tv Documentary RT July 4, 2014 5:29pm-6:01pm EDT
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doctors of the docs. does what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something if simple as people playing a soccer game we can see individual players and we can see that. you can only see is facial expression to come see is a mouth open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for a house. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. to move. to lead.
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ok it we're here in tent city and this tent city is in lakewood new jersey the campus about seven years old it's one of the largest tent cities on the east coast of america and it's got about one hundred people here it's very diverse racially diverse culturally diverse all the old reasons of the traditional reasons for homelessness you've got alcoholism yet mental illness you've got other types of addiction you know but now we've got people here just because of economics solely because of economics the cost of housing in this area especially is very high it takes three minimum wage jobs for a single individual to afford the basic necessities of life if this is
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a public land and we're part of the public and they've created an environment where we can afford a place to live i believe as an american we have a right. to camp out or to possess public land entails something is created. it might appear that tent city is you know everybody is just you know drinking or you know you know causing problems for each other and that where expecting government handouts that's not the case it's the first line of attack from people who don't like tent city or from people who don't like the homeless the first line get a job get bombed that's what that's the line right that's not the case most of the people work here and i live full time doubt a lot of people have full time jobs and i still can't afford a home that's why i'm here i'm a overnight clerk and there's a shop right about a mile up the road i work overnight stock and i back but you know i work full time make my paycheck put it in. the banks and i save it i still live in
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a tent i'm not i don't i'm not any sort of government assistance i make too much money. so because i work full time i'm too rich you have to make less than a certain amount of money and it's appends on your household the number of people in your house it's just me i'm not married no kids so for me the money that i make i'm too wealthy i do qualify for food stamps i can get about forty two dollars a month in food stamps on a sliding scale the maximum for one person is two hundred dollars a month and the minimum i think is about twenty dollars a month depending on how much money you make so because i work full time i'm too rich to get welfare or temporary rent assistance or general assistance where they just give you a check for one hundred forty dollars a month so. go figure to wealthy that's my house i live in a tent i'm too wealthy. it's a good general systems. is i mean this this works out this is right this isn't the way america is supposed to be ok it's it's on ballots you have hardworking
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upstanding citizens who can't afford homes. and. you know thirty years thirty years we lose in new york with thirty year of them we've been vegetarian. and we rescue animals we only lived in new york city we spent tens of thousands of dollars rescue us believe in the tens of thousands of dollars rescuing birds we if we hadn't done we wouldn't have been home with. what do they call it in this in this you know in any good security money but i don't regret it because we say so many wonderful lives yeah yeah i'm assuming the textile industry or for years and it's just pretty much it's all been outsourced in china to me industry was very large and
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mostly new york based it was just signing for members friends primarily did some loping still. for furniture. and. some went up the ladder into the channel and i was designed to run. in my biggest movie. was like twenty yards. you know you didn't make. your design so to millions of dollars you see. pennies on the tallent pennies on the docket it literally. keys to. my. likeness and right chant. that's right. somebody could just see. me each of them actually there were three of them each
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made a million and they can't be here until. just those three i'm not counting everything else i did. i was really quite successful. sold it's you know there's a lot of reasons why people end up in tent city but again you know i i don't ask any questions when they come down here and they say i have no place to stay you know we'll give them a tent you know just gave give them some basic rules and the fundamental rule is respect your neighbor you know get along with your neighbor and for the most part they they did the community is quite quite good about getting along with each other having fire burnt coming back from it right there but i mean that run you'll still. get thank you. time playing music that's going to have an illness i had that and i have no i want
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this well as things i would have been reset it's just that i mean i'm at baghdad be thankful for it thank you for just having. a bad legs that's why you're going to get i don't think things are good if you can be all right the hundreds i mean you. can have it or. not all were me. so you know this would be donating a high end warehouse. in a neighboring town too far from here maybe maybe three miles and what it is is when it gets close to the date you know the expiration date they can't send it on to their people so so they don't they get you know a tax write off on you know one of things that they donate so it benefits us to still you know in day very. push the date but in date and it's a true you know a tremendous you know benefit for the homeless thing is we good we still don't have
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a place to live you know which girl. who knows bill shorten would slowly ruin the people with. child one i'm going to make you feel. pretty much came here because on. the plane we had in the bar when. we were two hundred dollars short of a one of. four firemen and they meant that us all of our stuff got taken away from us and everything and we wound it up here in every sense and used to stephen's been a blessing to list he opened up his aunts so us and then a number wanted to. make a career being homeless. you know as a people i get into and they like a miss when they want to do it because it's free when you know they're on the pier and then the worry is a review is you can vicariously so modeling that's their status thing with me
