California: the Decline of the American Dream

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @Bonsignore4U
    @Bonsignore4U 8 місяців тому +1335

    They should put the year the videos were produced

    • @Full-Moon-Mustang
      @Full-Moon-Mustang 8 місяців тому +140

      it's couple of years after the 2008 crisis, most likely 2010-12

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 8 місяців тому +96

      A 23 minute news presentation was done in 2009…the 52 minute documentary was released in 2010.
      It ain’t rocket science guys.

    • @BFaluup
      @BFaluup 8 місяців тому +62

      The news paper that guy was reading said November 10, 2009.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому +20

      @@BFaluup Yep and things were pretty shit in 2009. I'd lost everything and tons of other people had too.

    • @Denys101
      @Denys101 8 місяців тому +18

      Exactly, holy f i thought that they were showing how things are today in America

  • @silveriver9
    @silveriver9 8 місяців тому +1178

    "That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin

    • @vanessarubinidellarovere
      @vanessarubinidellarovere 8 місяців тому +16

      Hahahahaha 👏🏻

    • @monicaperez2843
      @monicaperez2843 8 місяців тому +14

      LOL!

    • @williamberkowitz9388
      @williamberkowitz9388 8 місяців тому +7

      The prophet of the Atheism

    • @dogvip7688
      @dogvip7688 8 місяців тому +1

    • @paaulistta
      @paaulistta 8 місяців тому +29

      Move somewhere else. This is not North Korea. Get a passport and leave. I hated my home country, so I left for the greatest country on earth: The United States of America. 🇺🇲

  • @dearsirormadam20
    @dearsirormadam20 8 місяців тому +115

    The fact that we get free documentaries from Best Documentary on UA-cam is priceless; keeping the education and knowledge alive. 👍👍👍

    • @harlanjackson6112
      @harlanjackson6112 7 місяців тому +3

      Yes, because docs from the mortgage recession of 2009 are SO relevant today... /s

    • @Darktophat_10
      @Darktophat_10 4 дні тому

      @@harlanjackson6112 The Data is relevant, yes. Using past data prevents us from making mistakes....but we voted for tRump again so we are doomed....

    • @harlanjackson6112
      @harlanjackson6112 4 дні тому

      @@Darktophat_10 I agree that past data is important, but let's please label this as such. Putting out a doc in 2024 and not labeling it as 15 year old 'where we were then' paints an inaccurate picture of where we are today.

  • @Juju-l3o
    @Juju-l3o 7 місяців тому +210

    I watch these kind of documentary’s to remind myself to be grateful for what I have.

    • @SusiesRepeat
      @SusiesRepeat 6 місяців тому +3

      Yes my problems seem trivial to those in this program.

    • @kendallevans4079
      @kendallevans4079 6 місяців тому +7

      Me too....but also to remind myself to not be cavalier with decisions that will impact my life now and down the road.

    • @benascg-ll7sq
      @benascg-ll7sq 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@kendallevans4079 actouch of libertarianism does not hurt😊

    • @hugohabicht9957
      @hugohabicht9957 5 місяців тому +3

      That is the whole point : To make us feel better. But shit will hit the fan for all of us rather sooner than later

    • @richardbowers3647
      @richardbowers3647 4 місяці тому

      This a funny joke??? Right??? Steinbeck.protested this in 1937!!! right!!!

  • @HerbisRGreen
    @HerbisRGreen 8 місяців тому +117

    This is how bad things were in California 15 years ago. It looks like a picnic compared to what's happening out here now.

    • @richardmorris7063
      @richardmorris7063 8 місяців тому

      And libs still brag its the fourth largest economy in the world! All that $$ & can't fix anything or make anyone happy. Meanwhile watch a Peter Santonelli video. He does documentary on little far away places. People in those far away places are the happiest & best off. Every notice really wealthy people look like they have a stick up their ass?

    • @harlanjackson6112
      @harlanjackson6112 7 місяців тому +4

      You may have missed it, but the mortgage crisis of 2009 was nationwide.

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому

      Desperately flee the USA as soon as you can.
      It is in a declining empire, China has already won. Things will get even worse in the future, there is no hope for your nation.

    • @8x0xupa
      @8x0xupa Місяць тому

      Faz o B...

  • @Nothing_to_see_here
    @Nothing_to_see_here 8 місяців тому +306

    Man this didn't age well. Californians would give anything to have the state they had during Arnold's term.

    • @MrGene1976
      @MrGene1976 8 місяців тому +17

      No they wouldn't, they voted for this crp😅

    • @vaquero7072
      @vaquero7072 8 місяців тому +28

      Arnold sucked too

    • @Hellcat71782
      @Hellcat71782 8 місяців тому +35

      @@vaquero70721000% better than Gavin

    • @jaysphilosophy1951
      @jaysphilosophy1951 8 місяців тому

      Now in 2024, I realize the policies written a decade earlier came to fruition. Blame the politicians folks they are the ones who destroyed the state.

    • @deathlarsen7502
      @deathlarsen7502 8 місяців тому +4

      @@Hellcat71782 ain't saying much

  • @paultrigger3798
    @paultrigger3798 8 місяців тому +322

    California is blessed with having the combination of the best geographic location, weather, and resources on the planet yet it's still somehow ruined by the people who inhabit it.

    • @karlyoungman4062
      @karlyoungman4062 8 місяців тому +63

      and the people who govern it

    • @daleestep9518
      @daleestep9518 8 місяців тому +65

      Liberals weridos diversity ect

    • @andreabontempo643
      @andreabontempo643 8 місяців тому

      It's ruined by the people that live there? How about the government policies that have destroyed these states

    • @Danki81
      @Danki81 8 місяців тому

      ​​@@daleestep9518 of course, diversity ruins California... not to forget the infamous weridos 😂 keep watching fox

    • @rogergeyer9851
      @rogergeyer9851 8 місяців тому

      Yeah, because floods, mudslides, massive droughts and fires, earthquakes and big fault zones, etc. etc. are all fantastic positives. /s
      WAKE UP.

  • @shanefrederickson7468
    @shanefrederickson7468 8 місяців тому +303

    Not just Cali! It's EVERYWHERE!! 🤬🇺🇲

    • @monicaperez2843
      @monicaperez2843 8 місяців тому +7

      Yeah!

    • @wgsmit02
      @wgsmit02 8 місяців тому +25

      According to Kamala “Joe we did it”

    • @hakujin1
      @hakujin1 8 місяців тому

      @@wgsmit02 Best economy, bag jobs growth in half century, record market, infrastructure, chips - Yeah, I'd say they did. They'd have gotten us the most best border deal in decades too but Cheeto told the Republicans no. 🐑 🐑 🐑

    • @buzz5969
      @buzz5969 8 місяців тому +8

      Not here yet😊🇺🇸✌🏻🍻

    • @joselitoespiritu1577
      @joselitoespiritu1577 8 місяців тому +25

      Tired of this. This government specially my home state California cater more for the welfare of illegal immigrants. They just opened up the border and it feels like it's free for all. No more law and order. Policies are not thought through. We need a leader who will restore civility, uphold law and take care of our own citizens.

  • @ecclairmayo4153
    @ecclairmayo4153 2 місяці тому +14

    There are literally 49 other states. California has never been the most affordable place to live. Why do they insist on staying there?

  • @robertko5425
    @robertko5425 4 місяці тому +17

    This is a GREAT Example of an EMPIRE IN DECLINE !!!! I was in Southern California in 1984, and it was a very BEAUTIFUL PLACE back then.

