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  • @TheDedridgerunner It's easy to blame a President who is just a puppet on a string. The whole Occupy Wallstreet movement is for us the PPL to let the rich powerful 5% know they run the world. They used to say that conspiracy theorist were crazy nuts back in the day and these days it seems like we are more sane than those who like to keep their eyes blinded from the truth.

  • COME ON OUT TO CALIFORNIA, THEY TAKE ALL OF OUR PAYCHECKS TO GIVE MOOLAH TO YOU..

    FREE HOUSING, FREE FOOD, COMPLETELY FREE HEALTHC CARE. COME ON OUT.

    NOW YOU KNOW WHY CALIFORNIA IS 90 BILLION A YR IN DEBT.

  • This is some real shit. I've always supported my Minneapolis homeless community. I've let plenty of them stay with me while we chill, relax, kick the luxuries to the curb and get on some real shit. I cook for them, let them use the shower, take some food with them, and try to help them out with jobs. I've been homeless in spurts. Many of them are good people. Don't let the couple of bad seeds make you stereotype everyone. We all have our own story to tell.

  • There are too many empty building, so we need to hire the unemployed to fix up places for them to live!

    We need to have mortgage insurance , that will keep families in their home, until we place them in another job asap. People can pay back the insurance payments once back at work in installments,and interest free.

    The payback is to stop a scam played by lazy people.

    Everything is too expensive, so we need price controls on everything.

    We need to take care of America first!

  • We need to look at the factors that create homelessness... Drugs can be 1 way... Mental problems can be another.... not exactly my position... I have moral and ethical blocks of paying taxes. Now I'm homeless because I'm in a protest against taxes. What I ask to anyone paying any form of tax is "Do you care that your work funds abortion?" I refuse to pay income tax, property tax, or sales tax. I do support taxation by donation.

  • when you are homeless and you are working....work becomes like a vacation. you want to keep working. do i want to work 60, 70 hours a week? you bet! its VACATION from life cause life is a nightmare.

    it is too bad that min wage doesnt pay enough to live even at 60 hours per week though. you have to b working $10per hour at least!

  • @mathdude28 If you really are homeless, what do you do with your money? I understand food is the main thing, but other than that, where is all your money going? Save up a lot of money and move to a rural place. Cost of living is wat cheaper.

  • I don't like calling these people homeless. At the current state they are nomadic. I call them nomads personally it sounds better.

  • The purpose of life is 2 learn 2 love i'm not talking lust luv, as Christ loved us, I am sorry, & I apologize for us all who have not learned the true meaning/ joy of living or the purpose of life. We all have been programed to believe we need 2 depend on the almighty dollar but that is not true. We all fell asleep and became complacent. Trusting that we were in good hands of our Gov. comprimising the word of God; living loose selfish lives. Don't worry we R awake now God has lifted the veil.

  • @donleomarin.. You couldnt have worded it anybetter.. Keep your chin up and study survival videos, as it will certainly help later!! I became a hardcore survivalist after I was laid off and became homeless for a short stint, but was lucky to get a job and back on my feet. Bless your words my friend

  • Houses should cost 10,000 dollars each.

  • @noonesflower they did once-in the 50's and 60's when our Dollar was WORTH something. Since then the LIBERALS devalued it to jack up the economy and sell our stuff to the rest of the world. It's a technique the rest of the world esp. the Chinese caught on to. Now we're getting "jacked". They Yuan has been manipulated so Chinese goods cost 1/5 what they should. We've gotten hooked on them, there go our jobs. Get how it goes? If there's open trade, it should be fair trade. It's not.

  • @noonesflower I like your idea but how? I built a 2 bedroom one bath addition on my home and it cost more than that. That was also with minimum cost for labor. If you are going to build, you also need someone working with you that knows what they are doing, electrical, plumbing, etc.

  • i hope the the government can provide them area, to let them grow food and raise animals while waiting for a light of a tunnel. KUDOS TO THOSE WHO HELP THEM LITERALLY...

  • i was homeless a couple of times due to a meth addiction.. most of these people are victims of the economy, it is a terrible feeling , not having enough money to buy some food ,starving ... it sucks

  • make no mistake this was all planned by the centeral bankers!!! and our greedy polititians... america has been sold down the river.... the bankers are partying while america burns!!!!! thomas jefferson was right!!!

