My coworker was telling me how San Bernardino use to be so nice in the 70s, Carousel mall and the Orange Show or something like that was the place to go...I grew up always being told one should never go to the store on Waterman st. at night, you would have to be nuts!!!!
I spent a lot of time in SB growing up because my 2 grandmothers lived there. The Santa Fe railroad was a big employer in the area - my 2 grandfathers and one of my grandmothers worked there back in the 1920’s thru the 1950’s. The SB I knew in the 1960’s stands in stark contrast to the SB in this video. It is depressing to see how bad things have become there. I always enjoyed visiting my grandmothers in SB when I was growing up but I would be very uncomfortable walking around there today.
@Jessica Hicking nope california isn't USA you loser! I have family in alaska and they are doing very well. How about you stop being a fucking regressive liberal democrat and actually vote for a Republican for a change.
Wait What? They want the young people to give back to their community ? How about all the politicians that robbed the coffers for the last 50 years. Maybe they should give back.
Alex Altrichter - Honey, those politicians have already flown the coop. Went to some other city to corrupt it with their welfare programs to make more women wives of the government. That’s the Democrat Way.
If I was young again if you want me to give back to my community I’ll do it but I want something in return. Some cash huntiez or a very good letter of recommendation for college because that makes me look good jejeje 🤣
stfu it aint even bad at least theres food and a roof over u theres people in africa or etc that have no house or food or streets or stores around them so dnt satrt talking crap
@@trippyrj5070 San Bernardino is literally one of the top bad city's ranked to be one of the most dangerous. Idk why you're so pressed over the truth. Also I don't see how Africa has anything to do here Africa isn't all poverty you know? Africa has their rich parts too not everyone in Africa is poor so you should maybe educate yourself on that. San Bernardino is literally the worst city in the i.e I know because I lived there for 15 years before I had enough and moved out.
thats pretty dirty. all they showed was the tweakers, if they really wanted to show how bad san bernardino is they should have just showed baseline on the weekends.
Thai Nguyen yea I’m only 13 abs everytime I would go on the streets at night all you would see on baseline were hookers prostitution gangbangers and so many other things,I remember going to the carousel mall before it all got abandoned that’s when I was 4,I lived on the west side of San Bernardino there would be gangs over my neighborhood,if you could remember downtown it’s all just dirty full of homelesses the only thing that would attract people is that new park they built in downtown called John cole I remember I would skate my way to the park and I would pass abandoned houses,windows blocked with wood and just so many things that some people can’t expierience unless they lived there
B norteño you’d think after 30+ years of liberal politics the community would pick a different party... nope let’s still vote the same party in and get the same result..
@@er297553 exactly! They are literally brainwashed everywhere they turn. Tv,all streaming services,magazines, college,Google, Facebook etc. They all promote that liberal poison.
@@mfbfg1 I agree with you up to a point. Blaming other people for your problems will get you no where! NO WHERE! However, you still have to admit that there are still a racial inequality and prejudice in this country. If you have two comparatively competent candidates for a position, assuming one black candidate and one white candidate, who would you choose, MFBFG? And, why?
And yet education, etc has nothing to do with poor parenting skills. Which used to be taught on the regular. Not anymore. Cultural? Are you saying its a Black thing? I have observed its more of a im miserable and out of control and dont care thing. Ive seen and heard it from many other races. Its always sad.
I lived briefly in Redlands. One day I went to Downtown San Berdo and it's like a ghostown. To survive in Cali.. you need 2 jobs to at least equal 100k+ to survive.
Bandito Dorito dame I live In San Bernardino too that only thing i like about San Bernardino is when I climb the hills I enjoy the view at night because of the lights
There's nothing to fucking do over here in San Bernardino unless you like to feed the homeless that are sleeping outside in the parks and libraries, my family isn't poor at all we could easily move out of here and go anywhere and it'll be way better than San Bernardino. It's an absolute hell over here not to be dramatic. These people are in way poorer part of san bernardino than I am (that's a lie every part of San bernardino is poor) I would love to see the day San bernardino rises out of poverty when I'm old and dying but I don't see that happening to be honest.
Lived 18 years in SB and now I go to UCSD. Changes can happen and I’m from the fucked up parts. To my brothers and sisters out in the struggle, keep staying strong With your head up and I promise we’ll make it out together. I’m coming back after I get a couple of degrees. Until then, stay safe and aware ✌🏽🙏🏽
As a San Bernardino native, it breaks my heart to see my hometown become this. And it makes me even sadder because I remember when SB was still a nice, vibrant community that you were proud to say you were from. #909Strong
That's just how heavily L*berals turns community and cities into. Now, SB doesn't only have addicts and homeless, but also violent gang and cartels (city became something out of Mexico).
Drug addiction is real. Government dependency is real. The breakdown of family is real. American culture is now obsessed with self, and ME. Its not going to end well, but continue to get worse :(
Until the citizens of California realize that Pelosi, Feinstein, Watters, Schiff, Harris, Newsome, et al are only out for themselves, it will never change.
@T M Agreed. But, the systemic, VERY myopic policies that are especially prevalent in California (especially places like Greater Los Angeles and the Bay Area) and are TOTALLY regressive, ironically headed up by politicians who call themselves "progressive" (lol yeah right). I get having a basic safety net, but that safety net is dependent on the private sector, and when California has some of THE highest taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals (not to mention VERY heavy amounts of regulations), then it's not coincidental at all that places like San Bernardino see SO many vacant storefronts and "For Sale/For Lease" signs everywhere. In other words, until California pols get their heads out of their collective asses and starts creative a business-FRIENDLY environment, then there will be more poor, more welfare, because there will be fewer and fewer stable businesses from which to get taxes. Basically a vicious snowball effect.
1017certified - Hell! Palmdale and Lancaster have both turned into crime-riddled cities. I lived there back in late 1970’s. What BEAUTIFUL little towns they were. Just beautiful! Now, they both are turning into sh**hole cities. Neither one has a chance in hell to reverse the downward trend.
It went downhill when it was declared an all american town and took in a bunch of low lives in exchange for government financing and affordable housing projects
The bastards could have turned even that around. LAX couldn't handle the air traffic they were getting and Ontario hadn't expanded yet, but the damn city council flat-ass refused to repurpose Norton for civilian air traffic. You can't tell me that wasn't outside money going straight into their pockets. That was their one chance and they sold it.
My fiance always says san bernadino was more ghetto then dallas . i always said nah. I went recently to san bernadino...garland still seems like 4x the dystopian hellscape nightmare
I grew up here..My brother was murdered. My family,most all gang related. People treat dope as if it was a cigarette. Over populated by the Homeless. 13 year olds already got IE, sur13, Verdugo already tatted on themselfs. Bangin the streets when they should be bangin education. This is all sad. This is why I won't come back. Families are raising their children poorly and with no respect. The salvation Army was my family when I was a kid. My step father worked there. It use to be alright. Because I moved my life has been amazing. There is nothing great about Sanbernardino. No hope. Nothing.
@Human Qrystal go to a local church, stay in school and study, study, study!!! If you can't get help with college, go into the military. Not everything in the military is combat, guns, etc.. Good luck and God bless!🙇♀️
I left in the early 2000s and it was the best thing I could do. My same job pays 30k more a year in nicer states and the crime is almost nothing. The crime, drugs and gangs pushed me out. My house got broken into 4 times in 11 years. Why stay there? The ghetto people living there pushed out the middle class that kept the city going and now they only have themselves to blame. But of course they blame everyone else. So be it, we are doing much better in other states. Btw you can do it too. People blame white people and politicians. Im 40 and white. My boss is a 31yr old mexican ex gangster from LA and makes 6 figures a year. He succeeded by leaving California in his early 20s, moving to a better state and went to college. Now he's my boss. He did it, why can't you, what's your excuse?
I live in san bernardino. So much homeless people. So much crime here.. drug users.. It's really bad. I'm working to get my family out of here. My house was robbed 2 times times already.. I'm scared for my own family safety cause of all these people!
I live in san bernadino. Yes all this is even worse because everywhere i go i see at least someone screaming at their kid child abuse is also very high in san bernadino. So i just ask for everyone to pray for any baby/child/kid wherever they are just to be loved by their parents and TRUST me alot of people just take advantage of the welfare and county down here and still do drugs, live filthy and beat their kids. Im just so tired of all these damn people having babies just the damn welfare momey!
It pisses me off when these parents are using foul language when reprimanding their young kids. Especially when they use the filthy F word when yelling at their kids. Then we wonder why so many small children have foul mouths. Look where they learned that from!
My whole dialogue got erase.. Class need comfort of being Separation of poor to rich in America have boundaries Canada not so much I live in richest area code in this city Yet the poor or homeless have rights to live in park next door It's ok No threat to anyone I go to the hardest drug area Not a big deal No way I would do that skid row LA When the tone change Come closer to EQUITY Other occupying tone will Slight invasion Without manners Or of what you consider Happiness within ones own..we all have owns Then the temperature change Service cost goes UP You getting less You must retreat back to what you know Comfort.. You move with EQUITY Tone slide in Summer gives you tan Linguistic profound More of the same is no gain Unless it's to your liking They become a tax burden with attitude Before you have kids You must get one kitten for 9 months Past all test of care &responsibilities Fail no Fallopian tube Close it..
Havin three while I take care of my pussy cats Why do poor people world wide have so many kids One major place I wont mention 4 million up to 8 around here. Four little white kids lol America I had to put that in Only kids four mile radius.watch them grow up nice mom n dad How not one hundred kids around here Its call fiscal responsibility Don't breed It's a long term investment Dressage, recitals Opera Show jumping My fave piano #planparenthood One kid per immigrant Can I say that
@DrunkenMaster_0 the fuck you talking about, there's a shit ton of hard workers here. There's no jobs here for most people. Gotta drive to Ontario for work. I knew guys having to leave their homes 2 hours earlier because they have to take the bus to get to their jobs. San Bernadino is fucked but their are a lot of good people trying to survive in a bad situation and calling them lazy is bullshit.
as a conservative living in the thick of socialist communism of CA and feeling trapped......and concerned that I cant state my conservative views for the life of me, I dont want to be chastised or beaten.....
Caroline Chase: Its sad when people don't actually know definitions of words. Socialism and communism are diametrically opposed, yet you use them in the same sentence. If California was, as you say, socialist and communist, then it wouldn't have the 5th largest GDP in the world. Not the nation, the entire world. The republican strong hold of Kentucky has the 48th highest GDP in the nation. So no, your problem isn't socialism or communism, your problem is corporatism. Also know as neoliberalism and neoconservativism. Look around. San Bernardino isn't unique to America. There are San Bernardino's all over the world right now. And not just in 3rd world countries, but in England, Spain, Italy, Japan, etc.. Republicans and democrats didn't do that. Just as Russians didn't throw 30 million Americans off healthcare. There is only one political party in America, the Corporatist Party. And the mechanism they use is neoliberalism and neoconservativism and since 1980, with the election of Ronnie and used by all proceeding president to current day, it's been spreading around the globe. But with a statement like yours, the establishment has indoctrinated you well, and they thank you for your blind allegiance so they can continue to rob you blind.
Watching from Louisiana with tears in my eyes. Things aren't great here but to see a place that once had hope and it was taken away is humbling when you're from a place people have always had the goal of leaving. CA was an escape for a lot of us. I hope it gets better for Cali 💔 we love y'all and we need more good people here. Y'all would be welcome here
I grew up in Riverside and San Bernardino, and moved away in '72. Even back then San Bernardino was going down hill. But when the Santa Anas blow the smog away, it's a beautiful place.
Yes by Buch than illegal war in 08 another Buch whole country in a world of hurt. Even Firemen, Policemen , Nurses, Truck drivers ect could not find work these Republican presidents put us in a world of hurt but keep blaming Democrats ,dont get me wrong I'm not very impressed with the Dems . also. Just put blame where it belongs.
Rsoalia, it was Billdo Clinton closed Norton. Bush Jr. wasn't even in office. Plenty of blame to go around, but the death of Norton was that sonnabitch Clinton.
