This made me want to cry. I'm a senior and remember when all over the country these areas were full of families that worked hard and took care. Full and beautiful. I'm praying we are on the verge of a new era. What a shameful waste. Perfectly timed video. Thank you.
Hopefully our newly elected Pres will turn things around, but the dirty Dems will continue to chip at him to prevent the new Administration to make the necessary changes to regrow the USA... many of our fellow citizens are duped by the dirty Dems and refuse to understand what's really happening within our Government.
People should not overlook the quality of this. This is solid documentary work-no one gives the slightest care to record these desolate places or interview the shadows that still shamble around in them.
these films should be sent to these democrat mayors or town councils...tell them to stop voting democratic. I agree these films are awesome keep up the good work...the citizens are the ones that vote the Dems in...so they need to know..
Nick needs to go to film festivals where maybe his work will get more recognition. But since he's pro Trump and speaking common sense, he'll never get the recognition he deserves
One word, and it’s always this word that caused and keeps causing all this. Liberalism. Rush Limbaugh had it right and these towns are democrats’ trademark. Think those lady’s on the View ever talk about this? Would they ever show these videos?
The rich get richer!! I'm 67 living off of social security. For dinner tonight I'm having peanut butter & jelly. Eating rice for breakfast & sandwiches for dinner. Thks for showing what America really is, a country that is slowly going away.
@NickJohnson How kind of u to say that Nick. Sending blessings ur way 🌵🌹 I am fortunate though cuz I don't live in the streets or a car, like some ppl my age are. I help them every chance I get.
There's always someone worse off than myself, 66 in poor health. But I look to end-of-the-road places for an affordable cash-out place to move to should my last son preceed me.
This brings tears to my eyes because I want to hear the dogs barking, the children playing, the families BBQing. I want to see people smiling, and waving, helping each other, and politely greeting each other.
Years ago I delivered for a wholesale grocery company in Cairo Illinois and every week I had to wait for this one particular restaurant to open called The Dairy Hut. There was a group of fellows who lingered under a tree between it and a C-store. Every week a man named Raydog would offer to help me and I would give him $5 to stack the single dolly worth of product and he would help me into the building. One day he asked for a twenty so he could buy his mom something for her birthday and said he would pay me back. I didn't see him the next week but the following week he was waiting on me to pay me. He had to pick up scrap and cans to save the money up. Needless to say I told him that he could keep it and I gave him a 50 plus the usual 5 for helping. I said he was a good man. He cried. Continued to help me until I left the job. I went back 10 years later and I found out he was murdered in that very area. 😢
I am literally disgusted with the way this country is being run into the ground! Are politicians have turned our nation to an embarrassment, and now we're just a mix of ultra rich and poverty-stricken workers. There's absolutely no middle class left and now an influx of foreign slaves to replace the Americans that have given up...😢
@@kyleterpstra1899 is a word Nazi and I bet a looney liberal as well, everyone knew what they were saying, too bad we can't all be perfect like some soulless people
I would imagine you can blame the misspelling on the great AI hybrid and lots of comments on different channels and watched the machine screw up spelling@@kyleterpstra1899
I've been saying this all along-people are suffering, living in misery. And none of this is going to be fixed by all those out-of-touch movements about gender issues, "equality" or whatever. The more resources we waste on these unrealistic campaigns that only benefit a small minority, the more we ignore the real suffering of those who actually need help. I'm not saying "social justice" is wrong, but we have way bigger problems to deal with, and they need fixing right now.
We all know "people are suffering, living in misery". And we know "they need fixing right now" The relevant question is HOW? What are the proposed solutions?
@@jacqdanieles It’s about going back to basics. Fix the roads and bridges, get more low-skill jobs like construction and factory work going so people can earn an honest living instead of turning to crime. Stop hiring illegal aliens who work for half the pay, stealing jobs from Americans. Our laws don’t protect alien workers the way they protect Americans, and factories just take advantage, screwing over both sides. It’s a lose-lose for everyone except the businesses making dirty money. If folks have decent jobs and aren’t always worrying about the basics, they won’t be out there causing problems.
@@jacqdanieles It’s about going back to basics. Fix the roads and bridges, get more low-skill jobs like construction and factory work going so people can earn an honest living instead of turning to crime. Stop hiring illegal aliens who work for half the pay, stealing jobs from Americans. Our laws don’t protect alien workers the way they protect Americans, and factories just take advantage, screwing over both sides. It’s a lose-lose for everyone except the businesses making dirty money. If folks have decent jobs and aren’t always worrying about the basics, they won’t be out there causing problems.
The US is huge, and there are thousands of small towns built around industries that fizzled out. Growth in cities pulls people from these dying towns, they can't all flourish at once. Land owners should be fined for leaving properties full of trash like in this video, code enforcement by each state could mitigate scenery like this. Detroit demolished abandoned homes but it cost $8,000+ per structure before inflation hit.-------South London viewed from the high speed train from Paris looked somewhat similar as I saw England for the first time. It looked like a junkyard for what seemed to be 20 miles, but then again, it's a 2,000 year old city. America is too young to look like this, and cleaning up these properties don't cost much, just effort.
@ what I have always found interesting is A) how these homes were once peoples pride and joy and B) how you end up abandoning a house! It’s not a car, if you leave behind a house you are potentially leaving literally everything you own really and starting from nothing. On the South London thing, they may have been however old industrial areas, but residential areas, absolutely nothing like this in London. However, you do get really ugly social housing areas in south London that will look pretty bad, and actually deserted places like this in the North East of England with old mining towns
Love your video Nick ! It's fascinating but also a little bit frightening to see such a savage decline in so many towns in the USA. I'm watching from England .
If we don’t start bringing manufacturing and industry back to this country, we are not going to make it. This will be everyone’s future. Not everyone can have an office job. Some people are supposed to be doing the actual work, and we’ve basically told them to kick dirt. It’s a crying shame.
Exactly. We have become a gig work service economy, but who can pay for those services without money? I feel like we are on the brink of collapse. EDIT: It's a race to the bottom.
@@virtualselfie6899 Even if they train in the tech/coding field, the technology will change, and AI will be programming itself. It's a no-win situation.
The American taxpayer should demand accountability for every red cent of the trillions of dollars stolen by politicians and sent overseas only to be laundered back to their coffers.
Exactly,the money isn’t gone it was stolen and could easily be recovered if people demand it if people have the guts to look in the rat holes it is hidden in
Can America be fixed? I'm 67 and have seen a steady rise in lawlessness and decline in morality my entire life. The answer to that question in my opinion is NO.