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому

      Exactly, first lucid American I see in the comments. It is not the fault of party A or B, the country that is in decline has been overtaken by China and this is an inevitable process.
      Anyone who wants to live with dignity must necessarily immigrate, the future of the USA is not pretty.

  • @Dad-Gad
    @Dad-Gad 8 місяців тому +215

    Growing up here in the UK in the 80s and being a skateboarder , California was like a dream to me . Oh how wrong I was .

    • @Somd55
      @Somd55 8 місяців тому +10

      ........and you believe every story that appears on a television/youtube show?

    • @user-xe4es4mq2k
      @user-xe4es4mq2k 8 місяців тому +42

      It was a dream until the 2000s hit. Liberal politics killed it. I lived near Lance Mountain. LA was an amazing place back then.

    • @standforhumanitariancauses4756
      @standforhumanitariancauses4756 8 місяців тому

      @@user-xe4es4mq2k How did liberal policy kill CA???? California has the 2nd highest life expectancy in the nation. Some of the cities in the Bay Area, such as San Jose, have the highest quality of life and happiest places to live. Most miserable states are those red conservative states. The high taxes from CA and other blue states, goes to SUBSIDIZE those poor republican/red states. Otherwise they can't sustain themselves. Home prices in Bay Area is one of the highest in the nation? why? better living standards. A lot of brains and educated people. The red states, have some of the highest gun related deaths in the nation. Life expectancy in red states are less than those in the blue states. Texas and Florida, have the highest health uninsured people in the nation. CA is not perfect,, but it's 1000 times better than those deep southern states and other red states, such as Arkansas, and Missouri. Ca has the highest GDP in the nation. 5th strongest economy in the world. During pandemic Covid-19 deaths were much higher in those red/republican zip codes, cities and states. PERCENTAGE WISE.

    • @m42037
      @m42037 8 місяців тому +38

      It was a dream in the 80s, not today. Thanks to Obama and sleepy Joe

    • @m42037
      @m42037 8 місяців тому +6

      ​@@Somd55Quiet

  • @TheGreyLineMatters
    @TheGreyLineMatters 8 місяців тому +155

    I lived in Hollywood for a few years after my parents abandoned me, I tried being homeless and an actor at the same time... While I did end up in a couple movies, I hardly ever made money off it and eventually gave up.

    • @michelgouverneur885
      @michelgouverneur885 8 місяців тому +6

      this report is dating 2009 . how it is now ? does the movie industry is better or wrong ?

    • @TheGreyLineMatters
      @TheGreyLineMatters 8 місяців тому +1

      @@michelgouverneur885 No idea, I haven't bothered to go back since I left.

    • @Full-Moon-Mustang
      @Full-Moon-Mustang 8 місяців тому

      Well why just not stick to blue color jobs?

    • @heytibby
      @heytibby 8 місяців тому

      You must not be a Jew

    • @cherylT321
      @cherylT321 8 місяців тому +1

      @@FalconXE302I was wondering the same thing!

  • @michaelscott6390
    @michaelscott6390 8 місяців тому +312

    Am i right in thinking this is an old documentary? Things were bad then but a WHOLE lot worse now.

    • @johnny33321
      @johnny33321 8 місяців тому +26

      terminator was the cal gov. that old

    • @HockeyVictory66
      @HockeyVictory66 8 місяців тому +15

      Current times are not even close to what was going on in 2009. Unemployment was very high and the entire housing market collapse. This is when the homeless population started to explode.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому +5

      2009 and no, thinks were HORRIBLE in 2009, they're rather good now.

    • @michaelscott6390
      @michaelscott6390 8 місяців тому +24

      @@alexcarter8807 Nah, pretty sure there's still a lot of homeless and other probs. You must live in a gated community

    • @luckyguy600
      @luckyguy600 8 місяців тому +6

      AMEN, brother.
      It is why Frisco & Oakland and a lot more West Coast states and cities are just existing.
      Somewhere along the 'golden sunset way' ... things got messed up.

  • @KingSeven007
    @KingSeven007 8 місяців тому +106

    My uncle once told me the American Dream is that bit of panic when you wake up in the middle of driving from your morning job to your night job.

    • @kachagibbs6243
      @kachagibbs6243 7 місяців тому +5

      YIKES

    • @Duck-d7p
      @Duck-d7p 7 місяців тому +1

      Smart man

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому +2

      I'll bet he achieved it though. Nobody works anymore in California.

    • @Juju-l3o
      @Juju-l3o 7 місяців тому +2

      This was deep.

    • @juanzamarripa3778
      @juanzamarripa3778 7 місяців тому +4

      @@iamgabriel5823”nobody works anymore” you’re smoking crack. I work 2 jobs just to get by.

  • @jonathancastro624
    @jonathancastro624 5 місяців тому +18

    I live in Brazil and even with all the difficulties of life here, I wouldn't trade my city for California.

    • @luzdacamera
      @luzdacamera 4 місяці тому +3

      Eu também, vida longa aos BRICS!

    • @luzdacamera
      @luzdacamera 4 місяці тому

      É por isso, que eles querem tanto roubar o petróleo da Venezuela, para salvar a economia de merd@ deles. Eles gasta bilhões e bilhões de dólares com guerras, mas querem que nós da América Latina sejamos o pote de ouro deles. HAhaha.

    • @e.felipeoliveira4758
      @e.felipeoliveira4758 3 місяці тому +4

      ​@@luzdacameraverdade 👏👏

    • @gadoxipado
      @gadoxipado 3 місяці тому

      Então escreve em português ora bolas!

    • @FTdrX
      @FTdrX 2 місяці тому +3

      Eu trocaria fácil, Brasil é um pesadelo

  • @saffronandfriends9514
    @saffronandfriends9514 8 місяців тому +561

    When you’re half way through a documentary and you realize it’s 15 years old 😂

    • @francesholliday5427
      @francesholliday5427 8 місяців тому +11

      Thanks for the heads up

    • @HerbisRGreen
      @HerbisRGreen 8 місяців тому +76

      Just think, this was 15 years ago, how much worse has the situation gotten since then?

    • @AI_admin
      @AI_admin 8 місяців тому +36

      OMG was just realising this when 2009 was mentioned. 🤣 Imagine what 2024 looks like???? 😥

    • @polardiscoball
      @polardiscoball 8 місяців тому +3

      @@AI_admin its absolutely horrible... its raining 😂 Jesus loves the red welfare states that the California economy supports 🥰

    • @jasonarpy
      @jasonarpy 8 місяців тому

      ​@@polardiscoballRachel Maddow has a butt plug for you too

  • @freakinfrugal5268
    @freakinfrugal5268 8 місяців тому +18

    The show mentioned, Flash Forward, aired in the 2009-10 season, so that is indicative of how old this documentary is.

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 8 місяців тому +1

      yep we get that since it had Arnold as Gov. But things are way worse now under Newsom. Hell these were the good old days. California got worse! Much Worse!

    • @freakinfrugal5268
      @freakinfrugal5268 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Wolfsheim23 sorry, I made the comment before Schwarzenegger appeard

    • @_INTERNETER_
      @_INTERNETER_ 8 місяців тому +1

      You make it sound as if 2010 was 30 years ago😂

    • @harlanjackson6112
      @harlanjackson6112 7 місяців тому

      @@Wolfsheim23 Sure, all our homes are worth double what they were in 2009. Unemployment is half what it was then. But I would neither blame nor credit Newsom for it.

