Germany vs USA - Homeless In America | Racism In America | JAY STEPHAN
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Homeless in USA is a growing issue. This is the dark side of USA largely caused by racism in USA, specifically systemic racism. Homelessness in USA is hugely impacted by systemic racism.
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I have to clarify that in Germany there is a difference between homeless and no-shelter in the statistics. Roughly 256000 people in 2020 in Germany are considered homeless (wohnungslos), as per the definition.
This means that they have no own home or apartment with their own rent contract but have sheltered with friends or family, in certain institutions, Bahnhofsmission, etc. Roughly 45 000 of those have no-shelter (obdachlos), as in they are sleeping on the streets or tents, in parks, train, subway, tram or bus stations, without any serious protection from the elements, no access to cleaning facilities or showers.
To make the difference more clear: even those mentally disabled people living in certain well-cared-for disability homes with "betreutes Wohnen" are technically "wohnungslos" as they don't have their own rent-contract, but require the constant care and help of others. But truely 'obdachlos', ie those that have to live on the streets are a much smaller number in Germany.
While I don't say that there aren't any people that seek help and still fall through the gaps of our welfare state, the numbers overall are fairly small. Yes, there are people who don't want to live on the streets, yet don't recieve the help and assistance they should get in Germany. But if you apply at the Sozialamt for a Sozialwohnung they can't deny you access to a small apartment with a very tiny monthly amount of money to barely scrape by. No, it definitely isn't anything to allow you much leeway financially. But it should be possible to survive on it. Not great, definitely not.
Here in Augsburg, Germany, a few years ago we had the case of a homeless couple who refused to leave their park bench at the beginning of winter. All kinds of offers were made, but they didn't want to move temporarily into homeless shelters because those are segregated by gender and the two were inseparable. I don't know what happened to them, but it was in the newspaper several times and the police and the city government really did everything they could to help the two of them. I only tell this story to show how rare homelessness is (in a city of 300,000 people!) and how the administration cares about every single homeless person.
Oh, and it is worth mentioning that *everyone* in Germany has the *right* to get "Hartz IV" from the welfare state, regardless if they are Germans or not. Hartz IV means currently 449 € for food and personal spendings, plus rent (for a reasonable-sized apartment) and heating is also paid for.
Yeah I was schocked by the numbers from Germany and looked it up and came to the same conclusion, that there is problem with the definition. And then I was shocked again by your comment @RustyDust101 because I realised, that I was homeless too in the beginning of 2019, where I lived at my sisters house, because of a time gap between to apartments.
@@hape3862 Jaaaa, FALLS Beantragung und Bewilligung reibungslos über die Bühne gehen. Laut meiner Erfahrung ist die Zeit bis man die Hilfe bekommt am schwierigsten zu überstehen.
Sobald es greift ist es ein Segen. Aber BIS es greift ist es nur hohles Geschwätz.
@@zahgurim7838 Soweit ich weiß, kannst du in das Jobcenter reinwackeln, deinen Antrag stellen und auf der Stelle Bargeld bekommen (wird später verrechnet).
@@hape3862 Gut, ich weiß nicht wies in Bayern ist, in Ba-Wü muss man zuerst zur Agentur für Arbeit. Ohne einen Bescheid von denen dass man Anrecht auf Hartz hat bekommt man beim Jobcenter keinen müden Cent.
Empires don't "fall", they rot from inside.
First person to talk about racism and homeless together. Thank you sir 👏
People don't understand CRT. This is it. Racism baked into housing. Baked into hiring, banking. It goes on. Don't stop talking about it because it's the start to fixing it.
Having lived in 20 countries, the US is the most outwardly racist country of them all.
As I traveled for my work I was very knowledgeable regarding what I might need visiting each country. The only time I ever took out insurance was when going to America. The outrageous cost of health care in the US is criminal. It must surely be a major cause of poverty
@@fatherson5907 How many countries have you lived in? I've only lived in six countries, but I also think that racism is worse in the US.
@@fatherson5907 You don't even know me.
Okay, now I know you are ignorant. Bye bye, Tom.
I like how you tie this into systemic racism. So true but people don’t talk about it 😢🙏🏽👍
We, there are even efforts made to silence it completely.
If these efforts where made in solving the problem, it would not exist to this extend.
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too many severly sick in the head and very dangerous so called normal people in usa and many above the law criminals its a nightmare
too many above the law criminals in usa
such a sad but true report on our obsession of class identification - who deserves help and who does not. having to decide between shelter, food, medical care and transport to get to work - the infrastructure is so limited - instead of providing good/free education we are underfunding education. we have moved backwards and the only vision ahead is how to cut services even more. jay, I'm with you on this 👍
Bravo! Difficult topic to be discussed but I am happy you discuss it. Most RUclipsr only show videos of homeless but no one talks about the problem.
I was homeless twice in my time in the U.S. - both times I was working at least 40 hours a week. Heh, the first time that 40 hours was between 3 jobs......but my parents had died, my now ex-wife had slept with my best friend then kicked me out of the house - and my primary job had cut me down to part time. Heh, the second time was when I was living in San-Francisco - and lets face it, it's just too expensive to live there...... Now I work as an artist in Kansas in a house that I bought with the money I got from working in SF. I'm only now at a point where I'm not afraid of becoming homeless. Is it wrong that part of me feels like that should never happen to someone who's willing to work full time, has two degrees, and has no problem with secondary or even tertiary employment? I'm not lazy, drug addicted, or mentally ill....
