100 % correct

So true!

Plenty of union hacks also helped drive this country down. They could see what was happening

Jesus it’s rough kids I’ll tell you that I been working as a hairdresser for 32 years went to college too, but I make more doing hair. But all my customers are older and retired, I got a few younger clients but not like it was back in the day. And of course you make less every year with inflation and all the taxing aka fees.

@@wontbefooledagain9400 You're right. This generation don't care about hair like that. They'd rather die their hair in rainbow colors. And most ppl cannot afford a $300 color job anymore.

Such a simple concept and yet some like to live like a three day millionare. That sounds callus but always spending less than you take in allows even very poor people to advance financially. Small things like growing a garden, or skip the Tim Horton's coffee, drive a more frugal car, take the bus, work a few extra hours each week and save that money, buy less no essential goods. The list is endless. Keep a rainy day fund to avoid bank rip-offs. Congratulations on your success.

@@kerrryschultz2904That kind of thing works when your money isn’t worthless. No one can even afford groceries now

@@thecoxsays1 I've worked different jobs that paid reasonable money and drove a 25 year old car that I fixed myself and totally rebuilt a house including making my own cupboards and counter tops and island. Never smoked, or drank and always took extra work so usually worked both at home and work 70 plus hours a week. kept a garden and cooked my own food. Learned different skills and read a lot of technical stuff. One job managed to save 70% of my take home pay after taxes. And that same job that other guys worked at most said they couldn't save anything. And they all drove newer cars and smoked and had regular holidays and said a week off and they wouldn't make the mortgage. No one at that job kept a garden even though some lived on a little bit of acreage. I've known people with a 6 figure income and have less put aside for a rainy day than a few that made 1/3 that amount of money but they were very carefull with what they earned. They say the average lottery winner that wins 2 million or less is near broke in 3 to 5 years. And struggling to buy groceries.

a lot of millionaires won't be retiring either, you have no idea whats coming, millionaires are nothing and won't survive whats coming.

But most of those places are scary to live. Mental health and drug issues

Oh, yeah, great... for male heterosexual white guys. And literally nobody else.

@@joanandreanoweyland57thats u

Absolutely brilliant

Amen to that 🙏💯👍

An able man won't work. It's just that simple.

Wow you nailed it

Amen

The same thing is happening here in DC

@user-fm3qf7rv7k Every state in the Union. Nothing but Corruption, Drugs and Criminals. Thanks WOKE DemoRats!

We no longer put those delinquents in Jail. We need to get back to actual policing. In one hand people complain about “police brutality”, and then in the other complaining about crime

America is broke with no real money or real jobs. No future that’s the real problem

I was born and live in san Francisco. My city is doing the same

I 100% agree with you

agreed

@waynecoxdrums: "I'm sick of arguing with...". Ok, so stop arguing with idiots who want to be heard. You are enabling these "piss ants" to voice their ignorant opinions. My perspective of Youngstown is best expressed through Emily Dickinson's poem "This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies and lads and girls was laughter and ability and sighing with frocks and curls, this passive place a summer's nimble mansion where bloom and bees fulfill their oriental circuit, then ceased like these. Just a note: there are "Youngtown's" all over America. FYI take a look at all the deserted towns across the Western States. Much smaller in size, but the principle is the same.

And stupidity never goes out of fashion 😂 unfortunately the more stupid and ignorant a person is it seems, the louder they want to shout about it because they haven't got the sense to understand that they just might not know what they're talking about 😂

You make your opportunities by getting off you ass,get a useful skill or education and leave a dead place like Youngstown. Losers stay and take drugs.

Quote from Bill Gate. “You cannot control born to a poor family, but you can control whether you want to live a poor life.” Make perfect sense.

@@lyyang1284 Your definitions of poor change throughout the sentence, which is convenient to defend someone who hoards wealth at large. Microsoft is a plague, a machine that eats art with substance and turns it into a disgusting apparition only meant to churn out dollars. 343 industries, Mojang, Windows. By the way, his name is Bill Gates, not Bill Gate.