There is way, way, way more to the story. This production was so one sided. By the way, Charles McNeely had a plan to fix the city. They wouldn't listen to him. They would rather be arguing like WWE in council meetings over ridiculousness. Also, Fire employees sucked the city dry like a vampire to an open vein. Go back and see where the budget went. Plan and simple, this city has been corrupt for a long time. All of this was not an accident. And, it wasn't just the 2008 crisis. It was bad stewardship. It was greed. It was stupidity. And, it was Fire and their union of greed, that didn't want to work out a contract that would work for everyone. And before anyone says they put their lives on the line, not as much as refuse did. They may go to a call. We work with hazardous Solid Waste, all day long. We didn't just sit around waiting for a call, or shopping at Staters, all while making a hundred gs on a low ball. Don't get me wrong. I respect the guys. Some are my friends. But, as they know, I tell the truth. Don't believe me? Go back and take a look at the budget from 2 years ago, back 20 years and you will see, there goes the money that could have made a difference. But, can't blame them. Don't hate the pimp, right? Hate the game. As far as the production, it "looked" great and was cut well. As far as the content, there's way, way, way more to the story. WAY MORE!!!
Thanks for the insight bro! As usual there is a slant to this story. I'm from Miami and back in the late 90's the city went broke, it's all about fiscal responsibility at all times. Don't forget those public pensions that costs 100k for life. As far as putting your life on the line that job is a choice not a mandate, and how many fires were they fighting. They could easily been accountants. No person goes on debt in one day usually over a long period, just like cities. Thanks for the insight
I wish I had the time to do a multi part documentary. Basically figure out why government, schools, society, business, etc fail! Go way back and see how it fell apart. Step by step, a cautionary tale, because it will happen again
Richard Puente: Start by researching neoliberalism and neoconservativism. Those two terms are beginning to evolve into a new term, corporatism. That's at the root of all of this. San Bernardino is a microcosm of what's happening nationally as well as globally.
I could not agree more, you see these bleeding heart puff pieces showing the problem but they never show the multiple decisions that led to the problem like poor city stewardship from the elected officials. Detroit and Seattle are also two great examples.
I'm from San Bernardino. Born at Norton AFB. Lived off Mt. Vernon, on 2nd street, Muscoy..then Rialto. Moved away after college in 1979. Everytime I go back to Cali, I go to San Bernardino. It breaks my heart,,,
I love Berdoo. Im from Inglewood and thats were I live again but I lived in San Bernardino for 10 years. I was married there and owned a home there right on 29th and Crescent in the north end. It is a great town that has been hit the hardest in all of California. I was lucky enough to have had a great job at lenscrafters in the Inland Center Mall. I hope one day to go back and help out the lots of poor children there. IE and LA always together one love!
Tracy Simon I remember many years ago traveling on Highland ave it was nice Many Restaurants a nice park nowadays all the nice restaurants are closed. One of the restaurants was Bings Chinese food went there in the 70s and early eighties the mall downtown was busy just a nice town.
Mickey PH! The Carousel Mall is abandoned now. They still have the Inland Center Mall there. It used to be a thriving city. It makes me sad when i go visit family that is still there.
Grew up on Baseline and Sterling on a little street called Argyle back when the Carousel mall was crowded. When Montgomery Ward and Harris was open. Things have certainly changed! Its sad. Used to be great.
You should really look into that... You'll definitely be astonished to learn that cannabis is barely legal in California. Many cities don't allow it. So fact check yourself.
San Bernardino issued a moratorium on all cannabis business. Police ran wild, telling everyone, "Weed is still illegal in this county." Even after three bills had passed. The city of Desert Hot Springs was in the same m situation, but pulled themselves out of insolvency, lowered their crime rate and are now enjoying a break from much of the economic stress of city bankruptcy because they addressed Cannabis in a sensible, community-involved fashion that allowed them to survive. San Bernardino could do the same but nobody in power cares. I actually met the mayor of DHS in one of the dispensaries called Sungrow!!
I live right where they do most of the interviews at the parks and inside the wash in meadowbrook apts it's still like that and unfortunately my wife and I are living check to check and live in low income housing we still keep our heads high and will not give up whenever we take walks we make lunch bags and hygiene bags and hand them out to any homeless we come across, even if they are drug addicts because not every can break addiction and it can make someone feel hopelessness and we feel if we show some kind of love they won't give up
Hey do you still do that? I live around the city and want to shoot some little doc pieces about positive things, about the people of san bernardino. Get in touch with me, I'd love to hear your story.
I lived in San Bernardino for 5 years. It wasn't too terrible at the beginning, but it did get worse with time. All the homeless people started to move North and I was not comfortable with the thought of a transient possibly breaking into my home. Additionally, I didn't want my son to attend school in SB. In my honest opinion, there is no saving San Bernardino.
She said we're getting a home....now we have a chance at the American dream..... Better think again.....getting a house for free is not the American dream.
Thank you! Im im the social work field and the ultimate end goal for the clients and encouraged by tbe social workers is to find a free apartment or.home. they will sit homeless for 5 years waiting for the free.place to come up instead of bettering themselves...
Witness Pat Morris clucking his tongue and wagging his finger at people for leaving San Bernardino. I left San Bernardino in 92 because as a high school graduate who wasn't going to college there wasn't anything in San Bernardino for me except minimum wage and a high cost of living. I went to the Army for 6 years and then came back to the San Bernardino area looking to put all that great training and life experience to work, and I was able to get work making a little over minimum wage in a factory in Colton which later closed and moved to Mexico. I wound up (as so many of us do) in Arizona where I've been able to find and keep a decent job for almost 15 years now, and I've even been able to buy a house for a reasonable price. Hats off to you, Pat, for making your way through college and law school, but not everyone can do that and then go on to make a living bouncing between highly compensated government work and even higher paying private sector jobs. People in my social strata have to go out and produce something and earn a profit so that people in your social strata have someone to tax to pay for your six figure salaries and your great ideas like the ever so successful drug courts (hey, where'd all the meth addicts go?) as well as that real winner of an idea to convert the Central City mall into an urbane metrocenter. I realize that Pat Morris isn't responsible for California's entire economic crisis, but he presided over a particularly hideous part of the problem and now acts surprised and hurt that people aren't willing to hang in there with him and the mess he helped create. In all actuality, he's probably just concerned that the people he was counting on to pay taxes are now leaving and being replaced by people who don't pay taxes. We can't all make our living sucking the taxpayer tit. Fuck you, Pat.
My dad likes to buy properties in Riverside and San Bernardino because you can get them for so cheap and fix them up, start having them bring you in a steady income each month. San Bernardino is going to continue having problems if they keep going blue. You can't drive business away and then complain that there are no jobs. You have to make your city appealing to businesses. The majority of businesses are not Walmart or Amazon - they're YOUR people. If you make it impossible to run a business, Walmarts and Amazons have the ability to deal with it. The mom and pop shops don't. It also doesn't help when they continuously make more policies that are enabling. "We have homeless people." "Well, let's provide them with EVERYTHING, free of charge." "We now have more homeless people for some reason. Can't figure out why." Bleeding heart policies based on emotions just tend to worsen the problem, and the only reason for them is so that the people who support them can feel better about themselves. People need to start learning that if you see a drug addict on the street and give them $10, what you just did was buy them more drugs to hurt themselves. You didn't help. You just did something so you could make yourself feel good, but you didn't do something to help them. What should we do? Provide a way for people to get job training and become productive. Would everyone take it? Of course not. We've known plenty of people who CHOOSE to be homeless because they don't want to follow the rules of society. You're not going to be able to force them to live like everyone else. You also can't help everyone. If someone is an addict and isn't ready to quit, you can't do anything about it. Provide a path for people to build up their lives through their own efforts. That's what we need here, but they won't do it because it doesn't give them the instant gratification of being able to feel like they did something.
Eisah Vakohler: How do explain away the republican stronghold state of Kentucky? They make San Bernardino look like Beverly Hills. At least California can boast that they have the 5 largest GDP in the world. California has more wealth than Russia who clocks in at #6 in global GDP. Kentucky? Ranks 48th in the nation. Doesn't even register on the global statistics. But this metric helps prove the point. This isn't a red/blue paradigm. This is about corporatism and it's been spreading around the globe since it was kicked into gear in 1980, by none other than Ronald Reagan. And every proceeding president has not only continued the policy, but accelerated it. The global economy is about to tank. Are you going to plan the democrats for that? You'd be partially correct. There's only one political party in America. The Corporatist Party and both red and blue pander to it. There is no liberal or conservative or moderate or centrist policies. That's all an illusion to make you think there's a difference. But as long as you and people like you continue to believe in the establishment, then the establishment will continue to rob you blind and sooner than later, you'll find yourself in a city like San Bernardino.
@@Vanderearden I have no idea what made you think I believe in establishment or have great trust in Republicans. The policies people like Obama put in were often "tyranny of the majority" policies, catering to big cities with a lot of people and overlooking places like Kentucky. For example, being in CA (and knowing people who have moved out to Texas because it's stupidly expensive to live here), we had a vote about water during the drought. What should happen with the water that falls on farmlands and such? Well, while normally you would say the farmers can use it to water their crops, there's more people living in the city, so they voted the water should go to them. So we have an insane law that prevents farmers from using water on their own property the same way anyone else would, even though a huge part of CA's economy is agriculture. This has caused farmers to drill deep into the land to get water in response, which I'm sure will have some sort of consequences in the future. Which is the reason why we have things like the electoral college. Pandering to places like large cities ends up trampling over the rights and needs of the people who grow our food. I like Trump because he's actually destroyed a lot of regulations that were strangling businesses and such. It doesn't mean I agree with 100% of what he does. And, of the two options we're generally being presented with right now, if I have to choose one, I have to go with the ones who are currently on the side of free speech and such. Right now that's the Republicans, whereas it used to be the Democrats. I don't like either party, though, and would prefer to get more outsiders into office who actually care about what they're doing. CA has so many things like naturally good weather that SHOULD make it an amazing place. For example, with the drought: we did not solve that problem. We lucked out because we suddenly got a lot of rain that took care of a lot of it. The path we were taking would have probably had lasting consequences to our land. We generally hang in there despite the politicians here, not because of them. I also acknowledge that without being propped up by other states, CA would probably collapse on itself. We have $1.3 TRILLION in debt as a state. Don't follow us for sure.
Eisah Vakohler: I honestly wonder how someone can be so wrong. It's beyond frustrating. It must be Fox News. First off, California is not in debt, it actually has a surplus. Again, 5th largest GDP in the world. You might want to look up what GDP is. California receives the least amount of federal assistance. The fact is, California, because of it's immense GDP, supports states like Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, West Virginia, etc. Just a quick search of Federal funding bares this out. The water bill your talking about is far more complex than the over simplification you've given, but then again, you seem to think republicans are the advocates for free speech. They clearly say they are, but their actions say otherwise. That's the entire GOP shtick. Say one thing, do the opposite. Trump and the GOP say, "We love free markets", but telling a private business what they can or can't do is not democracy, it's a dictatorship. And the vast majority of those regulations that Trump rolled back are going to end up killing people. Think of regulations as safety features, except the republicans have convinced ignorant people that they are strangling freedoms. Here's a regulation, speed limits, should we get rid of those? But now Trump has told corporations that it's just fine to dump coal ash in water ways. It's ok to use fracking water to irrigate crops. It's ok to use public lands for corporate interests. I suppose you want to get rid of "entitlements"' to. One problem, if you've worked anywhere in the nation, you've earned those "entitlements". Would you consider your checking account or savings account an "entitlement"? Seriously, how do you go through life with so little understanding of what the truth is? It truly boggles the rational mind.
@@Vanderearden No, most of those regulations are idiotic legislation that sounded good to people who don't work in the fields they're legislating on. They tend to strangle mom and pop businesses. When the government is using a platform and treats sites as a platform, they should only be treated as a platform and not a publisher if they meet certain standards. Sites are being given privileges they aren't earning. Just like a Church shouldn't be allowed to keep certain privileges if they get into politics. You can be a publisher if you want, but then you have to go by those rules. I knew the moment that you fell back on, "Must be Fox News!!" that this comment would be a doozy. Anyway. www.statedatalab.org/state_data_and_comparisons/detail/california ballotpedia.org/California_state_debt www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2018/04/19/the-top-four-reasons-california-is-unsustainable/#551e4e3c3a23 debtwatch.treasurer.ca.gov/ californiapolicycenter.org/californias-state-and-local-liabilities-total-1-5-trillion-2/ www.ocregister.com/2019/01/09/californias-massive-debt-should-caution-against-big-spending/ www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-23/trillion-dollar-budget-deficit-national-debt-republicans-democrats www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html www.usgovernmentdebt.us/compare_state_debt But sure. Let's pretend CA wouldn't immediately collapse if it weren't part of the US.