When you allow generational welfare, build subsidized housing, have war on police, allow third world countries to come in…you become a third world. 35 years ago, you did not see this.
The US is an empire, been at war almost every year of its existence. The moral decline was baked in, and since the post war boom and GovCorp handoff of mfg to other countries starting in the 70s, the economic and cultural decline are in full swing. Central bankers run this country and the world.
I ask myself that same question every time I see this type of videos. This is not the first documentary of this type that I have seen, and every time I see a new one, I am shocked, and I always come back to ask myself the same question: Will there be a solution to this? I even think of some options (which sound more like fantasies than objectives), but unfortunately, it seems almost impossible, if not impossible, for this to have a solution. Both the nation and society itself are in a complete decline, and I don't see how that can be stopped. And the number of American towns that are like this is terrifying.
Many people forget that NAFTA started with Reagan (who campaigned for it) and H.W. Bush. Clinton added a couple of side agreements meant to protect workers and the environment, and Congress passed it. Don't get me wrong; I blame Clinton for destroying our economy for many of his egregious policies, notably the evisceration of Glass Steagal (and many others).
I’m now a senior that is on the brink of retirement. Born and raised in Southern California. Kept my head down and worked a job that I can now leave. There’s so much abandonment that it really makes me sick. Can we start with farming, then farmer’s markets, then getting a working class of people again.
But did you know also that American households are worth 150 trillion in assets? That’s why they taxing you and keep printing money (debt making). And it’s not really debt because there is no lender, it’s just inflation with no ending. Till it all collapses.
Most plebeians don't understand that the government printing nonexistent money causes the inflation we see. They simply blame capitalism for the failures of our government. It's hilarious how the sheep want "muh free healthcare and education" to join the "rest of the free world" while entrusting the same government that caused in our inflation to oversee both. No wonder Bernie lost
700 Billionars and this PLANET is in debt! And probably none of them pay their share of taxes. Most of them found Foundation. Melinda &Bill Gates György Schwartz aka George Soros Open Societies foundations New Immigration Business MSM, Radio Station Only for Profit. Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelty, Facebook, Amazon, Apple WEAPON COMPLEX for WARS. America?
I think Americans need to get Profit Share in addition to the wages. Being only compensated for time and skill, but not getting a share of the Profit created from that skill is ridiculous. But hey, the Executives will get bonuses and the workers get some pizza.
If GM took their CEO's entire $27M salary and distributed it equally to every GM employee, it would only be about $170. CEO pay isn't the problem some of you make it out to be.
@@lawv804 Cashiers at Walmart, CVS, all big box retailers should receive some stock as part of their pay. With all of America participating in the stock market, income inequality will improve. Forced investing similar to SS, our culture says to be happy you must spend, spend, spend. We must counter that or our country is doomed.
Without pension plans from all the factories and businesses like years ago, nobody has money to repair their homes and keep up a decent standard of living. You can't do a $15,000 roof job making $1,500 a month SS.
If we didn't have such a high income tax people could save more money up during their working years. They wouldn't be in such dire straights. I could go out and buy a house right now if I didn't have to pay 10k a year in taxes.
I would say that youtube is a place people go to see what's actually happening, given that mainstream sources turn a deliberate blind eye to these realities.
Thank you Nick for all of your videos!💞 You are drawing attention to a very serious problem. America 🇺🇸 has been in a constant decline since the turn of the century. America used to be a Growing, Building, Active, Beautiful Place to live. People used to look out for one another. Now Everyone seems to be isolated. We need a Positive Change. Hopefully things will start getting Better Soon.👍🇺🇸♥️
Yes go to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where I’m from looks exactly the same. My home city of McKeesport all abandoned houses and churches. Once beautiful church’s empty neglected and falling down. Sad history completely wiped out. Will be replaced by a China town or another nationality. Americas done for. The great replacement is not a theory
@@robg5157 Its really our own fault. We are so selfish and lazy. We voted for this crap and we quit having children. Most of all we threw God and the bible out. You reap what you sow.
This is not the first documentary of this type that I have seen, and every time I see a new one, I am shocked, and I always come back to ask myself the same question: Will there be a solution to this? I even think of some options (which sound more like fantasies than objectives), but unfortunately, it seems almost impossible, if not impossible, for this to have a solution. Both the nation and society itself are in a complete decline, and I don't see how that can be stopped. And the number of American towns that are like this is terrifying.
Thank you for making this. I think it's important for America to see how it looks in the rest of the country that isn't prospering. I reposted this on Facebook.
This is so sad and depressing. I'm old enough to remember the vibrant downtowns, sidewalks crowded with shoppers, etc. Locally, the large shopping centers and malls killed off the downtown stores and mom & pop stores. Online did a number on them too. I can only imagine these homes were once nice, kids playing in the yards. In a way, I'm glad they have not been torn down and left as a reminder of what once was.
Gary, Indiana WIKI Although initially a very diverse city, Gary currently holds one of the nation's highest percentages of African-Americans.[10] Between 1970 and 2010, Gary maintained a 40-year record of holding the nation's largest Black population per capita.[11] The city also boasts a legacy of African-American cultural and historical feats, such as electing the nation's first Black mayor (see Richard Hatcher), hosting the first and largest National Black Political Convention, and, in 1945, becoming the first city in the Midwest (and one of the first in the entire nation) to fully integrate its public school system.[12]
My grandpa lived in Gary in the 50s and 60, left in great white flight 😂. Because of the nationally historic murder rate per capita many years, that is really something to look up too😂 Gary should not have any comments bragging about what people of color can do smfh. My pops family left cause crime got so bad, and Caucasians can't live with that. Most are civilized people and cant do the integration of diverse people, it don't work, it won't work, and the faster we as a society finally figure it out, the better we will be. Let this 💩 hole cities have anarchy and rampant crime, let us stay in the Burbs and country. You all made your bed, now lay in it. Sorry ✌
The affordable health care act brought health care to a lot of these area for the first time. A 65 year old man never had insurance until Obama. He got his teeth fixed and a few other things. Voted for Trump insurance gone. He lived in Kentucky, the woman who signed him up hadn’t worked in years til Obamacare. It wasn’t perfect because if we don’t pay they can’t buy yachts
@@trethatdudeit was good for many people yes but also many lost their jobs at hospitals and many Americans who didn't want health insurance or couldn't get it because they worked 2 part time jobs to get by, couldn't get it,got nailed on their taxes.