I know many that are educated have worked all of their lives and even owned homes, that are now on the verge of, or are homeless, and it is not only what is typically called a “minority” issue, historically, perhaps. Welcome to modern America, where homelessness is the new trend that we can be proud of, as rents are skyrocketing nationwide.
@@fatherson5907 I hear you on some of that response - people can be entitled at times. I think you may be misunderstanding me somewhat. First of all, the time in San Francisco was because of a relocation within my reasonably well paid (at least for it's original location) full time job. I was told that I would be given a higher position, a raise, and adjustments to my income to compensate for the cost difference in the region. They DID double my income and give me the higher position - heck, they initially paid for my hotel stay and move. I don't really blame anyone in particular: the region is just so far beyond the cost of anywhere else they would have had to multiply my salary by six times in order to really make it equivalent to my original location in the Midwest.
They actually seemed befuddled as HR tried to help me find an apartment and realized that there wasn't really any place that my income could afford.
Was it possibly stupid for me to trust the company I worked for for 10 years at the time? Possibly, although I had a pretty positive experience with them overall. I think they were just overly ambitious about the new positions they set up and made some bad estimates as to what they could handle. I remained employed the entire time, did side work, and saved up to buy a house in a cheaper location as soon as I could, so I'd like to think there isn't any real helplessness, lack of initiative, or blame in my story.
Heh, sleeping on a street-corner didn't keep me from washing up, going to work and doing my best! I did eventually get a hold of a spot in a garage with a few other people, and of course eventually moved out of the city.
And as to what I currently do - I actually CAN afford my current lifestyle just fine thank you - turning my side art gigs into a full time job has actually worked out pretty well. It's actually kind of funny that a side job in art has done better for me in some ways than over a decade in technology sales.
Where we might have a bit of a disagreement is about in what it takes to be "worthy" to live - I think you may have either missed what else it was sandwiched between, but you called out the "educational" aspect. It's just one of the list of "unworthies" people usually mention when they find out you were homeless: lack of education, lack of work ethic, drug addiction, mental illness - things of that sort.
My only point was that none of those applied.
I did not whine then, and I'm not whining now. I pay my bills, and paid my bills then - I didn't have a place because I couldn't afford it - I still paid everything else. Now I own a home (completely paid for) make money doing art, and have been teaching myself animation and game design.
I DO think that there is something wrong with a system if someone who is willing to work as many hours as they need to, deliberately stays away from the things that usually wreck a life - drugs, alcohol, gambling etc - and gets good to excellent reviews wherever they've worked, and still is at risk of becoming homeless at any time. That may be a philosophical difference between us, but I honestly don't understand why that would even be controversial. Not everyone is or should be a doctor or engineer - but I would think that part of the American Dream has always been that if you show up, do your job to the best of your ability, and don't let yourself fall into the lure of addictions and excessive spending, you should be able to get by just fine anywhere in the U.S.
@@jasonschneider7224 That jerkoff who mocked you is a troll. He's literally on every subthread of this comment section, mocking people.
@@edwardmiessner6502 Somehow that's not surprising....usually I figure it doesn't hurt to try to be reasonable, but yeah, sometimes it's just a waste of mental energy....
I saw this documentary Jay, it was very sad. The USA is going down the hole in homelessness. Something needs to be fixed but unfornately I don't think it will be easy for the USA to fix this anytime soon or ever.
There could be a cap put on rent and housing. Unpopular with landowners - of course. Another fix would be to resume building public housing where all the housing units rent is capped at 1/3 the income of residents.
Excellent video. Well done. We have the same issues in Canada. Rents have skyrocketed beyond the reach of so many, and social funding has not kept up. Example: a room, just a room, costs $1000 per month in many cities. Social assistance for a single person is around $600. So, that leaves $0. For food , which is also high, transportation, and if you are trying to find work, a cell phone and clothing, and personal hygiene products. Get a roomie? Then your benefits are cut and you end up back in the same position. It's a vicious circle. We need basic income.
In the US there used to be General Assistance, but I'm unaware of any aid for single, non disabled people as of now.
I’ve been reading that the homeless population in California is absolutely insane. Here in New Mexico we also have the homeless camping here. I heard, that in New York they hand the mentally i’ll a bus ticket west and send them off. I do believe that there is a large percentage of the mentally ill in the homeless.
There's also a high percentage of mentally ill in jail and prisons. Our system seems to consider the unfortunates to be just a nuisance to be swept aside.
I’m from NM to and it’s gotten a lot worse since I was small. I’m really shocked at how bad it is. I have heard the same about NY also Denver.
Very well presented video on a very sensitive topic: thank you. I recently saw a German TV programme about people in American who live in their cars. Their homelessness is perhaps not so obvious, but it's there.
We now have laws against people sleeping in their cars in my town.
@@barbh1 but did you make shelters as an option?
I really love your channel and content. Each episode lifts a veil we've all been programmed to live behind and see through since birth here in the U.S.
I'm really glad the veil has lifted for so many of us. Although the Hubby and I will stay U.S. citizens for the meantime we are setting up shop within, and immigrating to the EU for retirement and healthcare purposes. We can't afford to grow old in the U.S. and it's a tragic thing...but then again...the U.S. no longer speaks my love language, nor shares my values, principles, or ethos. It's time to move on.
@@fatherson5907 Seriously, do you troll EVERYBODY who posts on RUclips who press your buttons? I'm sure she did her research and found objective facts to back her opinions, but maybe she decided not to share them? Oh yeah... and "love language"? I interpret that as sexuality or sexual tastes that aren't popular. Make of it what you will.