Eisah Vakohler: OMG. This is why America is in dire straits, because of the idiotic rational of people like you. The main reason for California's economics is because of Trump's trade war with China. What is the busiest and most profitable sea port in the U.S.? Long Beach, which has been put under strain because of import trade. What is the largest sector of GDP in California? Agriculture, which is now under strain due to the trade war. What is the second largest source of revenue in California? Logging, which again, is under pressure due to the trade war. California's economics, as well as most states that produce goods, like coal in Virginia are troubled because of this trade war. It doesn't take a genius to see how in 3 short years, Trumps economic policies have plunged America deeper into debt by over 3 trillion dollars and the states with the highest GDP are going to be hit the hardest. Mainly, California. Again, it's the same old republican talking point. Fiscal responsibility. The 1987 recession came 7 years after Reagan was elected, but still in office. The 2008 economic crash came 7 years after Bush was elected, but still in office. Now Trump has accelerated policies that were never fixed, but rather only corrected with nonbinding fiscal policy. The reality is, and any nonpartisan economist will tell you, if California seceded from the Union, the nation would collapse because there is no other state with even close to the GDP potential that California currently has. The rest of the nation sucks off the tet of California, whether you agree or not. Facts are facts. Notice how California leads the nation in reform. When California decides to make change, D.C. has very little choice but to let it happen because they can't afford to lose the revenue that California provides to the federal coffers. The red/blue paradigm is a shame. There is no red or blue party. There is only one party in America. The corporatist party and both republicans and democrats pander to it. When Kamala Harris(democrat) works hand in hand with Steve Mnuchin(republican) to illegally forclose on millions of homeowners, the writing is on the wall, unless you're completely blind. Lastly, debt doesn't mean what you think it does. A nations or state debt is the electorates asset. This might be over your pay scale, but ask this on simple question. How does any U.S. currency come into existence. How is it created? There is a mechanism and once you understand that mechanism instead of thinking you know, then it'll become easier to see the game that being played and how all average Americans are being robbed blind. It makes no difference what state you live in or what party you align with. It's all theater to keep the masses infighting. To keep them fearful and ignorant. But in all seriousness, tell me how you think a single U.S. dollar is created. This should be fun. I truly look forward to your response. Your answer will reveal who you are.
I've lived in 5 states and 3 foreign countries. Seven years in Alaska, 16 in California. Never going back to Cali as much good times I had. Gotten too insane. Peaceful here in Wisconsin. Wonderful people.
I left California too, lived there my entire life. Avoided big cities, settled in Minnesota. Best decision I ever made. It never really gets better in Los Angeles, just more crowded and dreary. I remember there were no homeless, before President Carter, they began to show in large numbers in 1979 and never left or got better- just worse. Poverty kept steadily climbing untill President Trump. who began to make changes. Carter had re started mass immigration, bypassing Congress,using administrative actions. I say today California is the State of Misery.
@@bluskies1000 "Poverty kept steadily climbing untill President Trump." We have the biggest disparity in wealth in this country ever. Worst economy since great depression. Cities across nation in flames. Country on brink of civil war. Its not going to get better. 15.8% FHA loans are now delinquent. Millions will be losing homes soon and with many without jobs homeless population will explode. Orange clown has been an utter disaster. Though got to admit he was bigly amazing for corporations. Trillions upon trillions corporate welfare handed out. We'll be paying for this disaster for generations to come.
I live In san Bernardino. And my school just won a prize for being one of the top best schools in the country. As long as you have hope and a way to success you wanna follow you can change everything. Yes, There are gangs in my school but as long as you stay away from them you can change the way people sees the city. I'm a latino who is #1 in class rank with a gpa of 4.57 and I'll be one of the richest people in the world and I SWEAR san Bernardino will be one of the best cities in the us in a couple of years because it's full of great people who I see hope in. Remember my name people. When I'm rich and famous I'll fix san Bernardino.
Nanno MC if San Bernardino keeps more people like you I am sure it can become great. Keep your head up and if you want San Bernardino to be a wonderful city I think you can. I was raised in San Bernardino but left and love where I am now but it’s so sad when I visit family and friends who live somewhere filled with meth addicts and gangs. It would make me so happy to see the next generation make San Bernardino a nice place to live again.
David Lee : It is a shiithole city. The kid is going to public school and being indoctrinated by the commie teachers. How do you you have a GPA higher than 4.0? Is that common core math? This kid thinks being rich will mean he can save San Bernardino. In his dreams but dreams don't change reality.
Zero Hedge you can get over a 4.0 by taking advanced classes and you can change a city by becoming rich if by being rich he starts a great company headquartered in San Bernardino and if others like him do the same.
David Lee : The top grade you could get is a 4.0. It is called grade inflation when you change the grading system and hand out awards that are meaningless. What company wants to have its HQ in San Bernardino? It's a shiithole. State taxes are high, poverty is high, homelessness is high, most of the people are high. If he thinks being rich will change San Bernardino? Yeah, right. It is only going to get worse. California is now a communist-run state. They don't like rich people.
Republicans close base Democrats close base You think every city must have base..the conspiracy dudes would go nuts When did party become s lifestyle 4 years liberal Four years conservative Just repeat How we do It never gets personal Me me us Is hurting America Someone cant be a retard Then within 4 years He ok..four more he back to retarded til he vote to loose retard label You would have a nation of bi polar schizo schizophrenic schizophrenic
@@rosaliamartinez8956 Didn't stop Denver when Lowry AFB closed. For the exception of one hanger for the new Air Force Museum, the base has totally rebuilt into the Denver metropolis, and may not be recognized as once DOD, unless one looks closely. Denver has grown, and Lowry has grown with it. Purhaps those close of Norton AFB could utilized certain parallels to enhance the neighboring metropolis !
We are not much different from third world countries that have a lot of children and can't take care of them. I don't understand ppl making a lot of babies they themselves cannot support. This is distinguished from families that fall into that situation through no fault of their own.
I feel so sorry for children who don't have the adults in their lives who are responsible, loving, and care enough about them to tell them what to do by either example or verbally doing it. My parents were doing both and boy what a difference it made.
Generations of San Bernardino families enjoyed good middle class incomes from jobs at Kaiser Steel, Norton Airforce Base, and the railroad shops. When these employers closed, nothing replaced them. Riverside and Fontana were able to repurpose as bedroom communities for Orange County and LA. San Bernardino is just too far away from the job centers.
my biggest concern is if these ppl in california move to other states are they going to continue voting in the failed policies that got them where their at in the first place
I live in an area where transplants from CA, NJ, NY and IL moved to. They are spreading the disease. They should have left their politics behind with them.
Liberal Cancer , not remembering it's failures, simply keeps trying to repeat them.. let's give the ' dreamers' a legal shot at citizenship. Let's move away from inflammatory rhetoric and torwards humane solutions..
@@annrobi3103 RIP TO THESE FOLLOWING CITIES: 1. MEMPHIS TN 2. ST LOUIS MO 3. GARY IN 4. SAGINAW MI 5. YOUNGSTOWN OH 6. NIAGARA FALLS NY 7. BRIDGEPORT CT 8. CAMDEN NJ 9. CHESTER PA 10. BALTIMORE MD
I live in San Bernardino I’ve been here with my kids and husband for about 4 years. I’m originally from Orange County I have seen so much in my time here it’s really sad but the homeless epidemic is getting worse not only here in San Bernardino but in Orange County too I think it’s bad all over California there is no help or hope and it’s really sad
The closing of Norton AFB and Sante Fe Railroad maintenance yards contributed to SB's economic demise. LA County using SB as a dumping ground for its parolees didn't help either.
Shouts out from Youngstown, Ohio. Trust me, once the economy pass you buy, it never comes back. 20, 30, 40 years from now San Benardino will still be like this. Just as Youngstown has remained the same since the '80s.
This happens across all aging suburban areas in the U.S. A lot of older housing divisions. Some people try and keep up with their older homes while some less desirable people tend to move in because the homes are slightly lower or rent is lower. It doesn't happen overnight. I remember how nice, small, but lovely my great grandmother's house was in the late 1980s (built in the 1940's) on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. By the time she passed away in 1999, the neighborhood had turned to shit. Sad really when you think about the good memories of these places.
I was born at St Bernardine's Hospital in San Bernardino in 1958, and left for good in 1989 because of the gang activity that was becoming prevalent in the NICEST areas of the city. The decline of SB began in the mid-eighties when L.A. was chasing out all of the black street gangs (crips/bloods) and they were moving to the Inland Empire (SB and Riverside). Riverside did a great job of navigating them, but unfortunately SB city management didn't, and that is why the city is in the condition it is in today. Norton AFB closed years after I left (4/94) and may have contributed to an economical decline in the city, but it didn't cause the initial decay. That was the infilteration of the crips and bloods and the poor city management who let them take over. I moved to the Seattle area in 1989 and when I came back to the Inland Empire (6/94) for my father's funeral, SB was already DEEP into the sewer. NAFB closed 4/94. When I moved back to CA in 1999 and was driving through San Bernardino to Palm Desert, I couldn't believe the condition of my hometown. The nicest areas of town were decayed and all black. It was truly unbelievable. It makes me sick to see the present condition of SB, and anybody who knows the city history knows the city starting plummeting long before NAFB closed.
Do you think the gang activities were caused by bad economic policies from former President Ronald Reagan? What's the real truth? What did the gangs think about Ronald Reagan?
When you're born in this city you see a lot of bad but you also see a lot of good it depends who you know and what you do and how you do things I learned being born and raised here that not everything in this city is bad we all have the opportunity as Americans to rise from no matter how dark a place you come from I'm gonna take a quote from a sir Francis drake "sic parvis magna"
I am from Alameda right across some water from Oakland. I remember in the 70's hearing that Valerie Bertanelli was from there. Do people ever come back and give back to the community? Not just money but using their influence or notoriety in order to attract investment from companies or other celebrities in order to pull up the quality of life and struggle?? I think the real passion it takes to bring change comes from human spirit. Praying for you San Bernadino ✌
Born and raised in Chino. Bought a home at 22yrs old. Couldn't have done without my San Bernardino County education, job, union, family and friends. I heart the IE.
House was raided because of a tweaker saying I was a biggest drug dealer in all of San Bernardino didn't find any anyting. Charged me with explosives which were actually a box of fireworks not even illegal fireworks
I remember as an 6 year old kid seeing my front door neighbor kid about 14 15 years old. Bloe his head off in the middle of the street on 11th and G in dino . Thats been replaying in the back of my head for the last 30 plus years now
I was born in Van Nuys and grew up in Altadena and South Pasadena during the 60-70's. Michigan is now my home. Everyone is aware of the fiscal issues that have affected Detroit, but our smaller towns are in trouble too. It breaks my heart seeing these images coming from the Southland. I pray for my brothers and sisters in San Bernardino. Please be safe. Dan
San Bernardino has always been a shithole though. One of the original motorcycle gangs that incorporated into the Hells Angels were the "Pissed Off Bastards Of San Berdoo". This was in the 40s/50s.
I am so glad I saw this documentary. Yes, our city is struggling but there are also good parts of the city that make it better. I dont know why The Lord brought me here. All I know is that there is still a lot of work to be done. I know it's going to get better.
I lived in San Bernardino in the 90’s and remember living poor like these kids it’s heartbreaking brings back so many memories but I can only hope that this will make them stronger.
@@ThejeffJr8 i live d on the North end for almost 8 years, that side was just as bad with the homeless and violence. Police were even worse because they tried to protect the "prestige" off the North but really weren't doing shit productive to keep it up
When do the people wake up and realize they are millions and millions strong...to live as victims and hoping for a chance get in morals and humility, well, history shows it's a slow death otherwise.
I lived up the hill from San Bernardino for about 6 months in 1974. The city lights were just gorgeous. We called it the jewelry box. It's just so sad the city's fallen apart.