@trethatdude It shouldn't be that expensive in the first place. The only thing it did was make health insurance companies more wealthy. You should see John's Hopkins in Maryland. It went from reputable school to a massive medical company that has devoured half the state. It doesn't even have a goid reputation anymore.
I saw alot of beauty in the abandoned downtown in Pine Bluff , Arkansas. Lovely, gracious old buildings. Such a shame. Incredible video, once again Nic. Those ruins speak volumes of a dystopian future for many more towns across the US. Haunted ruins, its like you can hear the whisper of ghosts as you drive through those overgrown streets. Very eerie.
Implementing NAFTA was one of the worse things that was done to this nation!!!! In 2016 when Trump said he "wanted to shut down NAFTA" I knew I was voting for him. And I have for the last three elections.
I did too! It makes me sick just to think about how messed up we would be if he lost the election!😳 The only thing I can add is, THANK YOU LORD JESUS 🙌🏼🙏🏾🙏🏽🙌🏽
My little Kansas town used to have all sorts of little manufacturers, and mining, and thriving small farms and ranches. Those days are all in the past now. Why can’t rural America thrive like it used to? I blame our leadership in recent decades. It’s been consistently shitty (save for Trump). I pray that President Trump can revive our nation, including small town USA. America First isn’t just a slogan. Something needs to change.
My area of Indiana is on the verge of collapse. We manufacture all the RVs. Well now all the big blue states are banning them and that's a lot of the customer base. We are also the orthopedic capital and the companies are cutting their shifts and threatening to leave. If we lose those two industries we have nothing.
Nick, it feels as in this video we are having a burial for these American towns and cities So sad all that hard work passed generations built only for it all go to waste.
Why would you want to live in a town/city where every single house on the street was a “fixer upper”? The infrastructure is crumbling, in many cases you’d have to build a new home entirely. New foundation, ect. Just to live in a dead zone? No one is going to do that.
You can fix it up and the ones that you give a check, to sit home every month even with work around will destroy it for you. Once you get too many of those types of people in an area they also destroy businesses.
Looks like NC after Helene and they got $750 each to get set back up(if they “qualified”) Living in tents with no heat in freezing weather and snow Thank goodness for kindness and help of thier neighbors and donations of others Somehow that just sounds cruel 😭 Many prayers for these cities and people,so sad🥲 Thanks for all you do to make people aware of those suffering Nick🙏
Glad someone else thought that was crazy. I haven't been back to travel the US for several years, but that's either insane inflation or gouging someone from out of town.
Places like Arkansas ought to step up and give some of these corporations some incentives to move there the same way Texas did. The rest of the Deep South should for that matter.
I went to law school in Mississippi 1975-1978 and worked in Jackson 1981-1985, so evidently things got really bad after I left. What I do know is that many law firms abandoned Jackson. the State capital, and went Noth to Madison-Ridgland. Such a move is unheard of, and circumstances must have gotten pretty bad for such a drastic changes to have occurred. Gangs roaming the streets is what I heard.
This is completely unbelievable.. so many infrastructures in these towns need to be torn down and the land cleaned up. Nobody's going to move to a city all of the buildings are abandoned and falling apart.
Reminds me of where I grew up in PA. I imagine the feeling is similar to how people felt a few generations after the Roman Empire fell. Walking around the ruins of once great cities.
Sounds good on the surface, but won't hold up under scrutiny. A local town is offering $50k in incentives for just what you suggest, but the numbers don't add up. Offer a reasonable mortgage on a reasonably priced home in reasonable condition with reasonable taxes in a reasonable location and it's a different story.
We are rooting for you guys as well,it’s very sad to see how your government has been overthrown by an authoritarian regime but there is a lot of that going around nowadays.
@@noneyabeeswax3200 It was overthrown a century ago. Hoping the new administration keeps their promise to gut our government and get rid of waste. Time will tell.
I think with the next 12 years of conservative presidency, we've got a good chance, at least, the best chance. (Trump/Vance) (Vance/Ramaswamy) Great video, Nick.
These abandoned cities serve as a haunting reminder of the dark side of urban decline. Behind the empty streets and crumbling buildings are stories of lost jobs, failed industries, and forgotten communities. This documentary sheds light on the importance of education, economic opportunity, and sustainable development to prevent such collapses in the future. Let’s hope for lessons learned and a renewed focus on rebuilding and revitalization
I have to disagree, I think RUclips is the place where young people come to understand the historical context behind Americas rapid evolution away from industry and slow fall from Grace.
Seems after WW2 the country did well for a while. Was military draft time a better outcome due to personal structure? Teaching pride, strong work ethic, education, responsibility. Living clean? I don’t have the answer however I’m 58, married 38 yrs. We both always worked. Educated ourselves to get that better job to afford a family. A dream home, savings for a rainy day. It worked well for us & we taught our kids the same & it’s paying off for them as well. When people think they’re too good to work for a dollar, GOV allowing too many programs to allow laziness, then it produces what we now have. People need to work. If jobs aren’t available you gotta move. Self respect, respect others, responsibility, tact, decorum, graces. We gotta get back to it and The Golden Rule. Thats my 2¢.
As long as you’re paying taxes this is what you’ll continue to get until your grandkids and great grandchildren wake up homeless in the very country our forefathers fought so hard to give us.
Nick, your vlogs are very important. I recommend you to others all the time. Thank you. You're getting to the point of what's really going on with USA today.
The Clinton economy was the best of my life and I'm 80. NAFTA was great for many but there were losers. Don't focus on the losers, most of us were better off.
Not exactly NAFTA was actually drafted up under Bush senior in fact they're and you could still find them there was advertisements for NAFTA featuring Lee iacocca of the Chrysler corporation whom oh by the way he was a Republican conservative. Yeah Leah Coco greatly supported NAFTA he loved the idea of moving even more shit down to Mexico and selling it back here at a premium price NAFTA was largely supported by a grab bag of the corporate types no of course the corporate types are the ones who sponsor most of your politicians.
Yet all the poorest towns in America are Red. Even the towns he mentioned around 18:28 that had seen declines are all recovering and run by Blue. Red states just love voting against their own best interests time and time again. This is the result.
In 1964 LBJ passed a 25% tariff on imported pick up trucks. My Nissan frontier was made in Smyrna Tennessee. Back then people complained it was a sales tax also.
I say Nick Johnson be nominated for Housing and Urban Development director. You could see where Pinebluff, AR tried to rebuild the downtown looking at the curbs and gutters, sadly now abandoned.