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 7 місяців тому

      @@harlanjackson6112 Homes are up EVERYWHERE as well as job numbers so it has nothing to do with CA. Businesses are leaving, crime is rampant, homeless are drawn there from all over America and now they can steal as much as they want too. Its a utopia for degenerates.

  • @peterlagroove6555
    @peterlagroove6555 8 місяців тому +146

    The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson

    • @SimonLloydGuitar
      @SimonLloydGuitar 4 місяці тому

      Jefferson said that when the Government actually meant something and wasn't controlled by the shadow government, corporations and oligarchs.

    • @nestorrivera3106
      @nestorrivera3106 3 місяці тому

      most of the time its impossed, Joe biden was removed by Obamas order just some time ago

    • @TVluver2
      @TVluver2 2 місяці тому

      The U.S. certainly does not deserve another 4 years of Trump, but yet he stands a very real chance of being elected. Go figure.

    • @NIKIB09
      @NIKIB09 Місяць тому

      Trump2024

    • @TVluver2
      @TVluver2 Місяць тому

      @@NIKIB09 Nobody deserves anything as bad as another 4 years of Trump!

  • @FERNANDOAMENDIVIL
    @FERNANDOAMENDIVIL 4 місяці тому +13

    “IT’S CALLED THE AMERICAN DREAM BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BE ASLEEP TO BELIEVE IT.”
    George Carlin

  • @VS-sn4db
    @VS-sn4db 4 місяці тому +6

    Llevo viendo unos cuantos documentales sobre Estados Unidos y realmente creo que pagarian por la calidad de vida que tenemos en España, estando ahora como estamos. Mucho ánimo desde Castilla❤

    • @lolataken
      @lolataken 5 днів тому

      Nosotros también la pagamos, con impuestos, muchísimos impuestos....

  • @aaronsmith593
    @aaronsmith593 8 місяців тому +186

    California is too expensive. Moving out is the best decision ever.

    • @silveriver9
      @silveriver9 8 місяців тому +15

      Did u go back to where you came from?

    • @patrickmunneke8348
      @patrickmunneke8348 8 місяців тому +4

      I wish I could. All my family is here.

    • @amandahugenkiss
      @amandahugenkiss 8 місяців тому

      @@patrickmunneke8348 Are you still breastfeeding or something? Maybe you could switch to formula?

    • @vids595
      @vids595 8 місяців тому +15

      I know lots of people who left for states with lower costs of living. In every case they found out that pay is also proportionally lower.

    • @amandahugenkiss
      @amandahugenkiss 8 місяців тому +6

      @@vids595 Exactly. Cali expensive but there's also a lot of opportunity out there.

  • @ekkolima
    @ekkolima 8 місяців тому +96

    State coffers are empty?? Ask Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi. Put them on the streets for a week, 🤔..

    • @TheSmartLawyer
      @TheSmartLawyer 8 місяців тому +7

      Nancy is a great stock picker.

    • @luckyguy600
      @luckyguy600 8 місяців тому +3

      Well, hold on their partner ...
      The good Lord has issues with those two, and a whole lot more. Just not yet.
      Their punishment for their 'misdeeds & greed' will be much harsher than anything you saw in this video and on these folks' faces.

    • @justiceforall007
      @justiceforall007 8 місяців тому +1

      So true! 😂

    • @eleanormattice3598
      @eleanormattice3598 8 місяців тому +2

      Tax the rich at the same rate as the rest of us.

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 8 місяців тому +1

      @@eleanormattice3598 They already are taxed way more than us. You need to find better solutions than just the meathead typical response.

  • @SlackersIndustry
    @SlackersIndustry 8 місяців тому +60

    Best thing i did was get out 7 years ago, the writing was on the wall. Good look to all .

    • @TwinSister1957
      @TwinSister1957 8 місяців тому +6

      Same....exited 4 years ago. It was my home state 60 years. Peace Out Cali

    • @TheOpenSociety777
      @TheOpenSociety777 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@TwinSister1957everyone I know from California has left🎉🎉

    • @TVluver2
      @TVluver2 2 місяці тому

      @@TheOpenSociety777 Everyone I know from California has stayed and is lovin' it. To each his own.

  • @markwhitethorn6743
    @markwhitethorn6743 5 місяців тому +9

    Put a cap on rents, put a limit of maximum 1 house (the one where you live) that can be bought, stop short renting (AirB&B), stop big financial and real estate group from opereting in the residential market. That would much help to make houses affordable again.

    • @KarenMason-w6m
      @KarenMason-w6m 3 місяці тому +2

      Definitely read Thomas Sowell Basic Economics and research rent caps in New York. The rich elites/politicians had multiple rent capped NICE apartments for years.
      Regarding Real Estate companies…. Eliminate them and see how much the Attorneys charge… there are many legal intricacies involved in the selling and buying of real estate.

    • @TVluver2
      @TVluver2 2 місяці тому

      Put a cap on rents and it leaves little incentive for anyone to want to own rental property as there are no caps on how much a landlord's expenses can go up in a year (i.e. my expenses on just ONE rental property increased by over $500 per month this year...$375 for insurance, $100 for HOA dues, and about $75 for miscellaneous expenses including taxes). Also, if each person can only own 1 house and big financial and real estate groups are prevented from opearting in the residential market, then who is going to own the rental properties that those who cannot qualify for a mortgage (or simply do not wish to own their a home) depend on? Your ideas sound good on paper, but in reality, would leave anyone who cannot buy a home or does not wish to buy a home with no place to live.

  • @adamademi5881
    @adamademi5881 2 місяці тому +3

    From İstanbul-Turkey! In the world’s most developed countries, there are countless homeless, hungry, jobless, familyless, and lonely people; yet those who consciously and deliberately cause the same tragedies, traumas, and sufferings in other countries through various wars of interest are, in fact, people very much like us, considered to be exceptionally civilized. Democracy is on the verge of ending in the world. The race, religion, color, gender, and age of the poor, homeless, destitute, abandoned, helpless, and sick cannot be questioned. They are undoubtedly the dignity of humanity.

  • @petejames1326
    @petejames1326 8 місяців тому +59

    THIS IS WHAT I DONT GET, in 2009 when this doco was made california debt was what $40 billion now its like $147 Billion, what has gone wrong and if these numbers are right, why hasent CA gone bankrupt? how exactly do they keep kicking the debt can down the road?

    • @danielgc1970
      @danielgc1970 8 місяців тому +8

      Federal intervention? It's a mess.

    • @arnoldberk2809
      @arnoldberk2809 8 місяців тому

      No bank would give them a loan so The Fed prints money and keeps loaning the State.

    • @sizzelot
      @sizzelot 8 місяців тому

      The Feds keep printing more money to give them driving up inflation

    • @ey67
      @ey67 8 місяців тому +10

      Bought politicians

    • @petejames1326
      @petejames1326 8 місяців тому +2

      @@danielgc1970 can eventually cal will declare bankruptcy? its only a matter of WHEN not if right

  • @catcubus
    @catcubus 8 місяців тому +34

    Hoping to have left California within the next 3 years!! It's become too expensive to live here.

    • @MrTottanham
      @MrTottanham 8 місяців тому +4

      Florida is became the same, a lot of people move here thinking is so cheap here, after a few months they realise how expensive it is, low pay expensive life

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому +3

      leave your cali politics there when you leave. Vote Red!

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому +1

      Where will you go?