@@lyyang1284 poor thoughts poor life... rich thoughts rich life

@@lyyang1284 "but you can control whether you want to live a poor life." Bill Gates was speaking his own mind, which he knows extremely little about. Karma is the architect of the coming life you're born into. Bill Gates is "crediting himself" for what was given to him on a "silver platter". For a real life example Bill Gates is just like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. And he thinks he did it by his own whit's. Maybe God will remind him of this when Gate's is born into a "Homeless Life". And a message to you lyyyang. The path you're on is not on the of truth, but it is a good start. Buddha's last message to the world was "Be lamps onto yourselves." And you learn that through meditation. And you say "makes perfect sense." How so? Find your own path of truth. Learn how to be a lamp onto yourselves. PS: I'm almost 80. For most of my life I sought truth through the eyes of those who I thought knew the truth. That was 40 years ago. Since then, I became a Buddhist. I spent 30 days at a time vision questing in a small (21 foot) RV at 5700 ft elevation on the east side of Glacier National Park for 14 years. I did this 6 or 7 times/year even in winter at temps as low as -27F. This is the way to the truth for you. Until now your whole life was what you been told by people who have only scant knowledge about you and even less about themselves. This is "Compassion" in action. Your whole life before now was interpretation by others who you trusted. During my first 40 years of life there were times when someone (usually family) would say to me "I know you." Then I started to seek what truth is. Truth is a "metaphor" for compassion and freedom. Live it, not somebody else's version of it. "Be lamps onto yourselves."

@@SpaceLord2025 "poorthoights poor life". Show me the money wise one?

Sometimes, we have to cut our losses and leave, even with family. It's self protection.

sadly true! @@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr

Family unit? You are just overlaying fox news talking point on top of this documentary. Can't you watch this documentary with an unbiased, independent perspective instead of re-interpreting it with a rightis perspective. USA has problems for single people and families. The family factor is NOT what is causing these problems. The group's that convince people that "we need to go back to christian values and the family" are the REASON cities like this fall apart.

@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr it's self-preservation.... and to the gentleman who sounds so optimistic and keeping the hope, I wish I was as blue pulled and delusional as this dude, listen folks, our government has sold us out a long time ago, the nail in the coffin was when Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law allowing all of these American corporations to leave this country for cheaper labor and at this point(roughly1992) was the US completely transitioned from manufacturing goods and actually making things and into a consumer economy, we all now purchase things at low prices, we don't even fix things anymore its cheaper to buy and replace most items. And over time we no longer have competition every industry is dominated by one to four big corporations which fix priceses and price gouge. I wish you all luck, I have empathy and true love for you all, please try to be kind to everyone.

I’m not sure telling them they got this is helpful. They need more than encouragement.

Good point

Yup....right with you....country is finished and it matters not who is in the White House.....they sold us out for greed....

Since when was bringing children into the world a conscious decision?

For the couples that are doing it right, it always has been.@@antpoo

@@208SledHead no, It’s mostly an accident by youth, or lack of control in throes of hormones or just pure selfishness out of fear and pain of loneliness and lack of purpose. Few ppl sit down and nut out the pros and cons and then get to work like it is a job. Shopenheur said, if giving birth to a child were a conscious act, Very few would wilfully bring a child inti exustence ‘in cold blood’. May have bed. Tongue in cheek, But he was philosopher, and I’m pretty sure he spoke from profound truth.

I'll never understand why so many Americans are so damn brainwashed.

I’m not impressed with him and neither was his family.

@@anthonylemkendorf3114how did you end up here if you don’t like George Carlin?? He made humor out of the idiots and hypocrisy we have to deal with in this world lol

Omg, that’s exactly correct! George Carlin always put things into perspective!

"The divided states of embarrassment". --- Eminem 😅

It's because big corp and oligarch money has infiltrated our voting process/democracy. It was happening slowly but surely for a long time, then the Koch Brothers passing "Citizens United" was the nail in the coffin.

💯 right our government does this to us they don't care about us

hit the nail on the head, my friend! Ive not been that down. Yet. Im 61, still working and my employer pays my health insurance. Then what? I have no retirement or pension. I have half of the worth of my parents house that I split with my sister that I plan to use to buy a motor home. But I will still have to figure out health insurance, lot rent or somehwere to place my motor home. Then just living expenses. All of which has to come out of measly social security check. Scary as hell!!

It's also the feeling of belonging, the Feeling hope. The feeling of love. A lot of the issue is not enough love and too much disconnect.

If in the usa try the housing authority for your area. You can not have any money. Maybe you sis could inherit everything and then help you out? Rental units are not so bad just donot lie to housing outright. You can find private places. You can also seek help at dhs human services. This is why these services are there.

the cities are dead, all of them, it's part of the plan to get everyone there.

Not just American UK Canada Australia to name a few

The really sad thing is these people have embraced authoritarian right wing policies. Siding with the EVIL wealthy and powerful that did this to them. Wake up!

I'm going to have to assume that we're very serious trouble as a western society

That's conspiratorial garbage. The banks don't control anything. Give Congress the credit its due. State legislatures, city mayors, county supervisors and federal officials did this. Don't give them a free pass in order to be a bigot.