This is HEARTBREAKING!!!. Where is my hard, really hard earned money?? I dont care red or blue - This is the condition my country is in?? They all have to go! Out of the people’s offices. OUT. GTFO of our offices. How much $$ went to Ukraine, israel, gaza, on and on!! This condition is YEARS in the making!!
The reason I like to watch videos like this one is because it gives me some hope. Those abandoned, run down areas could be good, affordable places to rebuild. Let's just hope that some foreign investor doesn't get them first.
This made me want to cry. I'm a senior and remember when all over the country these areas were full of families that worked hard and took care. Full and beautiful. I'm praying we are on the verge of a new era. What a shameful waste. Perfectly timed video. Thank you.
Hopefully our newly elected Pres will turn things around, but the dirty Dems will continue to chip at him to prevent the new Administration to make the necessary changes to regrow the USA... many of our fellow citizens are duped by the dirty Dems and refuse to understand what's really happening within our Government.
Well do not cry, america iis so freaking huge that while one part is prosperous the other side is not.
yea we are on verge of new era but wont be pretty going from pices auquarius to auquarius mecchanist.
Blame child support aka human trafficking and decimating Fathers daily without consent
@@Scarhead_Ed “When you are used to preferential treatment, equality feels like oppression.”
- Thomas Sowell
People should not overlook the quality of this. This is solid documentary work-no one gives the slightest care to record these desolate places or interview the shadows that still shamble around in them.
I completely agree.
these films should be sent to these democrat mayors or town councils...tell them to stop voting democratic. I agree these films are awesome
keep up the good work...the citizens are the ones that vote the Dems in...so they need to know..
That’s right, and don’t expect 60 Minutes to do a show on these abandoned towns.
@@marksauck3399 sad right?
Nick needs to go to film festivals where maybe his work will get more recognition. But since he's pro Trump and speaking common sense, he'll never get the recognition he deserves
You are the Godfather of this niche and it is so needed. Longtime follower and fan. Thank you for all you do, it is amazing work. America needs you.
Don't inflate his ego that much 😂
@@franzhans8249 Nobody cares, pointdexter.
One word, and it’s always this word that caused and keeps causing all this. Liberalism. Rush Limbaugh had it right and these towns are democrats’ trademark. Think those lady’s on the View ever talk about this? Would they ever show these videos?
CharlieBo313 is the OG
The rich get richer!! I'm 67 living off of social security. For dinner tonight I'm having peanut butter & jelly. Eating rice for breakfast & sandwiches for dinner. Thks for showing what America really is, a country that is slowly going away.
Sorry, but you unfortunately didn’t plan. I’m 62 and I don’t have anything like that.
I'm sorry Rose 😢
@@livingintheforest3963 You certainly don't have empathy.
@NickJohnson How kind of u to say that Nick. Sending blessings ur way 🌵🌹 I am fortunate though cuz I don't live in the streets or a car, like some ppl my age are. I help them every chance I get.
There's always someone worse off than myself, 66 in poor health. But I look to end-of-the-road places for an affordable cash-out place to move to should my last son preceed me.
Thanks for creating original content and being a human being.
Be well. Be safe.
I thought Nick was AI?
This brings tears to my eyes because I want to hear the dogs barking, the children playing, the families BBQing. I want to see people smiling, and waving, helping each other, and politely greeting each other.
I'm craving all of those things.
Are you insane? this is 2024, nobody does that shit
@@vivekvicky2595 exactly
@@vivekvicky2595 A whole different kind of people in America now , too much news and social media , people don't even know their next door neighbors.
Plenty of dogs barking, mostly from neglect and hunger...😂😂
Years ago I delivered for a wholesale grocery company in Cairo Illinois and every week I had to wait for this one particular restaurant to open called The Dairy Hut. There was a group of fellows who lingered under a tree between it and a C-store. Every week a man named Raydog would offer to help me and I would give him $5 to stack the single dolly worth of product and he would help me into the building. One day he asked for a twenty so he could buy his mom something for her birthday and said he would pay me back. I didn't see him the next week but the following week he was waiting on me to pay me. He had to pick up scrap and cans to save the money up. Needless to say I told him that he could keep it and I gave him a 50 plus the usual 5 for helping. I said he was a good man. He cried. Continued to help me until I left the job. I went back 10 years later and I found out he was murdered in that very area. 😢
Man that's heartbreaking.
😢
Damn.
Your compassion for Raydog was commendable. Your story-telling is impressive. The ending a real nut-kick.
So many forgotten people in our economy.
Man, that's a terrible thing.sounds like this man was an actual angel and maybe was taken home to the lord.I hope so.
All the homeless out there and we have houses rotting away. The irony is strong with this one.
No one lives in those houses because everything to support the people are gone.
@ some houses could have been used while others could have been removed for land to farm.. wouldn’t work everywhere but some places.
Agree. PLENTY of hardworking resourceful people that would relocate to once again own a home! Elites don't want property ownership. Greedy c@$%%
@@rogueraven7603 Problem is the good soil tends to be stripped away to build subdivisions.
@ what if we redirected some of that foreign aid to fix problems like that?
I am literally disgusted with the way this country is being run into the ground! Are politicians have turned our nation to an embarrassment, and now we're just a mix of ultra rich and poverty-stricken workers. There's absolutely no middle class left and now an influx of foreign slaves to replace the Americans that have given up...😢
*our politicians, not are politicians.
Well said.
It's been this way for 50 years. We became a service industry economy. Ridiculous
@@kyleterpstra1899 is a word Nazi and I bet a looney liberal as well, everyone knew what they were saying, too bad we can't all be perfect like some soulless people
I would imagine you can blame the misspelling on the great AI hybrid and lots of comments on different channels and watched the machine screw up spelling@@kyleterpstra1899
I've been saying this all along-people are suffering, living in misery. And none of this is going to be fixed by all those out-of-touch movements about gender issues, "equality" or whatever. The more resources we waste on these unrealistic campaigns that only benefit a small minority, the more we ignore the real suffering of those who actually need help. I'm not saying "social justice" is wrong, but we have way bigger problems to deal with, and they need fixing right now.
We all know "people are suffering, living in misery". And we know "they need fixing right now"
The relevant question is HOW? What are the proposed solutions?
