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  • Flanker The Scrapper here this is what i do to make ends meet jobs are hard to come by nowadays and if you do find one the employers don't want to pay you enough or give any decent benefits so now I have no choose but do what i have to do to make any kind of money.

  • WOW - This hits home for me! This is the life my husband and I are living to support our 3 kids! Scrapping, Picking & Youtube! - Been Unemployed since 2008!

  • If you look at this, its a good thing people have some way to make some cash, while taking down buildings that are not needed.

  • Its crazy, My dad and his demolition company did some scrap work to the building next door...SYBILL

  • Scrapping C-rappers

  • I wonder what the people of Detroit could do with their city if the bureaucracy (red tape) would be removed? Let those people loose to invent and rebuild their city.

  • look at other countries to see what makes them successful.. slave labor.. lol

  • Take a look at Europe, for example the Netherlands. The lifestyle is completely different whereas the average salaries are actually somewhat higher than in the United States.

    Rich people pay more taxes than poorer people

    People often take the bike instead of the car

    Education is much cheaper

    Healthcare is only about $90 a month

    Bottomline: in the states people are much more focused on consuming (stuff, cars, every house has a pool) than in Europe...you need to get that striaght

  • @deen911 Here's the deal; europe had large cities before oil. America built hers around cheap energy. If that mich is granted, all else follows.

  • @deen911 "Rich people pay more taxes than poorer people"

    Same here. 47% of Americans (the poor half) pay ZERO federal income tax. Top bracket pays 36%.

    "People often take the bike instead of the car"

    Because your country isn't the size of a continent and Dutch population density is 1045/mi - US is 87/mi.

    "Bottomline: in the states people are much more focused on consuming"

    It wasn't always that way. It comes from having the world's reserve currency, which will change.

  • I want to see more of this! where can i get the full vid? Does anyone know?

  • cycles, the british were on top for 200 years, became too spread out, people demanded too much at home, went broke, sound familiar? we need to be leaner in many ways, the comment that we should act collectively like china is marxist crap!

  • Hey the US does make stuff, only not in Detroit. New car factories & steel mills are opening or expanding and operating profitably in Georgia, Alamaba, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Indiana. New car production capacity in those states exceds what recently closed in Michigan and Ohio. The BMW corp with its plant in South Carolina is a net exporting company in the US, helping the US balance of trade. These plants are also creating jobs in many small industrial cos making parts.

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  • The capitalists are moving on. After all, what is America but a fading European and industrialized colony? It is now not profitable for the 1%, so off to the next colony. I collect scrap as an old man. I call it the deconstruction of the old colony. What will take its place? Look to other old colonies.

  • Great stuff! So much is fucked in this Country we can't fucking drill or make anything without Govt BS. Detroit is a Hard working city and these guys are proof that the Detroit spirit will survive!

  • we are still a young country. we have a lot to learn from countries that have been in this world for thousands of years. china has been an empire which has risen and fallen and risen many times.

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  • I'm Irish, just a big thank you for the jobs. Without your help this country would be in a bigger mess than it already is. Sorry about Detroit but with all due respect the place looks like a shithole anyway. Lions suck, Pistons suck and we didn't take their car jobs anyway. Detroit is like one of those old soviet cities, one industry. Not the motor city, try the mono city.

  • @MrJulianLuthor Hey ! Don't pick on Detroiters! The everyday people of the city aren't at fault here.

    Lions finished the season 10-6 and made the playoffs! The Red Wings are perennial Stanley Cup contenders and the Tigers made it to the ALCS! Yes the Pistons currently suck, but they were great for almost 10 yrs!

    Come here sometime and I guarantee you can find plenty to like about Detroit. I won't deny that it is largely in ruins, but there are people working to make it better.

  • @shreddez Apologies to Detroit, it's low to kick someone when their down.

  • @shreddez Shit, you guys are just ahead of the curve! More evolved to the new environment of the C21st.

  • Yeah, there was vulgar language...

    One of the top US exports to china is scrap metal...

    Uh, because there used to be factories and about

    50,000 jobs there... Yeah, that's vulgar.

  • no puedo ver este video aun, debo comprar baterias AAA para salir del transito con mi automobil!!!!

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