Eight year old video and San Bernardino is worse. Driving the streets you hardly see other cars in the city. I remember driving to E St. on friday nights for cruise nights in 1972. It was packed, all parking lots full of hot rods and laughing people. Then Kaiser Steel sold the plant to China putting thousands out of good paying jobs. Illegals robbing homes and businesses, shootings, store closings, no new development. Became an urban slum overnight. Homeless with shopping carts on the freeway, a real tragedy. Now the ballpark built by the casino indians have raves that blast the whole valley with horrid vibrating sound way after dark. Must be the only way money is made
I see the problem. Schools are breeding dumbbells. She’s asking for answers to stuff I would’ve learned at 3yrs old watching G.I.joe. “And knowing is half the battle”
bigblocklawyer: The very same could be said about Kentucky. A republican run state. Until ignorant, tribal people wake up and realize what the real problem is and who should be held to account, then this will continue to happen all across the nation. This isn't a red/blue paradigm, no matter how insistent the establishment talking heads tell you it is. There is only one political party in America, the Corporatist Party. Red/Blue is an illusion. America isn't a free market, capitalist democracy. It's a fascist, oligarchy police state. If it was a free market, then why the need for trade deals? Why use tariffs? Why does a leader of a free market make demands on a private business where they can do business. A dictator does that. But by all means, keep punching down. This allows the establishment to continue to rob you blind and never be held to account.
@@Vanderearden Yep. You're right. The left right paradigm is a myth. San Francisco, St. Louis, Miami, Baltimore, Chicago, DC, Portland, Flint, Detroit. All just coincidentally run by the myth of liberalism. If these cities were run by the equally mythical right, we wouldn't hear about the right left paradigm bullshit but how the racist white supremacists were screaming up the hood. One of the trillions of excuses we hear about the paradigm. Dickhead California *elected* assholes who warn criminals about ICE raids and go uncharged. They do this so illegal aliens feel compelled to vote for the democrat illusion in exchange for food, shelter and a "better life"( that we pay for). This is the only way democrats get elected. Keep drinking the kool aid believing this is all a scam to keep the 2 sides at war. Ask Kate Steinle's parents how a democrat run, sanctuary shithole has been to them. The flint city officials recinded a legal, closed bid, won by a company to repair water pipe in the shithole and said a minority owned company (who were shown not to be able to complete the project) would get the job. Just a left vs. right setup, right? Wake up. Liberalism, help find a cure.
bigblocklawyer: Was Dylan Roof a liberal? But since you killed nonwhites, that's different, right? You still didn't answer for Kentucky. Or Virginia. How about Mississippi or Tennessee? All republican strongholds. All the biggest recipients of federal aid. Aid that is overwhelmingly provided by those terrible liberal states. A person can't have fear or tribalism without ignorance. Your definitely there. Still beholden to the theatre that is the red/blue paradigm despite all evidence to the contrary. But then again, Fox News doesn't represent the truth, just opinion.
There’s so many warehouses to work at there amazon has 4, fedex, and ups sooo many there’s a ton of jobs there but ppl just want to get high and watch tv try to be a dancer or some stupid entertainment star hahaha it’s San Berdo wtf🤷🏻♂️
March can u live off 1 amazon with these high ass rent prices? Not everybody is good at warehouse jobs that fire u if they simply just don’t like u, and let’s not forget amazon is seasonal
The real question is do those jobs pay livable wages? If they don't then you can only afford to live in shacks with poverty wages. There plenty of people that work multiple to make ends meet especially in California.
These warehousedont always provide living wages. Amazon workers are on food stamps. And the job market fluctuates seasonally. The worst part of it is the agencies...vice did a video on how agencies hire alot of illegal immigrants to work in these warehouse jobs a d the major companies aren't at fault s ok we constantly see new agencies popping up and exploiting people and taking 2-5$ per hour per employee insane
i lived in San Bernardino for approximately a year , 30 years ago. I grew up in Los Angeles and Orange counties before that and San Bernardino was my first space in the Inland empire. Truly, compared to where I lived in LA and Orange counties, San Bernardino was a hole even then. This video was published back in 2015, and San Bernardino likely continued momentum into the dark abyss since then. But most of it is due to the collusion of residents living there and politicians they elect to run the city into the ground. Do, they think that's their goal? No, of course not. They think San Bernardino can be built into the socialist haven Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gilibrand, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris are trying to sell people going into the 2020 elections. The DNC has given up all hope and sought to buy votes with other peoples' money. No way to know how stupid people truly are. It just may work this time around for the election, but San Bernardino, just like Havana and Caracas will prove this strategy as stupid beyond all doubt.
Most Californians are barely waking up to the fact that State is in ruins because of systematic, political and bureaucratic failures . Career Politicians adhere and loyal only to themselves and not to their constituents. Sadly, as long as constituents are thrown a bone or two i.e. welfare and any state sponsored stipend, they will be satisfied and no motivation to question career politicians' motives and goals within their cities and/counties.
This is the same problem in Illinois. Corrupt politicians, bureaucratic idiocy, wasted taxpayer dollars....it's endless but the moron voters keep putting the same corrupt politicians in office. Unfortunately, those who have wised up are now moving into my area - NW Indiana - driving up home prices, clogging the streets, taking over our parks, and worst of all, bringing their stupidity with them. Thank God I retire in 2 years and am getting the Hell out of here before these idiots ruin our town like they ruined Illinois.
This was the worst post we had in my husband's Air Force career. As much as I dislike Texas, I was glad when we left An Berdoo in 1991. And I am a California native.
Yet they still have the audacity to be charging $900+ for a 1 bedroom apartment here.
@NEGUS MBARKA The racist colored dick head speaks. OH you sound so educated.
Geez. Move to nice small towns in midwest. Make good salaries & enjoy affordable housing! No more coastal states.
just bought my house here, 1490$ a month for my 2 bed 1 bath. renting is expensive asf out there, now.
Damn that cheap $ 900+
That estimate is tooooo low... way more than $900... You might rent a small room for $900, or get a rat-hole studio apartment for $1450.
San Bernardino has been in bad shape for at least 30 years. The recession of 2008 just made things worse.
David Duarte and there are more coming. Either another housing or a car loan collapse. I’d want to be as far away from there in the next 5 years.
My coworker was telling me how San Bernardino use to be so nice in the 70s, Carousel mall and the Orange Show or something like that was the place to go...I grew up always being told one should never go to the store on Waterman st. at night, you would have to be nuts!!!!
I spent a lot of time in SB growing up because my 2 grandmothers lived there. The Santa Fe railroad was a big employer in the area - my 2 grandfathers and one of my grandmothers worked there back in the 1920’s thru the 1950’s.
The SB I knew in the 1960’s stands in stark contrast to the SB in this video. It is depressing to see how bad things have become there. I always enjoyed visiting my grandmothers in SB when I was growing up but I would be very uncomfortable walking around there today.
@@JoseMolina-jz9hh It's going to be nationwide, not just California. The federal government is worse than the California government now.
@NEGUS MBARKA Corruption in government knows no color
That guy at the beginning summed up California perfectly:
"There is no middle class. You're either poor, homeless, or so rich it doesn't effect you"
Absolutely heartbreaking and worse yetif I were there it would be me. And it's coming to a city near us soon.
There are no rich in San Berdoo. That guy is a loser and idiot.
That's not just in Cali. That's how America will be soon. They keep people distracted with liberal cities, till it's in their backyard.
Smiley am still middle class i make 120 000
Not really. I'm what you would call "middle class" and I have 2 homes but the definition of middle class is upwards of 125K @ year
Your either poor or rich that is the reality of life in California. Middle class is leaving in droves.
Correct
yep.... im barely middle, if i didnt own a home in long beach, i wouldve left 10 yrs ago
@Jessica Hicking nope california isn't USA you loser! I have family in alaska and they are doing very well. How about you stop being a fucking regressive liberal democrat and actually vote for a Republican for a change.
Random Person - Yes. Only to go populate Republican cities and states which will give the Democrats yet another stranglehold.
They should California is a hell hole
Wait What? They want the young people to give back to their community ? How about all the politicians that robbed the coffers for the last 50 years. Maybe they should give back.
All California Politicians Live in GATED COMMUNITY'S So They are Safe from Their Voters!
Alex Altrichter - Honey, those politicians have already flown the coop. Went to some other city to corrupt it with their welfare programs to make more women wives of the government. That’s the Democrat Way.
Alex Altrichter and unions
Yup you're right man.
If I was young again if you want me to give back to my community I’ll do it but I want something in return. Some cash huntiez or a very good letter of recommendation for college because that makes me look good jejeje 🤣
As a resident in SB I can say that this documrntary is sugar coating how bad it really is living here.
stfu it aint even bad at least theres food and a roof over u theres people in africa or etc that have no house or food or streets or stores around them so dnt satrt talking crap
@@trippyrj5070 the point went right over your head
trippy rj 🤡🤡🤡
My Aunt lived there, It was bad back then ;(
@@trippyrj5070 San Bernardino is literally one of the top bad city's ranked to be one of the most dangerous. Idk why you're so pressed over the truth. Also I don't see how Africa has anything to do here Africa isn't all poverty you know? Africa has their rich parts too not everyone in Africa is poor so you should maybe educate yourself on that. San Bernardino is literally the worst city in the i.e I know because I lived there for 15 years before I had enough and moved out.
thats pretty dirty.
all they showed was the tweakers, if they really wanted to show how bad san bernardino is they should have just showed baseline on the weekends.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 OMG! 😂😂😂😂
Yassss lol
sub zero lol what happens on baseline on the weekends?
Ice_creamlover9 lol what happens on baseline on the weekends? Prostitutes?
Thai Nguyen yea I’m only 13 abs everytime I would go on the streets at night all you would see on baseline were hookers prostitution gangbangers and so many other things,I remember going to the carousel mall before it all got abandoned that’s when I was 4,I lived on the west side of San Bernardino there would be gangs over my neighborhood,if you could remember downtown it’s all just dirty full of homelesses the only thing that would attract people is that new park they built in downtown called John cole I remember I would skate my way to the park and I would pass abandoned houses,windows blocked with wood and just so many things that some people can’t expierience unless they lived there
This is beyond politics this is about government corruption and indifference.
@weldingblaster1 the people got like that through liberal policies and liberal ideas promoted in t.v., school etc.
B norteño you’d think after 30+ years of liberal politics the community would pick a different party... nope let’s still vote the same party in and get the same result..
@@er297553 exactly! They are literally brainwashed everywhere they turn. Tv,all streaming services,magazines, college,Google, Facebook etc. They all promote that liberal poison.
Of course for starters, the state rakes in like 8 billion a year from everyone they send to prison
NEGUS MBARKA I don’t see many white people in this video.
That poor kid. The way that mother yelled at him is the problem- lack of education and the unwillingness to succeed.
It's a cultural thing
@@mfbfg1 I agree with you up to a point. Blaming other people for your problems will get you no where! NO WHERE! However, you still have to admit that there are still a racial inequality and prejudice in this country. If you have two comparatively competent candidates for a position, assuming one black candidate and one white candidate, who would you choose, MFBFG? And, why?
@@christams8863 Who ever is the most qualified for the position, it is as simple as that. No Bullshit.
"Parents" who abuse kids like that..or physically, should have kids taken away, be sterilized and not be allowed back on welfare--for life.
And yet education, etc has nothing to do with poor parenting skills. Which used to be taught on the regular. Not anymore.
Cultural? Are you saying its a Black thing?
I have observed its more of a im miserable and out of control and dont care thing. Ive seen and heard it from many other races. Its always sad.
I lived briefly in Redlands. One day I went to Downtown San Berdo and it's like a ghostown. To survive in Cali.. you need 2 jobs to at least equal 100k+ to survive.
I would like to wish everyone is San Bernardino peace and love.
Bandito Dorito dame I live In San Bernardino too that only thing i like about San Bernardino is when I climb the hills I enjoy the view at night because of the lights
There's nothing to fucking do over here in San Bernardino unless you like to feed the homeless that are sleeping outside in the parks and libraries, my family isn't poor at all we could easily move out of here and go anywhere and it'll be way better than San Bernardino. It's an absolute hell over here not to be dramatic. These people are in way poorer part of san bernardino than I am (that's a lie every part of San bernardino is poor) I would love to see the day San bernardino rises out of poverty when I'm old and dying but I don't see that happening to be honest.
Jeremiah Terrell used to live here, luckily i moved when i was 4 out of San Bernadiano. that was 2010.