@@jacqdanieles It’s about going back to basics. Fix the roads and bridges, get more low-skill jobs like construction and factory work going so people can earn an honest living instead of turning to crime. Stop hiring illegal aliens who work for half the pay, stealing jobs from Americans. Our laws don’t protect alien workers the way they protect Americans, and factories just take advantage, screwing over both sides. It’s a lose-lose for everyone except the businesses making dirty money. If folks have decent jobs and aren’t always worrying about the basics, they won’t be out there causing problems.
@@jacqdanieles It’s about going back to basics. Fix the roads and bridges, get more low-skill jobs like construction and factory work going so people can earn an honest living instead of turning to crime. Stop hiring illegal aliens who work for half the pay, stealing jobs from Americans. Our laws don’t protect alien workers the way they protect Americans, and factories just take advantage, screwing over both sides. It’s a lose-lose for everyone except the businesses making dirty money. If folks have decent jobs and aren’t always worrying about the basics, they won’t be out there causing problems.
Fan from the UK here Nick. So incredibly interesting, and you are documenting history right here. Great work.
Hopefully these places aren't history one day
The US is huge, and there are thousands of small towns built around industries that fizzled out. Growth in cities pulls people from these dying towns, they can't all flourish at once. Land owners should be fined for leaving properties full of trash like in this video, code enforcement by each state could mitigate scenery like this. Detroit demolished abandoned homes but it cost $8,000+ per structure before inflation hit.-------South London viewed from the high speed train from Paris looked somewhat similar as I saw England for the first time. It looked like a junkyard for what seemed to be 20 miles, but then again, it's a 2,000 year old city. America is too young to look like this, and cleaning up these properties don't cost much, just effort.
@ what I have always found interesting is A) how these homes were once peoples pride and joy and B) how you end up abandoning a house! It’s not a car, if you leave behind a house you are potentially leaving literally everything you own really and starting from nothing.
On the South London thing, they may have been however old industrial areas, but residential areas, absolutely nothing like this in London. However, you do get really ugly social housing areas in south London that will look pretty bad, and actually deserted places like this in the North East of England with old mining towns
Where is this and year taken
Love your video Nick ! It's fascinating but also a little bit frightening to see such a savage decline in so many towns in the USA. I'm watching from England .
You "go broke" or "went broke", not got broke, lol.
If we don’t start bringing manufacturing and industry back to this country, we are not going to make it. This will be everyone’s future. Not everyone can have an office job. Some people are supposed to be doing the actual work, and we’ve basically told them to kick dirt. It’s a crying shame.
Exactly. We have become a gig work service economy, but who can pay for those services without money? I feel like we are on the brink of collapse. EDIT: It's a race to the bottom.
The AI business seems to be the only working sector. What are all the kids going to do who are graduating high school in 2025?
@@virtualselfie6899 Even if they train in the tech/coding field, the technology will change, and AI will be programming itself. It's a no-win situation.
We always need the grunts . They make it happen
Spot on. 🐈⬛
Let’s go Nick! Happy belated Thanksgiving! Hope you and family had an awesome one 🇺🇸
It's crazy to think that all that garbage, stuff and homes, all were once BRAND spankin' new.
It’s also crazy to think that everything we own and hold in our hands and love and care about will someday be in the garbage. Including us.
True...and somewhat conforting
even when new, most of what I just saw was trash 😂
ALL REPUBLICANS IN A REPUBLICAN STATE
Probably the saddest vid yet😢. Thanks for sharing Nick
YES ALL THOSE REPUBLICAN LEAD STATES
The American taxpayer should demand accountability for every red cent of the trillions of dollars stolen by politicians and sent overseas only to be laundered back to their coffers.
Exactly,the money isn’t gone it was stolen and could easily be recovered if people demand it if people have the guts to look in the rat holes it is hidden in
Not gonna happen
Our money is siphoned to Ezra He’ll and I don’t see this being halted under president-elect Zump.
My comments are deleted my the entities that controls all aspects of our media, education, government
Stop buying the crap
Nick,
Your great services are greatly needed in Western NC. The world needs to see whats really going on there.
100% we need more eyes on W N Carolina,we are witnessing crimes against humanity
Can America be fixed? I'm 67 and have seen a steady rise in lawlessness and decline in morality my entire life. The answer to that question in my opinion is NO.
When you allow generational welfare, build subsidized housing, have war on police, allow third world countries to come in…you become a third world. 35 years ago, you did not see this.
The US is an empire, been at war almost every year of its existence. The moral decline was baked in, and since the post war boom and GovCorp handoff of mfg to other countries starting in the 70s, the economic and cultural decline are in full swing. Central bankers run this country and the world.
I ask myself that same question every time I see this type of videos. This is not the first documentary of this type that I have seen, and every time I see a new one, I am shocked, and I always come back to ask myself the same question: Will there be a solution to this? I even think of some options (which sound more like fantasies than objectives), but unfortunately, it seems almost impossible, if not impossible, for this to have a solution. Both the nation and society itself are in a complete decline, and I don't see how that can be stopped. And the number of American towns that are like this is terrifying.
Everything is going according to the Bible. Trust in him.
If there wasn't so many laws and regulations maybe people could make a living
Ross Perot warned America about NAFTA. and they still re-elected Slick Willy.
Right?
Perot warned us of that big sucking sound of companies leaving…it can still be heard today.
Many people forget that NAFTA started with Reagan (who campaigned for it) and H.W. Bush. Clinton added a couple of side agreements meant to protect workers and the environment, and Congress passed it. Don't get me wrong; I blame Clinton for destroying our economy for many of his egregious policies, notably the evisceration of Glass Steagal (and many others).
@@Mark-yy2pyjust why Trump dumped NAFTA
“Re-elected”
I’m now a senior that is on the brink of retirement. Born and raised in Southern California. Kept my head down and worked a job that I can now leave. There’s so much abandonment that it really makes me sick. Can we start with farming, then farmer’s markets, then getting a working class of people again.
Blame child support aka title4dwelfare Unconstitutional af
Please stay in California.
Farming? Everyone's eating all this fake frankenfood made out of insects and who-knows-what chemicals.
The soil is being destroyed the world over from above with aluminium (AI) and other nasties. The Dimming. Look it up.
DONT GO TO THESE REPUBLICAN STATES YOU SEE HOW THEY ARE
This is what happens when you open your market to countries that were poor. They get rich at your expense. Japan, South Korea, China, Mexico, etc.
US national debt: $ 36,079,232,900,500 or $273,132 debt per taxpayer
to who?
that number is largely meaningless. most countries are deeply in debt, some have a debt to GDP ratio that far exceeds the USA.
But did you know also that American households are worth 150 trillion in assets? That’s why they taxing you and keep printing money (debt making).