Exactly correct and it’s been this globalization and what they refer to in International Relations is interdependence. It’s STUPID!! it’s like saying “ OK you can have your countries and so-called borders, but these immigrants are going to go here and there & rich countries will get there, which is a way to the poorest countries!” and the WEF has a lot to do with it and American presidents in our government. Give so much money to the WTF and I don’t think they need a damn time.! the reason the third world countries are the way they are is because they’re unstable, and totally corrupt, and most of all communists or totalitarian

I felt your comment in my soul. I was laid off from a job in 2012 after 11 years. Found another job and lost that one (long story). I told my wife and all she could do was cry. We had a new baby and had just signed mortgage papers. I hustled around and eventually found decent work again in and its been good ever since. But when I was unemployed it was probably the lowest I'd ever felt. I'm thankful every day that things turned around, but I'll never forget that feeling. Situations like this definitely change a person.

Men have woken up Goverment and women are the exact same evil. Gov weaponisation of women and there natural spiteful ways is fully exposed and men have gone there own way those men not going there own way are trapped in the simp spy no tedtedtorone depression trans gay meds matrix I walked away for hood in 2017 and stacked cash gold silver stock like a mad man whilst living in a tiny box room surrounded by druggys cracks losers as I watched them tear each other apart I sat still and stacked 100s of thousands then walked away iv been monk mode for 7 yrs now walk away men MGTOW

PLUS TODAY; WOMEN ARE FRIGID.

aint seen nothin yet. this country is comin apart. pile some more people in here. esp. muslims. mom g. washington an apple pie is leavin. turnin into a shit hole.

To have a good job you need to study, not get a job thru nepotism.

Were you born and raised in the US?

@masterTsayge: so, you left Portugal?

@@loditx7706 Ignorance is bliss !

@@lino222 I don’t understand your comment. I was being snarky to him. He said he went to Portugal and now was in Paradise, so I was inferring that he had traveled on.

Ah, you sell your bum

That's the message here. It's the whole reason for America crumbling. The rest are just symptoms

Dads are not important. They just get in the way.

I just lost mine, you’re story hits home.

Congrats to you on your success and for crediting your Dad with providing when you were young.

I too had a wonderful dad who many ways was far better than my mum. He worked incredibly hard to keep our family safe and provide for and I appreciate everything you ever did for me. I’m so grateful to have a mum and dad. You take this for granted when you’re growing up and then you see so many other people who didn’t have that same security. My parents to argue to have a lot when we were young and they could’ve split up so easily, but thankfully they didn’t and remain together until their deaths in 2009. I didn’t realise what a gift that was them staying together for nearly 50 years.

thinking of retiring in Greece. Tired of fighting the "will" of the people who want communism.

I am glad you are back in Greece 🇬🇷 cause it is people like you that are non US citizens and refugees that are making us more poor and more people homeless cause they help the non US citizens first before the US citizen first and that is not okay it would be like if I went to your country and got free food and a free house and free food and a free car and free schooling without paying for any of it or working for it I have been seeing more and more non US citizens and refugees get treated that way in the USA 🇺🇸 and it should be the US citizens that get treated that way they were born here

@@1ireneaustin Damn that is funny. Please define Communism. No, YOU CAN'T!

@@meaganmoore7094 Trump was the President that promised to end that type of stuff. Are you saying that he FAILED YOU?

@@meaganmoore7094 You're mixed up. I was born in America as a dual-citizen. My grandfather became a naturalized American after he served in the US Navy during the Second World War. His own brother was lost at sea aboard an American submarine in the Pacific War. My parents and grandparents were responsible members of their community. My family were business owners and ran companies, providing their neighbors and fellow citizens with jobs. They created wealth, lifted many out of poverty, and gave hope. To this day, many of my family still live in the United States. Two of my cousins are Marines. My uncle is former Navy like my grandfather was. Another cousin of mine serves in the Air Force. You're just as much a part of the problem as the people who treat the United States parasitically because you cannot tell the difference between those who adopted this country as their home, who fought for and served it, who enriched it and helped make it great, and those who wish to prey on it. You are fooled. I am back in Greece because the country and the dream that my family fought, bled, and crossed a planet for is dying. And it's people like you - and those you claim to oppose - who hold the knife. Enjoy it.

100% CORRECT! This filmmaker wanted only the Planet of the Apes version of Youngstown. There wasn't one single shot of the campus....or the busy sections of town where people live and work....WORK.....every day. This documentary is theater....it doesn't document anything that wasn't already recorded in the 80s. It's bullshit.

Just sent $$$$ billions more to Ukraine and billions to many other countries as well.

@@AB-ev8il😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@AB-ev8il lots of repubs are on on the game too.....

Really!!! Blaming Democrats? Wake up! The rich and powerful did this. They own both parties, the media, the universities, everything. Trump is NOT a savior. Eat the rich!

@@IINVICTA the "im too stupid to see past my self" emojis.

Hope you’re doing alright, brother. Very similar circumstances for me, but I struggle with fear. I try to keep the faith! -Best Wishes

@@Job.Well.Done_01 Stay strong brother. Patience, and a lot of it, is part of the key. But there isn't much of that going around nowadays.