Thanks
Lived 18 years in SB and now I go to UCSD. Changes can happen and I’m from the fucked up parts. To my brothers and sisters out in the struggle, keep staying strong With your head up and I promise we’ll make it out together. I’m coming back after I get a couple of degrees. Until then, stay safe and aware ✌🏽🙏🏽
As a San Bernardino native, it breaks my heart to see my hometown become this. And it makes me even sadder because I remember when SB was still a nice, vibrant community that you were proud to say you were from. #909Strong
Yes I remember😑😐
Lol 909 strong hahaha yeah when ?
I remember those days when SB was strong 714
That's just how heavily L*berals turns community and cities into. Now, SB doesn't only have addicts and homeless, but also violent gang and cartels (city became something out of Mexico).
Drug addiction is real. Government dependency is real. The breakdown of family is real. American culture is now obsessed with self, and ME. Its not going to end well, but continue to get worse :(
UnderTheFloor79
Specially kids K-12.
Very well spoken.
Until the citizens of California realize that Pelosi, Feinstein, Watters, Schiff, Harris, Newsome, et al are only out for themselves, it will never change.
@T M Agreed. But, the systemic, VERY myopic policies that are especially prevalent in California (especially places like Greater Los Angeles and the Bay Area) and are TOTALLY regressive, ironically headed up by politicians who call themselves "progressive" (lol yeah right).
I get having a basic safety net, but that safety net is dependent on the private sector, and when California has some of THE highest taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals (not to mention VERY heavy amounts of regulations), then it's not coincidental at all that places like San Bernardino see SO many vacant storefronts and "For Sale/For Lease" signs everywhere.
In other words, until California pols get their heads out of their collective asses and starts creative a business-FRIENDLY environment, then there will be more poor, more welfare, because there will be fewer and fewer stable businesses from which to get taxes. Basically a vicious snowball effect.
Stop fifty transgender not goin to change the lower tax bracket departure
Millions of Americans
That would affect a breeding class
stop it
If you can’t afford to live in LA, you move to San Bernardino or basically any part of the IE or high desert areas like Lancaster or Palmdale.
or hemet....temecula, murrieta
Temecula and Murrieta are not cheap there nice areas for the most part.
1017certified - Hell! Palmdale and Lancaster have both turned into crime-riddled cities. I lived there back in late 1970’s. What BEAUTIFUL little towns they were. Just beautiful! Now, they both are turning into sh**hole cities. Neither one has a chance in hell to reverse the downward trend.
so true i moved fro compton to fontana la cost to much to live sad i miss living in la
Stringer Bell p
Actually it started going down when Norton Air Force Base closed....
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yep
annie bo - Oh yeah...when Bill Clinton closed down 1/2 of our bases in the country.
It went downhill when it was declared an all american town and took in a bunch of low lives in exchange for government financing and affordable housing projects
The bastards could have turned even that around. LAX couldn't handle the air traffic they were getting and Ontario hadn't expanded yet, but the damn city council flat-ass refused to repurpose Norton for civilian air traffic. You can't tell me that wasn't outside money going straight into their pockets. That was their one chance and they sold it.
who else is from san bernardino?
Me by the university which is the nice part of san bernardino
Me
San Bernardino Eastside, lugo and 13th
Born n raised on Medical Center & Rialto, 14th & Massachusetts, Rialto & Alameda.. lived all over San Beanernegroe
My fiance always says san bernadino was more ghetto then dallas . i always said nah. I went recently to san bernadino...garland still seems like 4x the dystopian hellscape nightmare
I grew up here..My brother was murdered. My family,most all gang related. People treat dope as if it was a cigarette. Over populated by the Homeless. 13 year olds already got IE, sur13, Verdugo already tatted on themselfs. Bangin the streets when they should be bangin education. This is all sad. This is why I won't come back. Families are raising their children poorly and with no respect. The salvation Army was my family when I was a kid. My step father worked there. It use to be alright. Because I moved my life has been amazing.
There is nothing great about Sanbernardino. No hope.
Nothing.
Sunny Salgado
What did they call your bro? And what Gang ?
Yep, my Aunt lived there...
Sound like a little bitch to me Kno
@Human Qrystal go to a local church, stay in school and study, study, study!!! If you can't get help with college, go into the military. Not everything in the military is combat, guns, etc.. Good luck and God bless!🙇♀️
People who live in San Bernardino know how bad it is
Lonzo Ball what’s wrong with a lot of Mexicans?
its koo here
Lonzo Ball same like chicago too much black people
I left in the early 2000s and it was the best thing I could do. My same job pays 30k more a year in nicer states and the crime is almost nothing. The crime, drugs and gangs pushed me out. My house got broken into 4 times in 11 years. Why stay there? The ghetto people living there pushed out the middle class that kept the city going and now they only have themselves to blame. But of course they blame everyone else. So be it, we are doing much better in other states. Btw you can do it too. People blame white people and politicians. Im 40 and white. My boss is a 31yr old mexican ex gangster from LA and makes 6 figures a year. He succeeded by leaving California in his early 20s, moving to a better state and went to college. Now he's my boss. He did it, why can't you, what's your excuse?
Its 10 times worse here than how they depict it...
This is so terrifying I’m so sorry
Damn dude...
4 years later it’s only gotten worse
I live in san bernardino. So much homeless people. So much crime here.. drug users.. It's really bad. I'm working to get my family out of here. My house was robbed 2 times times already.. I'm scared for my own family safety cause of all these people!
@Concerned Citizen You probably would live in CA if it were free.
Don H meanwhile u prolly in like rhode island or sum 😂
@Concerned Citizen CA is a beautiful place. But how it's runed is what makes it lool ugly.
I’ve been living here for the last 10 years It’s a complete shit hole that’s impossible to get out of
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I live in san bernadino. Yes all this is even worse because everywhere i go i see at least someone screaming at their kid child abuse is also very high in san bernadino. So i just ask for everyone to pray for any baby/child/kid wherever they are just to be loved by
their parents and TRUST me alot of people just take advantage of the welfare and county down here and still do drugs, live filthy and beat their kids.
Im just so tired of all these damn people having babies just the damn welfare momey!
It pisses me off when these parents are using foul language when reprimanding their young kids. Especially when they use the filthy F word when yelling at their kids. Then we wonder why so many small children have foul mouths. Look where they learned that from!
I lived here all my life and I’m sick of seeing that to I’m olny 26 and do everything I can to hold my own people are just lazy here now
My whole dialogue got erase..
Class need comfort of being
Separation of poor to rich in America have boundaries
Canada not so much
I live in richest area code in this city
Yet the poor or homeless have rights to live in park next door
It's ok
No threat to anyone
I go to the hardest drug area
Not a big deal
No way I would do that skid row LA
When the tone change
Come closer to EQUITY
Other occupying tone will
Slight invasion
Without manners
Or of what you consider
Happiness within ones own..we all have owns
Then the temperature change
Service cost goes UP
You getting less
You must retreat back to what you know
Comfort..
You move with EQUITY
Tone slide in
Summer gives you tan
Linguistic profound
More of the same is no gain
Unless it's to your liking
They become a tax burden with attitude
Before you have kids
You must get one kitten for 9 months
Past all test of care &responsibilities
Fail no Fallopian tube
Close it..
Havin three while I take care of my pussy cats
Why do poor people world wide have so many kids
One major place I wont mention
4 million up to 8 around here. Four little white kids lol
America I had to put that in
Only kids four mile radius.watch them grow up nice mom n dad
How not one hundred kids around here
Its call fiscal responsibility
Don't breed
It's a long term investment
Dressage, recitals
Opera
Show jumping
My fave piano
#planparenthood
One kid per immigrant
Can I say that
San Bernardino
Crazy how other cities like Fontana , Redlands, Rancho Cucamonga are not the same as San Bernardino
Ontario and Montclair
yea but there are also cities like hemet and san jacinto right next door that are in similar conditions
Yea redlands is so nice
@DrunkenMaster_0 the fuck you talking about, there's a shit ton of hard workers here. There's no jobs here for most people. Gotta drive to Ontario for work. I knew guys having to leave their homes 2 hours earlier because they have to take the bus to get to their jobs. San Bernadino is fucked but their are a lot of good people trying to survive in a bad situation and calling them lazy is bullshit.
DrunkenMaster_0 haha this dude said his Trd pro 🤣
I live in san bernardino. This is not the first and won't be the last city that suffers this. Welcome to the new America.
Is still mess up? I went to LA and even thou there were bums everywhere I think it was nice as hell.
@@MrCee861 L.A. is nice. SB is really fucked up, almost 50 miles away though, so not the same..
Like the prevailing winds blow east, so shall this.
This is likely to spread across the entire U.S.
It will continue if we continue with open border and unlimited amount of people from all over entire the US.
Keep voting in Democrats, California...they have been doing an outstanding job!
as a conservative living in the thick of socialist communism of CA and feeling trapped......and concerned that I cant state my conservative views for the life of me, I dont want to be chastised or beaten.....
Trump for 2020
Caroline Chase: Its sad when people don't actually know definitions of words. Socialism and communism are diametrically opposed, yet you use them in the same sentence. If California was, as you say, socialist and communist, then it wouldn't have the 5th largest GDP in the world. Not the nation, the entire world. The republican strong hold of Kentucky has the 48th highest GDP in the nation.
So no, your problem isn't socialism or communism, your problem is corporatism. Also know as neoliberalism and neoconservativism.
Look around. San Bernardino isn't unique to America. There are San Bernardino's all over the world right now. And not just in 3rd world countries, but in England, Spain, Italy, Japan, etc.. Republicans and democrats didn't do that. Just as Russians didn't throw 30 million Americans off healthcare.
There is only one political party in America, the Corporatist Party. And the mechanism they use is neoliberalism and neoconservativism and since 1980, with the election of Ronnie and used by all proceeding president to current day, it's been spreading around the globe.
But with a statement like yours, the establishment has indoctrinated you well, and they thank you for your blind allegiance so they can continue to rob you blind.
Just as the prevailing winds blow east, so shall this!
This is likely to become the future of the entire U.S.
San bernardino keeps voting republicans in and wonder why we have the problems like we do
Watching from Louisiana with tears in my eyes. Things aren't great here but to see a place that once had hope and it was taken away is humbling when you're from a place people have always had the goal of leaving. CA was an escape for a lot of us. I hope it gets better for Cali 💔 we love y'all and we need more good people here. Y'all would be welcome here
I grew up in Riverside and San Bernardino, and moved away in '72. Even back then San Bernardino was going down hill. But when the Santa Anas blow the smog away, it's a beautiful place.
Yep, I remember going to my Aunts house...it was rough. One of my cousins got hooked on drugs, is an alcoholic ;(
The closure of Norton AFB was a shot directly to the heart of San Bernardino.
Good ole Norton.
Yes by Buch than illegal war in 08 another Buch whole country in a world of hurt. Even Firemen, Policemen , Nurses, Truck drivers ect could not find work these Republican presidents put us in a world of hurt but keep blaming Democrats ,dont get me wrong I'm not very impressed with the Dems . also. Just put blame where it belongs.
Why did you let them...and what are you doing about it?
Rsoalia, it was Billdo Clinton closed Norton. Bush Jr. wasn't even in office. Plenty of blame to go around, but the death of Norton was that sonnabitch Clinton.
That's why I have idyllic memories of SB because I lived on Norton AFB with my aunt and uncle during the 70s.
There is way, way, way more to the story. This production was so one sided. By the way, Charles McNeely had a plan to fix the city. They wouldn't listen to him. They would rather be arguing like WWE in council meetings over ridiculousness.
Also, Fire employees sucked the city dry like a vampire to an open vein. Go back and see where the budget went.
Plan and simple, this city has been corrupt for a long time. All of this was not an accident. And, it wasn't just the 2008 crisis. It was bad stewardship. It was greed. It was stupidity. And, it was Fire and their union of greed, that didn't want to work out a contract that would work for everyone. And before anyone says they put their lives on the line, not as much as refuse did. They may go to a call. We work with hazardous Solid Waste, all day long. We didn't just sit around waiting for a call, or shopping at Staters, all while making a hundred gs on a low ball.
Don't get me wrong. I respect the guys. Some are my friends. But, as they know, I tell the truth. Don't believe me? Go back and take a look at the budget from 2 years ago, back 20 years and you will see, there goes the money that could have made a difference. But, can't blame them. Don't hate the pimp, right? Hate the game.
As far as the production, it "looked" great and was cut well. As far as the content, there's way, way, way more to the story. WAY MORE!!!