And it’s not really debt because there is no lender, it’s just inflation with no ending. Till it all collapses.
Most plebeians don't understand that the government printing nonexistent money causes the inflation we see. They simply blame capitalism for the failures of our government. It's hilarious how the sheep want "muh free healthcare and education" to join the "rest of the free world" while entrusting the same government that caused in our inflation to oversee both. No wonder Bernie lost
700 Billionars and this PLANET is in debt!
And probably none of them pay their share of taxes.
Most of them found Foundation.
Melinda &Bill Gates
György Schwartz aka George Soros
Open Societies foundations
New Immigration Business
MSM, Radio Station
Only for Profit.
Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelty, Facebook, Amazon, Apple
WEAPON COMPLEX for WARS.
America?
I'm 66 years old and the America i knew is gone. Gutted. What's next?
War!
The Great Awakening happening right now.
Ten minute cities.
Im waiting for The Rapture.
@@GM-jv9jzand you will be waiting a long time
Americans want $40 an hour to run machines because we know the companies can afford it. CEO shouldn't be making 300x the salary of a regular worker.
I think Americans need to get Profit Share in addition to the wages. Being only compensated for time and skill, but not getting a share of the Profit created from that skill is ridiculous.
But hey, the Executives will get bonuses and the workers get some pizza.
❤😮 congressmen voting themselves 50% raise making 20thousand a month for Jeffery Epstein , pig-a-diddy, mptrump, north fox island Michigan
Thats NOT how that works. If a machine can easily replace you, then YOU need to learn how to become irreplaceable.
If GM took their CEO's entire $27M salary and distributed it equally to every GM employee, it would only be about $170. CEO pay isn't the problem some of you make it out to be.
@@lawv804 Cashiers at Walmart, CVS, all big box retailers should receive some stock as part of their pay. With all of America participating in the stock market, income inequality will improve. Forced investing similar to SS, our culture says to be happy you must spend, spend, spend. We must counter that or our country is doomed.
Unfortunately, these scenes are repeated all over the USA.
Trump can't fix the USA. NOBODY CAN.
@@keithinaz9769he can do a lot better job than what we been having
Its big business doing this. As long as a president and his party are on the side of big business this will never change
@@randyeilers4061stop buying the products it's crap anyways
Yes I do come to your channel to see what was and what could be.
Everyone should subscribe and support Nick.
I agree. Shared his videos ❤
Without pension plans from all the factories and businesses like years ago, nobody has money to repair their homes and keep up a decent standard of living. You can't do a $15,000 roof job making $1,500 a month SS.
If we didn't have such a high income tax people could save more money up during their working years. They wouldn't be in such dire straights. I could go out and buy a house right now if I didn't have to pay 10k a year in taxes.
@@MassiveGarbageBuy a smaller house. We need taxes. Taxes actually build and maintain these towns to begin with so you can have a job.
@@MassiveGarbageBuy a smaller house. We need taxes. Taxes actually build and maintain these towns to begin with so you can have a job.
@@randyeilers4061 I don't live in a town. And I don't work in a town. All I got is a barely plowed road.
@@randyeilers4061not true
I would say that youtube is a place people go to see what's actually happening, given that mainstream sources turn a deliberate blind eye to these realities.
Thank you Nick for all of your videos!💞 You are drawing attention to a very serious problem. America 🇺🇸 has been in a constant decline since the turn of the century.
America used to be a Growing, Building, Active, Beautiful Place to live. People used to look out for one another. Now Everyone seems to be isolated. We need a Positive Change. Hopefully things will start getting Better Soon.👍🇺🇸♥️
Small town America has been dying over the last 50 years
Same with Canada .
Yes go to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where I’m from looks exactly the same. My home city of McKeesport all abandoned houses and churches. Once beautiful church’s empty neglected and falling down. Sad history completely wiped out. Will be replaced by a China town or another nationality. Americas done for. The great replacement is not a theory
Depends largely on the clientele
@@robg5157 Its really our own fault. We are so selfish and lazy. We voted for this crap and we quit having children. Most of all we threw God and the bible out. You reap what you sow.
This is not the first documentary of this type that I have seen, and every time I see a new one, I am shocked, and I always come back to ask myself the same question: Will there be a solution to this? I even think of some options (which sound more like fantasies than objectives), but unfortunately, it seems almost impossible, if not impossible, for this to have a solution. Both the nation and society itself are in a complete decline, and I don't see how that can be stopped. And the number of American towns that are like this is terrifying.
I’ll be honest: things can get better but a lot of people aren’t going to make it. Of course we should always try, but things can be too far gone.
This town in just like Gary Indiana. When the steel mills closed, The city went down hill. Gary Indiana used to be called Steel City. Very sad.
It was once the city of the century
It was in this video lol
Thank you for making this. I think it's important for America to see how it looks in the rest of the country that isn't prospering. I reposted this on Facebook.
Yay Chris! ❤️
Happy Thanksgiving to all yall.
All that’s missing is the zombies & you’d have The Walking Dead
This is so sad and depressing. I'm old enough to remember the vibrant downtowns, sidewalks crowded with shoppers, etc. Locally, the large shopping centers and malls killed off the downtown stores and mom & pop stores. Online did a number on them too. I can only imagine these homes were once nice, kids playing in the yards. In a way, I'm glad they have not been torn down and left as a reminder of what once was.
WELCOME TO THE GREAT RESET
Gary, Indiana WIKI Although initially a very diverse city, Gary currently holds one of the nation's highest percentages of African-Americans.[10] Between 1970 and 2010, Gary maintained a 40-year record of holding the nation's largest Black population per capita.[11] The city also boasts a legacy of African-American cultural and historical feats, such as electing the nation's first Black mayor (see Richard Hatcher), hosting the first and largest National Black Political Convention, and, in 1945, becoming the first city in the Midwest (and one of the first in the entire nation) to fully integrate its public school system.[12]
My grandpa lived in Gary in the 50s and 60, left in great white flight 😂. Because of the nationally historic murder rate per capita many years, that is really something to look up too😂 Gary should not have any comments bragging about what people of color can do smfh. My pops family left cause crime got so bad, and Caucasians can't live with that. Most are civilized people and cant do the integration of diverse people, it don't work, it won't work, and the faster we as a society finally figure it out, the better we will be. Let this 💩 hole cities have anarchy and rampant crime, let us stay in the Burbs and country. You all made your bed, now lay in it. Sorry ✌
During Richards term is when Gary really went to crap.