Why fear? 🤔

May I recommend you slowly find those precious few who are with you when things are up and down? They are HARD to find...but you just hold on to them.

@jasonmiller6941 - i know what you are going through all to well. The only difference is it wasnt covid or me it was a felony that i took for my so called friends. Lost my freedom, house, life, self respect and money. My wife, 3 kids, parents, brothers and extended family(Grandma, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and non blood kin) stayed at myside and held. My family and myself up, 3 years later and i think I've finally found a job after getting turned away at McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell Arbys and all the other so called "They will hire anyone Jobs". Hopefully this gets us back on our own feet, but i realize Self Purpose, Family, Pride and Love are what truely makes a person rich. Money just makes a person relaxed. Keep getting it for you My Brother. Ill be thinking and praying for you.

I know I voted for him

Thank Bill Clinton

I remember back when he said that. I also remember people laughing at him. Calling him crazy and a radical. Today, they talk about how they miss Ross Perot and wish they had voted for him. How he was a man with the vision.

Ross Perot was a proto Donald Trump, from the blunt honesty to the mercurial temperament

I voted for him too. Clinton did this to our country!

I feel very worried for the younger people today. They have very little encouragement, lots of criticism from older adults and very little opportunities. When I was younger it was very different and easier in many ways.

It's funny how people who have inherited a lot of land expect us to die for that land in their wars while we can barely afford the rent we have to pay them for that land.

@@donniecatalano The Land of the Fee. Nothing is Free in the USA. Looks like it's becoming a 3rd world country.

Theyre too busy living off your credit having a great time selling you into 32 trillion in federal gov debt for their social security checks. Work harder lazy bones. They had no trouble making it why do you? lol

@@donniecatalano thats my daily struggle, i live worried for my young kids and younger people everywhere, am trying hard to convince young people of the need to build communes or collectives where they can build their future working together...if they dont gather and build teams is really hard for them to make it.

People are scared or don't want to face the truth.

Or maybe because no one wants to watch a depressing documentary for over an hour.

Cause they are sheep line up for the next Barbie movie or the thousandth marvel comic book movie made…. 85% of the world are mindless sheep that like what everyone else does…the remainder is interested in things like this or a movie based on life and not some fake made up fairytale world stuff.

give it time

America has never had good morals 😂

@@chulo9454we fought like hell. That’s part of the American Spirit.

I miss my grandparents like crazy but I'm glad in a way they're not here to witness what's happened.

Actually, corporate America destroyed it.

I'm afraid it's the same story across the western world, and elsewhere too

He long did watch for cause it’s there , church is part of this documentary

haha zombie homes, nice! like that term

@@searas4227 no. I had a good job. Family. A loving wife. I have much I’m thankful for. I am wealthy.

@@Revolver1701 Then you are truly blessed.

I’m so glad you made it through all your troubles; whatever they were! 😜You seem to be giving a lot of credit and reliance on outside factors that enabled you to achieve your goals. 👍Nothing wrong with that, as long as you recognize also your part in your success. All the breaks and good fortune and mentors in the world can’t help if you aren’t committed. From the little you say it seems to me you worked your ass off to do your best, so take a bow for YOUR part in how your life turned out. 💯🏆🥇🏅❤️

@@loditx7706 wow. Thanks. I finished college but had to give up on grad school to help my folks when my dad got sick. But it really was no choice but to do that and, even though it hurts when I think about that loss, I’ve made peace with that pain. Thank you for your kind words. I believe you have a good soul. 👍🙏🏆🏆🏆

It was meant to be. My mom & dad met during college. He helped her go back after having all of us.

sold out by capitalism, the root of all evil

Sold out by liberals in general

Amen To That Brother!!! I Live In Southeast Lower Michigan, So I Know Where Flint Is At! That Asshat Governor That We Had Let Flint's People Suffer And Die From Lead Poisoning And The Children Suffered From Brain Damage Too! The Government Didn't Give A RIP About It Either!!! GOD Bless ALL Of The People Of Flint Michigan USA.🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🗽‼️

I grew up in Bay City but now live in Lansing. I've seen it too . Detroit , Flint , Pontiac , Saginaw....all industrial wastelands .

@@MrCtsSteve Which is exactly what you'd expect in a post-industrial economy.

oh no, GASP! not TRADE DEALS!!!!

@@gaozhi2007 It can't be overstated how .much that hurt this country.

The second they come up with the answer they are out of a job.

@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha Because capitalism sucks balls.

He was also about to take it up the ass 🎉🎉 party in mark 30:53's ass!!! 🎉🎉🎉😂😂

With the election of Ronnie, trickle down started. This is the results 😡😡. Wow turns out making the countries number 1 priority allowing the rich and powerful to do anything they want turns the place into a hell hole😢

@@theboyisnotright6312You sound so ignorant!!