@@edwardmiessner6502 Apparently I missed something....... 🤔
When I was a kid my mom and I just left from a funeral where I saw the first ever dead body in my life (it was my mother's yoga teacher and he looked like he was peacefully sleeping) and on our way to pick up our dad from a jazz bar in the middle of the night we drove through an alley which was just filled to the brim with homeless people on the sidewalks both left and right sleeping and laying on cardboards and blankets. It was simultaneously one of the scariest and saddest things I've ever experienced, we usually see homeless people in miami beach downtown but only sparringly and rarely, most of them we saw were normally deadbeat looking drunks but this alley had families and every type of person you can think of, I thought to myself at the time "its like they were all dumped here and left alone".
Hi Jay, I really appreciate your videos. I follow you now a little while and like how you reports about very difficult topics without become lurid - you always try to stay calm, clear and fair.
Your current topic intrested me especially because on one hand I try to learn more about the US and on the other hand I'm since 15years a socialworker whos accompany homeless people on their way (in Germany). It's ashaming that we have in such rich countries so many homeless people, even though I know that we have here a good system of professionell help.
Go ahead - I'm looking forward for many new videos. 🌻
... and in while I watch your video - homelessness in Germany is very different to homelessness in US. I'm so greatful for the welfare system here although I know a lot we need to change in some case.
Thank you very much for your kindness. And I really appreciate your career 🙏🏽👏
I agree. Thank you for speaking up the truth!
I love the fact that you address these difficult topics head on. If people would like to get a better understanding about systemic racism, there’s also a great documentary about that on Netflix. It’s titled “13th”
It’s to sad for words really. And because of COVID even more people became homeless in the USA.
I've been thoroughly impressed with your channel and topics. These are things that need fixing really bad. I worked at job where there were quite a few homeless people around. One of my favorite things was to talk with them and learn their stories. I'm not a rich man, but I gave everything that could to these people. I made sure I always had at least 5 bucks in my pocket so one of them could eat. I gave camping equipment, musical instruments, just things needed and desired that I could provide. I really miss that part of my life
I am watching this as an European, Dutch to be precise and 15 minutes from Germany by car. My mother is from Kerkrade (NL), this dialect is almost identical to the dialect of Aachen (Germany). Our histories mingle, more than once -
the only reason this part of Limburg is part of the Netherlands was because the leaders (Holland) wanted to keep control over the Maas river, and this out of the hands of the "Pruisen", Germans.
NL only has a king since 1815, our independence for a large part was build/financed with the VOC & WIC - slave trade and other trade, colonizing.
So our history and independence hinges on these dark chapters of our history.
But then our oppression goes back to Roman times. And probably there were clashes like that before this - our history of people being here goes back to prehistory, and Doggerland, etc.
After Romans, French and Spanish, and French, and German, and so on - since the European history is filled with wars and battles and borders reshaping etc. Spain had been invaded by Africa Andalusian period, etc. Displacements, homelessness, etc.
Look at the borders in Europe how they are made, and how there can be flip flops of territory's. Where you find a piece of territory of one nation across the border of the neighbor nation and vice versa.
I even went to the LDS Church in Germany for a couple of years,
p.s. gay so no LDS after coming out. But I also did "study" theology, etc.
So not unfamiliar with Germany. Also grew up in an American ward so semi-multi cultural upbringing?
I just want to point out that I agree mostly with what you said 10 minutes in,
but also in Europe there are forms of systemic racism, in the Netherlands and in Germany.
Sinterklaas and [Black] Pete. And it took years addressing the racist aspects of this, and it changed but still not improved.
Glossed over because that is easier, than dissecting the problem; Linguistic fun fact; dis - sect - ing. Sect / cult / religion.
We can even debate the origins and meanings; if you ask me Pope Nicolas V (and the start of the Portugal slave trade) is the real origin of St. Nick and not the Bishop of Mira/Turkey. But it also was christening pagan culture and traditions. Because also this originated deeper in human culture and history.
But; "we don't know", and the "official" narrations.
Not like USA or UK, but also similar/related.
Hell we even still have monarchies in wester culture that spout/promote equality everyone is born equals. Are we?
Gaslighted is what we historically have been, all this ties in.
After all USA was social experiment Europe 2.0 in a way.
The Church knew of the new lands - St. Brendan the traveler of the Celtic Irish branch told them way before Leif Erikson was there, and long before Columbus got the permission to do so for the Crown and Church.
Just a little spice added the history of the de' Medici family - commoners to bankers to kings and queens and popes.
They are not the only ones.
We get to the point of American Culture and history and of course the slavery, which did happen and was horrible.
And here I think the narration is a little bit more nuanced. And this topic is a whole different topic on its own as well.
For starters Slavery was already a thing before. Africans had slaves as well European slaves.
It has been a cultural tit for tat. Not to excuse it.
Same as with the abolishment; main motivations were economical/capitalistic.
UK abolished slavery to level out the economies between USA & UK.
And because this was the enlightened thing to do/way of thinking.
Where we already show the entanglement of religion in this topic of slavery as well.
There even are slaves and slave markets on the digital space, mostly in middle eastern parts of the world.
This like the TAST was horrible, like bride kidnapping a tradition that still exists.
And it all goes back to ancient times and cultures and traditions, even tying into the topic of democracy.
European history - I will give you the traditional / Christian version I grew up with, not from the church but culture, because I know this is flawed, but this is what many people like me have been taught. Also the flaw is this is not where it started.
Cradle of humanity & cradle of civilization, should be included.
European history starts with the civilization in Egypt, then hops over to Greece and the Greek Empire - where there were slaves and freemen, like in Egypt.