FAIL
Great Intel, Brother.
These are some of the nicest places to film that T.V. Show The Walking Dead. Very Ominous.
but, where are they ? no one is walking. Not even the dead. even scarier and creepier
Nick, this video is well done. But man it is so sad! It shouldnt be like this in America
This is perfect ! Lots of choice for a remake of, "The Postman", post apocalypse America. Box office winner.
Where there's muck there's shekels !
Its sad to see America sliding downhill so badly in so many places.
The vast majority of America does not look like this. I travel quite a bit, myself.
The politicians are doing exceptional ..private islands, wineries, us paying their way. Pfft.
THIS IS SO Sad.
Well, at least the streets are clean and no squatters. What's wrong ? all that complaining and all. Stop it and enjoy !
The problem here is that too much of America, the richer part, has become the "laptop class," and they couldn't care less about towns like this.
Sadly the US is not what it used to be.
We've been following you for years and love the latest videos. Fantastic work.
Ok cool Matt!
Great advertisement for Obamacare. 😂 That house with the Obamacare sign.
The affordable health care act brought health care to a lot of these area for the first time. A 65 year old man never had insurance until Obama. He got his teeth fixed and a few other things. Voted for Trump insurance gone. He lived in Kentucky, the woman who signed him up hadn’t worked in years til Obamacare. It wasn’t perfect because if we don’t pay they can’t buy yachts
@@trethatdudeit was good for many people yes but also many lost their jobs at hospitals and many Americans who didn't want health insurance or couldn't get it because they worked 2 part time jobs to get by, couldn't get it,got nailed on their taxes.
@trethatdude It shouldn't be that expensive in the first place. The only thing it did was make health insurance companies more wealthy. You should see John's Hopkins in Maryland. It went from reputable school to a massive medical company that has devoured half the state. It doesn't even have a goid reputation anymore.
Sad what our Country is becoming. 😪
Our Government needs to do better to keep companies here & not let them move to other countries or close down!
Our government caused it
I saw alot of beauty in the abandoned downtown in Pine Bluff , Arkansas. Lovely, gracious old buildings.
Such a shame.
Incredible video, once again Nic.
Those ruins speak volumes of a dystopian future for many more towns across the US.
Haunted ruins, its like you can hear the whisper of ghosts as you drive through those overgrown streets. Very eerie.
Clinton should be ashamed of himself!
If not for Arkansas people he wouldn't be 💩
He and Hillary both used Arkansas and never looked back!
It is sad but true, those towns are truly haunting Christy
Implementing NAFTA was one of the worse things that was done to this nation!!!! In 2016 when Trump said he "wanted to shut down NAFTA" I knew I was voting for him. And I have for the last three elections.
I did too!
It makes me sick just to think about how messed up we would be if he lost the election!😳
The only thing I can add is,
THANK YOU LORD JESUS
🙌🏼🙏🏾🙏🏽🙌🏽
Thank you Nick for doing this work.
My little Kansas town used to have all sorts of little manufacturers, and mining, and thriving small farms and ranches. Those days are all in the past now. Why can’t rural America thrive like it used to? I blame our leadership in recent decades. It’s been consistently shitty (save for Trump). I pray that President Trump can revive our nation, including small town USA. America First isn’t just a slogan. Something needs to change.
American has been sold out and lied to for almost 50 years. You thank the government politicians and big companies for that
My area of Indiana is on the verge of collapse. We manufacture all the RVs. Well now all the big blue states are banning them and that's a lot of the customer base. We are also the orthopedic capital and the companies are cutting their shifts and threatening to leave. If we lose those two industries we have nothing.
Nick, it feels as in this video we are having a burial for these American towns and cities
So sad all that hard work passed generations built only for it all go to waste.
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Twelve dollars and nothing extra for the food poisoning! You're a brave guy!!!
The silver lining here is that these abandoned buildings do provide lots of opportunities for people to get into a fixer-upper for not much money
Not without an infrastructure
These are all high crime areas. Is that where you wan't to raise a family?
Why would you want to live in a town/city where every single house on the street was a “fixer upper”? The infrastructure is crumbling, in many cases you’d have to build a new home entirely. New foundation, ect. Just to live in a dead zone? No one is going to do that.
You can fix it up and the ones that you give a check, to sit home every month even with work around will destroy it for you.
Once you get too many of those types of people in an area they also destroy businesses.
What the hell for though???
These are horrible areas to live.
You do good work documenting history with a video record . Thank You Young Man !
Looks like NC after Helene and they got $750 each to get set back up(if they “qualified”)
Living in tents with no heat in freezing weather and snow
Thank goodness for kindness and help of thier neighbors and donations of others
Somehow that just sounds cruel 😭
Many prayers for these cities and people,so sad🥲
Thanks for all you do to make people aware of those suffering Nick🙏
I’ve lived in the city and suburbs
Rural is so much better. These towns can make a comeback. Who wants a huge population?
The government provides housing and free stuff. The thugs come in and the increased crime causes the working man with a family to leave
Watching this gives me the chills and saddens me. Our new administration needs to see this video! Make America Great Again.
No, RUclips is where we come to see the FACTS & TRUTHS, not for despair, that’s just something extra we get. 🥴
Exactly right
NOTICE HOW THESE ARE ALL REPUBLICAN STATES
Facts and truth?At least thirty percent of the crap on You tube are in fact lies
@@user-te9ut7ms4l Michigan and Illinois aren't. And its anywhere. Not just here.
That woman is Right!!!
Land of the Free for WHO!? The Rich….
Let’s take our country back!!!!!!
$12 for a sandwich in that sh-thole?! Something tells me he gave you the tourist price...
Watch you mouth, your town may be the next sh-thole!
That’s the going rate
@Sugarsugar-24 In a Louisiana town that is half abandoned? Doubt it... No way locals are paying $12 for a sandwich.
Glad someone else thought that was crazy. I haven't been back to travel the US for several years, but that's either insane inflation or gouging someone from out of town.
I watched Detroit go down in real time, Born there in 1957, Moved out in 2012, Democrat run since 1962..
Places like Arkansas ought to step up and give some of these corporations some incentives to move there the same way Texas did. The rest of the Deep South should for that matter.
I went to law school in Mississippi 1975-1978 and worked in Jackson 1981-1985, so evidently things got really bad after I left. What I do know is that many law firms abandoned Jackson. the State capital, and went Noth to Madison-Ridgland. Such a move is unheard of, and circumstances must have gotten pretty bad for such a drastic changes to have occurred. Gangs roaming the streets is what I heard.