GE employed 13,000 at one time in Pittsfield, MA. All gone now. They're waiting for the big renaissance but it's not coming.

God, and Springfield isn't even that bad. Former New Englander, moved to OH. I would move to Springfield in a heartbeat right now.

Yes, but look at the man who lost 2 brother's. He drove into a pretty nice new public housing project and all you see is rubbish, old beds, furniture strewn about the street. The government can only do so much. If you can't even look after your immediate area, fuck you.

And WTF are 3/4 blacks being born to single mothers. Take away food stamps and welfare. How's about going on the pill. It's pathetic.

yup, sad.... america 3rd world by 2060? i wont be here. no kids to see the collapse with 78% poverty by then

He definitely is a great documentarian!! Thank you so much 😊

I teared up in the 1st minute, lol.

He is a good documentarian, but if you pay attention, under his veneer of compassion his central claim is that its their own fault... They became poor because they "gave up Christian values" "stopped working hard" and "drink too much" .... Rather than the outsourcing of their towns industry.

@@semarugaijin9451and so what do you say to turn next generation or the people who move into these towns? That their poverty is the responsibility of a company they never worked for that left long ago? What they need is clear thinking about the future and not dwelling on what never was, same as those who worked and lost jobs. Bounce back to your feet and provide for your family is a much more productive message

"These places had failed to make the transition from an industrial to a postmodern economy." What's a post modern economy? Is it like Erie, Pennsylvania? General Electric closed up shop, not because nobody needs trains in the post modern world, but because of Greedy managers like Jack Welch. They can't help but sell out the communities which built them. Now Erie Insurance has taken its spot as #1 employer. Money scams instead of valuable exports.

Jobs coming back is never going to happen until people start finding Jesus, putting PEOPLE before PROFITS. Too expensive unless people become willing to take a loss in order to succeed on a greater level.

I'd much rather be in France.

@@bicyclist2 life's not too bad here, indeed...

You’re either trolling, live in a cloud, or one of the 8% gaming the social safety net. I spent 24yrs in Paris & Tulouse. It’s unrecognizable today. Piles of trash, infrastructure in disrepair, horrible crime. Unlivable. Then there’s rising taxes, mounting regulations, oppressive bureaucracy, increasing energy costs, frequent strikes, and stagnating worker productivity that have made France a dystopian hell hole. It is estimated that 91% of France’s wealth is held *_outside_* France, in Monaco, the US & Switzerland, a sign that *no one* trusts anything French. Your government has even gone so far to pass crushing regulations against the one industry/company the French once got right - My employer, Airbus. And when I’m done with this post over my lunch hour, I will go back to my job of literally moving jobs out of France to facilities in America, Canada, Brazil. These jobs cost the company much more outside of France, but it comes down to word you cannot apply to France: Consistency. We cannot operate predictably in your country any longer. And by move, I’m not talking expats. I’m talking about hiring people with a work ethic. Decent pastry, failed social & economic policies, and the biggest crybabies on the F1 & F2 grids. That’s the sum of what France predictably delivers.

France needs to de-islamify itself and have strong borders to avoid such a thing happening there as well. Best of luck.

I worked so hard only to lose everything 2009 housing crisis and high unemployment . It's so fast that you can"t recover and catch up . Thank God for my family ,I would have had to sleep in the street and surely would have become mentally ill .

@@sandraalegria3439 Go easy on the fairy tales.

@@incumbentvinyl9291 That's no fairy tale.

@@ipenguin3918 Then present the evidence.

@@incumbentvinyl9291KZfaq banned any method to do it.

Not without a God fearing national. Our government and leaders follow a different god.

There are perfectly nice parts of Ohio. YOUNGSTOWN is not one of them. That's for damn sure. My hometown across the border Sharon little better. Better though. The problem with Ohio is there isn't much to recommend it beyond good farmland & the central location/lake/rivers for industry. Once the globalists sold us out only the former was left.

@@theminister1154 My family sold their dairy farm in the 90's bc it was no longer able to stay afloat...crushed many of my family members as it had been in the family for over 100 yrs.

@@perpetualmoto That's hard man. Real hard. Sorry to hear it. I was gone and gone for good by the early 90s. Would not have predicted I'd have so much sympathy for those Cleveland to Pittsburgh corridor folks today, but life is long, & flyover got the rawest of deals from our Uniparty. Then East Palestine & the Pedophile in Chief heads to Ukraine. Satire is transcended once again.