The Greek Empire and the older the Persian Empire - Alexander the Great and the the destruction of Persepolis.
And the link to the Goddess Persephone goddess of life and death/the underworld. But I am digressing.
It is all part of cultural evolutions and clashing is the point I am trying to make.
If we actually really solved all the problems many people would be out of a job as well.
Why things never actually get really fixed, and this only got worse.
I remember the time things were made to last, and not just till the warranty wears out. Consumer-culture and Capitalism hand in hand.
Capitalism - Capital - Capitol - Leaders; making profit from exploiting others, systems, etc.
Cities and urbanizations - also tie in - "socializing" & societies and "civil" & civilians.
Christianizing & expansionism of an empire/dynasty and slavery & superiority/exceptionalism. (Judeo-Christians - the chosen ones.)
The delusions of the naked monkey on top of the food-chain, and the paradoxes of life.
And then we have the wage slaves you also talk about; living pay check to pay check, month to month.
Like me, trying to save and get by, and life throwing curve balls, thinking you are getting traction and then you get hit with a curve ball again. You regain footing - over time, and in comes the other curve ball. If you didn't have enough time to regain some footing you are down.
Also this is the plan and goal from this system.
It's a class system, and depending on how high you go on that ladder I was born white trash.
I would also point out the Victorian age and mindset on poverty and homelessness - and the UK / US link in history with Puritanism and Victorianism.
I was homeless after my coming out - like many.... And I can be glad my country is more socialistic than USA, and was even more socialistic back then, because we are also capitalistic and Americanizing.
Its a tug of war of give and take -
We rattled the American cage - with Bernie and Social democrats, and we had the pandemic and now the invasion of UKR.
Gain of function, lab leaked virus - and depopulation programs through out history;
Tuskegee experiment with syphilis just to name one which nicely ties it back to your topic as well.
Slavery and discrimination and minorities.
I can’t thank you enough for this 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Well put! Thank you.
You are so right about this. The truth is self evident and yet people can´t seem to deal with it.
At the beginning of this video, there was a statement on the news stating that the pandemic had caused the price of housing to be raised. In my opinion, this is wrong. The rising cost of housing is caused by greed. Where I live, there are the tents everywhere with people sleeping on the sidewalk. Across the streets, there are brand new apartment buildings popping up all over where the apartments cost around $3,500 for a one bedroom apartment.
@@fatherson5907 Housing prices have gone up double digits in every single county in the United States. It doesn't matter where you live, the prices of housing have skyrocketed in the past several years.
The majority of the homes are being bought up by venture capitalists such as Blackrock. They want to turn this country into a nation of renters as opposed to a nation of home owners. And Blackrock is one of, if not the most, richest companies in the entire world. They are not going to sell off those houses anytime soon, if ever.
What some companies are doing is turning homes into an incorporated business, and selling off "shares" of individual houses to investors. It's crazy, and a prime example of late stage capitalism.
@@fatherson5907 What are you talking about? This has been covered by most media, even mainstream media. A simple Google search for "investment firms buying homes" will give you literally hundreds of articles reporting this. Some examples... A single investment firm bought an entire community of single family homes and in some markets investment firms are buying almost 90% of homes. And if you're to arsed to read, then search for "investment firms buy homes" here on RUclips, and you'll find dozens and dozens of videos reporting on this.
But instead of doing some research, you'd rather chastise people for where they live, and call them entitled moochers. You're a freaking joke.
@@fatherson5907 I get it you're too lazy to research it yourself. You know damn well that you can't post links outside of RUclips in the comments.
Not like it matters anyway because any evidence provided will do nothing to prove it to you.
@@fatherson5907 Here you go you lazy moocher...
ruclips.net/video/3BbmrFnnyXE/видео.html
"Over half of the real estate agents listings are being bought by private investment firms."
Now the onus is on you... Prove me wrong.
@@fatherson5907 OH... So you don't have any credible sources to back up your claim? Your claim that housing prices are rising because it's entitled poor people trying to live in areas they can't afford to live. Simple question, what's your source? Or are you a liar?
Very sad. Good video
This also shocks me, how a very rich country has so many homeless people?!
You'll never see any of this in Dubai !
What a caring person you are. We need politicians with empathy and morals for humanity, instead greed gone wild destroying America. Poverty is happening to all backgrounds. Its to the point even a tiny house is becoming a luxury. What homes get built, never practical or affordable jut more giant houses average working class can't afford. Even tenement housing is expensive. Where are the politicians or houses of worship.
This is very truth telling which is rare to find.
Something one should add: In Germany, there is a difference between a "homeless" person and a person living on the street. Meaning in Germany, every women who goes to a women's house, every refugee who is still in temporary accomendation and every adult who doesn't have a fixed address (but might be couch surving or temporarily living with friends and family or might even be out of the country alltogether) is counted as "homeless". The number of people who are actually living on the street or in their own car is much, much lower than that (and, as the Covid crisis has shown, most likely overestimated). The people in the US homeless statistics, they are nearly all living more or less on the street.
You behave like you'd be an expert, but you are not. I am not an expert of English language, just happy to be able to talk or understand something. But in my understanding "homeless" means "obdachlos" and this in German means having no shelter. And what in Germany we call "wohnungslos" would be houseless in English. Not knowing this difference, even trying to talk about without any clue about the basic concepts, disqualifies you. I wouldn't have commented this comment or yours, but you were so kind to blame me to be a liar, I couldn't withstand to comment your glorious writings.