  • some of you have no humility .you should be ashamed of your comments ,maybe when a crisis comes knocking at your door ....Dont gloat ...

  • That FaceBook guy is worth 6.9 billion now.Maybe someone should show him this video.He might be able to help... unless he feels he needs 6.9 BILLION DOLLARS for himself.

  • I remember being homeless in Minnesota twice. Almost gave up.

  • If i was in control of america i would give alot of help to the homeless people.

  • how come illegal aliens can come here and get everything handed to them and people who truly need SSI and social services actual services are denied

  • @MrDane100

    Exactly

  • I'm with you . . .to the bitter, bloody, muddy end . . .

    and down through the valley of pikes,

    -BABYLON-

  • Secretary of Snakes Clinton just gave Pakistan $150 million dollars to help Pakistanis find jobs, Israel gets $10 million each and every day. Obamas' administration has requested from Congress an additional $2,775 Billion in security assistance funding specifically for Israel. We do not have a representative government in the United States, not one that represents the people of the United states. Isn't that called taxation without representation?

  • Here is one answer The Venus Project. Jacque Fresco's Resource Based Economy. Look into it.

  • @pufycino where r u from and dont ever talk that, do u have any friends talking like that?

  • liivng wages for the people

  • ZEITGEIST !

  • I am from the UK, it is sad what is happening to US. I see that all the celebs are now jumping on the Haiti bandwagon now that Africa is not the "in" thing. Why cant these so called American heroes do something for their own people. Our celebs do alot for the homeless, shelters, help with rents. But i guess America was built on greed, no one will pat u on the back for helping out a "bum" but gives u honour for building a school in Africa.

  • @smp236520 im from england and i feel da same way 2

  • @marids Where am I from? Just look in my profile/my movies and find out. Dumb american. No wonder you are homeless.

  • @pufycino im not american im british and i have a 3 storey house which shows how much u know! anyway i asked u a question; do u hav any friends even though u speak like that?

  • @marids Of course I have friends, what do you think-Im a loner? But let me ask you a question; why don't you like my comment about the maericans being controlled by the jews through federal reserve.????Isn't that true?

  • @pufycino ok but just dont talk like that, u should never talk about someone like that whatever they have done especially if they havent done something to effect

  • I was there Mlps when My best friend on the street Froze to death as we slept under an over pass..... To be honest im one of the lucky ones that traveled the Country homeless and Luckier still that im up to where i am today. Its a Fucking shame that where once there was alot of help is nothing for us anymore. its a Damn shame. its ok as they said one paycheck from being right there with em.

  • @Bassisbest55 sometimes it's just not that simple.

  • obama has done nothing to little for the homeless in the USA he spends the $ like its his we all pay for it and get nothing but debt!!!

  • americans have the right to bear arms,what the hell are they waiting for.

  • I want to encourage them to buy mutual funds such as BMO Global Monthly Income fund that will pay them 5.5cents a month with a NAVPS of 5.53. It would be great to save that and build themselves enough units to help themselves. I think not needing rent and free food from soup kitchens, they could save all that they beg and earn and might be able to bank $20,000 a year if they don't do drugs.

  • Obam just gave 100 million dollars to Haiti, why dont he give some of that money to help the homless Americans.

  • Yup the Haiti situation is raising up a lot of controversy. Its horrible what happened there but lets take a look at whats developing here and ask why not as much funds to push America through these times. I think this is an older video but this situation is on the rise so quickly that more will know close friends that are put in this situation.

  • @37361811 Because Americans don't care about our own citizens.

  • Excellent video - reposted on facebook, lets raise awareness and BE the change xxx

  • anyone know where to download voices oin the tunnels

  • The corrupt criminals in Washington District of Criminals,give Billions to Is-Ra-hell,yet as many as 50 million Americans go hungary each day.

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  • After 23 years of non-stop work (12-16 work days/7 days a week) I finally own a house. The work made me permanently ill. However, at least my children and future grandchildren will have a bed and a roof over their head. Had I not been strong enough to have maintained that work-pace for all those years, than I would have failed. It is all so very scary. God, I pray my children and future grandchildren will be smart enough to realise all of this.

  • I'm so glad the networks are telling everyone that we are out of this recession.

