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fifty one years old and i'm homeless and. since two thousand and eight there is a r.'s a dollar there are. going to have you know that was this is the dollar subject on a good day at the big three hundred but does the eighty hours of up and eighteen hours straight up and down up and down on my feet. arbet i'm sure. it was a music teacher. ideology so. i smoked sixty cigarettes a day. a frightful shit. i mean the force troops would suit up a system that is all about profit entities human nature.
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coming from a family of eight and poverty when i was going to school i used to have to wear to pay have pants to walk to hold one pair of pants up i was poor i was so poor that i wanted to do it myself out of out of the hole of poverty you know i wanted to make a better life for myself i didn't like qualities. i hate appalling i made a vow to must have the money ever got to the place where i can make some money interest whale i would do that.
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different people who are here for different reasons. loss of job loss or. whatever the excuse is they come down here to get themselves a job. i think the fundamental problem that we all face and then whatever situation the pharmacist's alike are felt like a community like a lot like a family a lack of support around you.
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say listen a lot like a lot of other american cities. in some ways it's so very segregated. got a lot of people that it's not enough to pay for a place to live. or for neighborhoods. all the areas that we go to are where a lot of people almost stay. this used to be that they almost can't appear. out of the city the city toward. a few people with their tents caught on fire and. let's do it. i wish there were a better word. being home us because i think that's not the only problem that some people have. whether you have
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a home or you're not there are nice people and sweet people and they have a home where you are jerks and there are people that are violent aggressive whether you have a home or you're not you still people still like the same. food courts. all over and call tribal courts in the jungle carts. and you have lice. she can rise much special bones. but i usually eat pizza because the slices to the cheek i don't see a lot of that stuff. like the limit of rice writes the fiber as an older guy you know it would be sweet i need that kind of food to eat. my vegetables because the vegetables have item is in them you know i'm going to hell
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we bought it all on the internet and while we have all the sounds. i think. i was volunteering with a group that had food drug and eyes i jumped in and started volunteering at a table and taking care of my jeans stuff a friend of mine here in st louis had a salon and she gave me some really expensive shampoo and it was like you know forty dollars a bottle. i gave it to this gentleman and i said here this is a really expensive shampoo and he said thank you but i got i don't know where to
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use it and it was just so embarrassed and ashamed i was so excited about passing out shampoo to someone but i didn't think it was far enough that they would have no where to use it and so i got to thinking that if we make food trucks and you know put kitchens inside of a truck why can't we put showers inside of a truck and kind of started the whole process from there that they could see you couldn't see again. but about a week. ago i didn't think that. pranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year girl truck so i chose to drive trucks people rush to
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a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slow down too much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal with. prosecution only. where you. just read the fines. by the time on to see do i mean yeah i mean i've moved out political pressure on the. security industry knows what the bundled up business models used by american corporations. please sold them could be mental disease as you use. the solution.
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when i was chain years old i discovered i could seen a little bit and didn't know harmony so some guys in the neighborhood told me how to harmonize and we formed a group my brother nine a couple more guys got out and we need to local talent shows in the schools and in the nightclubs in memphis. blues a local star talent you know in the in the city of memphis. the only song everybody else's stuff you know the guys who already had records out we were so good in this thing they're still you know so today went up and come out and work so hard so they gave us the first segment of the hour and we say man we just
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got down the step and you know we saw it just like this here. and i was doing all these things the song is impossible. to say something like the songs on earth. all the people. to be able to speed up the police to be able to be in there you know you know in the area and. i am. on top of the hour right now part of the time. to get a life free time he would be happy to see me to speak to him from time to time the people in my place on top.
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to move. move . also we serve about one hundred eighty all every single night we just need a place to sleep. every single bed in this room that currently has a pillow on it is actually a physical person who has researched this bed tonight so as you can see we really are almost completely full. sunday breakfast rescue mission is one hundred thirty nine years old so there were actually quite a few homeless individuals in philadelphia at the time it was even way before the great depression yet there was a very large homeless epidemic in philadelphia. we
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don't receive any government funding so that means that we're completely independent of the strings that would come along with accepting any money from the government. we do this because we don't necessarily want the strings but also if there is a giant budget cuts that like there were a few years ago we actually don't get affected because we have our entire revenue stream from individuals who are donating us money instead of. through something that is so easily attained changeable like. policy. and. so in the past few years in america we've had quite a difficult time with passing our budget that means that we've actually had a few weeks where our government shuts down because we just can't get it
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your third most. well we've got a mayor that him and his wife probably the house of the mentally ill with the homeless that really has or have to. i got to come to a city on twenty billion dollars surplus for for a while housing has a couple for number five a only thing i see to build here is motel.
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you know i live on the street to a lot of homeless people who want to sleep but as you said you know off. the drum it was some of my fellow citizens would step up and demand that government officials put into this spend money in the right place to give people wall street because at some point you have to help people. their job so. a lot of it is just the unfortunate fact that most people in philadelphia are only about two paychecks away from homelessness so that means you don't have a job for four weeks and then all of a sudden you're going to be homeless because you are literally living from paycheck to paycheck you need that next job in order to continue paying rent and if you don't pay rent then you will be evicted.
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from my perspective i really believe that the route to homelessness in philadelphia is the fact that. there is a very high population below the poverty line. a lot of people if you lose two paychecks that's not going to be a big deal but in philadelphia that is an extremely big deal for about forty percent of the population. anyone can become homeless a lot of people become homeless because of some sort of catastrophic event in their life maybe medical bill was just too high or a fire in their house maybe a divorce or something like that could could potentially cause homelessness.
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in the world where the more global the boy. are you deserve you know there are the best so i wrote. well. where topless you. i was born bruce willis' or college graduate. have two masters in a bachelor's degree. i'm dressed for a business school. i was a marriage child so for seventeen years of my life. ex-military. my wife passed and their breast cancer in two thousand and six a part of god with her.
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i got very lonely started a forces started committing suicide attempts. solace legitimacy and draw us on a daily basis. and developed a very bad drug habit and mental problems behind. why i'm not sick enough for them as well for when. the drug told whereas don't want me because of my mental health system and i see while we're
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. well of course a low i mean actually become extremely violent when i have to be. done want to get my life back together i'm tired of the all the street i'm doing is a very long time i really want to help i had a lot of suicide attempts and get. back to god with exit charge them all aspects of god. i'm trying to be. the best person i can be a second david saw was. sometimes i mess up i make mistakes you know why i need help and i know it's your job on myself are also muslims i've tried i understand what they're going through and i can make their life a little bit more comfortable become the face of the homeless and have a platform in the fullest for the homeless and then let them know that is really all self is left a selfish thing because it's really not about me anymore it's all about you know what can i do to make life better for somebody else having that experience myself
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situation may contribute much spitzer to their security then the. nuclear you know program. tracking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar. but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing it's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. i did the war planning for
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the principal force provider command in the united states military for four years i've worked on this region for years i do not understand this saudi arabia is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the world still today and yet we call here on that we lie when we say that. we outright blatantly lie when we say that and moreover we know we're lucky.
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we. are not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement we're going to allow the president pledges to scrap a nuclear missile treaty with russia accusing it of violating the back to moscow says the move would harm global security. in the stories that shaped the week friends and relatives say their final goodbyes to the twenty victims of a college shooting in bomb attack in crimea one of the worst such massacres in russia's history. plus a saudi arabia claims a missing journalist who died in a fistfight inside of the country's consulate in istanbul but turkey says it has proof. it was murder.
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