@@pakabe8774 ...for one, I am actually more of an expert than you regarding the issues in translating languages, but in this case, my knowledge about the English language vs the German language doesn't really matter. What matters is my abilities to read statistics correctly, meaning to ALWAYS look up what the sources for the statistic were. This is not a linguistic problem, it is a "where did they get their numbers from" problem (it also helps that due to my involvement in a non-profit organistion which, among other things, also help people living on the street, I am quite aware of how difficult it is to get correct numbers on this spefic groups).
Or, in other words: You have so little of a clue that you wrongly assumed that I don't. But good job patting yourself on the back. For what it's worth (since that apparently wasn't clear enough) I have now realised that you weren't a liar, just unaware of the diffirent defitions. So I am apologizing for misjudging you in that regard.
@@swanpride Given that you seem to be a very narcisstic person, this will be my last answere, because reacting to narcissists is like feeding trolls. Don't feed the troll. So enjoy this last piece of food.
I am using the correct terms in their specific meaning per definitionem (obdachlos vs. wohnungslos). I was a houseless for years and within that period most times homeless as well. Later I became a professional, as a helping person in non profit organisations and as a scientist. I know the different parts of the problem and the system. I know how it feels like sleeping in staircases, in parks and or worse places. I know how it feels eating in soup kitchens with thousands of homeless people a day. I know as well how it feels when people shit next to you while you eat. And believe me, if you lived on the street for years, you know the difference between homeless and houseless, you see if somebody is actually having no shelter, being houseless or just not having enough money to afford enough food (for whatever reason).
@@pakabe8774 it is clear that you are not an expert in english. You are trying to shoehorn an english word into the meaning of two german ones - ignoring context.
@@sisuguillam5109 This diskussion went over two different threads. Most parts I used the german words. Because that is what I can talk about with knowledge.
I am pretty sure, the video wasn't about people who just went back to their parents place or sleep on a friends couch or have any other kind of shelter.
He was actually saying that homeless people in Germany aren't homeless. But we in Germany just say homeless to people who have no shelter. The word we use for people who have shelter, but no permanent adress, are called "wohnungslos" meaning: Having no appartment.
I used the translator and it gave me "houseless" for "wohnungslos". I might have used it wrong, but "homeless" isn't even suggested for "wohnungslos" and checking the meaning of "homeless" gave me the meaning of people who don't have a shelter, what exactly is the meaning of the german word "obdachlos". I just wanted to know, if there is no word in english for "wohnungslos" but there is.
I an so loving that you are covering these issues. You didn't mention the artificial rise in housing costs caused by equity funds that come into neighborhoods and squeeze out regular first time want to be home owners. These groups buy up whole neighborhoods turn them into rentals and neglect the houses making them the number one source of slum lords. Further more these groups serve as a way for foreign billionaires to conceal there wealth. The very cause of overpriced housing and epidemic homelessness are the very oligarchics responsible for the rise of Putin and ultimately the tragedy taking place right now in the Ukraine. I think you should do another video on this subject and do a deep dive on this aspect.
Slavo Ukrani ✊️
@@fatherson5907 It's easy to blame the state as they appear s the actors. It's the oligarchs. The billionaires who have been buying up governments left and right and as usual once billionaires/ oligarchs start competent against each other they use the military industrial machine to take the resources they desire. portion was supplying more and more oil to Europe and that our oiligarcs can't allow. The pipeline get shut down take control of the sea ways control the oil flow and where it comes from. Choke off the competitor. Just pen your eyes Ukraine for a shutouts if oil sitting under it. Everything else is a soap opera so you don't notice what's really going on.
@@fatherson5907 if I may take your attention a little further friend. This story keeps repeating itself but this is a fill repeat if events that lead to the last world War. When Hitler came to power the first thing he went for was Africa and the Middle East. Oil. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor we were in peace negotiations. We had embargoed their oil supplies. Sound familiar?
Putin held nuclear attack drills the other day and moved his family to an undisclosed location in Serbia. Read the tea leaves friend. The shit is about to hit the nuclear fan.
Let's just hope somebody in Russia gets to Putin before we hit the point of no return.
@@fatherson5907 That's cute. You still think voters actually get a choice. Nah. you only get the candidates they give you and it's always either a shit sandwich or a turd taco. But hey just go hating on the Germans in site lots of other countries are hating in us saying this is all our vault because we elected these people. 🤣😂🤣😂
@@fatherson5907 You know your time would probably be better spent enjoying the sunshine spending time with your family get out of the house feel the grass between your toes. It's 1 second to midnight. tick tock, tick tock.
We fall into the paycheck to paycheck and low middle class. We cannot afford to send our daughter to college unless we get loans....but the house also needs a new roof. But I have student loans of my own, and our taxes go up causing what we pay the bank for escrow goes up. Know what doesn't go up... Our hourly pay. Because of our jobs people think we're rich. We are not. 😔
You are 100% correct. We like to victim blame.
Great!!
Most corporations don’t pay taxes in the US. All those very famous brands are companies that pay 0 taxes. 0!
And the billionaires and multi billionaires have loopholes where they too get away by paying LESS tax rate than any in the middle class. A country can not subsist in a place where the most wealthy portion of the population doesn’t pay their fair share of taxes. The money has to come from somewhere. And in the US, it’s ONLY coming from the very bottom.
This present gov raised these taxes to 15% for the first time since the 80’s. Their taxes used to be in 90% many decades ago!