    This is just the beginning.

    If you care.. listen to gerald celente.. and get a head start.

  • man, this is sad to see. my youth group came down to minneapolis and st.paul last summer for a mission trip from canada. we learned that instead of going to mexico or panama, there is truobles close to home. i worked in marys place, which is a transitional housing for former homeless. it is very sad to see so many people hurting.

  • OMG, such a sad opening. Very powerful and makes you want to view the whole video! Well done!

  • 1st world is heading for the 3rd world.

    and thomas jefferson was a slave holding land baron, great grandfather to the future bankers who have ripped off everybody & put a million more homeless into the streets.

  • Where the fuck is this country going

  • What do you think Obama? How many shovels hit the dirt right away you lieing motherfucker. Take care of your own people. Fuck sending food overseas, the hell with 9.7 trillion dollars bailing out Wall Street.. You turned your back on main street. Bail out Main Street.

  • ANYONE who thinks ppl are homeless in America because they are lazy, stupid or ignorant need to see this video.... These ppl are out there looking for jobs every day and find nothing because their very little jobs left now in America and those who do get employed are lucky... It will get a lot worse ppl save up because this is a planned attack.. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

  • @DonLeoMarin

    You are correct, blessings.

  • @DonLeoMarin true a great deal of ppl cant help being out there

    but i personally know

    of people who are homeless cause they do not want to work

    and want to live off of others as well

  • You start to see whats really important. All the material things don't seem so important. Daily 'bread' of food/fluids, but the people stick together

  • Thanks for this intelligent video, I'll post it on my site, thanks again.

  • Self Government and sufficiency

    "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

    ~Thomas Jefferson

    Including your land

  • "If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson

  • if...

  • The land of 10.000 homeless, that doesnt fit, but it you say about 60-66.000.000 thats much better.

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  • I can teach them have to use flash and get jobs.

  • People should stop having kids. Wall Street and Government do not want you to stay in you homes, forcing and allowing foreclosures. Homes are made to keep kids inside. Since people cant keep their homes, people should stop having kids and get vasectomies. We dont need more kids. Read the Grapes of Wrath. Tent Cities.

  • it ain't gonna get better. Maybe the border crossers will go back and leave us to our pain, we owe them nothing, good riddance to trash

  • in the meantime the federal government gives 150 billion to bailout AIG./goldman . whats up with that???????????

  • The poor have it much better than many of the working. I could be homeless. but I don't do drugs and I utilize the programs that are in place. I have a nice apartment in one of the nicest areas of my city, gated, I have cable, food, nice furniture. There's more to being homeless than just being down on your luck. Alcohol, drug abuse.

  • As humans we all need to do something to help. There are so many reasons why people end up homeless, you can *not* simplify the situation by saying they're all addicts or lazy. Like she said, right now there are many of us that are "one paycheck away from being homeless"--  VOLUNTEER. We're all part of the same family at the end of the day.

  • Has anyone every considered that the whole early 2000 century foreclosure crisis is a form or terrorism? Look at how many people are directly effected and the even large numbers that are indirectly infected. No need for bombs, bullets, or viruses. The job got done anyway.

  • "Your homeless and people tease you"

    We are our own worst enemy in what is known as the human race.

    And on that account is layed the foundation of our own undoing.

  • I don't feel sorry for them. They made a better video than I can.

    Conclusion: With all their complaining they still wouldn't live any other way. Part of the job is begging.

  • My heart bleeds for these people. God bless them all!

    The Bill and Melissa Gates foundation should step up and help America instead of spending so much time helping other parts of the world.

  • microsoft is another front of IBM, these fundations in reality are just about evading taxes, some of that money goes towards eugenics programs

  • wow this sad

  • I became homeless after two denials from Social Security Disability. I met teachers, carpenters, plumbers, secretaries and human resource managers who were also homeless. I met hundreds who were also denied SSDI. I bought my first home with my back benefits.

    We as Americans need to write our senators and congress people and demand that the $900 billion 'borrowed' from Social Security be repaid.

  • greed says your life means noting

  • The bible says that satan (the god of this world) has blinded the minds of men. (The politicians,the rich). The rich are out of touch because of greed and selfishness. The devil is their father.