Neoliberal, corporate policies like those advocated for by this filmmaker caused this

@@theminister1154 the unions sold you out. Every single industry that the unions infected is gone overseas.

it beagn 1963 with JFK assassi Nation the Miitary Industrial Complex Eisenhower enslaving USA and the world endless Wars Trillions $$$ total destruction God does not bless America Allah hates Humans

Stop blaming "NAFTA" there's a whole cookbook full of reasons why this all happened, it was not one thing it was many, including corporate greed, the 1973 oil crisis, the fact that these cities all were built up around just one or two narrow industries such as steel mills, the defense industry, the car makers, other cities were built up by railroads creating railroad towns where the railroad owned all the houses, and stores, when the railroad failed the towns died. Very few businesses last even 100 years, most only last 1-2 generations before the original owners children die, retire or sell out to another company who comes in, fires the workers, strips the assetts and closes what WAS a competitor- down. Others are killed by big chains like Dollar General, Walmart, Menards, Pizza Hut, Dominos coming in, flooding the area with cheaper products and driving local businesses away. Pizza hut's mantra for franchisees in the 1990s was to open the restaurant and do whatever you had to do to run the competition out of business. Do we outlaw Dollar General, Walmart, Menards, Pizza Hut, Dominos? do we forbid them from opening stores in small towns? People these days shops ONLY by price, "brands" mean nothing anymore, if one store has the paper towels on sale for 79 cents a roll and elsewhere it's 99 cents, the customer is going to buy the 79 cent roll from that business. If Amazon has the same thing you see at the local hardware store for $20 cheaper and free shipping on top, people are going to buy on Amazon. That's just how it is, the internet made it all possible to buy things on the other side of the country wit a couple of mouse clicks and have it on your doorstep shipped free in a couple of days. Me, I literally buy everythng but perishables, on-line- far better selection and choices, lower prices, free shipping and I dont have to drive somewhere and fight crowds, handle dirty shopping carts, wait on line, enter my CC info etc

It all starts with a drunk driving conviction. It never ends and it goes on and on. Being a convicted DWI is like being a child molester or some real heinous criminal. Just don't do that. And the poverty begins and never gets better...

Interesting that when Eastern Europe joined the EU, the German economy didn't collapse. The difference is education. The US doesn't have as many vocational schools.

​@@LMB222Germany still manufactures a lot. Plus they expanded their business into EE. All supermarkets are German at this point, selling German brands.

I feel that...I can't always say "I did the right things"...but, I sure tried ta! But yeah man... I'm a lil' 'ol Oklahoma "Hippabilly", and I felt that all the way over Here. 🙌🏻🙏🏻💙✌🏻

@@Bass-n-Boom

@@Bass-n-Boom Sending love and light your way!

It's all by design. Who's funding said politicians and lobbying on behalf of their same old "values"? Which side is using religion and bigotry to manipulate huge swaths of blue collar and poor people to vote against their own financial interests, securing huge tax cuts and less regulations for the insanely wealthy? The answer's not hard to figure out. But most people get manipulated by the smokescreen of our corrupt two party politics. It's basically theatre at this point, an effective distraction. Meanwhile the billionaire owner class gets richer and make everyone else's life here worse. It's uber rich people who have effectively highjacked our democracy. The relatively recent passing of the Koch Industries funded "Citizens United" bill is what helps them do it exponentially faster.

It could be an option. But not with these two political parties. We would have to do something radically new. We would have to actually become nationalists instead of globalists. There is no force of nature preventing the reshoring of industrial jobs. It's a matter of political will. Basically people on the coasts just don't care that this has happened to the rest of the country. And they don't seem to care too much that it's happened in a lot of our cities too. But they are running out of bubbles to hide in.

@@user-ed2xq5zz6x As a Canadian I think the independent Robert Kennedy Jr. with his intellect, and past working history, compassion for people, wanting to stop the endless waste of war that only benefits a few, and wanting to bring industry back to the USA is the right move. He also mentioned the need to move towards developing an energy infrastructure on renewal energy and the ideas and technology is there now.

and dont forget insurance.when i turned 18 in 72 you could get a job any where if you wanted to work with ins. an uniforms paid for. i dident know what a co payment was till bout 86. country has went to hell.

I’m def not buying car .. where engine was made in Mexico. You got that message @Ford !!

You can. Otherwise Switzerland and Germany wouldn't exist. Every time their cheaper competitors take a piece of their business, they move on. It's because they have the technologies and lots of EDUCATED people. Most men in this material hardly had a highschool diploma.

can when were driven to their level.

thats where the food comes from next

its still not takin any layoff slips.

Satanic politicians whom hate us at there core. That killed us.

Drugs helped as well..