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My random thoughts - our govt is not structured to go the distance with issues like this unlike European countries. This is a problem that could be largely resolved if the proper model were put in place. By that I mean, dealing with each homeless person one-on-one with a team of doctors, mental health professionals, etc - get them housed, cleaned up, jobs for the ones who want that (most would), send them back to their loved ones if that's what they want, etc - Simply feeding someone at a food bank or providing shelter when it's cold is not enough those are one offs - there has to be the compassion to help homeless people all the way back. Get down eye-to-eye with each person and find out who they are, why they're homeless, what ideally do they need/want, give them the resources they need. Going the distance in this way would reduce homelessness meaningfully. The billionaires who live in some cities, like Seattle (Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos) should be using their money to help eradicate this issue and obviously well funded govt programs. It can be done.
My understanding of why the US doesn't provide as well as other "1st world" countries, is that other countries insist that the large businesses pay taxes to the government, which then uses those funds to assist the needy. In the US, it seems that expecting big businesses to pay taxes is considered "unAmerican".
Totally agree
America has substantial immigration problems, driving homelessness. If Germany has that problem, America has it too. I have two degrees, but was unemployed 3 years, because we gave all the IT jobs to Indians. People will read this and think Right Wing propaganda, but it's true. In the current department I'm in, i am the only American. The "guest" visas we use in this department, let employers threaten the Indians with deportation if they don't work 80 hour weeks. That is leverage over employees, that employers love. It's a big problem in America, and Germany.
I do not understand the calculation according to which Germany (FRG) is supposed to have more homeless people than the USA in percentage terms. Germany has, if we add the 49,000 "hidden homeless" people, i.e. those who are temporarily accommodated by friends or relatives, 90,000 homeless people. The ratio of the population figures USA / FRG = approx. 4/1. In order to arrive at the same homeless figures as the FRG, the USA should only have 360,000 homeless people, but it has more then 500,000, whereby I am know that the "hidden homeless" people are not included in this number. If we don't include those in the FRG numbers either, the US should only have 164,000 (=41,000*4).
I really like your videos, I might not agree with everything but it makes me think. What I would like to say is, that I think the lighting is too dark. Maybe you could work on that?
you are right, Germany we have homeless but not like America. It is very different. America is crazy to see many people are living on the street and America is suppose to be rich and free?
Free to die on the street, free to starve and freeze in the winter, free to sit around in the mud with no perspective... Freedom.
@@Llortnerof I feel free in Germany - free, because I know, that what ever may happen, I get help in need by the social-net. I 😢 when I see those people with no hope...
i wonder why they have the american flag on the tents?
Because they are still dreaming the "American dream", they have internalized that bootstrap mentality and believe themselves that it is their own fault to be homeless.
I would imagine those tents with the flag were donated because they are all identical.
Today someone told me that the unhoused person I mentioned could not possibly be wohnsitzlos because they have a mobile phone. Because using an old phone and sometimes being able to pay someone to sleep on the couch is the same thing as paying rent.
We felt the same way about the all the ugly, selfish, violent attitudes in the US. We got tired of swimming upstream trying to get people to see the meaness in our attitudes there. After constant death threats from our super racist and homophobic neighbors, we sold everything and left the country. Never felt so free or happy.
Just because a person has a high income for doctors or lawyers does not mean you want all your money going to pay $2,000 to $3,000 in rent every month. This is ridiculous it's out of hand I believe God will bring the fire to the greed.
Housing prices have gone up double digits in every single county in the United States. It doesn't matter where you live, the prices of housing have skyrocketed in the past several years.
The majority of the homes are being bought up by venture capitalists such as Blackrock. They want to turn this country into a nation of renters as opposed to a nation of home owners. And Blackrock is one of, if not the most, richest companies in the entire world. They are not going to sell off those houses anytime soon, if ever.
What some companies are doing is turning homes into an incorporated business, and selling off "shares" of individual houses to investors. It's crazy, and a prime example of late stage capitalism.
In Germany we have no statistics about homelessness. Some professionals assume we have half a million. I was homeless as I was young. Many homeless wouldn't be identified as such, because many of them are working very hard to hide it. It is not always easy to get a shower on a regular basis or even clean clothes, but many homeless are taking care of that.
As I was homeless, I got money once a day from the social welfare office, but as a homeless you got less many from them for a living than you'd get, having a room. And with a room you do not get more, to pay the rent (this was paid directly from the offic), no, you get less, because you'd have not to pay for furniture, energy costs or so on. But if you want to get a shower as homeless, you very often have to decide whether to eat or to shower, because showering is multiple of what it would cost living in a house.
And I knew the conditions from three different parts of Germany. Some cities offer shelters, you wouldn't even want to get burried, some offer acceptable shelters, but not for everybody. I can't compare the US with Germany, but where ever homeless live: Many of them are true heroes! I'm not saying I am or was a hero. I would be dead already, if I wouldn't have had the luck to get out. It really was luck. Life has not become better since, but nothing can be that bad, that it couldn't become worse from homelessness.
Okay, that is a straight up lie. You can't "hide" homelssness from the German state, because if you aren't registered with a fixed address anywhere, you basically count as homeless. If anything, the homeless statistic of Germany is overblown for that reason.
What some people doubt is the number of people who are officially living on the street, but opinion is split on the question if they are undercounted or overcounted.
@@swanpride Having a personal file where homelessness of a specific person is registered is not the same as having a list with all homeless people all over the country.
Maybe I was homeless back then, without finishing school and so on, but later I made it and even studied social science. Sure, I'm not an expert for everything, but I do know something about this specific topic.
And even I said, I can't compare the US with Germany, doesn't mean I don't know anything, given I'm befriended with a Ph.D. in Social Sciences who works with and for homeless people in Sacramento, California.
