tv Documentary RT June 7, 2020 8:30am-9:01am EDT
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you know we're number one. in united states we all slow number one. how many. puzzles for most. people you so incredibly well you got to we can jump shot in order to move. like a lot in amongst all the one. of the bees so this is somebody. at the root for. no more secrets of she will be no use to you. but.
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was. so. i said i've got it set up. the eyes of i've got it right how can i. call alexandra 51 years old and i'm homeless in new york city since 2008 there is a r.'s a dollar there are. racists coming up there have you done that to us is the dollar subject on a good day at the big $300.00 but does the 80 hours up into 18 hours straight up and down up and down on my feet.
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arbet i'm sure. it was a beach. ideology so. i smoked 60 cigarettes a day. a crisis or. i'm in the force troops but suit up of the system that is all about profit to me it is human nature. like coming from a family of 8 and poverty when i was going to school i used to have to lead 2 to pay and still to hold one if. i was poor i was so poor that i wanted to did most of the out of the whole a part of it you know i wanted to make a better life for myself i didn't like qualities. i hate it probably made
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think the fundamental problem that we all face and then whatever situation the pharmacist alike are felt like a community like a lot like a family a lack of support around you. say listen a lot like a lot of other american cities. and some ways it's still very segregated. got a lot of people that it's not enough to pay for a place to live. poor poor neighborhoods. all the areas that we go to 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 that have their tents caught on fire and
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they die. 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 a home or you're not there are nice people and sweet people and they have a home where you are there 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. real food costs. all over tribal courts in the jungle carts. and you have lice. she can rise in special bowls.
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but i usually eat pizza because the dollar slices to the cheap i don't see a lot of stuff. like the limit of rice writes the fiber as an older guy you know it would be on the street 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 and i'm going to c.v.s. every day we're going to floor. centrum for 50 you know i'm not. going to go through i can't. believe it was this.
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city. police. is one thing that police made me feel just a. little sleepy by night. when they. say ok. let me have. a medium size t.v. like this if you meet the size teeth. or should. face this. like you know when i have to use the baffle. it doesn't work that way you know. it doesn't fold out of trouble with. the baffle right in u.k. it used to baffle.
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a food drug and i jumped in and started rolling tearing 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 $40.00 a bottle. i gave it to this gentleman i said here this is a really expensive shampoo and he said thank you but i got i don't know what to 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 to good to see you couldn't see a little bit. about about a week. ago or the. tax
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guys or financial survival guide stacey let's learn about bailouts let's say i'm the troika and here please. stop the fight while street spot thank you for helping . destroy that's right. debt slavery. according to several sources felice in the united states kills from 2 to 4 people every day. heads and. we said. what am i being arrested for. it's a response from enough. that it's just they're a little old enough to establish they developed just us against them and. how long
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to harmonize and we formed a group my brother 9 a couple more guys got out and we did the local talent shows in the schools and in the nightclubs in memphis. blues a local star talent you know in the indie city of memphis. and always told everybody else's stuff you know the guys who already had records out we were so good and we saying their stuff you know so today what happened come out and work so hard so they gave us the 1st segment of the hour and we say man we just got out of the step and you know it would be so on just like. andy and i would do all these things are the songs. plus a move. to say something like the song it's all her.
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fault it was on the cd and you. beat them to leave the station in there and you know you millionaire in the end. i am the police. on top of the hour right now part of plan b. . just please hurry up time me 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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also we serve about 180 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 reserved this bed tonight so as you can see we really are almost completely full. sunday breakfast rescue mission is 139 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 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
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we don't necessarily want the strings but also if there is 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 2. through something that is so easily attained changeable like. policy. 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 passed. that does become quite a problem for people. you are relying on that money.
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well we've got a mayor that means his wife probably house to the mentally ill of the homeless that really has or have you. got a company or a city or $20000000000.00 surplus fall for a while housing has a couple from the. a only think i see the bills here as normal tell. them no. you know i live on the street to a lot of homeless people who want to sleep but as you said you know all of the drama it was so much so. decisions which stand for the demands of their government officials to ease the strain more. horses to give you the street because
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at some point you have to help people jane help themselves. a lot of it is just the unfortunate fact that most people in philadelphia are only about 2 paychecks away from homelessness so that means you don't have a job for 4 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 affected. 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
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lot of people if you lose 2 paychecks that's not going to be a big deal but in philadelphia that is an extremely big deal for about 40 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. why the more of a local boy. are you
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a sad dallaire i bet so i've told our welfare tough customer. i was born 1st lose your college graduate. have 2 masters in a bachelor's degree. restaurant business school. i was embarrassed child so for 17 years of my life. ex-military. my wife passed and their breast cancer in 2006 a part of god with her. i got very lonely started a forces started committing suicide attempts. so i just really didn't see it draws on
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a jelly basis. and developed a very bad drug habit and mental problems behind. why i'm not sick enough for them that's why i'll fall for it. and the drug programs don't want me because of my mental health system and i see files. well of course so low i mean i actually become extremely violent when i have to be . done want to get my life back together i'm tired of being on the street. i know it's a very long time i don't really want to help i have lost in the side steps and get . back to god we're going to charge them all aspects of god.
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i'm trying to be the best person i can be a 2nd at a time david. sometimes i mess up on the mistakes you know why i need help and i don't want to go by myself i'll try most of mossad's 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 of self esteem 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 head that experience myself there's a place captivates and then. just the thought and ah i want to be. wrong.
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