No. what destroyed America is the inability to change in a world of Globalization and its rapidly changing parameters. Formerly third world countries like China and India as well as economies like South Korea (the largest maker of smart phones and electronic devices in the world such as the Samsung brand), Indonesia and Taiwan (the largest maker of solid state semi conductor chips), sent their best and brightest to America to study Science Engineering Technology and Math- the so called STEM courses. Those engineers then went back to their countries and with American knowledge and cheap labor, replicated the high quality goods formerly produced by America and sold them at cheap prices. The result: With outsourcing, there was no need to make goods in America any more when you can make them cheaper and better in countries where people don't whine about workman's comp and pension plans. Africa is also rising as seen in technologically advanced black countries like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. When Artificial Intelligence comes fully into play, things will get MUCH MUCH WORSE. More Americans will be jobless and the opioid use rate will rise dramatically. The American empire will sadly come to and end. That is the inevitability of radical change.

@@brianmaitai7685 nope. Never ever count America out. There's too many people starting to realize, how the democrats are purposely trying to turn our Country into a Communist Country. Just like the guy who did this documentary, he was a lifetime democrat, who grew up in a democratic household with it being pushed down his throat. Then he himself realized that things weren't like he was being taught to believe. The making of this documentary is what open his eyes, and made him see first hand how the democrats are destroying American values and beliefs. What do you think Covid-19 was about?? We're going to have to fight like there's no tomorrow, because if they're able to do it they're going to finish destroying our Country from within. Are you ready for doing something to stop them, is what you have to ask yourself.

Doesn't matter how hard you try. Single moms are the problem. Raising a kid without a dad is the biggest problem. We need to cone to grip with women's bad choices. You must have dads

​@@stonaciousstone4171 the man abandoning the woman he got pregnant is not the woman's fault, it's the man's. Maybe hold them accountable first

​@@ThatOneDudeNextDoorThe women push them away to get taxpayers money.

@@LeeGordon-fp9zfno accountability for blk men as usual. Ridiculous rhetoric claiming they all were ran out of the home. Same old deadbeat lies.

Show them for what!? They have any solutions? Nothing will change. It’s all futile.

I’m watching it now

@@Msangel06 Only if you lose hope. Solutions come when people straighten out and look for them. 🌄

I've primarily been jiggin n booin

Yeah, tell them to GET THE HELL OUT from toxic cities!

Yes me too. Detroit was so amazing during the car era.

Me too. My family moved up from the south when Detroit was a jewel. My dad's family were immigrants because Detroit was a jewel. By the time I was a teenager, it was half wrecked. I had to get out, my husband too.

Same with Flint. Heartbreaking.

CNY is like Detroit but 10 times the size

Interesting

The media will tell you everything is good

No it ain’t It’s our 13% Our American African PERIOD FULL STOP

This is the media.

me·di·a1: the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet)

This documentary quite literally on PBS, a media company.

We know what happened there. Increased globalization under Nixon allowed the companies to leave from the unions constant problems.

Nonsense, this depiction of Youngstown ignores completely what is going on today (even 2019). This documentary depicts only the depressed, whiners left over from the mid 80s. Total bullshit.

Wow, been happening since the 19070's. Yet all of these idiots stayed there. WHY BOTHER? Oh, wait... easy access to DRUGS!

@@johnthomas1689 I wonder that as well; the steel mills left in the 80s. What have people there been doing since then? I imagine most of the best already have left and made new lives.

@@courtneyrandharper4571 Youngstown is a big ball of opportunity for young people who want to forge their own path. Many folks who needed a safe place to raise a family and work NOW.....moved to Boardman. There's a lot of commerce, work and life in Youngstown....it's just not downtown and that's the same transition as Columbus or Cleveland....or..any major city center. Life has moved to the exurbs, suburbs. If I was a young person who wanted to start a new life, I would get a place near Meander or Mill Creek and live large on a fraction of the cost of a Columbus property. This documentary was filmed in a 10 block radius of the absolute worst of Y town. I could have depicted ANY city in the country the same way.

we just keep on jiggin n booin

It all started in the 1960s. It paid to have Keeeds, and go on welfare,

the police and judges and teachers are a menace in these places and the politicians send all the money to jews in israel and jews in ukraine and the locals are too stupid to know who their real enemy is.

I don't know if I would blame it solely on social programs. I am a child of the late 1950s. Before all these social programs were implemented in the 1960s,many of my peers did come from two parent families. Very religious and very hard working and strict. The problem was that level of premature deaths within all of these families was unusually high. Meaning you had widows with children before age 40.The same with widower with children before the age of 40.So the disruption to the family unit and extended family was always there. But there was more of an incentive to remarry to produce blended families before blended families became the norm. Right after the Civil rights era in my community,the elders who were born in the 19th century were dropping like flies. Even though by this time some social programs provided better access to health care and the younger generation began living longer. But the loss of these parents, grandparents and great grandparents was devastating to many of my peers. At the same time people within the community began to see the flood of drugs and guns like nothing before. So quite naturally there were more overdoses,homicides and higher rates of incarceration by 1970.My parents did all they could from allowing external forces to tear our family apart. And I must tell you the temptation for me and my brother to make some quick money was always there. But luckily our father sent his three children abroad for ten straight summers. Since he was a career military man. I am just saying that are a lot more variables to consider other than social programs. I believe that they helped a lot more people than the people who may have abused such programs. For many people it was a stepping stone to something better. But I wonder why we do not hold our celebrities and sports stars to the same standards. Often they don't marry. The women have children by different men. And the men have children by different women. But I guess money and resources are the great equalizer.

endless money was spent protecting the usa from phantom enemies that is what destroyed the usa. aid for israel and their wars bankrupted the usa.

