responsible for the decline. Most CA residents who defend the place are the proverbial boiled frog not realizing how dire it is. I remember a time when it was clean, safe, fun, civilized, and a land of opportunity. So sad.
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  17. I am disabled and on SSI. I worked for years while raising my children and long after they were on their own. Then my parents required 24 hr. care so I left my career to care for them unpaid. Those years I will never regret but during that time I didn't pay in to Social Security so when I became disabled I didn't have enough work credits and so I couldn't qualify for disability and was granted SSI. In Oregon the max payment is $794.00 a month. There is absolutely no apartment I can afford on that. Even a mobile home space in the Salem area is 700 a month. So I have no choice but to live in my 5th wheel on a friends property. So many of the SSI recipients are homeless because there is not enough low income housing.. It takes years on waiting lists to get into the small amount of low income housing there is presently. Not all of us are drug addicts and criminals. Im a 50 year old grandma who has never even had a parking ticket. You want to fix a lot of the problem...either raise SSI benefits to the poverty line or create more affordable housing. Just sayin.
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  18. I live in CT who else??
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  19. I’m a Mississippi girl born and raised. I grew up in Jackson. And, it’s been getting worse year after year but of course people know why. It’s obvious. No person in their right mind regardless of race wants to live next to people who take no pride in themselves or their property. The working class moved away, taking their tax dollars with them. When you’re content living on government subsidies this is what you end up with……blight, crime, and failed infrastructure. Now those left behind blame those that moved away for the downfall. The people of Jackson have no way out of the hole that they themselves have dug. They could request federal help but there are so many corrupt politicians the money would never make it to the streets.
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  20. Imagine that... Rich people don't want homeless people moving in to their cities, but want them moving into yours.
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  21. I was in a big city in the south-west, used to pass a couple of homeless guys every morning. So one morni g I bought them a coffee and a cheeseburger. I spoke mainly to one of them, asking his story. He said he had worked for forty years in a factory, collecting metal pieces in a mobile skip, had lived in a boarding house mostly. The factory had closed, he moved out of the boarding house, finished up on the street. He looked over 60, so how was he ever going to get a job? There are many like him. Just had a little job, didn't ask much of life. Government globalist policies ruined his life. They make billions making stuff in low-wage and low taxation countries. We leave 80 billions in Afghanistan, send billions to Ukraine, while Ukranian elites cavort in Ferraris in Monaco. There is something wrong with our priorities!
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  22. I would rather live in an old trailer in WV than a million dollar house in California.
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  23. California happened to Austin; the same thing that happened to Oregon and Washington state.
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  24. I’m Chinese American but love Hispanic people they are beautiful people.
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  25. Moved outta Utah 4 years ago to California and I can say it’s easily the worst decision I’ve ever made.
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  26. It’s a sad reality for us Montanans. The sickness has made its way to us and it’s truly changed our state for the worse.
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  27. Curious, I was born and raised inNC and have lived the greater portion of my life here and I love it. NC is in transition into unknown territory. When I was a boy in the 50s NC was primarily an agrarian society. With modernisation of farm machinery, the loss of tobacco, and corporate agriculture taking over the greater portion of farm land is disappearing, In the North it's the Rust Belt, here in the Bible Belt we have the Rot Belt...farming is rotting. Many of the noted towns and cities in this vid are dying because nothing has come to replace the income structure farming generated. Sadly, these communities will wither and, at best, just a very few people will stay to sustain them. North Carolina will, at some point, rise from the ashes of its lost agrarian life and become a decent place for all of its people. I lived in the thriving metropolis of Aurora on the south bank of the Pamilico river as a boy. It was determined to be dying then, but 65 years later it is still there, despite aspirations of becoming a 'boom town' when Texas Gulf started mining phosphate. Those dreams never manifested. None the less, Aurora is still alive, not a shining star by any means but, still alive. It has potential to grow and thrive in a new century...all the places in you video do too.
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  28. The most important issue debated in Congress currently is funding for overseas wars, not helping our citizens at home.
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  29. I've traveled through a lot of America in the last 20 years and all I've seen is increasing poverty in MANY areas in many states. It's been an eye opener.
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  30. Do a video on the 10 Asian states in America
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  31. A few years back the GPS took me through Gary on the way to Chicago. My car broke down and a group of homeless looking people came running out of nowhere and got my car running again in 20 minutes. They refused to take any money for their services and just literally ran back full speed into the woodwork like madmen for no apparent reason lol. Not the outcome that I was expecting when I saw them running at me for sure!
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  32. When you live in Tennessee and watch this vid
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  33. I took a train trip through Germany about five years ago. Along the way, I noticed almost every rural town seemed well-kept and had at least one sizable factory near the tracks. My impression was that the Germans must not have outsourced a lot of their industry to China (and other places) like our politicians and corporate leaders did. Once you eliminate good income opportunities from a community, you have basically killed it and people will leave or just hang on as best they can.
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  34. So many homeless Americans while the USA house countless number of migrants and send billions to Ukraine. What happened to the USA?
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  35. I'm surprised California is not number #1 lol
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  36. I grew up in the rural south and I think you saw some of why I will never leave. The people may have been abandoned by the modern world, but if my car broke down and I didn't have a cell phone, I would simply knock on the nearest door. I would be allowed to use their phone, probably be offered a ride or help with my car and probably be given a glass of ice tea. When I left, I would leave there with a new friend.