  • true words.....when you have money....you have friends...ive money is gone....than i'm sure what is gone to...that is the work of the devil....

  • true words.....when you have money....you have friends...ive money is gone....than i'm sure what is gone to...that is the work of the devil....

  • There is no excuse in this country for people to be homeless. If the federal goverment spent as much money on solving the homeless issue as they do the Iraq war or the bailout. There would not be homelessness not every one can afford 4,5,6,700 dollar apts. If you make minimum wage and with the economy being the way it is and you cant get a second job. You have to be homeless.

  • Bigtymer, guess what ? if you dont make enough money you cant afford an apartment.plus no one is going to give you a job ,you have to earn it. Its people like you is the reason we have homelessness because your out of touch and selfish.

  • Homelessness is a weapon of the state like starvation in 3rd world countries, its a deliberate policy. They dont want us to own anything least of all our own homes. More and more people,with jobs, are going to lose their homes so the elites can take every last resource on our planet.

  • Hey...I'm from Toronto Canada and I want to fight the city hall and make sure they hear us..theres alot of people need help.. I need support to do this....????

    any idea..??>

  • I treid that, black...I went all over the county in my state to see what we could do to help the people. The news said they tried to get a building put up to house the homeless, but the neighborhood didn't want it there. End of story. I went home.

  • Its a shame to see that and it makes me angry, if you realize that none of them has to be homeless if this crooky goverment would cut the spending for military crap about 50%. That would be 200bln Dollars which could go into social care. You could finance food and a place to sleep for them and start programs to reintegrate them into society! Instead of carrying about thier own people they just care about themselfes. True evil which has to be taken care!

  • swordfish, it's the banks. The banks reposesses houses, because the government pays billions of dollars to them for doing it.

  • go see the video- "the homeless fight back..." and see what robinhood is doing to help homeless families- it's in my favs if you want to see it from there

  • thats deep brethren ... freeze to death in America .... hey you can fight the Banks to keep your house ... you have power

  • the shitbag executives of fannie mae and freddie mac have virtually ensured that the number of homeless in america increases

  • be real man, dont you embarasing for your own people, i'm from thailand, ok i might live in UK for now but thailand always be my home sweet home but the way i see america, it just make me sad. i never see a homeless in thailand even baggar i hardly find one, remember Sunami? US was right there first but when its came to their own never do anything! poor people in my country living in wooding house not that civilize but it some where to sleep and eat.so do something about it. stop being big dady!

  • Guzz-

    I wish that there WAS something that we, the people, could do about the homeless situation but short of a revolution, nothing else will change things. As in the collapse of the Roman empire, the civilization fell out of the corruption, greed and excesses of it's rulers, the leaders who sabotaged that most powerful civilization. Why believe that just because a thousand years have gone by, history wouldn't repeat itself?

    Look at oursad government and you'll see why America is failing.

  • American Superpower! Buahahaha! Homeless people on the street....Your government spend all your taxes on war...

  • sad.:)

  • At Redding Loaves and Fishes, We are against practices and laws that unfairly single out homeless people and criminalize them for everyday living and life-sustaining activites.

  • I'm no conservative or liberal, but this video shows exactly why the government shouldn't tax the poor. They should free the markets so they don't need permits to do work like in so many industries. Government ordinances hurt the poor. Reglations on work hurts the poor. Bureaucracy in the welfare system hurts the poor. Back in the 1800's people didn't worry about making house payments because there was abundance. Now people are right on the edge of poverty while government grew. Shame!

  • this is how you break up a country, start by breaking up the family then one by one take them all down.

  • Long Live Thinkers Like Paul Wellstone!...I Just Hope the People "Elect" the Power People that Care...Sorry for the last negative comment..but i was depressed when Edwards dropped out..Great Video EXCELLENT!!..I'm glad Florida came out with a Video about 3 wks. ago! about Time!...I have been Homeless..and at Risk!.again...Thanks!

  • homeless in a town near you.tomorrow it will be in portland,oregon and when i get tired of this town i will go to another town.and not worry about shit.i wont tell you my story and i wont ask you for anything so i can be told no.

  • What a disgrace. With more milionaires per capita than anywhere but California there are people on the streets.

    There needs to be a link to this video on the front page of both local newspapers. It has

    to be put in front of people for them to see.