This is completely unbelievable.. so many infrastructures in these towns need to be torn down and the land cleaned up. Nobody's going to move to a city all of the buildings are abandoned and falling apart.
that is not how real estate works
@@bb5242hush bot
Ross Perot was right but that would have been throwing your vote away
I vote for ross, but I knew that Clinton would win, sometimes just got to take a stand...
I hope you had a Great Thanksgiving, Brother Man. Keep up the good work. 👍
It’s not just one city, one state, or one region, it’s happening everywhere. Change is very badly needed
It all started in 71 when we went Fiat currency. Globalization and money printing created the largest wealth gap in human history.
Reminds me of where I grew up in PA. I imagine the feeling is similar to how people felt a few generations after the Roman Empire fell. Walking around the ruins of once great cities.
Happy Thanksgiving Nick. Keep up the great work
Happy Thanksgiving!🍽
If you told me some of these towns were frontline villages in the Donbass, I'd have believed you
There everything is better.
Your taxes are in Kiev😂
The jail in Pine Bluff is a former Walmart!
Hell, it used to have 2 Walmarts!!!!
These places look like an economic tornado hit them.
This is what happens when greed takes over.
2008 hit them.
1982 song by Billy Joel "Allentown" (Pennsylvania) spoke about decline of US economy in "Rust Belt".
Nick, i normally love your videos, but this one was hard to get through. very sad state of affairs in parts of our country.
😢
These towns need to create an incentive program offering free property to remote workers to move here and revive.
Sounds good on the surface, but won't hold up under scrutiny. A local town is offering $50k in incentives for just what you suggest, but the numbers don't add up. Offer a reasonable mortgage on a reasonably priced home in reasonable condition with reasonable taxes in a reasonable location and it's a different story.
NOTICE THEIR ALL REPUBLICAN LEAD STATES
@@sandspar I disagree. Certain towns are fixing these problems. This is actually what corruption looks like.
@@user-te9ut7ms4lhush bot they are Democratic run cities
Rooting for you guys from Australia
💥 🇦🇺
We are rooting for you guys as well,it’s very sad to see how your government has been overthrown by an authoritarian regime but there is a lot of that going around nowadays.
@@noneyabeeswax3200 It was overthrown a century ago. Hoping the new administration keeps their promise to gut our government and get rid of waste. Time will tell.
@@noneyabeeswax3200 yes it’s a worry. Time for him to move on.
I think with the next 12 years of conservative presidency, we've got a good chance, at least, the best chance. (Trump/Vance) (Vance/Ramaswamy)
Great video, Nick.
I hope you are right. We cant take too much more of this in the Midwest.
These abandoned cities serve as a haunting reminder of the dark side of urban decline. Behind the empty streets and crumbling buildings are stories of lost jobs, failed industries, and forgotten communities. This documentary sheds light on the importance of education, economic opportunity, and sustainable development to prevent such collapses in the future. Let’s hope for lessons learned and a renewed focus on rebuilding and revitalization
I have to disagree, I think RUclips is the place where young people come to understand the historical context behind Americas rapid evolution away from industry and slow fall from Grace.
Certain industry has changed but the world market for grey iron street castings by U.S. foundries is huge.
😂Ask Blackrock where the money goes😂
Seems after WW2 the country did well for a while. Was military draft time a better outcome due to personal structure? Teaching pride, strong work ethic, education, responsibility. Living clean?
I don’t have the answer however I’m 58, married 38 yrs. We both always worked. Educated ourselves to get that better job to afford a family. A dream home, savings for a rainy day. It worked well for us & we taught our kids the same & it’s paying off for them as well. When people think they’re too good to work for a dollar, GOV allowing too many programs to allow laziness, then it produces what we now have. People need to work. If jobs aren’t available you gotta move. Self respect, respect others, responsibility, tact, decorum, graces. We gotta get back to it and The Golden Rule. Thats my 2¢.
Dual citizenship politicians ✡️
America has seen better times.
Looks like you're going to keep at this for a long time Nick because i dont think it's going to get any better. We cant vote our way out of this.
We just did.
@@dakotayounger6988 how naive
@@dakotayounger6988we're trying
America is becoming like Mad Maxx
As long as you’re paying taxes this is what you’ll continue to get until your grandkids and great grandchildren wake up homeless in the very country our forefathers fought so hard to give us.
I’ve driven through there myself a couple of months ago. Absolutely horrendous !
Nick, your vlogs are very important. I recommend you to others all the time. Thank you. You're getting to the point of what's really going on with USA today.
Great videos, Nic.
NAFTA- another democrat bright idea. Here is the results.
The Clinton economy was the best of my life and I'm 80. NAFTA was great for many but there were losers. Don't focus on the losers, most of us were better off.
This the common culture of Southerners. Voting against their own interest. 🙄
Not exactly NAFTA was actually drafted up under Bush senior in fact they're and you could still find them there was advertisements for NAFTA featuring Lee iacocca of the Chrysler corporation whom oh by the way he was a Republican conservative.
Yeah Leah Coco greatly supported NAFTA he loved the idea of moving even more shit down to Mexico and selling it back here at a premium price NAFTA was largely supported by a grab bag of the corporate types no of course the corporate types are the ones who sponsor most of your politicians.
@@fitfrog65NAFTA was horrible everyone from Ross Perot warn us about it.and most unions hated it
Yet all the poorest towns in America are Red. Even the towns he mentioned around 18:28 that had seen declines are all recovering and run by Blue. Red states just love voting against their own best interests time and time again. This is the result.
They could film The Walking Dead there!
The walking dead would also leave.
In 1964 LBJ passed a 25% tariff on imported pick up trucks. My Nissan frontier was made in Smyrna Tennessee. Back then people complained it was a sales tax also.
I say Nick Johnson be nominated for Housing and Urban Development director. You could see where Pinebluff, AR tried to rebuild the downtown looking at the curbs and gutters, sadly now abandoned.
Good video Nick.
This is HEARTBREAKING!!!. Where is my hard, really hard earned money?? I dont care red or blue - This is the condition my country is in?? They all have to go! Out of the people’s offices. OUT. GTFO of our offices. How much $$ went to Ukraine, israel, gaza, on and on!! This condition is YEARS in the making!!
The reason I like to watch videos like this one is because it gives me some hope. Those abandoned, run down areas could be good, affordable places to rebuild. Let's just hope that some foreign investor doesn't get them first.
Keep shining that light on our blight