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому

      Man, if you want to have a quality of life you need to leave the USA, it's a decadent empire, a nation with no future.
      Look for a country that promotes a decent life for its citizens and that offers a public healthcare system. Leave the country, changing states won't do any good.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому +72

    Hell 60 years ago, everyplace in the US was the American Dream. Now, it's California/Hawaii prices everywhere (the cheapest place I've lived, in my experience, is Hawaii where I grew up) and it's not the fault of any particular "Nation-State" like California, it's that there are a LOT more people now.

    • @me12722
      @me12722 8 місяців тому +7

      Since the year 2000 we've added 50 million residents to the US.
      I see too many people on the road who should be taking the bus.

    • @Tyrfingr
      @Tyrfingr 8 місяців тому +15

      It's the same story here in Europe/Sweden. The infrastructure and social services which grows naturally with a population, suddenly finds itself stunned and incapacitated by hundreds of thousands of people who suddenly show up. And the system never gets a chance to catch up, because newcomers never stop coming in. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the undesirable effects; that the standard of living drops like a rock for everyone.
      Historically it's nothing new. Humans have some nasty self-hating habit of destroying their own paradise and moving on to the next green patch to take a giant dump there too. And on and on it goes. One imagines that if evolution itself had a conscious mind, it must recoil in disgust over what it has managed to spawn in our kind. Something so intelligent and full of potential, which seemingly only manages to create short lived well managed civilizations that turns to shit every century like a regular clockwork. That we are still around is a mystery yet to be answered for.

    • @HaroldHivart
      @HaroldHivart 8 місяців тому

      Mass immigration as in Europe.. France is spoiled by it as well..

    • @cmcmahon8551
      @cmcmahon8551 8 місяців тому +11

      No state or country can consistently make all these horrible decisions. This is all part of a much bigger plan, and it's going according to schedule, their schedule!

    • @deathlarsen7502
      @deathlarsen7502 8 місяців тому

      you ain't so bright pot head. It IS the fault of the dems who IMPORTED the 3rd world why there are so many people here

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 8 місяців тому +13

    I’m the first one to go to college and grad school, and it looks like I’ll be the last one for quite some time. My nieces and nephews finished high school, and one went to community college for two years for an AS degree in agriculture. Two others went to private trade schools for a year, cosmetology and auto body. None of them own a home. In fact, two live with me. Three are married. One has two kids, one of whom just scraped by to get his high school diploma. The other gradually gave up during Covid and turned 16 right before regular class resume. He never returned.

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 7 місяців тому

      So in other words they are smarter than you? They went with getting trained for tades instead of aquiring mountains of debt for a post doctorate " degree" in Philosophy of English Lit? Gee.. I do wonder which makes more sense. I wonder.

    • @harlanjackson6112
      @harlanjackson6112 7 місяців тому

      @@sissyrayself7508 You think they're smarter than MarieKatherine, yet they're living with her. Clearly she's not the one with money troubles, Sissy.

    • @space2coast
      @space2coast Місяць тому

      ​@@sissyrayself7508 youre husband is cheating on you, insufferable ha g

  • @marcuslinton310
    @marcuslinton310 8 місяців тому +10

    Supply and demand has always driven society. Places like California will always be in high demand because of it's location and weather. Therefore, it will inevitably become beyond the reach of average Joe citizen because prices will continue to increase for everything because there are plenty of wealthy people willing to pay the price to live there no matter how high things go. An imbalance was also inevitable where the middle class gets phased out due to the cost of living. Support services needed in society like grocery stores, department stores, gas stations, restaurants, on and on cannot support high level wages and so all these people who need those jobs still can't afford to support themselves. You would think in a wealthy place like Cali they could support higher prices on everything, but the wealthy are kind of sheltered from regular society. They don't use Walmart, regular department stores and regular restaurants, they have their own little society within society.
    I don't understand how anyone can think they just deserve to live in California even if they can't afford it. It's just like not being able to buy a luxury vehicle or luxury home. Cali is a luxury and you can either afford it or not. If you can't, you better leave and find a new city that has a job you can get and a society that is affordable to live in.

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому

      Where would that be?

    • @TVluver2
      @TVluver2 2 місяці тому

      California is not just all wealthy people. We have a large middle-class working a variety of skilled and professional jobs. You're right that those working in low-skill/low wage jobs cannot afford to support themselves here due to the high cost of living (can these low wage jobs afford to support themselves in other places? I don't know.). But the answer cannot just be to raise prices to give these people higher wages. This would cause two problems: 1) Giving people higher wages means little if they also have to pay higher prices. They still won't be able to afford to live. and 2) the middle-class population who use these services cannot afford to pay the higher prices either. They will then also want pay raises which will cause the prices to go up even higher, starting a vicious circle. In the end, everyone ends up right back where they started in terms of spending power and the problem isn't solved. I advise every young person I know to strive to obtain the skills/education needed to keep them out of those low wage jobs, but of course, that only solves the problem for that individual. I don't know what the answer is for the state as a whole.

  • @petrolo72
    @petrolo72 8 місяців тому +49

    💯 the California in this documentary in 2009, was infinitely better in almost every aspect than it is today. Crime has risen by multiple factors, homelessness has exploded, the corrupt politicians making policy in the state have put the state in a position and deficit hundreds of percentage points greater than it was during the financial crisis of 2009.

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому

      no one wants to talk about that. The leftists destroyed the state and the US.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 місяців тому +4

      Homeless😮

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому

      The problem is not in California, but in the entire country.
      Anyone who wants to have a quality of life needs to escape the USA as soon as possible. This is a decision to be made with a certain sense of urgency.
      You live in a decaying empire, long ago conquered by China. The future is bleak for the entire American territory, never doubt that.
      Anyone who lives in the USA cannot hope. The "American dream", which was always empty propaganda, has become the American nightmare.

  • @tiffaniex333
    @tiffaniex333 8 місяців тому +53

    The parallels between Cali and the whole of North America are clear. The system, the STATE, is the issue. It was never designed to give us the “American dream.” Our struggles are all interconnected

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому +7

      The "American Dream" is also very modest. Look up the "Four Freedoms" that FDR talked about. That was the American Dream. Freedom from fear, want, etc. It wasn't a big house and a fancy car.

    • @outdoorloser4340
      @outdoorloser4340 8 місяців тому

      The State is overwhelmingly controlled by people with dual citizenship not loyal to the United States.

    • @aquelpibe
      @aquelpibe 8 місяців тому +1

      I agree that the American system is in trouble, but you are blaming the wrong component of the system. The state is not the problem, big money controlling politics, and the indecent concentration of wealth are the problem.

  • @bohditony
    @bohditony 8 місяців тому +41

    That’s why it’s called the American DREAM! Not reality.

    • @narfle
      @narfle 8 місяців тому

      My dude, the "american" dream was alive before USA existed and it still lives just fine, just not in USA. It was never the "american" dream, it was just considered the norm for us yuro-peons.

    • @modern.monkE99
      @modern.monkE99 8 місяців тому

      Amén

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому

      The idea of ​​the "American dream" has always been a farce of nationalist propaganda, sold especially by cinema. Only fools believed this.

  • @jackzux9362
    @jackzux9362 7 місяців тому +35

    I am Polish and I am horrified by what happened to the USA. Nightmare. Dirt, stench and poverty. For me personally, it is very sad, because as a student I dreamed of going to America, which was for me an unrivaled symbol of democracy, freedom and wealth. In Poland, we do not have black people, we do not have thieves, hooligans, homeless people, drug addicts, beggars, and above all, our cities and villages are well-kept, clean, there is practically no garbage anywhere, and the streets are safe.

