but never came the sherman like what else am i supposed to do where am i going to do is a question mayberry ask yourself daily ever since she joined the army of the newly poor and struggling to raise her children hoping for a hollywood ending to her story a little every day is playing. in los angeles family no party. for us political parties are once again locked in an awful weather to increase the country's debt ceiling which already stands at fourteen trillion dollars and no amount of extra loans or stimulus packages will help america get rid of its financial pains that's according. us politicians are going to have to be honest when they're out of lector and say we can't keep these promises we can't make this job security payments we can't make the medicare payments we don't have the money we're broke and we can extract it from the younger generations because they all leave the country so they're going to have to have an honest discussion and there is going to be a big you know economic decline associated with correcting these imbalances and unfortunately all they're concerned about is ge

some of the important part of haitian mayberry is trying to raise her daughters while she struggles to keep a place to live the mayberry's are typical of the growing trend of families that slide from middle class to poverty and homelessness i thought i had the best of everything. that's why myself either he was participating he with work and i was working so we didn't have to make our. medicare you know here are where prescriptions we had the best we were working that was then and this is now may very receives food stamps and relies on the nonprofit program beyond shelter so that she and her children have a bed to sleep in she said to overcome many challenges in her life but before maybe lost her job she never imagined she would be fighting to stay off the streets every day i had to figure out where without honestly. how are we going to sleep job security is gone the unemployment rate is stuck in the double digits around the los angeles. area with few opportunities for well paying jobs more americans are seeing their wealth disappear it is estimated that banks will take back more than

more americans are seeing their wealth disappear this is the middle class neighborhood where taisha mayberry and her two daughters used to live before she lost her job it's only a few blocks away from the ocean and in the shadows of the scenic downtown long beach skyline it took only a few months to go from a life of relative comfort for a life of insecurity where she had no idea where her family would sleep that night los angeles is the top region in america for homelessness where more than forty thousand people have no place to sleep on a nightly basis i'm out of work so on balance and i'm here this friend's house with our friends house you know what i mean different cities just to try to find work doing the calls live. probably for years working as a floor installer now he's been employed he cannot pay rent nickles relies on the kindness of loved ones and food stamps social programs to help stressed families hang on are about to be lost to political games as lawmakers in washington wrestle with future budget cuts while battling to save tax cuts for the richest this because fears could pus

push came to shove like they wrote what else much closer to where am i going to do is a question mayberry ask yourself daily ever since she joined the army of the newly poor and struggling to raise her children hoping for a hollywood ending to her story a little every day. playing. in los angeles something that little archie still ahead tonight just days after osama bin laden's death the u.s. launches more drone strikes from strikes inside pakistan so how the war on terror just seen an uptick and on the u.s. has claimed for years that we don't torture but during a g.o.p. debate last night a candidate who wants to be president actually advocated for torture on national t.v. can i ask what does that say about the future of our country. given that we've been a part of the world. we haven't got a chance to say get ready for freedom. hey guys welcome to show and tell me obama shall we part of our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear audio has gotten you seem to video response on to twitter profile of the questions that we've posted on you tube every monday and on thursday the sho

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