tv Documentary RT July 4, 2014 8:29pm-9:00pm EDT
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and this whole game. change 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. soley
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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 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 public land until something is created. it might appear that tent city is you know everybody's just you know drinking or you know you know causing problems for each other and 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 that's what that's the line right that's not the case most of the people work here i live full time job a lot of people have full time jobs and i still can't afford
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a home that's why i'm here i'm a overnight clerk there's a shop right about a mile of the road i work overnight stock and i back. you know i work full time make my paycheck put it in the bank and i save it i still live in 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 i'm too wealthy. go feed. you're too wealthy that's my house you see
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back there i live in a tent i'm too wealthy to get 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 balanced you have hardworking upstanding citizens who can afford homes. you know thirty years thirty years we lived in new york at thirty but. then we've been vegetarian. and we rescue animals we only lived in new york city we spent tens of thousands of dollars rescue. 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 and this you know you know in any security money but i don't regret it because we saved so many wonderful lives here yeah i'm
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assuming the textile industry for thirty five years and it's just pretty much it's all been outsourced to china and the industry was very large and mostly new york based it was just stunning from that bird's brains primarily did some logans to. the furniture. went up the ladder into the channel and i listen to songs the rock. in my biggest movie. was like twenty yards. you know you didn't make. your designs so to millions of dollars you see. pennies on the tallent pennies on the don't get it you know literally. to use cheap. light to my. i can't. i can't. talk right.
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somebody could just see. me each of them actually there were three of them they each made a million and i can't be here until. just those three i'm not counting everything else psyche. i was really quite successful. so that 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 to be community is quite quite good about getting along with each other having fire burn coming back from it right now that i did not run
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you'll still. get thank you. time blaring music that's going to have an illness i have that right now here you have on this well if i would have been reached at just a little. bit i'm baghdad if it were it thank you for just dabble. in bad ways that's why you're going to get i don't think things are good you can be all right the hundreds. are. dead wrong with me where. there is all this food being donated yeah this comes from a high end warehouse. in a neighboring town too far from here maybe very three miles and what it is is when it gets close to the date you know the expiration date they can't send it down to their people so so they don't they get you know text right. you know one of things
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that they donate so it benefits us just still you know in date very close to date but in date and it's a true you know tremendous you know benefit for the homeless thing is we good we still don't have a place to live you know which. in those good children would flee to the people with. child one hand down right and. pretty much came here because on. when we had in the bar when. we were two hundred dollars short of a one of. four firemen and they make that us all of this stuff got taken away from us and everything and we wound up here in every sense and then used to stephen's been a blessing soliciting he opened up his arms so us and in a number wanted to. make a career being homeless. you know those of people who i get into and they like it
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miss what they want to do because it's free were there at the pier were there no worries i would if you if you can vicariously survive like that that's their status thing with me personally i like stability in life. lord. you listen to the townspeople it's your cross section. come out it never happened they have no idea what i'm like sometimes. a lot of times will get you know things donated by companies. and so it's a benefit for just whatever i get i just give out freely another job. easier. a
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lot of these people especially the spanish the mexican fascination a lot of them living in overcrowded conditions slumlord conditions a bad plumbing battle like tricity you know of wires running all over the place crowded into small spaces you know doing whatever they can do to secure their housing a lot of it's substandard housing in there just a scraping by was easy to look beyond my. city. and. here is the reason the. leave. the end of the. house would. be easy.
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because the wind was. 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 a couple of damocles living per bartman here sharing the expenses of the apartment but i don't think you know most of the mexicans you know a lot of them aren't registered americans or legal americans so are the column undocumented so that 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. you know they're afraid of immigration you know immigration has been stepping up lately you know and if anybody gets full. time you know legal infraction there are no sending them back to mexico. look very weary very wary
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right now. you know of anybody strange. ok. yeah. after economy here i have to develop a new website for town city and i maintain it's facebook page. 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 sun city 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
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hottest for the can say july and august august slowest white people don't need them and that december because this time. i was working for a high voltage electrical contractor doing work in the lincoln tunnel the 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 work up 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. here is there is a commitment to
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a multilateral ceasefire in the country fighting continues again talks the talk of peace though its forces to suit their assault in the east is foreshadowed in 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 libel or fraud or a just b. c. their specialty is money laundering and then roll back al of course they're into the leg breaking and mafia whacking of their subsidiary of the global restructuring groups every bank has their own special way to commit fraud and if you want to get mis selling fraud definitely got a lot. put it under a bushel camarena why should the bank immunology face time peter. was
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as that is already done by the b. c. the faithfulness and i kind of us toward those father and me father here in tent city we see the real in tangible ways in which thou does care for the poor and the needy. we get pizza every day. name of jim he meets me out of the root of bob replied to 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 delivered a pantries and he does this all on his his pension check he sleeps in his car and
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spends his money on helping people all day long yes amazed you have never seen a higher degree of self-sacrifice there because he is a true tour of vietnam combat that still. modern assembly modest guys 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 to is this in . wake up and just get me a ball is serial no because before i use the asking for like on types of food a man's night craving the you the pool. in the morning i did not have more of
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a hamburger i don't remember you the hamburger of room name did it and i think you go in that pool and i mean a burger line will be mostly a means to. get your if somebody is hungry in tent city they want to be hungry. because they don't have enough food for the family don't mean you can still see 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 for 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 because world townships are closing it down and then we're going to go to another phase.
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of the. last. but it's on this year's over hope to be in my apartment. it's very funny i remember if i'm one year when that 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. that's another picture of the wound my other kid is not with me and firstly. but he's in foster care and myla my concern is with kids i love kids and i must tell all the kids out there don't i was in foster care myself but there is hope out here and i just want all the kids know that a non i'll be. continuing to fight for all the kids out there including my name
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here don't you know well that if. i didn't say you said it right there you know the . stuff i said you'd think we were wouldn't be busy but feel the tide juvies this you know it's very hard work kiddo every back pedal thing you do is work you know if i get divorced dishes i have to heat water i have to get water because all the water sprouted you know. very hard work. but she did one daughter she's ten or forty so i. strive with that three grain chance i'm pretty much lost touch i haven't talked to them in years. really and we haven't talked to anybody. since we came here except cry i did talk
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to my daughter and tell my fans which dumped all our stuff all my paintings in writing sitting on michael so nice and easy so we had to hurry and. that week. when we came here we weren't sure we would stand a wheel we brought the necessities. not many. on laws. is house of learning and 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 quantum physics currently i'm saying to myself it's just i consider knowledge is
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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 it's the cutest 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 paired to his lane 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 could sit round 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 he returned to have reached a compromise. as for that the what we would do is we would take
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a year's worth of housing that's what's 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 court case since the consent order was signed but nobody has gotten housing through the township and. the other night we experienced the worst of the harassment from the air 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. already. i saw the streets. we were taught this is the president. you have to deal with this it's not easy. to move this what is a good day with the cup of coffee. every day is good because you know woke us up
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this morning but some days you know the double of the take a day off so he can the pressure you into thinking that it is them going to get better. nonoy right now i have no other options all i have this tent city i have no other house no apartment no other options i'm totally homeless i'm totally unlike 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 coming ok thanks. i feel much more fulfilled much more satisfied much more complete as a human being reaching out to other people. but i'll tell you one thing. god is in the boat. out he's in the boat. and god's
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not going to let it in the way that the township thinks that it's going to. because god is about justice god isn't down there in is god 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 cold hypocrisy my book that's cold injustice or duplicity. mom brought it home. this.
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