    • @Chomar_Hunter
      @Chomar_Hunter 7 місяців тому +11

      "At some point, Poland will also be next." Willkommen im Satanischen Weltsystem Matrix 😈

    • @truther001
      @truther001 6 місяців тому

      Won't be long now before your leaders pi** off Russia to the point of no return.

    • @MariaHelena-pb1rt
      @MariaHelena-pb1rt 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Chomar_Hunterverdd 🙏🇧🇷

    • @bindilove3899
      @bindilove3899 5 місяців тому +3

      I’m an American and it’s beautiful and wonderful in the USA. These videos are focusing on the negative and over- dramatizing things. I have a WONDERFUL life here.

    • @arturg1881
      @arturg1881 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@bindilove3899😂😂😂

  • @tesscot
    @tesscot 8 місяців тому +8

    Unless the bathroom stuff is fully contained and removed it is way too close to the river.

    • @carloslx
      @carloslx 6 місяців тому

      it dumps in the river

    • @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO
      @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 6 місяців тому

      @@carloslx - They shit and piss in the river (probably) and then bathe in it later.

  • @chelleb3055
    @chelleb3055 8 місяців тому +35

    Oh, it's happening everywhere. I just crossed the country and saw most major cities. It's shockingly real. I thank God I live in Idaho but even that's not safe forever.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому +5

      You couldn't pay me to live in Idaho lol.

    • @chelleb3055
      @chelleb3055 8 місяців тому +4

      @@alexcarter8807That's fine, I really love it here by Yellowstone. It's not for everyone!

    • @deathlarsen7502
      @deathlarsen7502 8 місяців тому

      bc lefties moved from CA there to escape the liberal wastelands they created and will create it there

    • @NorceCodine
      @NorceCodine 8 місяців тому +2

      What's the situation? I live in a small town in Texas, no tent cities yet but crime is through the roof. Literally every night something gets stolen from my yard.

    • @siddg1463
      @siddg1463 8 місяців тому

      ❤️ California is awesome! 😎 keep believing the news 😂 non-thinking people should stay away and hide under their beds in the country; the news has created gullible doom & gloom nail-biters, meanwhile we are living in the greatest era to be alive in all of human history. Dont believe the news & Enjoy everyday dudes ☀️🏝️😊

  • @ralphs400
    @ralphs400 8 місяців тому +26

    Whats to starta house cleaning business. Cant keep her tent clean cuz shes busy relaxing

    • @billedifier8584
      @billedifier8584 8 місяців тому +9

      She's living the dream, thinking like an 8 year old!

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому +7

      and wonders why they don't have a job.

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому

      Clearly that couple were well-fed. Does she realize that cleaning houses requires WORK! I would love to know where those two are now. Probably collecting disability checks for being obese.

    • @RM-cb8vc
      @RM-cb8vc Місяць тому

      😂

  • @goGDOGod
    @goGDOGod 8 місяців тому +19

    This video was uploaded 3 days ago and the clips they are showing us are from 2009? 20:58

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 8 місяців тому +2

      Probably how long it takes to freely release a documentary without getting struck down.

  • @alanpecherer5705
    @alanpecherer5705 3 місяці тому +3

    I lived in LA and worked in the TV/film industry about 1985-2000. Those were spectacular years, best years of my life. That time will never come again. Part was being young, part was the money that was freed up and better economic mood of the 80's after the glunky 70's. There was so much going on, and there was absolutely no shortage of money to get whatever cockamamie project done. EVERYBODY made money. There were good projects, there were crap projects, but everybody was busy as a bee. Very sad to see it decay, but it's been decaying for 20 years. I definitely didn't appreciate how good I had it.

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird 3 місяці тому

      I'm going to disagree here.
      I met a Korean American guy over a decade ago at a ballpark. After getting to know each other, I learned that he lived in South Central LA back in the early 1990s. At that time, violent crime was really bad. Young people were murdered on the streets, partially due to the gangs in Los Angeles. He witnessed the LA Riots in April - May of 1992 which left around a billion dollars worth of damage and dozens of people killed.
      I've been to LA several times and some portions of it back in the 90's was great. You obviously worked in Hollywood back then so you were pretty much living the good life. I know that the entertainment then was better.
      And let's just say that Seinfeld, Frazier, Family Matters, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, all great shows that were filmed in Hollywood, could never be done today.

    • @alanpecherer5705
      @alanpecherer5705 3 місяці тому

      @@KratostheThird So what are you disagreeing with?

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird 3 місяці тому

      @@alanpecherer5705 That it was all great. I visited the Hollywood Walk of Fame and other iconic features in Hollywood. Had a friend who worked on cameras and lightning equipment. Today he doesn’t dare go anywhere near Hollywood anymore.
      It’s very depressing, but the politicians took what was good and ruined it.

    • @alanpecherer5705
      @alanpecherer5705 3 місяці тому

      @@KratostheThird I don't think we are disagreeing. No place is perfect. But I was fondly recalling the place (and time) as dripping with opportunity for the greatest number of people I've ever seen. I knew guys with zero TV background who wandered into film shoots, volunteered to shlep lights or cables and a year later had steady union jobs in lighting or electrical. 3 years later they were lighting directors making $150K++ I had 2 spectacular businesses in tech, very profitable, start 'em up and making money in days. Yes, South central LA was a pit and plenty of LA was and is a depressing post industrial dystopia. A lot left over from WW2. The difference between then and now is that ALL of LA is a pit.

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird 3 місяці тому

      @@alanpecherer5705 It's all about being noticed. Getting phone calls from producers and other people behind the scenes was also how many got their start in show business.
      The last movie I watched from Hollywood was Top Gun Maverick, mostly because it was Tom Cruise and it was part of an old movie franchise I enjoyed. But as far as most everything else, no thank you. It's garbage, and the constant lecturing from modern films and shows is also a big turn off.
      Every inch of LA is a pit. I also heard they're taking old buildings and replacing them with modern brutality style slop. Homes have also been reworked to be more cheap and superficial.

  • @desdicadoric
    @desdicadoric 8 місяців тому +13

    This was 15 years ago and it’s got much much worse since then

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому +1

      And in 15 years it will be even worse, as the US' decline is rapid, just as China is rising.
      Get away while there is still time, there is no future in the USA.

  • @patrickmunneke8348
    @patrickmunneke8348 8 місяців тому +77

    The American dream died decades ago.

    • @tlakins
      @tlakins 8 місяців тому +7

      Only in Blue States and Big Blue Cities.

    •  8 місяців тому +6

      @@tlakins OK then move to the conservative South the poorest area in the country. 71% of GDP in America is in blue counties due to progressive policies. 7 of the top dependent states are red states. Blue states are subsidizing red states because of red policies. California BTW is the 4th largest economy in the WORLD recently replacing Germany which has TWICE the population of California. California is truly incredible & no state comes even close.

    • @Snake-ms7sj
      @Snake-ms7sj 8 місяців тому +5

      Started dying in 2008. All planned.

    •  8 місяців тому +2

      @@Snake-ms7sj Not really. California had a rebirth under Democrats Brown & Newsom leapfrogging from 9th largest economy in the world to 4th under awesome Newsom.

    • @TheSakufighter
      @TheSakufighter 8 місяців тому

      Our constitution has been slowly eroded

  • @martinhristov8250
    @martinhristov8250 8 місяців тому +19

    Oh man the newspaper at 13:01 shows year 2009, damn 15 years ago.

  • @GuyMontag-n6g
    @GuyMontag-n6g 8 місяців тому +55

    Look at the behavior of these people. Vanity, gluttony, and sloth are killing us.