...and stop getting tattoos on your faces.

@@DistrustHumanz for sure

I graduated, then got a job. No marriage, no kids. Did I do well?

😂​@@phoenix5054did you tattoo your face. Haha. Yes u did good,don’t get married or have kids unless your 110% sure you and your girls compatible and are gonna make it long haul , once that’s done kids may be on your horizon..if you plan them your life goes easier cause your a bit older .,having kids really young by accident just makes your life harder….and lastly don’t white trash tattoo your body All over especially your face….I remember in the early 90’s when tattoos got popular then every douch canoe was getting them , now they’re doing their faces necks and it’s looks so biker loser trash…the new tattoo is none…

Haha and keep voting for crooked clowns too? 😂

You are spot on!

Inflation and wage stagnation are a far greater problem than living beyond one's means because of credit cards. More often than not the poor are paying for basic needs with those credit cards.

Of course, this is one-sided. That is the intention.

America's current problems certainly appear 'overwhelming', but having lived in the country for 4 years back in the late 1990s I feel they could be solved if the poisonous nexus between corporations and politicians could only be broken. Until that happens - and I don't know how it can - the country can only degenerate in to further chaos and dysfunction.

@@Lyra0966​​⁠lived here my whole life and you hit the nail on the head. seems like foreigners have an easier time understanding because you aren't subject to brainwashing from an early age.

​@@Mark-gg6iyand the other side is?...

@@melfarm9109 It's well reported. I recommend The Atlantic.

It started crumbling in 1981 once Reagan and Newt Gingrich sold their souls to the devil.

Did her mother tell her how the Military-Industrial complex she was working for drained our coffers, or where that 3 billion they lost again is?

@@OneAdam12Adam Really what about Jimmy?

Your friends daughter is literally working for Satan

If she feels that way, she shouldn't be working in the Defense Department!

I was born in 1966, me too.

PBS is the best!! 😊😊😊❤❤

Me 2

So true I don't understand I see women I know have baby after baby no money

@@patriciapatton557Probably to at least have family. Though there’s really no reason to have more than a couple kids. But stuff happens when you’re making impossible decisions to pay the bills; goodness knows even middle-class people have “surprises”. 🤷‍♀️

Chris Hedges doesn't factor in the profound effect of Limbaugh, then Murdoch media over two generations now. And one must.

Yes, they should have kept inefficient, uncompetitive plants open forever because that is in America's long-term interest.

@@jimmechanikong6924there’s no right answer. People blame their poverty on corporate greed and they’re right, but it’s not the employers job to keep the people happy, it’s the public officials job to do that. The employer will always want to find cheap labor and that is over seas or in another country.

@@jimmechanikong6924 Maybe better management practices might have prevented inefficiencies from occurring.

@@RO-uz4oi maybe, but if they failed, is that the fault of greed? What responsibility do the workers bear?

​ @@james_giant_peach No, it's not the government's job to make people happy. It is to keep us safe, help us when we need it, run the infrastructure, etc... The pursuit of happiness is on yourself. It may take you a while to achieve it, but if you do the work, you will be rewarded.

They plan to use the Asians as slaves indefinitely

Well written!

Predatory capitalism won't allow that. Mission accomplished 😢

Nationalize many industries

Our tax code needs overhauling so that it's disadvantageous to have manufacturing done in China by slave laborers.

It's certainly the fault of those who choose a life of violent crime.

Izzy , 100 percent said ✌️ .

it's gobalization. American really struggle looking at global issues. You can't solve the destruction of your economic ,industrial and democratic model with wellfare or christianity. Both side of the political game fail to adress these issues. You can work hard, but what's the point if they're taking in millions of illegal migrants that will work themeselves to death for half the price? You can adapt to the modern world, but what's the point if they Hire remote indian engeneers for one third of what an american graduate will need to survive? You can study but what if it puts you in dept and you compete with green card holders coming from countries where higher education is free ? Last solution would be to secede form the economy , but what if you're not allowed to grow potatoes and sell them?

Yes, when an identifiable group has been screwed out of their livelihoods and their society breaks down, the Republicans make a point of blaming the victims.

People are trapped there because they make stupid decisions like girls hooking up with guys who were never taught to be responsible adults!!!