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personally i like stability unless. you listen to the townspeople mr cross section. come out it never happened they have no idea what i'm bringing. some time. so a lot of times will get you know things donated by companies. so it's better to just whatever i get i just give out freely i never charge. a lot of these people especially the spanish the mexican fascination a lot of the. living in overcrowded conditions slumlord conditions of bad plumbing battle like tricity you know of wires running all over the place crowded into small
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spaces you know doing whatever they can do to secure their housing a lot of that substandard housing in there just to scraping by was easy to look monumental. and. here is the reason the. leave. the end of the. house would. be easy. because. we both. don't think any of this is subsidized that the people are you know bank but this out of their own pocket and again it was probably
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a couple of bam lease living per bartman here sharing the expenses of the apartment but i don't think in most of the mexicans you know a lot of them aren't registered americans or legal americans so are the coleman documented so they can't get any government help you know maybe if their children are born here they can get some food stamp money but they won't get into subsidized housing if they're if they're. not doctrinaire. and well they're afraid of immigration you know immigration has been stepping up lately you know and if anybody gets full for the time you know legal infraction there are no sending them back to mexico people are very wary very wary right now. you know of anybody stray. yeah. after coming here i've developed
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a new website for accounts that he and i maintain it's facebook age. until know most people knew about tent city from the local media outlets which aren't all which ones are always very friendly for the website we're trying to put out our own our own voice and you know cover things from our perspective and on the web site reaches out to. people for different kinds of things you know it's it's for you know just news and happenings really density in some ways they can they can help. it will this this time of year starts to pick up so the summer of summer is the hottest for the let's say july and august august slowest why should people who don't need them and just cause kids go back to school picks up and then a really big some from november to december christmastime. i was working for
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a high voltage electrical contractor doing work in the lincoln tunnel by holland tunnel the george washington bridge and then coming home at night and going out to the woods and bringing sleeping bags and you know propane in the wintertime you know doing whatever i could to help them out and then after a while i realized i couldn't do both i couldn't keep my job working in new york city and then come down to you know come down here and go out into the woods at night time all over the place and meet the needs of the home so i decided to leave my job and started doing this full time. in decision in ukraine while it appears. there is a commitment to a multilateral ceasefire in the country fighting continues again talks the talk of peace though its forces to sooth their assault in the east is foreshadowed in
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control. it's all about misselling member lloyds banking i think that was their specialty in the u.k. was. like barclays what their specialty is live or fraud or a just b. c. their specialty is money laundering and then roll back a scallop farce there into the leg breaking and mafia whacking other subsidiary global restructuring groups every bank has their own special way to commit fraud here if you want to get this selling fraud got a lot. of . good lumber touring to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately don't amount anything turns mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and ingredients which is why you should care only. despite promises a few cranes presidents not to endangered civilians in the east more residential
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areas are coming under fire country rages on saudi arabia sends thirty thousand troops to its border with iraq sparking fears of unarmed inflation this from the associated with the isis the standoff between asylum seekers in the forty's puts million on the edge triggering protests in support of the refugees. as a media turns a blind eye to if you get an artsy. story hidden open up with a word for. heavenly father we thank thee for another day that has given us the breath of life another day to enjoy the beauty and the
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wonders of the great creation. would continue to help us in tent city even is now is already done by the b. c. the dike will miss and i kind toward those father in need valor here in tent city we see the real tangible ways in which thou does care for the poor and the needy. we have pizza every day. name of jim he meets me out of the root of bob o'clock in the morning he goes around to about ten pizza parlors at the end of the day whatever they've got left over and they didn't sell on their shelves they donate you know to tim or to the homeless or answer champix that i've been that he goes and he sleeps on the road he's homeless himself lives in his car and it's all he does all day long as he takes people to the doctor you pick up from bakeries deliver to pantries and he does this all on his his
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pension check he sleeps in his car and spends his money on helping people all day long yes amazed you have never seen a higher degree of self-sacrifice there because. these are two tours of vietnam combat that still. modern assembly monetized thank. you very much in. a lot of it and so i believe the words of the bible i believe there's eternal life so that's what i'm investing in other words it's mine because i believe it and so what i've got here i can use to help other people because i don't have to attain anything here this is just an investment for what's to calm. it. down because this is real and he's asking. because all i do is wake up the iss and. wake up and just get me up always cereal milk because before i used to asking for like on types of food and