    • @narfle
      @narfle 8 місяців тому +5

      You american could fix it. By electing the most vain, gluttonous and slothful person on the planet for president.

    • @danielcraft3727
      @danielcraft3727 8 місяців тому

      The love and worship of money power authority and Disney Hollywood fantasyland action Hero's, Prince's Princesses, etcetera. America can't handle the truth and reality and escapism has become a psychotic delusional drug for the masses.

    • @mustbtrouble
      @mustbtrouble 8 місяців тому

      U mean capitalism?

    • @angru_arches
      @angru_arches 8 місяців тому

      @@mustbtrouble socialism... everybody wants handouts, capitalists don't spend money they don't have, but thieving socialists do.

    • @jonathanandrew2909
      @jonathanandrew2909 8 місяців тому +4

      @@mustbtroublestudent living in the camper literally keeps his underwear in the oven instead of changing the propane tank. That’s not a fault of capitalism.

  • @thailandmalcolm
    @thailandmalcolm 28 днів тому +1

    I live in Thailand. I live in an older condo in Pattaya (a 5-minute scooter ride to the beach). It is all concrete, so the rooms are quiet (I have a video of the condo). I am on the ninth floor, so the sunsets are great, and I do not have much trouble with mosquitoes or road noise. We have a large pool with a slide. There is a restaurant by the pool; most meals are 3-7 dollars. My rent is $207/month. I have a new wall unit A/C, that I run 24/7 and my electric bill is $30/month. My room is 270 square feet or 30 square meters. It has plenty of room for a single guy. I have no plans to move back to the States.

  • @Baasicstuff
    @Baasicstuff 7 місяців тому +8

    Homeless...i was homeless once; dont do drugs kids, and you will not be homeless.

    • @Duck-d7p
      @Duck-d7p 7 місяців тому +3

      Not true but still dont do drugs

    • @Dakid015
      @Dakid015 7 місяців тому

      Don't make bad decisions

  • @Rickey703
    @Rickey703 8 місяців тому +26

    Bad things can happen to good people. Stay resilient! God bless you.

    • @Goodwillwinoverevil1984
      @Goodwillwinoverevil1984 8 місяців тому +1

      Very hard to do at times..

    • @joepass1883
      @joepass1883 7 місяців тому +2

      Blinders

    • @Daniel-xp8ct
      @Daniel-xp8ct Місяць тому

      There is no point in having hope living in the USA, this is a country with no future, a decadent empire, long ago defeated by China.
      Anyone who wants to have a better future needs to immigrate. And do this as soon as possible, while the dollar is still worth something, because it is a currency that tends to melt in the future.

  • @williamwilson6499
    @williamwilson6499 8 місяців тому +9

    14:18 This is what you can expect from “living in faith”. Give up your imaginary friends and face life like an adult.
    The only people making money with faith are the ones exploiting the gullible.

    • @Matthew_Loutner
      @Matthew_Loutner 8 місяців тому

      I have to disagree. Living by faith has always worked for me and by faith, I am off of the streets and into my own house and car and they are both paid for.
      The difficult times were just that: difficult. By faith in God won out in the end.

  • @andreabontempo643
    @andreabontempo643 8 місяців тому +18

    Wow this was in 2009? I left California two years ago. It's a horrible state now. I can't believe people still want to live there. It's not the same. It's very sad.

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому +1

      Yet they want to blame Arnold, what a friggin joke LOL

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому +3

      @@colorocko1 -- Newsom is the absolute worst thing that ever happened to California.

    • @harlanjackson6112
      @harlanjackson6112 7 місяців тому

      Depends on the area, Andrea. Most of CA is way better than the outskirts of Visalia down by the river. Sorry if your old neighborhood sucked.

  • @rohanrayakar2257
    @rohanrayakar2257 7 місяців тому +2

    When was the documentary made, it looks at least 10 to 15 years old in terms of timeline?

  • @richardbird9326
    @richardbird9326 3 місяці тому +2

    I lived in San Diego 57 years. Left 13 years ago, I could see the storm coming. 2 terms of Jerry Brown and now Newsom ! Are the people of California really that ignorant ? I used to feel sorry, but not anymore !!

  • @reinhardt2002
    @reinhardt2002 8 місяців тому +35

    While all this was happening, Wall Street smiled at Uncle Sam's $1 trillion check
    Congratulations

    • @DeepVerma728
      @DeepVerma728 8 місяців тому +8

      Yup! 9 trillion up and vanished out of the U.S Treasury in 2008.

    • @jonathanandrew2909
      @jonathanandrew2909 8 місяців тому +2

      I thought it was a $trillion coin. As if that magically changes anything.

    • @DMWBN3
      @DMWBN3 7 місяців тому +1

      Isn't there a figure around 3 trillion they've been unable to account for?

    • @reinhardt2002
      @reinhardt2002 7 місяців тому

      @@DMWBN3 In the Inside Jobs documentary they state that 1 trillion was just the initial amount.
      I didn't know that 'minimum state' neoliberalism worked like this.

  • @UncleBuZ
    @UncleBuZ 8 місяців тому +23

    The "American Dream," eh? More like a Hollywood B-movie where the plot's lost its way among Los Angeles' tent cities and glittering facades. Sold as a ticket to anyone with the guts to dream, it's ironically become a VIP pass for the few, while the rest face the cutting room floor of systemic barriers and economic jokes.

    • @hakujin1
      @hakujin1 8 місяців тому +3

      If the few are millions, sure. cry harder?

    • @UncleBuZ
      @UncleBuZ 8 місяців тому +9

      Ah, the classic 'millions have made it, so what’s your problem?' argument. It's a bit like saying, 'Because a few people win the lottery, we all have equal chances of wealth.' Sure, millions might grasp a corner of the dream, but when the game is rigged with uneven opportunities, systemic barriers, and a playing field that’s anything but level, it's less about crying harder and more about questioning the fairness of the game. Success shouldn't be as rare as a winning lottery ticket or as exclusive as a VIP pass in a world where the promise was opportunity for all, not just a golden ticket for the lucky few. Can you summon a rebuttal with a tad more sophistication than a novice gamer in a tutorial level?

    • @blackhat5434
      @blackhat5434 8 місяців тому +2

      @@hakujin1 Actually, he's captured the essence perfectly.

    • @P.u.p.p.e.t.M.a.s.t.e.r
      @P.u.p.p.e.t.M.a.s.t.e.r 8 місяців тому +4

      @@hakujin1 Systemic barriers and economic inequalities limit access to opportunities, it's a well established fact with empirical data. Maybe, grow up?

    • @blackhat5434
      @blackhat5434 8 місяців тому +4

      @@hakujin1 Statistics on income inequality, limited access to quality education and healthcare, disparities in housing affordability, and unequal opportunities for socioeconomic advancement based on factors such as race, gender, and socioeconomic background. Additionally, studies on social mobility demonstrate that while upward mobility is possible for some, it is increasingly difficult for others, indicating systemic obstacles to achieving the American Dream for many individuals and communities. What's your eexcuse for not knowing this basic info? You're American right? Most Americans are undereducated.

  • @danielgc1970
    @danielgc1970 8 місяців тому +5

    23:50 Fiscal responsibility isn't radical. The spending is radically out of touch.

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 7 місяців тому +10

    This doc is good for reference as it is an old one but, has value as a reference backward

  • @ICO10FREE
    @ICO10FREE 4 місяці тому +1

    Arnold foi governador de 2004 a 2011, portando, essa crise na Califórnia foi a 13 anos..e hj em 2024...com o governo atual o q mudou ou melhorou? Seria interessante fazer uma nova pesquisa agora p sabermos o q foi feito depois disso...

