Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "The Real News Network" channel.

That woman that was being interviewed at the 4 minute point of the interview exemplifies exactly why this problem exists in the first place. She's not helping because of some vague excuses of how it's not their fault and therefore they shouldn't have to fix it. Like Jordan Peterson said. First "Clean up your room". It's so simple, yet so brilliant. Start small and work your way up to bigger things. In the end, if you're diligent and keep at it, you'll make things better for yourself and the edges of that better world will intersect with the edges of others who started small, just like you did, and improved their world a room at a time. This woman is like a 6 year old that's doesn't want to clean her room. Time for her to grow up.
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There is no "magic wand" to change things immediately. That's fairy tale thinking. It starts from the beginning and becomes a long journey towards a distant goal. At least they're starting the journey. You're refusing to start because you want to be at the finish line or nowhere. Well, you'll always be at the start and you'll never be at the finish line. You have to enter the race to have a chance of finishing.
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@marcusdavis5599 No one is under any obligation to provide anyone with jobs. It's up to you to go out and find that job. Any local that would live in conditions like this and is critical of that clean-up isn't worth hiring anyway. That's the problem here. All those who are worth hiring have left to improve their lives. Those that remained are the ones who are sitting around waiting for someone to "provide" them with jobs. They are the ones that let their neighbourhoods become the filthy garbage dumps that they are because of that very attitude that someone else has to do it for them.
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@rebeccaw68 I think we're talking in circles, in spite of agreeing with one another. I'm say, don't pay attention to the left because they're using her to say that the volunteer help is unwanted. Your saying not to pay attention to her because she doesn't represent all the people of her neighbourhood. Let's join our comments together and say this. Pay no attention to the left or this woman. They're both preaching the same illogical argument and neither are doing a thing to help the terrible conditions there.
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@LORDNAG1 I'm from Canada and the people that settled this country were hungry, tired from endless effort to build a home and sleep deprived from working from first light till it was too dark to see and in Canada those are LOOONG days. Do you know what they did? They went back to work. Eventually, they built the country that we have now.....one of the best places to live on the planet. Quit whining. They only way things will improve is through hard work and it's tough and tiring. However, in the end it will be worth it because the alternative is to be always hungry, tired and sleep deprived. The sooner you and the people living in those neighbourhoods truly understand this, the sooner their lives will improve.
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@rebeccaw68 She does give the left their incentive to react negatively and even violently to what those volunteers are doing.
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The root cause being those people that are peering out their windows at those doing the clean up and then going back to watching TV. It's their attitudes that are the root cause.
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@cjgt77 So what's your suggestion. Stay on drugs, stay the way you are? That helps. Getting a job, even a low paying one, is better than smoking crack, playing video games and stealing from others to support the drug habit. You're making excuses. It's whining of the finest quality. Every worker at MacDonald's has 10 times the character than one who sits at home, on drugs and is complaining how he has no chance. Learn a little self respect. Oh yeah. I know people that did just that. They got clean, got off the drugs and got a low paying job and their lives have improved immensely. They're not living in mansions or travelling the world (although some have done a little travelling) but their small home is neat and tidy, their fridge is full and their lives are better than it was. It may not be great or ideal but nothing ever is. Anyone who uses the rhetoric that you used to excuse their behaviour is a loser. It's harsh but it's true.
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@cjgt77 BS again. I made 15,000 dollars last year and a little more the year before. In spite of that I've been to Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands over the last 3 years and I'm planning on a trip to Costa Rica this winter. Incredibly, I have more money in the bank than I did 3 years ago. It CAN be done. The problem is that people don't realise the benefits of financial planning. They don't think that they should put in the extra hours or time to make things better for themselves. Look at that mess in Baltimore that those outsiders are cleaning up. Are you trying to tell me that the locals couldn't put in 2 to 3 hours a week into cleaning it up? That they can't tell those that are dumping that garbage to stop doing it? That place looks like that because the local residents don't have the will or ambition to clean it. Anyone that did has already left....like Elijah Cummings. The rest are like you are. Complaining how there isn't work and that their problems aren't solved overnight. I say do like Cummings did, even though I think he's corrupt. Get the hell out. Join the military. Go to night school. Spend your free time filling out resumes and pounding the pavement looking for jobs. The jobs and the life isn't going to come to you. You have to do it yourself. Put a little bit away a week, even if it's only 10 bucks and DON'T touch it. It's the little things that help. If you can't do the little things, the big things will NEVER come. That's how they did it in the fifties and sixties. It as baby steps for them and it paid off over the long term.
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Atheos B. Sapien Are you seriously not going to support an initiative to end the decriminalisation of gays because it's Trump's idea? 11 of those countries have the death penalty for gays. These gays are dying and you won't support an effort to end it because you don't like Trump. That's brilliant. (big time sarcasm)
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skharri18 Instead of back handed ad hominem remarks, why don't you explain what's wrong with what Peterson said, in this context, and how I interpreted it. Not some crap about lobsters or religion, just the point that I made. How is this mystical teaching?
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Bernie was a communist. He thinks bread lines are a good thing. He admired Chavez and Castro and honeymooned in the Soviet Union. We all know how well that turned out. He would have led the US down the same path.
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@edwinsoto6932 It's the attitude that these residents have that has them living in a rat infested city that prevents them from being a model city. You'll never get that because you're of the mind that someone else has to fix their problems. Just put down the reefer, crack pipe or Coors, get up and go to work. You'll be amazed how much better things will get.
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No one is under any obligation to provide you with a job. That's up to you, no one else. If you don't like the circumstances you're in, get up off your butt and find circumstances that are better and keep looking and working towards that goal. Don't EVER give up. The people living in those neighbourhoods have given up and this is the result. A strong person does something about it. The weak one complains and blames others, all the while waiting for them to fix it for them.
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@kingofthecatnap5422 That name reveals all that we need to know about you. You nap while others work and make it possible for you to nap with a full belly.
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@kingofthecatnap5422 I'm not even American and I'm old and retired. However, I still say that if you want things done, you have to get up and do it. That's how I lived my life. Waiting for someone else means sitting around and taking a lot of catnaps because it's not going to get done...EVER. No one sweeps my floor. I do it. I'd be wading through 6 inches of grime and dust if I waited for someone else to come do it. Just because you're disabled doesn't mean that everyone should live the life that you're forced to. If you can, do it.
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@TheLisaGate Thanks for the kind comment. Now I'm going to reciprocate with a comment of my own. You and your neighbours are demonstrating what it is to exhibit a sense of community and caring. It's what we should be nurturing in this country, not the idea that we need outsiders to do it for us. Either you have pride in where you live, which obviously you do, or you become what we're seeing in this video. It's too bad the neighbourhoods around you don't take advantage of the example set by your block. It would go a long way to making their communities a better place to live.
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@TheLisaGate All one can do in your life is to do the best that you can. If you've done that, you've had a successful life. Let's hope that it works out for you and your neighbourhood and that it will expand out from there.
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@The_Savage_Wombat Politics is about power. As long as they have power, they have the means to have the perfect life, the best that a country has to offer. Power gives them the way to get money, and the good life but without it, none of it happens. Money doesn't get you power. The rich can still end up in prison. Jeffrey Epstein is a prime example. He had all kinds of money but he lacked the power to prevent being put in jail. Had he the power, he'd still be alive, living free to do as he pleased. Power first, money second. The other way around and you're still vulnerable.
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