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now i'm just like craving the edge of the pool in the morning and it might have made a lot of hamburg i don't know you the hamburger room name did it and i think you go in that cooler and i mean a burger line will be mostly the easy thing and you get your if somebody is hungry in tent city they want to be hungry. because they don't have enough food most people would come when you can without forcing yeah. hoping that by example they would learn a lesson but. again it's typical you know the path of least resistance whatever's easier and i know that's tendency with human beings you know human nature is just to find the easiest way out a lot of times with somebody else one is willing to do the work let him do it so. you know i don't mind doing it but it's you know short term this tent city is not going to be forever just grows old townships are closing it down and then we're
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going to go to another phase. of the. lab. but it's on this year's over hope to be a mom part but it's very much i don't remember if i'm one year when the year is the hopefully i'll be gainfully employed and i'll be able to be self-sufficient. you know back on the right track so i'll go for. it take care you know i found. that's the goal. for some other child blome mother kid does not was for me and for selena. but he's in foster care and myla my concerns with kids i love kids. i pretty much saw the kids out there. i was in foster care myself but there is so bad here and i just want all the kids to know they are i'll be
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the fly who makes the best buy and of course you know who makes the best buy or don't you know well that if. i didn't say you said it right there you know that . just as if you think we were wouldn't be busy but feel the tide juvies this you know it's very hard work you know every back and little thing you do is work you know if i get to wash dishes i have to heat water i have to get water to solve the water spro says you know. very hard work. but she did one daughter she's ten or forty so i. strive with that three grains heads time. we pretty much lost touch haven't talked to them in years. on oh i was. really and we haven't talked to anybody since we came here
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except i did talk to daughter until i found i have to check dumped all our stuff all my paintings might be sitting on michael sam listening to music so we had already in. that week. when we came here we weren't sure we would stand a wheel we brought the necessities. not only. on the last travel is house of learning. because all my free time i like to study so i had to be an official house of learning. is my desk this is where i do my reading. study books hear a lot of his biblical you know religious freak or religious fanatic but a lot of stuff that i study is biblical also mathematics and physics i mean to
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quantum physics currently i'm saying for myself it's just i consider knowledge is that the best use of your time is just gain as much as you can. this is like a it's like a gingerbread house to house intensity is definitely the most well maintained they put a lot of effort into it. they have they had they it looks like a candy house doesn't it like something from a storybook they made their own street what does it say one paradise lamed it's just people that are trying to live you know they they're making the best of a bad situation really then battling the township for of three years now since two thousand and ten they took us to court they sued us township of lakewood sued the homeless. to get us off the land and a lawyer stood up on our behalf. a very strong lawyer i belong to a very powerful lawyer firm they spent over a million and a half dollars representing us and so. we kind of reached
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a compromise that the what we would do is we would take a year's worth of housing that's what supposed to be happening but with the township is doing is trying to figure out any way they can to disqualify the people down intensity so that it's been a half a year since that that court case since the consent order was signed but nobody has gotten housing through the township and really the other night we experienced the worst of the harassment from the police in the township that we've ever experienced up to this time they came in and they started ticketing people giving people tickets for burning their wood stoves. i'm sorry. the streets. were bought this is the present. you have to deal with this it's not easy. to move all of this what is
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a good day will smile so the cup of coffee. every day is good because you know it will cause a dismal but some days you know the double of the take a day off so he can pressure you into thinking that it is the going to get better. nonoy right now i have no other options all i have is tent city i have no other house no apartment no other options i'm totally homeless i'm totally it like anybody else in ten said if the township closes down tent city i've got no place to go my parents were very giving and self sacrificing so i think i picked up those traits from my parents and you know also my religious beliefs also ok in test i'm becoming ok thanks. i feel my. it's more fulfilled much more satisfied much more complete as a human being reaching out to other people. but i'll tell you one thing.
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god is in the boat. got out is in the boat. and god's not going to let it in the way that the township thinks that it's going to hand because god is about justice god isn't bound fairness is about equality god is about the principles that the founding fathers of america spend so much time and concern in addressing the fairness of a good society. yes they'll criticize some other country for their human rights violations in my book that's called hypocrisy my book that's cold injustice or duplicity. bomblets home.
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of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just killed a bunch of people in the family don't know something on their families there are a us people. right reading. this some of the shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because again because it was ny times four in the morning even the best commanders given the mesh soldiers. are going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood. an author and an end camaraderie in this sense that was in this context it has absolutely no place. as a new physician i swear to abide by the hippocratic oath. to the best of my ability
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and judgment. i will prescribe for the good of my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody. or advise others to do so. i will never do harm to the. doctors of the doc's on top to. write on the scene. first rate. and i think the church. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on mom.
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