  • @materiasjuridicas
    @materiasjuridicas 8 місяців тому +21

    Qué pena que presenten un video tan antiguo, hacen referencia al 2009, 15 años atrás, citan al gobernador Arnold Schwarzenegger y su periodo hace ratos terminó… No niego que la realidad no sea la misma en algunos puntos, me gustaría que hicieran un video con datos de actualidad 2024. Creo que es reciclado su video, realista si pero con datos, videos e información antigua.

    • @PistolArrow76
      @PistolArrow76 8 місяців тому +3

      Siiii no entiendo porque hicieron upload este video Lol es de 2010 ahora está más peor

    • @mattwood3773
      @mattwood3773 8 місяців тому +2

      The channel is called best documentary not newest documentary.

    • @altapedroza3604
      @altapedroza3604 4 місяці тому

      2024 y la situacion es peor. 😔

  • @nordwest23
    @nordwest23 8 місяців тому +28

    I do live here in north western Commieifornia And lived in California For most of my 62 years and I must say this is a very good documentary And now in 2024It is shockingly worse

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому +1

      Yep, 2009 was the good old days.

  • @shefaliohara3103
    @shefaliohara3103 8 місяців тому +10

    I was so upset that the group camped by the river were forced to leave. They were a community, they lived in harmony despite their poverty, and they were not causing problems for anyone. WTH was wrong with the sheriff???

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому

      The demorat government with their environmental rules kicked them out. The can't have people pooping in the river. The sheiff does what your government tells them to do.

    • @breakfast00club..11
      @breakfast00club..11 7 місяців тому +1

      We have tens of thousands of homeless black men in San Diego thousands..as a black women is is a lesbian I am ashamed of this ..
      Help the black man please give free housing free food free money
      Biden said he would he knows we have it 10 times harder it's not the black man's fault..please please give to us not Ukraine

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 7 місяців тому

      @@breakfast00club..11 just blacks, what about the other colors?

    • @TVluver2
      @TVluver2 2 місяці тому

      @@breakfast00club..11 I don't think any one color person should be targeted for help. Help should be available to anyone who needs it AND is willing to work for it. Free housing, free food, and free money is just a temporary fix and should come coupled with mandatory educational and job oportunities to help people in need become self-sufficient. Simple handouts help no one in the long-term and just create individuals reliant on the handouts.

  • @Maximusdecimus649
    @Maximusdecimus649 5 місяців тому +1

    I love to watch old documentary, it’s like a time machine

  • @davidtrimm3823
    @davidtrimm3823 3 місяці тому +2

    People grow up today with no goals or initiatives to make their lives better. Everyone expects the government to support them. US society is in free fall. Glad I’m 70

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird 3 місяці тому

      I'm almost 40, and my teen years I will always look back on with fondness. For kids today? They are going to be hit with hard times.

  • @thesnapper84
    @thesnapper84 8 місяців тому +26

    Arnold was the Governor from 2003-2011, this is hella old. And why only show inner city LA primarily? California is massive

    • @silveriver9
      @silveriver9 8 місяців тому +4

      Same applies today. Only worse.

    • @swallowedinthesea11
      @swallowedinthesea11 8 місяців тому +2

      This is from 2024 because it was uploaded today!

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 8 місяців тому

      @@swallowedinthesea112010.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому

      There's a reason Newsom calls California a "nation-state" which always makes me smile.

    • @Juju-l3o
      @Juju-l3o 7 місяців тому

      Good actor, terrible governor.

  • @kimchimaek
    @kimchimaek 8 місяців тому +35

    Welcome to the precursor to the dystopian future we watched and were warned of in fiction.

    • @vanman757
      @vanman757 7 місяців тому +1

      This was filmed in 2009, aswel ?!

  • @kingkong81icloud
    @kingkong81icloud 8 місяців тому +54

    Screw your freedom, remember that ?

    • @Arnoud-nf6iz
      @Arnoud-nf6iz 8 місяців тому +12

      schwarzenegger said it yes

    • @highbrass3749
      @highbrass3749 8 місяців тому

      Covid really exposed many people.

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 8 місяців тому

      Yeah he seems to not really get Make America Great Again. Also many morons don't get that MAGA also means America First. Not engaging in Nation Building, Endless Wars, and all that Neocon One World Gov, New World Order agendas that the Dems so easily bought into now. Things have totally flipped. They are the military industrial complex's puppets now and see that going full marxists is a faster way to get people to give up Freedom for Safety to the point they have no power and turn to full debtor slaves.

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому

      @@Arnoud-nf6iz and newscum said you wear a mask or else go to jail

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird 3 місяці тому

      @@Wolfsheim23 People who were left leaning or Democrats used to be "live and let live". That was the 90's.

  • @Ronaldo-r4l
    @Ronaldo-r4l Місяць тому +5

    THIS DOCUMENTARY WAS IN 2009

  • @flyers1004
    @flyers1004 6 місяців тому +2

    Во всём мире происходит одно и то же. Цены растут всё быстрее, зарплаты всё медленнее. А иногда зарплаты снижаются. Это как удавка на шее всех людей, которая затягивается всё сильнее

  • @mlecarre2057
    @mlecarre2057 8 місяців тому +23

    A lot of people walking around thinking their owed something just because their here….

  • @oleeshanorris5343
    @oleeshanorris5343 8 місяців тому +27

    Without expendable income the whole system collapses.

    • @harryknutts8428
      @harryknutts8428 8 місяців тому +4

      the lizard kings take over

    • @aquelpibe
      @aquelpibe 8 місяців тому +3

      Maybe the absurd, indecent concentration of wealth has something to do with that. Too many people living paycheck-to-paycheck and a few with far, far more than they need or can possibly spend.

    • @billedifier8584
      @billedifier8584 8 місяців тому +1

      @@harryknutts8428 Surely you don't imagine that they ever lost control?

    • @billedifier8584
      @billedifier8584 8 місяців тому +1

      @@aquelpibe That's the way money works! Spend all of your income without saving at least 10% for the future and you will always live paycheck to paycheck.

    • @aquelpibe
      @aquelpibe 8 місяців тому

      @@billedifier8584 It´s easier to save when you are earning decent money. When everything goes to the bare necessities it´s not that easy.

  • @markzucker3949
    @markzucker3949 8 місяців тому +14

    I'm a bike mechanic and builder. From Berkeley CA... Back in 09, people woukd buy them within 60 days, often the same day I posted the add... Now it takes 6 months to 2 years... And the harassment from people who make appointments but don't show up has also maxed out to 90%>>>> usually the buyers drive 50+ miles to get the bike, and the locals are riding Uber, or renting e-bikes whioe getting fat, losing all muscle, and mysteriously growing shorter after high school

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 8 місяців тому +3

      Yeah every angle is worse in Cali now. Retail is all leaving. Turning former flourishing areas into Ghettos. It's sickening. How does a city keep falling for so long.. without waking up and doing something? People there are so conflicted with everyone wanting THEIR ideas given attention too, but nobody does anything. Just arguing and frustration. No Leadership. Just Talk.

    • @PP-wz7mp
      @PP-wz7mp 8 місяців тому +3

      Well, change your profession.

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому

      @@Wolfsheim23 -- It's part of the UN Agenda 21 plan.

