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down the bowery and one in brooklyn today there are twelve hundred and over a hundred camp trees and other emergency food programs that's how the need has grown when they first started this soup kitchen in nineteen eighty one or two or three depending on who you ask and it was an epidemic show almost just in the eighty's you couldn't walk down the street without four people each block asking you for something almost so this was very visible today thirty some odd years later there are more homeless people in new york then there were down by almost double and yet you don't see them as much because what the result of the laws and the result of the regulation is just high homelessness not to fix it not to your it but i mean that's what the result of say cities broken windows file policies all that stuff that's what the result of that is stuff i almost missed and
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to make it a crime. for what i. heard . i came to do. they sent me to a program. for i have to. go in. look around and put me in a room no no smaller going to jail for six and a bit let me see. the bad news but on the. tenth man walking out. so homeless people here in new york city that's come december was very very very very very dear. because aside this knowing
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. people do you feel i mean if you know. i've been i've been on the beach of their own home and i don't i'm going on the subway i get knocked up in the subway hey could you take your shelters because i got jumped in a shelter when i git it to do i've been used to do when you buy it does anybody get locked up on purpose now. if they do why why do they get locked up in purcell to shelter and food. coming from them right now ronnie ironically i'm worth more to the city of new york he told me don't personally work the thing i got you to lock you up they make money you back you up they didn't even read a make montreal even jailed three they've been jailed they get people for having such a controversial ok i mean so you make me sitting one when you think you know as you get locked up. actually in defense of america if you have an address you
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can get supplemental security income or you get both people who will say. they don't like you move but then you simply do this if you're supposedly able bodied men they will give you welfare but they want you to work a few hours a day do something but if you're disabled then you're entitled to supplemental security income which is about like eight hundred dollars a month plus food stamps plus medicaid but you have to have an address in order to receive a check each doesn't have to be your own lease you can say living with somebody you are living with a friend or i do get it rest if you're home. made. me get a bunch. right. as. takes quite right progress to date this is his corner this is this is his spot. and
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everyone who lives on that street knows him and when they go to the ice restaurant and they have extra food to take out they get to get a gift to him both in a good mood to give them a cooler or. else. i'll say. this stuff. kevin please look at me a little bit this is a really hard to do you know. moment and. then go when he was in our room he painted the postman the poster he was like in costume get a blue suit and he had a hat and a beard when you paid regular people like someone like a lawyer or doctor or some of them as never you know it's boring. and sometimes the homeless people you look biblical they look like they're out of the bible they have long beards and tragic eyes and so this is what interests me the basic statics
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of the subject. i know subject to. participate. but not a sense of humor ok ted said. it takes come along and. i think i'd i'd like for my busy reason he didn't say right this time. i really saw. the people that's the way one would. sound assaults. police deal said he would not look at my painting until it's been. that it was
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finished he wanted to take it away he said that's my so you know you're a jewel you're going to get a million dollars from guggenheim museum i mean he was not educated in certain ways he says i'm taking the bait you know it's mine so we have we had to fight with so it's ok if they do today because nobody would be able you don't have to talk about it so a good amount to. be here and i grabbed my painting and i read into it takes. to get away. it's a great deal of mental illness and some of it is quite serious some of the schizophrenia look people are very very hard to treat and really need medication in order to function in somewhat normal way and then the people just angry at the world it's a society and don't want to have anything to do with any part of of any system and would rather find their own way of surviving.
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the whole economy of stripping france like you yes i know of a financial flashback to two thousand and seven when the banks are first drop the acid trip called the liquidity crisis which led to the financial crash and burn which led to the dopes and their central banks dropping wads of cash while astral plane ing from their imaginary helicopter and saying one print makes you larger and one paper makes you smile and the money that china gives you doesn't do anything at all go ask janet when she's ten feet tall yes i spent a whole and ran around trip to nowhere. right from the scene. first straight shooters and i think pictures.
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on our reporters twitter. and instagram. of am. on. in two thousand and seven one of the first things released by wiki leaks was a secret video recording that actually looked like a video showing two american actually collect talk just opening fire of a dozen people in iraq this is not a means to live in a society of images of violence become normal this is what the sense of isolation and lack of empathy look like. when we try and experience contests that disassociate our own in body and actions from the table we also have to say from certain kinds of marilyn vos i absolutely am frightened of the
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gentlemen i guess you almost. could. even a few hundred a day come across it honestly. we've got people coming in with criminals we've got people from who knows where in the world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you know to sure i was worried that they may not know life they live on mars you know mars.