Thanks for the insight bro! As usual there is a slant to this story. I'm from Miami and back in the late 90's the city went broke, it's all about fiscal responsibility at all times. Don't forget those public pensions that costs 100k for life. As far as putting your life on the line that job is a choice not a mandate, and how many fires were they fighting. They could easily been accountants. No person goes on debt in one day usually over a long period, just like cities. Thanks for the insight
I wish I had the time to do a multi part documentary. Basically figure out why government, schools, society, business, etc fail! Go way back and see how it fell apart. Step by step, a cautionary tale, because it will happen again
Richard Puente: Start by researching neoliberalism and neoconservativism. Those two terms are beginning to evolve into a new term, corporatism.
That's at the root of all of this. San Bernardino is a microcosm of what's happening nationally as well as globally.
I believe you
I could not agree more, you see these bleeding heart puff pieces showing the problem but they never show the multiple decisions that led to the problem like poor city stewardship from the elected officials. Detroit and Seattle are also two great examples.
I'm from San Bernardino. Born at Norton AFB. Lived off Mt. Vernon, on 2nd street, Muscoy..then Rialto. Moved away after college in 1979. Everytime I go back to Cali, I go to San Bernardino. It breaks my heart,,,
I love Berdoo. Im from Inglewood and thats were I live again but I lived in San Bernardino for 10 years. I was married there and owned a home there right on 29th and Crescent in the north end. It is a great town that has been hit the hardest in all of California. I was lucky enough to have had a great job at lenscrafters in the Inland Center Mall. I hope one day to go back and help out the lots of poor children there. IE and LA always together one love!
The North end is about as good as it gets in SB. But even the North end has gotten bad.
Tracy Simon I remember many years ago traveling on Highland ave it was nice Many Restaurants a nice park nowadays all the nice restaurants are closed. One of the restaurants was Bings Chinese food went there in the 70s and early eighties the mall downtown was busy just a nice town.
Mickey PH! The Carousel Mall is abandoned now. They still have the Inland Center Mall there. It used to be a thriving city. It makes me sad when i go visit family that is still there.
Fudruckers on E street. Those were the days.
Miguel I used to work in the inland center mall in the 80’s. I will pray for San Bernardino 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Grew up on Baseline and Sterling on a little street called Argyle back when the Carousel mall was crowded. When Montgomery Ward and Harris was open. Things have certainly changed! Its sad. Used to be great.
Honey Butter Harris was the shit. We’d go school shopping there all the way from Fontana. And eat lunch at Harris too lol
A long time ago
Dude no way i live on 7000 block of argyle too. Back when there qas 1 ranch markets . On highland and baseline
We used to go eat at Burger King, then go watch a movie at the theater in the mall!
Harris was a great old department store. I have fond memories of going there at Xmas time when I was a kid in the 1960’s.
What happened with all the revenue that was supposed to be coming from legalization of marijuana??? Just a state of walking zombies
They only gave out 17 marijuana licenses out here in sb. And even then they get raided and shut down
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You should really look into that... You'll definitely be astonished to learn that cannabis is barely legal in California. Many cities don't allow it. So fact check yourself.
That got mixed up with the ca lottery thing!
San Bernardino issued a moratorium on all cannabis business. Police ran wild, telling everyone, "Weed is still illegal in this county." Even after three bills had passed. The city of Desert Hot Springs was in the same m situation, but pulled themselves out of insolvency, lowered their crime rate and are now enjoying a break from much of the economic stress of city bankruptcy because they addressed Cannabis in a sensible, community-involved fashion that allowed them to survive. San Bernardino could do the same but nobody in power cares. I actually met the mayor of DHS in one of the dispensaries called Sungrow!!
I live right where they do most of the interviews at the parks and inside the wash in meadowbrook apts it's still like that and unfortunately my wife and I are living check to check and live in low income housing we still keep our heads high and will not give up whenever we take walks we make lunch bags and hygiene bags and hand them out to any homeless we come across, even if they are drug addicts because not every can break addiction and it can make someone feel hopelessness and we feel if we show some kind of love they won't give up
Hey do you still do that? I live around the city and want to shoot some little doc pieces about positive things, about the people of san bernardino. Get in touch with me, I'd love to hear your story.
SeanMasonlol Yes we still do it, Sounds good email me here @ likemike2390@gmail.com
I live in Albuquerque with my parents. Would love to live in SB County again some day.
I live in the same apartment complex. It was a trip watching this.
Walter White www.yescalifornia.org
Growing up in LA, San Bernardino always been a place you go to when you give up on life
Truth
Damn that’s harsh.
I used to like San Bernardino when I was little. Glad I wised up because I don't wanna be anywhere near there.
I lived in San Bernardino for 5 years. It wasn't too terrible at the beginning, but it did get worse with time. All the homeless people started to move North and I was not comfortable with the thought of a transient possibly breaking into my home. Additionally, I didn't want my son to attend school in SB. In my honest opinion, there is no saving San Bernardino.
Damn...
Nelly T - It’s a thousand times easier to start a new town/city in the middle of nowhere than it is to try to repair and rebuild a dead city.
I'm so glad that I grew up in Ridgecrest not San Bernardino.
She said we're getting a home....now we have a chance at the American dream.....
Better think again.....getting a house for free is not the American dream.
Thank you! Im im the social work field and the ultimate end goal for the clients and encouraged by tbe social workers is to find a free apartment or.home. they will sit homeless for 5 years waiting for the free.place to come up instead of bettering themselves...
True.
Witness Pat Morris clucking his tongue and wagging his finger at people for leaving San Bernardino. I left San Bernardino in 92 because as a high school graduate who wasn't going to college there wasn't anything in San Bernardino for me except minimum wage and a high cost of living. I went to the Army for 6 years and then came back to the San Bernardino area looking to put all that great training and life experience to work, and I was able to get work making a little over minimum wage in a factory in Colton which later closed and moved to Mexico. I wound up (as so many of us do) in Arizona where I've been able to find and keep a decent job for almost 15 years now, and I've even been able to buy a house for a reasonable price.
Hats off to you, Pat, for making your way through college and law school, but not everyone can do that and then go on to make a living bouncing between highly compensated government work and even higher paying private sector jobs. People in my social strata have to go out and produce something and earn a profit so that people in your social strata have someone to tax to pay for your six figure salaries and your great ideas like the ever so successful drug courts (hey, where'd all the meth addicts go?) as well as that real winner of an idea to convert the Central City mall into an urbane metrocenter.
I realize that Pat Morris isn't responsible for California's entire economic crisis, but he presided over a particularly hideous part of the problem and now acts surprised and hurt that people aren't willing to hang in there with him and the mess he helped create. In all actuality, he's probably just concerned that the people he was counting on to pay taxes are now leaving and being replaced by people who don't pay taxes. We can't all make our living sucking the taxpayer tit. Fuck you, Pat.
homelessinaz Prescotts : Lest in 1972. Never going back.
homelessinaz Prescotts Perfectly said, my friend. All too true.
Bless you, for figuring it out. You are an American Hero
We're all living in hard times. TRUST IN GOD.. DON'T GIVE UP
Thanks Pam
Hahahaha!...God, and the liberals, have done one helluva job so far. Hahahaha.
@@beatle1956 the abandonment of God through liberal policies is what happened. Read a little bit of how liberal policies have destroyed the country.
God gave up on this country along time ago.
My dad likes to buy properties in Riverside and San Bernardino because you can get them for so cheap and fix them up, start having them bring you in a steady income each month.
San Bernardino is going to continue having problems if they keep going blue. You can't drive business away and then complain that there are no jobs. You have to make your city appealing to businesses. The majority of businesses are not Walmart or Amazon - they're YOUR people. If you make it impossible to run a business, Walmarts and Amazons have the ability to deal with it. The mom and pop shops don't.
It also doesn't help when they continuously make more policies that are enabling.
"We have homeless people."
"Well, let's provide them with EVERYTHING, free of charge."
"We now have more homeless people for some reason. Can't figure out why."
Bleeding heart policies based on emotions just tend to worsen the problem, and the only reason for them is so that the people who support them can feel better about themselves. People need to start learning that if you see a drug addict on the street and give them $10, what you just did was buy them more drugs to hurt themselves. You didn't help. You just did something so you could make yourself feel good, but you didn't do something to help them.
What should we do? Provide a way for people to get job training and become productive. Would everyone take it? Of course not. We've known plenty of people who CHOOSE to be homeless because they don't want to follow the rules of society. You're not going to be able to force them to live like everyone else. You also can't help everyone. If someone is an addict and isn't ready to quit, you can't do anything about it. Provide a path for people to build up their lives through their own efforts. That's what we need here, but they won't do it because it doesn't give them the instant gratification of being able to feel like they did something.
Eisah Vakohler: How do explain away the republican stronghold state of Kentucky? They make San Bernardino look like Beverly Hills.
At least California can boast that they have the 5 largest GDP in the world. California has more wealth than Russia who clocks in at #6 in global GDP. Kentucky? Ranks 48th in the nation. Doesn't even register on the global statistics.
But this metric helps prove the point. This isn't a red/blue paradigm. This is about corporatism and it's been spreading around the globe since it was kicked into gear in 1980, by none other than Ronald Reagan. And every proceeding president has not only continued the policy, but accelerated it.
The global economy is about to tank. Are you going to plan the democrats for that? You'd be partially correct. There's only one political party in America. The Corporatist Party and both red and blue pander to it. There is no liberal or conservative or moderate or centrist policies. That's all an illusion to make you think there's a difference.
But as long as you and people like you continue to believe in the establishment, then the establishment will continue to rob you blind and sooner than later, you'll find yourself in a city like San Bernardino.
@@Vanderearden I have no idea what made you think I believe in establishment or have great trust in Republicans. The policies people like Obama put in were often "tyranny of the majority" policies, catering to big cities with a lot of people and overlooking places like Kentucky. For example, being in CA (and knowing people who have moved out to Texas because it's stupidly expensive to live here), we had a vote about water during the drought. What should happen with the water that falls on farmlands and such?
Well, while normally you would say the farmers can use it to water their crops, there's more people living in the city, so they voted the water should go to them. So we have an insane law that prevents farmers from using water on their own property the same way anyone else would, even though a huge part of CA's economy is agriculture. This has caused farmers to drill deep into the land to get water in response, which I'm sure will have some sort of consequences in the future.
Which is the reason why we have things like the electoral college. Pandering to places like large cities ends up trampling over the rights and needs of the people who grow our food.
I like Trump because he's actually destroyed a lot of regulations that were strangling businesses and such. It doesn't mean I agree with 100% of what he does. And, of the two options we're generally being presented with right now, if I have to choose one, I have to go with the ones who are currently on the side of free speech and such. Right now that's the Republicans, whereas it used to be the Democrats. I don't like either party, though, and would prefer to get more outsiders into office who actually care about what they're doing.
CA has so many things like naturally good weather that SHOULD make it an amazing place. For example, with the drought: we did not solve that problem. We lucked out because we suddenly got a lot of rain that took care of a lot of it. The path we were taking would have probably had lasting consequences to our land.
We generally hang in there despite the politicians here, not because of them. I also acknowledge that without being propped up by other states, CA would probably collapse on itself. We have $1.3 TRILLION in debt as a state. Don't follow us for sure.
Eisah Vakohler: I honestly wonder how someone can be so wrong. It's beyond frustrating. It must be Fox News.
First off, California is not in debt, it actually has a surplus. Again, 5th largest GDP in the world. You might want to look up what GDP is. California receives the least amount of federal assistance. The fact is, California, because of it's immense GDP, supports states like Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, West Virginia, etc. Just a quick search of Federal funding bares this out.
The water bill your talking about is far more complex than the over simplification you've given, but then again, you seem to think republicans are the advocates for free speech. They clearly say they are, but their actions say otherwise. That's the entire GOP shtick. Say one thing, do the opposite. Trump and the GOP say, "We love free markets", but telling a private business what they can or can't do is not democracy, it's a dictatorship. And the vast majority of those regulations that Trump rolled back are going to end up killing people. Think of regulations as safety features, except the republicans have convinced ignorant people that they are strangling freedoms. Here's a regulation, speed limits, should we get rid of those? But now Trump has told corporations that it's just fine to dump coal ash in water ways. It's ok to use fracking water to irrigate crops. It's ok to use public lands for corporate interests. I suppose you want to get rid of "entitlements"' to. One problem, if you've worked anywhere in the nation, you've earned those "entitlements". Would you consider your checking account or savings account an "entitlement"?