At least what you said "if you aren't registered with a fixed address anywhere" is wrong, because in Germany, if you have no fixed address you count as "wohnungslos" and this doesn't mean "obdachlos" what is that, we are talking about.
@@pakabe8774 Yes, and the statistic which is compared with the homeless statistic of the US is the one for the wohnungslosen in Germany, since the english language doesn't make this distinction. Consequently your statement was very misleading, because it sounded like there should be more than in the statistic which puts Germany at rank 10, when in reality, it is actually way less when we talk about people living at the streets, which, yes, aren't really counted all that well due to the various difficulties to do so.
Or in short: In the US, which doesn't have a proper register of people who are supposed to live in a city and only relises on an occasional census, the homeless statistic means people actually living on the street, while the German statistic, which aims to register the addresses of all its citizens, includes both the people who have some sort of shelter but no permanent address as well es the people genuinely living in the streets (the state knows about....Berlin it recently turned out overestimated the numbers greatly, but other cities might underestimate them).
@@swanpride If you are sleeping at a staircase of an appartment building, are obdachlos then or just wohnungslos?
@@swanpride But anyways. You are not knowing what you are talking about. Because we have no statistics about homeless people, we try to find a scientific way to get some close numbers, from a situation where we don't count homeless people officially (that is why scientists partly rely on regional statistics of houseless people, that don't picture the situation of homeless people). Some welfare organisations count them, but this also doesn't give us a picture of the whole situation.
Not to forget, that homeless people often are international and not always stay in one area, city or country. If they can, they try to move to a better place. So it may be, that some Germans live in Spain (where I met some homeless Germans) while some people from other countries live in Germany.
Short time ago you made a video about all those religious people in the US. Now this one about homeless people. So, very easy to solve the homeless situation. All those God fearing people, who are full of love to others, as Jesus taught them, could take care of this problem and solve it in a moment....
Pfft. That will never happen. I once stated that I have opened my home several times to homeless people. Some person flipped out about how dangerous that was and that I was stupid. I replied back that it was strange this person was afraid for my safety, but was ok with a woman with three very young children living on the street.
You have all my applause. I respect your insight to the truth, that is hard for me to explain to my white associates, who think this doesn't exist, and black people just aren't taking advantage of opportunities. I'm lucky enough to have a job and a home, but the "One Paycheck" threat is very real.
Increase in inflation, outlandish rent fees and low wages for most people, is part of the homelessness issue. These negative trends you mention in your video clip is accurate. Another problem is a capitalism and excessive consumerism imbalance fostered by the extreme corporate power base elites. Complicated but not entirely unable to be fixed. We can fix it. But the problem in building genuine community is the “Me” that has been indulgent way beyond what is feasible making the “We” as a building skill to building communities difficult.
Thats so sad to see pictures from Homeless people in America. But sill believe some people,America is the greatest country on the world. Well see its not much left anymore. InEurope you almost dont see this. The european countries looks for they're people. But we pay also more tax, so that also this people get helped. This situation is a shame for America.
I totally agree with your views. The US problems are innumerable and getting worse.
I know this from Aramis Merlin. A German YT Channel. He makes so intelligent content living since 9years in LA.
And what shocked me, at Düsseldorf is the First!!! Shelter for women only in Europe.
It doesn't help that there were widely publicized examples of failed public housing, like Prewitt Igoe in St. Louis, which failed due to lack of maintenance and security. Gangs took over the top floors nothing was fixed.
This helped tainted I think the perception of public housing in America.
If it was maintained and guaranteed to have security staff, as well has having stores and community centers near the bottom floor, things would have been better, but of course the surrounding area would have to be considered also.
It is because of federal rules and regulations governing public housing that caused Pruitt Igoe and other projects to fail. The income stream paid by the tenants was not nearly enough to cover maintenance costs.
From a European perspective - Isnt this just the American dream? If some have succes a lot have to be broke... Cant see any issues, it is the way Americans love it - Just what we think from EU.
40% of homeless Americans live on the streets and you're right, many of them earn 6 figure salaries. I grew up in the Bay Area and moved back in 2011 and left back to San Diego in 2013. For a few months while working full time in the Bay Area, me and my girlfriend lived in her car.
So rich so powerfull and so religieuse, yes capitalisme is criminal. Merci Jay Stéphan
As a formerly homeless person on multiple occasions and a member of the LGBT demographic twice over, I've got very little compassion for the homeless. You did a video on religion in America; it's stupid bad among the homeless. They're incredibly hemophobic and transphobic, moreso than even those in the low-income bracket. I went through all kinds of abuse having been dumped and raised in the system, including but not limited to things like the caretakers intentionally breaking our bones, and even I hadn't got hooked on drugs and whatnot, yet they leave needles laying all around. Further, in addition to the delusion of religion, the indecency of senseless hatred toward other groups and the complications of addiction, they further make it harder on themselves by leaving refuse and biological waste laying around, which further makes it harder on those who WANT to try. Also, you, as a gay cis white male, clearly don't see that other groups you mention repeatedly are incredibly hateful toward other groups that, historically, had done nothing to them.
Outstanding documentary and presentation. It resonated with me as i am one of the 61% living from check to cjeck. Not psycheck to psycheck From Social Security and pension checks to ckecks of which two-thirds is going toward housing and $1500 monthly going to noteholder/investor of my securitizer mortgsge. Investor in hiding in wealthy NY suburb. Probsbly a fat cat Wall Street hedge fund guy using the $1500 interest to pay for his kids' education while my own student loan goes in default.
If you are a German citizen in Germany you really won't be homeless, unless you actually have mental health or drug problems. We still have so much to improve the conditions of less wealthy people but we at least cover this baseline.