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come a long way. behind. me. you know if this. is closer to the sweeter the made the smaller the for the bigger this. is not going to be a thing was born of kids it was difficult times on a new york city summer in america out there to work and out of the education but like everybody there mr chairman well he will do some searching the halls and i applaud i've been interviewing him lists but the thing that has become really in holland is i found columbia presbyterian church and i came and i started eating here and as i started eating here i started to see the service that was being done here in the midst of that i found ash if it was michael was given a call and then because i and i joined the class i think and for him. i. do
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myself i get to become a call and they will share what has been a hard day but i doing what i do give them a bad person and give him service in the community as it is he will be doing. is a wonderful feeling to know that you came long shot and slowly but surely very says so. and through all of that i was able to create a catering as well because we all their oil and the way they are in order to keep some which tourists and eat in the apartment i put upon the hot water. just so we don't treat. the stuff on it being there when it comes to the debate. as to the last thing i could teach. my came businesses little is now major is not like i'm
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doing a major company anything so far i've service from behind a dozen people depending on the have been depending on the party so this is one of my six second close's jabs on things that i actually do that i the first one was working with kids and that worked with kids for twenty years teaching chess and after school now i'm hoping that now i can go back into the afterschool program but now not teaching chess but teaching all unary and teaching the next generation how to eat how to cook condom and tame a well balanced meal and not only to eat but sit in the cold so we don't have to be dependent on me. out of the. house like a dear boy like. i. didn't like. it you know. i never
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taste. everything written down you. know so much money. it's amazing how fast. and it's never just one thing i want. to take you here so you know. exactly. it's a really really serious. optimist. sometimes i can get on the system and i can. let me take you. to see. most of them is crazy because society can deal with society most. it doesn't want to be.
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most of time you be here in the media brainwashes you mean this brainwash you into just terrible girl if she was so smart she had a badge and. she was. the song touches so people say when was your wish you silly challenge. and she say. to you. if you. can do what. i can do with this size when you're out louche. you. know you didn't give. me. the first. at least the vast majority of people who were there. through. or. there will who are. told that they. were for
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that. that's a big difference between that and. your. sister's kids today doctoral for they grew up middle class or better something happened something from enron to an illness with no health insurance through financial collapse what ever and very rarely was the trigger powerful or drugs usually most of most of the people i've got into their stuff to use problems after they've been a. mile this is my daughter she's like everything you know i love her so much she's actually changed now or i was like wow. you know life ain't worth living i didn't marry right now and is ninety.
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eight she's been for over to. my daughter smiles on my cousin but her mother just don't want her around me. it's not a memory like sometimes sleep in no matter we read whatever you had with members can she go and you have no memory you had no kind of like inclinations of anything this beautiful or something that sticks out in your. life they were. told we deep into a depression. stew is hasty you know you want to change the subsumption into opposition you can find your way out. no i really don't have anybody. you know that guy is somebody. i guess in. a. good way i guess.
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goes this is a great room to sing and so sing isomer out. to. suit us. and you bring los. lobos. and. justice to those who are fit and. just in studios who. sued us. regular soup kitchen serves about one fifty or so hard to go soup kitchens have been serving him out of congress. today i imagine we'll serve
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a couple or maybe more depends as long as they keep coming we'll keep serve serving we've got food for here's another order. and. good. ok put it over the word good after a while you know everybody has a pot. you know what i mean somebody's bottom is no you know it's like a close. to the bottom but. no when when when you see when you get a lot of the lady in the siesta not around out there some people don't have the that will come back to come back if you've got a little all this way very very there be. hard to make up your mind see i'm coming back yeah i'm going to this is a plan to take them and when you push you take that person mentally they just we come from a mentally once you take this to percept mentally everything you've got to change everything you've got to be around people who feel that way you've got to be change
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willing to go to bed with discipline could just that's what it takes you take a lot of discipline at the bottom line is a mental thing when you choose to do something about just something about right have to make up your mind to do it and put yourself in the position and be around people like mine that you were there with you this is going to make you just have to start from the very bottom did you reach out and work your way back up and get some time to take some to me with five years or i should. do for you mike you know it was kind of a mare's on initiatives at a certain point near history where the mayor asked churches and other religious institutions to step out in helping solve the homeless i think down and so on lot of faith institutions actually did step forward and provide to the church that program for. for our program guests arrive the scene seven thirty and turn thirty
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at night and then they leave by seven o'clock in the morning it was set up that way namely because that's so only way we could make it work with volunteer staff here. if you really happen anywhere can have as little as just a one bedroom apartment and it can happen. we have. this pos case here because it is full but you know people would appreciate any where they sleep. so little to say about just be produced. over you know how to feel we've tried to make. you had a great opportunity that will make it easier to make it in. the. film he. told me what the role he plays
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the. lead you call the girl what i stop to be up to. what people believe to see you pay money for you give you. the truth. what people take care of you don't what you would get out. this is a good lens doing. good work it shouldn't be in this city or the region sitting in a work in the mall because you got over twenty. two percent of the.
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put it under full strong arm and a lot of these polish face i've been trying to bone. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. of the nine hundred fourteen though scenario is a political today because the united states is is this the becoming the dominant force on every continent but brian when it when we look at about the calculation and strategy i have to go back to iraq afghanistan libya and you came in that's all recklessness in my opinion if you know the the u.s. policy resembles those what the. sure of those western movies where the drunken
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cowboys come into town and shoot the place up just because they can and. community boards alone more than somewhere around two hundred children all for them they also found that child abusers convicted child abusers got access to those kids these whole recalling phenomena and what i'm saying is overall it's an amazingly rosy picture in that adopted kids international as well as domestic are treated better than regular kids growing up in untroubled biological families in the united states. wealthy british style.
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