Seriously, how do you go through life with so little understanding of what the truth is? It truly boggles the rational mind.
@@Vanderearden No, most of those regulations are idiotic legislation that sounded good to people who don't work in the fields they're legislating on. They tend to strangle mom and pop businesses.
When the government is using a platform and treats sites as a platform, they should only be treated as a platform and not a publisher if they meet certain standards. Sites are being given privileges they aren't earning. Just like a Church shouldn't be allowed to keep certain privileges if they get into politics. You can be a publisher if you want, but then you have to go by those rules.
I knew the moment that you fell back on, "Must be Fox News!!" that this comment would be a doozy.
Anyway.
www.statedatalab.org/state_data_and_comparisons/detail/california
ballotpedia.org/California_state_debt
www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2018/04/19/the-top-four-reasons-california-is-unsustainable/#551e4e3c3a23
debtwatch.treasurer.ca.gov/
californiapolicycenter.org/californias-state-and-local-liabilities-total-1-5-trillion-2/
www.ocregister.com/2019/01/09/californias-massive-debt-should-caution-against-big-spending/
www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-23/trillion-dollar-budget-deficit-national-debt-republicans-democrats
www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
www.usgovernmentdebt.us/compare_state_debt
But sure. Let's pretend CA wouldn't immediately collapse if it weren't part of the US.
Eisah Vakohler: OMG. This is why America is in dire straits, because of the idiotic rational of people like you. The main reason for California's economics is because of Trump's trade war with China. What is the busiest and most profitable sea port in the U.S.? Long Beach, which has been put under strain because of import trade. What is the largest sector of GDP in California? Agriculture, which is now under strain due to the trade war. What is the second largest source of revenue in California? Logging, which again, is under pressure due to the trade war. California's economics, as well as most states that produce goods, like coal in Virginia are troubled because of this trade war. It doesn't take a genius to see how in 3 short years, Trumps economic policies have plunged America deeper into debt by over 3 trillion dollars and the states with the highest GDP are going to be hit the hardest. Mainly, California.
Again, it's the same old republican talking point. Fiscal responsibility. The 1987 recession came 7 years after Reagan was elected, but still in office. The 2008 economic crash came 7 years after Bush was elected, but still in office. Now Trump has accelerated policies that were never fixed, but rather only corrected with nonbinding fiscal policy.
The reality is, and any nonpartisan economist will tell you, if California seceded from the Union, the nation would collapse because there is no other state with even close to the GDP potential that California currently has. The rest of the nation sucks off the tet of California, whether you agree or not. Facts are facts. Notice how California leads the nation in reform. When California decides to make change, D.C. has very little choice but to let it happen because they can't afford to lose the revenue that California provides to the federal coffers.
The red/blue paradigm is a shame. There is no red or blue party. There is only one party in America. The corporatist party and both republicans and democrats pander to it. When Kamala Harris(democrat) works hand in hand with Steve Mnuchin(republican) to illegally forclose on millions of homeowners, the writing is on the wall, unless you're completely blind.
Lastly, debt doesn't mean what you think it does. A nations or state debt is the electorates asset. This might be over your pay scale, but ask this on simple question. How does any U.S. currency come into existence. How is it created? There is a mechanism and once you understand that mechanism instead of thinking you know, then it'll become easier to see the game that being played and how all average Americans are being robbed blind. It makes no difference what state you live in or what party you align with. It's all theater to keep the masses infighting. To keep them fearful and ignorant.
But in all seriousness, tell me how you think a single U.S. dollar is created. This should be fun. I truly look forward to your response. Your answer will reveal who you are.
I've lived in 5 states and 3 foreign countries. Seven years in Alaska, 16 in California. Never going back to Cali as much good times I had. Gotten too insane. Peaceful here in Wisconsin. Wonderful people.
I ve been in CA way too many years and now I long for the peace and good will in Wisconsin and neighboring states,u r truly blessed!
I left California too, lived there my entire life. Avoided big cities, settled in Minnesota. Best decision I ever made. It never really gets better in Los Angeles, just more crowded and dreary. I remember there were no homeless, before President Carter, they began to show in large numbers in 1979 and never left or got better- just worse. Poverty kept steadily climbing untill President Trump. who began to make changes. Carter had re started mass immigration, bypassing Congress,using administrative actions.
I say today California is the State of Misery.
@@bluskies1000 "Poverty kept steadily climbing untill President Trump." We have the biggest disparity in wealth in this country ever. Worst economy since great depression. Cities across nation in flames. Country on brink of civil war. Its not going to get better. 15.8% FHA loans are now delinquent. Millions will be losing homes soon and with many without jobs homeless population will explode. Orange clown has been an utter disaster. Though got to admit he was bigly amazing for corporations. Trillions upon trillions corporate welfare handed out. We'll be paying for this disaster for generations to come.
Mil town stand up.
Born in San Bernardino moved to Milwaukee in 2002 been here ever since!!
I live In san Bernardino. And my school just won a prize for being one of the top best schools in the country. As long as you have hope and a way to success you wanna follow you can change everything. Yes, There are gangs in my school but as long as you stay away from them you can change the way people sees the city. I'm a latino who is #1 in class rank with a gpa of 4.57 and I'll be one of the richest people in the world and I SWEAR san Bernardino will be one of the best cities in the us in a couple of years because it's full of great people who I see hope in. Remember my name people. When I'm rich and famous I'll fix san Bernardino.
Nanno MC : That was a BS prize.
Nanno MC if San Bernardino keeps more people like you I am sure it can become great. Keep your head up and if you want San Bernardino to be a wonderful city I think you can. I was raised in San Bernardino but left and love where I am now but it’s so sad when I visit family and friends who live somewhere filled with meth addicts and gangs. It would make me so happy to see the next generation make San Bernardino a nice place to live again.
David Lee : It is a shiithole city. The kid is going to public school and being indoctrinated by the commie teachers. How do you you have a GPA higher than 4.0? Is that common core math? This kid thinks being rich will mean he can save San Bernardino. In his dreams but dreams don't change reality.
Zero Hedge you can get over a 4.0 by taking advanced classes and you can change a city by becoming rich if by being rich he starts a great company headquartered in San Bernardino and if others like him do the same.
David Lee : The top grade you could get is a 4.0. It is called grade inflation when you change the grading system and hand out awards that are meaningless. What company wants to have its HQ in San Bernardino? It's a shiithole. State taxes are high, poverty is high, homelessness is high, most of the people are high.
If he thinks being rich will change San Bernardino? Yeah, right. It is only going to get worse. California is now a communist-run state. They don't like rich people.
And Don't Forget To Mention The Government Closed Norton Air Force Base In The Early 90s Didn't Help Out Either
And what political partie implemented the closure of military bases ?Total destruction of many city's.
Made to wosre
I thought government didn't create jobs? I guess they do...
Republicans close base
Democrats close base
You think every city must have base..the conspiracy dudes would go nuts
When did party become s lifestyle
4 years liberal
Four years conservative
Just repeat
How we do
It never gets personal
Me me us
Is hurting America
Someone cant be a retard
Then within 4 years
He ok..four more he back to retarded til he vote to loose retard label
You would have a nation of bi polar schizo schizophrenic schizophrenic
@@rosaliamartinez8956 Didn't stop Denver when Lowry AFB closed. For the exception of one hanger for the new Air Force Museum, the base has totally rebuilt into the Denver metropolis, and may not be recognized as once DOD, unless one looks closely. Denver has grown, and Lowry has grown with it. Purhaps those close of Norton AFB could utilized certain parallels to enhance the neighboring metropolis !
I'm from Rialto, moved to Riverside, San Bernardino is way worse than this depiction
Not really. You just have to look a little harder.
@@kokopelli_002 no SB is pretty damn shitty
@@christopherquintanilla6572 it definitely is. Prostitutes be advertising their service on the bus like it's nothing.
How was rialto?
The 2008 recession was terrible; fasten your seatbelts for the upcoming Covid-21 Depression!!! 😢
One of the two very top sh!tholes in the United States ... (1) San Bernardino, California and (2) Youngstown, Ohio. Congratulations, you both did it.
HEMET CA TOO IS ROUGH NOW!
Nope! Gary, Indiana.
How can you break something that was never fixed?? San Berdo has always been the armpit of Southern California, and always will be.
Notice that even though we're supposed to be poor, we still have money for cellphones and have a zillion kids.
John Roberts so poor can’t afford condoms
Don’t cost money to have kids
Most get dem for free from the federal government and others momma got dem from post contract cell companies with fabulous discounts 🤣
Dont forget money for drugs.
We are not much different from third world countries that have a lot of children and can't take care of them. I don't understand ppl making a lot of babies they themselves cannot support. This is distinguished from families that fall into that situation through no fault of their own.
I feel so sorry for children who don't have the adults in their lives who are responsible, loving, and care enough about them to tell them what to do by either example or verbally doing it. My parents were doing both and boy what a difference it made.
wow!
I lived in Ventura in 1971 and left in 1972 it was a great place. Moved to Florida after that so glad. Florida is wonderful.
Generations of San Bernardino families enjoyed good middle class incomes from jobs at Kaiser Steel, Norton Airforce Base, and the railroad shops. When these employers closed, nothing replaced them. Riverside and Fontana were able to repurpose as bedroom communities for Orange County and LA. San Bernardino is just too far away from the job centers.
my biggest concern is if these ppl in california move to other states are they going to continue voting in the failed policies that got them where their at in the first place
Anna Durkee you are a 1,000,000 percent right you made a awesome point that know one is talking about
I live in an area where transplants from CA, NJ, NY and IL moved to. They are spreading the disease. They should have left their politics behind with them.
Liberal Cancer , not remembering it's failures, simply keeps trying to repeat them.. let's give the ' dreamers' a legal shot at citizenship. Let's move away from inflammatory rhetoric and torwards humane solutions..
You're dumb....just dumb
They always do
San Bernardino is a western version of both Baltimore and Memphis, horribly sad indeed!
RIP. SAN BERNADINO
@@annrobi3103 RIP TO THESE FOLLOWING CITIES:
1. MEMPHIS TN
2. ST LOUIS MO
3. GARY IN
4. SAGINAW MI
5. YOUNGSTOWN OH
6. NIAGARA FALLS NY
7. BRIDGEPORT CT
8. CAMDEN NJ
9. CHESTER PA
10. BALTIMORE MD
Add Buffalo NY to that list
@@ctoombs7825 WRONG! Buffalo is not that bad and is revitalizing.
@@robertpreskop4425, you forgot NYC and L.A.
Thank you Dems....good job
I live in San Bernardino I’ve been here with my kids and husband for about 4 years. I’m originally from Orange County I have seen so much in my time here it’s really sad but the homeless epidemic is getting worse not only here in San Bernardino but in Orange County too I think it’s bad all over California there is no help or hope and it’s really sad
The closing of Norton AFB and Sante Fe Railroad maintenance yards contributed to SB's economic demise. LA County using SB as a dumping ground for its parolees didn't help either.
Shouts out from Youngstown, Ohio. Trust me, once the economy pass you buy, it never comes back. 20, 30, 40 years from now San Benardino will still be like this. Just as Youngstown has remained the same since the '80s.
Hav e you have no faith in the political system? The media says you are wrong! (Sarcasm)
God bless those kids and folks helping out 🙏🙌🙏
amen
Dignity is what you have left when you lose everything.
Help my city please god. Let my tears and prayer be heard
I am praying for you and the city to live in Peace,Love and his amazing Grace!
This happens across all aging suburban areas in the U.S. A lot of older housing divisions. Some people try and keep up with their older homes while some less desirable people tend to move in because the homes are slightly lower or rent is lower. It doesn't happen overnight. I remember how nice, small, but lovely my great grandmother's house was in the late 1980s (built in the 1940's) on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. By the time she passed away in 1999, the neighborhood had turned to shit. Sad really when you think about the good memories of these places.
why is china doing so well then?
@@raymonddon8875 because they produce they have industry
I was born at St Bernardine's Hospital in San Bernardino in 1958, and left for good in 1989 because of the gang activity that was becoming prevalent in the NICEST areas of the city.
The decline of SB began in the mid-eighties when L.A. was chasing out all of the black street gangs (crips/bloods) and they were moving to the Inland Empire (SB and Riverside). Riverside did a great job of navigating them, but unfortunately SB city management didn't, and that is why the city is in the condition it is in today.