    I have volunteered at homeless shelters. It tears your heart out. Most

    are not there of their own doing. Circumastances which are just getting worse all the time will only increase their numbers. What can we do about it?

  • You can help the homeless with Helping HandBags from Guiltless Giving. Keep a few Helping HandBags in your glove box and give them out when you see a person in need or have Helping HandBags shipped to a shelter in your local area.

    Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

    God bless. CG - GuiltlessGiving

  • Right ON Awareness! Great Production!...

  • How can I download this to my PC? I want to show it to my students and our school has blocked utube.Help!

  • You Can download it to your Brain Mr.Mrs teacher...its to bad one has to be a...to copy it i do some that are not coded...utube should alllow that but it must be the captalist...Contact these people EMAIL or Brain!...Their Good! Awareness! Thanks

  • Portland, Oregon - which has ALWAYS had a constant population of homeless (used to be just men) just built two multi-million dollar animal shelters downtown. People care more about pitbulls and pussycats than they do about people. There will be a reckoning one day.

  • Could have left out shots of the women singing in the background - what's her point? "It's gonna be OK?!" I just got served foreclosure papers at 8:00pm last night - its not gonna be OK.

  • I wish I had a way to help you... I will be praying for you. Please be strong. I myself have been homeless with 2 children. And you might not have a reason to believe it, but if you stay strong, it will be alright. The universe tends to unfold as it should.

  • Thanks for the kind words. Sometimes it takes walking in another's shoes to really understand where they've been. The fear and anxiety is almost overwhelming tho. I always think someone else is worse off than me - and that keeps me from losing hope. Thank you most for your prayers.

  • GREAT JOB!

  • The richest nation on earth, dispensing foreign aid all over the universe to buy loyalty and blackmail global politicians and YET, IT CAN'T HELP IT'S OWN PEOPLE?

    God have mercy on America!!!! For beginners, CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME!!!

    MERRY X-MAS AMERICA!!!!

  • I care! Homeless people ARE PEOPLE too. I run a shelter in Jacksonville, Florida. I don't have to. I do it because they ARE people too. What would you do if it was your baby?

  • Good for you. I had to leave the USA because I couldn't get healthcare. I paid my debts, was no burden, but couldn't get the basics. And I have an MBA. You keep helping them. Maybe they can get out of it. Bless you.

  • Excellent Video Production I was from Mpls and Had been Homeless for a time. Spend 4 yrs in a Vets Home only to be confined almost like a Prison...yep just one beer gets one in detox. Theirs no schooling their if one cannot get a disability and get out of the Vets home..hes stuck for life. You know what Ticks me off here!..You allow that Worldlemmon's comment to stay up?...dosn't it Violate the 1st Amendment when one Threatens? right he has free speech to say that?...dosn't it?

  • The illusion of success, rolls blindly past the reality of life . . .

    It's time for society to remove the blinders, to start funding and building ARC's (Abuse Recovery Centers) instead of prisons. It is time to train and employ, non violent, third strike offenders as mentor assistants to help themselves and the homeless assimilate back into productive social behaviors.

    It is time to embrace y/our humanity . . . and conquer our fears.

    BL*M

  • After working hard for over 25 years and built a decent life for my self and my family, because of and due to the last 10 years of persistent epileptic seizures, I lost my job, my health insurance, my car, my driving license, my wife, my home and everything I ever worked hard for and saved all my life for to become destitute homeless.

    EVERYBODY IS HOMELESS FOR DIFFERENT REASONS!

  • A project through the UofM Human Rights Center. Lots of time and effort put into this video. Powerful end product--wish more people could see it.

    p.s. Woman singing in the background is Maria Isa-- check her out!

  • Why havn't more people seen this?!

  • Very impressive and moving. I'm trying to contact the producer (VoiceoftheStreets) via email, but no response. Anyone know how to reach them? I'd like to use this video in educational efforts. Thanks.

  • This is a very real problem that needs everybody's attention. Average people don't care until they're actually in this position. Then how can we make a difference when we don't have the resources? NOBODY SHOULD HAVVE NOTHING WHEN OTHERS HAVE MORE THAN THEY NEED!!!!!!!!!!

  • very sad, especially that little girl.

  • well done. good perspective. I John 3:17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

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