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  37. The Cartels are already all over California and beyond. I don't think we'll ever get the genie back into the bottle. Our weak border is to blame for that
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  38. Residents are traveling through checkpoints and being treated like criminals while people pour across the river.
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  39. I absolutely enjoyed the California back country more than the cities. But basically California is broken and it's a f'n shame 😔
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  40. It’s horrible living in Montana so everyone should stay away from here, especially if you’re from California, Washington, Oregon, New York and other states like those.
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  41. I came to US in 1997 from former Soviet Union. 26 years later this is a different country completely. The decline I've seen has been shocking & painful. There is a deliberate plot to destroy the US from within. The people lack a cultural identity, they do not go to church as much as they used to, they do not have respect for their own history and ancestors. They do not have respect for the elderly and now they cannot even figure out what gender they are. A man cannot be a man and a woman cannot be a woman. The biggest culprits are the far-leftists and the neo-cons. Far leftist goal is to destroy anyone's sense of cultural pride, identity, sense of belonging. You cannot be proud to be American anymore. The youth are being trained to worship the LGBTQ flag and discover new genders/pronouns. Young children are being taught to think it's okay to change gender and their lives are being ruined. Women are being taught to hate men, to be "independent" and the end result is that they are more miserable than ever before. The educational system is in huge decline, US has one of the worst public educational systems of any Western country. Crime is out of control and homelessness is too. 30+ million illegal immigrants being let in across border is a deliberate effort to weaken those who will not support far-leftist ideas. Neo-cons shouldn't escape blame either. You are the scum that started all the wars after 9/11 and invaded several countries illegally. Everything changed after 9/11 when US thought they could be the world's bully and invade with no regard for anyone else. How did that turn out? Deposing a secular dictator in Iraq ended up strengthening Al Qaeda & ISIS. Same thing in Syria, Libya, and anywhere else US tries to spread "democracy" Not only 10k US troops died but a million people in ME and elsewhere. On top of that US has spent 10+ trillion dollars fighting "war on terrorism". Great job. End result is that you created 100x more terrorists than there were before 9/11. It is amazing that the infrastructure is crumbling and schools are pathetic, yet nothing is done. Somehow there is no funds for that but there are always funds for war. I think this country will not be what it was before. There is very little hope that the issues will be resolved. May the far-leftists AND neo-con war mongers burn in hell for what they've done to this great country!
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  42. I remember when we immigrated to SoCal in the early 70's. It was pure heaven. Shopping malls everywhere, very little traffic, multi-cultural and Jobs were plenty. My dad was an engineer & he was employed immediately. He worked at that company for 20 years before retiring.  Different America today, very different.
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  43. It's really sad how the media, pop culture, and the rest of America look down on this people like they are some sort of trash. I'm a Filipino and I've seen so many good, down to earth, extremely polite, humorous (with no filters so they kinda sound offensive to some people), and God-fearing people from the country/redneck places. The amount of hate, negative media, and evident adverse bias they get are so heartbreaking to be honest. If you live outside the United States, you'd definitely develop a negative perception about these people due to how they are portrayed in the media.
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  44. A few years ago I had the occasion to stay in Jackson and while I was checking into my motel in the rain at night I accidently dropped $150 out of my pocket. A short time later I as going through the lobby and was called to the desk where there was standing two large gentlemen that said "that's her". They had seen me lose the money and turned it into the desk. It was my memory of Jackson.
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  45. I don’t associate politics with being poor. You can be poor no matter who you vote for or don’t vote for!!!
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  46. I’ll never understand why people leave California because of how bad things are, but when they get to their next destination they keep voting for the same thing. It’s a spreading cancer
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  47. I lived in Florida 5 years enough was enough it's extremely hot in the summer disgustingly hot... Along with that there are many bugs from scorpions tarantulas snakes alligators and cockroaches within the walls of your house... I found a nest of scorpions behind my frigerator they loved where it's moist and dark... Also the little frogs jumping around on your window outside... Unusual bugs that bite and make you extremely ill... The grass is hard you can't even walk on it barefoot it's like walking on needles... at night you can hear all the bugs outside sounds like a jungle... I had to check under my bed and in my bed to make sure there wasn't anything Creepy Crawlers running around in the dark you know they do come out in the dark the little vampires you can have Florida nothing like being up north and the change of seasons...
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  48. Watches this in Tennessee
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  49. Nick, I've watched so many of your videos of very depressed places around the country. I grew up in inner-city Pittsburg, PA and know what urban decay is. I live in The Villages, and we're here to get away from the poverty, the crime, the political in-fighting of city governments and school boards. Most people here enjoy the peace, the safety, and the wonderful amenities offered by The Villages. A bubble..you bet! That's why most of us are here, to isolate our retirement years from the insanity of the world today. We moved here from a suburb of Columbus, Ohio (where we moved to get away from crime in Pittsburgh!) where there were robberies, shootings, car jackings, and home invasion's on a daily basis. Not here. Calm. Peaceful. Quiet. A wonderful retirement community where people still respect one another. A place where people take care of their property, and each other. Thanks for all your enlightening videos!
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  50. There is almost nothing more depressing than seeing the places you made good memories totally trashed... I can't imagine being a old person that stayed and had to watch as it crumbled around them.
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