Thank you for the video. Will you tell me what song you used in the beginning (woman's voice)? Thank you
Of course. The song is called Homeless Soul by Fleurs Douces. You can find it on Spotify and Apple Music.
@@JayStephan Awesome, thank you
Thank God Germany is such a not a racism country, as far as homeless i agree it's awful and should be address but it will not.
Theoretisch muss niemand in Deutschland auf der Straße leben. Entweder es ist bewusst selbstgewählt oder die Leute sind, auf Grund unterschiedlichster Gründe, mit der Bürokratie überfordert.
I think the reality of most people that are homeless is because of drugs we need to learn how to fix the drug issue. But I'm sorry I am compassionate but at the same time I have no desire to spend my money to help other people that don't want to help themselves. And I believe in the freedom to choose to do drugs but if you can't control your drug problem that's not my problem
the homeless are NOT a lesser people. systemic racism DOES exist and i am appalled at some of the thoughts that come to my mind that i didn't know i'd absorbed from it. dang.
If people on this discussion board think the United States is the only country with this problem, then you are all wrong. This is a global problem, and this narrator may be right in some ways, but he is mistaken in other ways. The United States has been a giving country to many different countries around this world thanks to our government that rapes the hard-working average American with high taxes. However, this country has helped people from other countries more than the average American at the expense of the hard-working average American. This country has been great for many decades because of capitalism, which has always worked. So, if the United States were to have a government that other countries have, then the United States would be a third-world country. Believe me, there have been many times when people in the United States have lost jobs, so companies can hire immigrants and H-1B visa workers at a cheaper wage, and I'm one of those people who experienced that. So, yes, America probably has a systematic racism problem, and black people are the most experienced that problem, but when areas that experienced Gentrification are because those people have destroyed communities. After all, the government ran these areas. This is a government issue, and if any changes need to be made, stop voting for a government that continues to lie by making promises of free things. Then, the average voter buys into the lies and continues to vote for a government that continues the problem.
Not to mention you have no rights when you don’t have a place to live. No wonder people turn to crime and drugs.
Half a million is absolutely a lie its more like 10 million homeless
Compared to germany, the us are no first world country, not only by the amount of homeless.
I moved to Mexico 7 years ago, and if it weren't for that I'd probably be on the streets somewhere in the U.S.
You may see pan handlers here but they all have a place with a roof over their heads. I'm ashamed of my country.
@@fatherson5907 sure,you have been blest with good-luck all your life so far.
@@fatherson5907 Sure, if you have the means to prepare, it's a no-brainer to do os. You're clearly one with means, many MANY A others aren't. They should not be faulted for that.
Oh man, I don't see a lot of racism in America, but I think it's more about the particulars of where I live and who I interact with, but I don't think Germany is any kind of example to look up to on that front. I saw lots of racism in Germany... even experienced it myself. There's even a whole political party in Germany that's message is basically against anyone that isn't a natural born German.
I just saw another video today, that might be of interest to you, as you clearly took some time to research this topic.
How Finland ended homelessness: ruclips.net/video/kbEavDqA8iE/видео.html
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^ ^ Hi Jay! I just discovered your channel and Im really impressed. You must have a lot of strength and conviction to criticise the USA ......no doubt you get a lot of haters...Im not one of them.From the perspective of a "European" country...Scotland, its impossible to understand Ammurrican culture.....but the thing that pisses us off about yall is that you are lecturing us about freedom and democracy and hating "socialisim" and your country is a living disaster area.....Im not saying everything is perfect in Scotland but we are trying Foxy Pagan LOve fae Scotland VVxx
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But all of that increase in prices is connected to revolving debt since money becomes easy to obtain if u can borrow....and the crazy printing habits of US central bank. So yea...little bit wider perspective...in depth look of the problems...but also very shitty culture in general. Family institution is ruined in us... family gives you a safety net.
I never got the jab
I just recently found your channel and the first video I watched I appreciated and agreed with. And I'm going to watch this video but right from the beginning I must make a comment. I do think there is some systemic racism but there is not much it is not like the left has tried to suggest. And more importantly most homeless people are not homeless for that reason. I know some people just have s***** luck and bad things happen but we have systems in place to help them. And people can get out of their situation but they choose not to. There really is no excuse for anyone to be homeless in America. And I don't mean that to say that someone should help them and it's sad. I mean not to say that these people need to help themselves it's not like we don't have a s*** ton of social programs. Let's just take one example. And we'll be conservative and ignore a bunch of realities along the way. But that's assumed for whatever reason someone loses their job and they didn't take advantage of assistance and programs soon enough and they lose their home they lose their car they're still no reason they need to remain homeless now the rest of their life. You hurry up and you get another job and you go down and get some assistance and assisted living or you live out of your car while you work until you can save up enough for a security deposit or you do that while you're living in a shelter. Not to mention his family and friends that you should be reaching out to long before you're living on the street.
We need to take care of America first
This is a spiritual battle.if we want a new heaven and earth. We have to be on the right fequences. Most people are spiritual bankrupt
Spiritual battle! New heaven! No wonder your country is on it's way to third world status. Heartless christians with their bootstraps are governing. Making the rich even richer and collecting money trough your Prosperity churches. It's disgusting.
It is taxest in every Country.
I'm not going to in any way suggest that the right has the answers to fix this problem. And the system is broken. But I do want to point out that literally every place that we have major homeless problems those cities are run by democrats. Again answer maybe isn't on the right I think we need new ideas perhaps from a different party like the libertarian party or an independent
People got brain warsh