Norton AFB closed years after I left (4/94) and may have contributed to an economical decline in the city, but it didn't cause the initial decay. That was the infilteration of the crips and bloods and the poor city management who let them take over.
I moved to the Seattle area in 1989 and when I came back to the Inland Empire (6/94) for my father's funeral, SB was already DEEP into the sewer. NAFB closed 4/94.
When I moved back to CA in 1999 and was driving through San Bernardino to Palm Desert, I couldn't believe the condition of my hometown. The nicest areas of town were decayed and all black. It was truly unbelievable.
It makes me sick to see the present condition of SB, and anybody who knows the city history knows the city starting plummeting long before NAFB closed.
Agree
Do you think the gang activities were caused by bad economic policies from former President Ronald Reagan? What's the real truth? What did the gangs think about Ronald Reagan?
When you're born in this city you see a lot of bad but you also see a lot of good it depends who you know and what you do and how you do things I learned being born and raised here that not everything in this city is bad we all have the opportunity as Americans to rise from no matter how dark a place you come from I'm gonna take a quote from a sir Francis drake "sic parvis magna"
Agreed. There are so many sweet and caring people here. Though, things have gotten better, and worse, since 2015.
Yes there r good and bad people everywhere
I am from Alameda right across some water from Oakland. I remember in the 70's hearing that Valerie Bertanelli was from there. Do people ever come back and give back to the community? Not just money but using their influence or notoriety in order to attract investment from companies or other celebrities in order to pull up the quality of life and struggle?? I think the real passion it takes to bring change comes from human spirit. Praying for you San Bernadino ✌
Betty Stouffer - Are you out of your mind?
I worked in San Bernardino for about 4 months and met some amazing people 🙏🏾
Born and raised in Chino. Bought a home at 22yrs old. Couldn't have done without my San Bernardino County education, job, union, family and friends. I heart the IE.
House was raided because of a tweaker saying I was a biggest drug dealer in all of San Bernardino didn't find any anyting. Charged me with explosives which were actually a box of fireworks not even illegal fireworks
Halfway through the first month of 2020 and this city remains the same. It's so sad.
I remember as an 6 year old kid seeing my front door neighbor kid about 14 15 years old. Bloe his head off in the middle of the street on 11th and G in dino . Thats been replaying in the back of my head for the last 30 plus years now
I'm from San Bernardino. I wanna help my city so badly.
That poor kid in the beginning being screamed at.
But They All Have Their Tats Booze Cell Phones And Drugs...WTF !
chuck s don’t judge
Make better choices..
@Aimee Webber they are probably 'Obama phones'. The phones are "free" if you are impoverished, and have medical/medicare.
A cell phone is 30$ a month an apt is what 1800$ there..? Idiot
Clearly someone grew up privileged and can't understand another way of life.
I love San Bernardino, let's make a difference.
I was born in Van Nuys and grew up in Altadena and South Pasadena during the 60-70's. Michigan is now my home. Everyone is aware of the fiscal issues that have affected Detroit, but our smaller towns are in trouble too. It breaks my heart seeing these images coming from the Southland. I pray for my brothers and sisters in San Bernardino. Please be safe. Dan
San Bernardino has always been a shithole though. One of the original motorcycle gangs that incorporated into the Hells Angels were the "Pissed Off Bastards Of San Berdoo". This was in the 40s/50s.
Is that the same crew ritchie valens brother,
bob rolled with?
Don't even blame the 81!!! It's the Democrates plan for one world government. America is now a third world country.
@@wesleyhenderson5958 shut the fuck up moron. Like the Republicans are any better. The sell the people out to the highest bidder day one moron...
WKZ On Tech better indeed.
FIRE CITY COUNCIL.. OR WHY ARE THEY BEING PAID SO MUCH AND THE CITY SUFFERS
That's every city everywhere
@@puddincup9879 city official just last month, expects $270,000 a year.. for doing what exactly....
I am so glad I saw this documentary. Yes, our city is struggling but there are also good parts of the city that make it better. I dont know why The Lord brought me here. All I know is that there is still a lot of work to be done. I know it's going to get better.
I remember back in 1985-1986 those flood canals had homeless people in them then,even when the city was vibrant it was still kind of a shit hole.
I lived in San Bernardino in the 90’s and remember living poor like these kids it’s heartbreaking brings back so many memories but I can only hope that this will make them stronger.
where u live now 😁
As a kid I loved growing up in San Bernadino yet as an adult I truly dread visiting my friends who could not move away. Note I moved away in 93
But the name “San Bernardino” sounds so rich.
Hopefully someday it will
North San Bernardino is very rich
Haha I wish
chase leny until all the smokers and criminals from LA settled there
@@ThejeffJr8 i live d on the North end for almost 8 years, that side was just as bad with the homeless and violence. Police were even worse because they tried to protect the "prestige" off the North but really weren't doing shit productive to keep it up
How can it be middle class when a home costs 500k+
they usaly cost bettween 300k which is cheap for a califonia city
When do the people wake up and realize they are millions and millions strong...to live as victims and hoping for a chance get in morals and humility, well, history shows it's a slow death otherwise.
Sad and HURT - Crying Too Much
I lived up the hill from San Bernardino for about 6 months in 1974. The city lights were just gorgeous. We called it the jewelry box. It's just so sad the city's fallen apart.
Eight year old video and San Bernardino is worse. Driving the streets you hardly see other cars in the city. I remember driving to E St. on friday nights for cruise nights in 1972. It was packed, all parking lots full of hot rods and laughing people. Then Kaiser Steel sold the plant to China putting thousands out of good paying jobs. Illegals robbing homes and businesses, shootings, store closings, no new development. Became an urban slum overnight. Homeless with shopping carts on the freeway, a real tragedy. Now the ballpark built by the casino indians have raves that blast the whole valley with horrid vibrating sound way after dark. Must be the only way money is made
Berdo was getting rough back in the mid 90's when I lived there. When they closed the air base it really began to fall as I remember.
I see the problem. Schools are breeding dumbbells. She’s asking for answers to stuff I would’ve learned at 3yrs old watching G.I.joe. “And knowing is half the battle”
Fuck up moron
Schools not parents?
Sanbernegheto , who else got this on recommended 5 years later smh
This is what a democrat run town looks like. This is why the electoral college exists.
bigblocklawyer: The very same could be said about Kentucky. A republican run state. Until ignorant, tribal people wake up and realize what the real problem is and who should be held to account, then this will continue to happen all across the nation.
This isn't a red/blue paradigm, no matter how insistent the establishment talking heads tell you it is. There is only one political party in America, the Corporatist Party. Red/Blue is an illusion.
America isn't a free market, capitalist democracy. It's a fascist, oligarchy police state. If it was a free market, then why the need for trade deals? Why use tariffs? Why does a leader of a free market make demands on a private business where they can do business. A dictator does that.
But by all means, keep punching down. This allows the establishment to continue to rob you blind and never be held to account.
@@Vanderearden Yep. You're right. The left right paradigm is a myth. San Francisco, St. Louis, Miami, Baltimore, Chicago, DC, Portland, Flint, Detroit. All just coincidentally run by the myth of liberalism. If these cities were run by the equally mythical right, we wouldn't hear about the right left paradigm bullshit but how the racist white supremacists were screaming up the hood. One of the trillions of excuses we hear about the paradigm. Dickhead California *elected* assholes who warn criminals about ICE raids and go uncharged. They do this so illegal aliens feel compelled to vote for the democrat illusion in exchange for food, shelter and a "better life"( that we pay for). This is the only way democrats get elected. Keep drinking the kool aid believing this is all a scam to keep the 2 sides at war. Ask Kate Steinle's parents how a democrat run, sanctuary shithole has been to them. The flint city officials recinded a legal, closed bid, won by a company to repair water pipe in the shithole and said a minority owned company (who were shown not to be able to complete the project) would get the job. Just a left vs. right setup, right? Wake up. Liberalism, help find a cure.
bigblocklawyer: Was Dylan Roof a liberal? But since you killed nonwhites, that's different, right?
You still didn't answer for Kentucky. Or Virginia. How about Mississippi or Tennessee? All republican strongholds. All the biggest recipients of federal aid. Aid that is overwhelmingly provided by those terrible liberal states.
A person can't have fear or tribalism without ignorance. Your definitely there. Still beholden to the theatre that is the red/blue paradigm despite all evidence to the contrary. But then again, Fox News doesn't represent the truth, just opinion.
2013..Its now 2019. Where were/are the politicians making a difference in this land? This is criminal to see this happening to a beautiful city.
I LOVE MY CITY!!! THE INLAND EMPIRE SHALL BE SAVED!!!!
I feel you man. San Bernardino is all I know I can't give up yet...or ever
Yes... Once we stamp out all the illegals and Bolsheviks, California will be saved. We need brown shirts on the streets.
I grew up in San Bernardino and gave up on it 7 years ago. Fuck that place I will never go back. It's filled with pedophiles.
RedPillMale stfu
Allegedly
There’s so many warehouses to work at there amazon has 4, fedex, and ups sooo many there’s a ton of jobs there but ppl just want to get high and watch tv try to be a dancer or some stupid entertainment star hahaha it’s San Berdo wtf🤷🏻♂️
March can u live off 1 amazon with these high ass rent prices? Not everybody is good at warehouse jobs that fire u if they simply just don’t like u, and let’s not forget amazon is seasonal
Wow...you really don’t get that the income doesn’t match up to cost of living.
You’re the problem g
The real question is do those jobs pay livable wages? If they don't then you can only afford to live in shacks with poverty wages. There plenty of people that work multiple to make ends meet especially in California.
These warehousedont always provide living wages. Amazon workers are on food stamps. And the job market fluctuates seasonally. The worst part of it is the agencies...vice did a video on how agencies hire alot of illegal immigrants to work in these warehouse jobs a d the major companies aren't at fault s ok we constantly see new agencies popping up and exploiting people and taking 2-5$ per hour per employee insane
i lived in San Bernardino for approximately a year , 30 years ago. I grew up in Los Angeles and Orange counties before that and San Bernardino was my first space in the Inland empire. Truly, compared to where I lived in LA and Orange counties, San Bernardino was a hole even then. This video was published back in 2015, and San Bernardino likely continued momentum into the dark abyss since then. But most of it is due to the collusion of residents living there and politicians they elect to run the city into the ground. Do, they think that's their goal? No, of course not. They think San Bernardino can be built into the socialist haven Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gilibrand, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris are trying to sell people going into the 2020 elections. The DNC has given up all hope and sought to buy votes with other peoples' money. No way to know how stupid people truly are. It just may work this time around for the election, but San Bernardino, just like Havana and Caracas will prove this strategy as stupid beyond all doubt.
God Bless Pastor Sandy 🙏🏾
Very well done video, Ms. Baylen. Carefully rendered. Lots of thought shows through, but comes off effortless and smooth.
Homeless and addicted to drugs, hey let's have 9 kids!
Most Californians are barely waking up to the fact that State is in ruins because of systematic, political and bureaucratic failures . Career Politicians adhere and loyal only to themselves and not to their constituents. Sadly, as long as constituents are thrown a bone or two i.e. welfare and any state sponsored stipend, they will be satisfied and no motivation to question career politicians' motives and goals within their cities and/counties.
This is the same problem in Illinois. Corrupt politicians, bureaucratic idiocy, wasted taxpayer dollars....it's endless but the moron voters keep putting the same corrupt politicians in office. Unfortunately, those who have wised up are now moving into my area - NW Indiana - driving up home prices, clogging the streets, taking over our parks, and worst of all, bringing their stupidity with them. Thank God I retire in 2 years and am getting the Hell out of here before these idiots ruin our town like they ruined Illinois.
Think of San Bernardino as like if LA was NYC San Bernardino is Newark 😂😂
Minus the great venues, beaches, record stores and landmarks
Carrot Rob Schinder we are living under a dem government they rule us by regulations and tax’s
Not even bro you may compare it to skid row but not Los Angeles its self *sigh*
Christian Acosta It really is the new Compton Watts and South Central man I was just over there by Mt Vernon
I am from LA - live in LA. This is good journalism .
Such an amazing, honest and emotionally compelling documentary. Thank you.
This was the worst post we had in my husband's Air Force career. As much as I dislike Texas, I was glad when we left An Berdoo in 1991. And I am a California native.