    • @breakfast00club..11
      @breakfast00club..11 7 місяців тому

      thousands..as a black woman who is a lesbian I am ashamed of this ..
      Help the black man please give free housing free food free money
      Biden said he would he knows we have it 10 times harder it's not the black man's fault..please please give to us not Ukraine

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 7 місяців тому +1

      @@breakfast00club..11 That has to be a joke response. Badly done.

  • @caleblawrenceriainc
    @caleblawrenceriainc 8 місяців тому

    The date on the newspaper at 13:02 is November 10, 2009.

  • @yasdnilknarf1885
    @yasdnilknarf1885 6 місяців тому +6

    And 14 years (2024) later things are a lot worse. Go Dems!

  • @luckyguy600
    @luckyguy600 8 місяців тому +11

    And that was like back in 09?
    Therefore you can see why things in 2024 are 'so messed up'
    Wow.

  • @ianmckenzie7255
    @ianmckenzie7255 8 місяців тому +17

    The struggle of living anywhere in North America coupled with the empty promise of ever-better quality of life while all evidence shows it's only declining--it's not worth it. Today I happily bought my fruits and vegetables for the entire week at the local market for the second week in a row. Cheers from France

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 місяців тому +1

      Uhm, here in California it's pretty easy to shop at local farmers' markets. Plus I have places I get them for free lol - veggie suppliers for restaurants etc toss 'em all the time and often just fine. Now what to do with this 5-lb bag of cilantro... That being said, France is awesome

    • @ianmckenzie7255
      @ianmckenzie7255 8 місяців тому +1

      @@alexcarter8807 That's really good to hear! Unfortunately, I imagine California (I've been once when I was little), like the rest of the U.S., is limited in transportation--so getting to the farmer's market depends on your vehicle situation and of course your working schedule. There's a culture of anti-waste here so, rather than destroying food at the end of the day, supermarkets and bakeries generally donate what they haven't been able to sell. As an American, I think we all want the best for our home country, but my idea of what's best for me just seems to fit better here than what I see happening in the US. That said, I would love to see a progression toward truly socialised healthcare, guaranteed retirement and rights to food and housing, but it seems like a distant reality if ever...

    • @NorceCodine
      @NorceCodine 8 місяців тому

      How's life in France? Are you living in the country or in a bigger town? Planning to move myself this year.

    • @happydays1336
      @happydays1336 8 місяців тому +1

      If Europe doesn't do something about it you'll be speaking in Russian as you buy nice vegetables and fruit in France.

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому

      France brought their ill ways to the US. I rest my case with that fruit and veg comment wtf? lol

  • @atrociousliar3314
    @atrociousliar3314 8 місяців тому +9

    What was the line in that song?
    'Land of the free,
    and the home of the slave.
    Richest nation in the world here. Although only 2% own most of it. If you work and study and work and study and work some more, you too can help make the 2% richer.
    When you say 'America first' WTF do you mean?

    • @narfle
      @narfle 8 місяців тому

      Not the richest in the world per capita, not even close. The problem is how you arrange your money/taxes. If you want to be truly offended, take a look at other nations (yes this planet has other nations) with comparable GDP per capita. They tend to rule the charts of "happiest nations", "nations with lowest corruption" and "nations with greatest upwards social mobility" (aka the "american" dream). You idiots have just been swallowed by extreme amounts of hate towards your fellow citizens, to the point where you literally legalized political bribery. Your problem is your culture across the ENTIRE nation.

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому

      why don't you leave and try another country, say China or Venezuela? Of course you won't, you are of the infected class. Blame everyone but yourself.

  • @projectcontractors
    @projectcontractors 4 місяці тому +2

    "We took paradise and turned it into hell. It was very hard to destroy California, it's got huge amounts of timber minerals, oil, natural gas. So it was very hard to destroy that inheritance but we did. We have the highest gasoline process in the United States. We have almost half of the nation's homeless people. We have one-third of the nation welfare recipients. We have the highest income tax, it's sad." ~Victor Davis Hanson

  • @MesinJalan
    @MesinJalan 8 місяців тому +3

    The whole world now has its eyes wide open to what the American government and its allies are doing

  • @elin_
    @elin_ 8 місяців тому +11

    Even though we don't have problems with homelessness in my country since we have a welfare system.. the difference between rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger. Prices have gone up a lot and its hard to make the money go around if you have a low income. It feels like the hope for the future of the world as a whole is getting bleak.

    • @riskyron1416
      @riskyron1416 7 місяців тому

      Country I live in has a Poverty Rate of 0.9%. With just over 5 Million People that amounts to about 5,000 People. And practically all are Indigenous Natives living outside society as hunter gatherers.
      Also our Tax Rate is 11 to 13%. After abolishing thew military in 1948 more was available for health care and education. Big bonus is no one has died or been injured in war in 76 years and the country has no enemies.

    • @elin_
      @elin_ 7 місяців тому

      @@riskyron1416 Costa Rica?

    • @riskyron1416
      @riskyron1416 7 місяців тому

      @@elin_ Yes, but I will not be disclosing the location. I am the only foreigner within 45 Kilometers and intend to keep it that way. I highly advise others to do the same. Where most Americans live in Costa Rica rents will be 6 or more times more as it will be Americans you will be renting from.

    • @elin_
      @elin_ 7 місяців тому

      @@riskyron1416 lol it's alright, I just asked because you said that there is no military.

    • @riskyron1416
      @riskyron1416 7 місяців тому +2

      @@elin_ Correct. The Military was abolished in 1948. And NO Costa Rica does not receive US protection. We do have assistance on the Rio Agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Mexico. The last thing wanted would be protection from a nuclear power.. Worked very well the last 76 years, no one has died or been injured from war and no enemies awaiting. Plus there is more spent now on Health Care and Education.

  • @MrSouthOfFrance
    @MrSouthOfFrance 8 місяців тому +8

    what year is this?

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 8 місяців тому

      Look it up. I did…took about two minutes.

    • @PowerstrokeSynd
      @PowerstrokeSynd 8 місяців тому +7

      @williamwilson6499 You took the time to comment on all these messages, but couldn't just answer the question? Smh

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 8 місяців тому

      @@PowerstrokeSynd Correct..it’s your mom’s job to hold your hand. I expect you to grow up and stand on your own two feet.

    • @PowerstrokeSynd
      @PowerstrokeSynd 8 місяців тому

      @williamwilson6499 Now, my Mom is involved in this? You are the one who needs to grow up. Wtf is the matter with you?

    • @tracielliott5386
      @tracielliott5386 8 місяців тому +3

      I think 2008 or 2009. People don't really read newspapers anymore, and Arnold was the governor.

  • @riskyron1416
    @riskyron1416 8 місяців тому +7

    Like it was over 30 years ago. And things have worsened greatly.

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird 3 місяці тому

      California was actually better in 1994. Sad to see so much has gotten worse.

  • @Whatt787
    @Whatt787 6 місяців тому +3

    Sad that Newsom is so incompetent as Governor, California deserves better

  • @martinhanley9524
    @martinhanley9524 7 місяців тому +1

    How old is this documentary?

    • @Stovepipe274
      @Stovepipe274 7 місяців тому

      2009..and it's only gotten much worse.

  • @byrdie47
    @byrdie47 8 місяців тому +4

    and here we are 20 years after this was filmed and the California dream is still alive and well.

  • @m42037
    @m42037 8 місяців тому +5

    Nothing is forever brother, our lives are short. It's a shame guy's like Johnny Depp can't help you with your wearhouse

  • @Dreadz530
    @Dreadz530 8 місяців тому +5

    23:00 property taxes arent just paid when you buy and sell. IN california we have to pay at least 1 dollar per 10 square feet .
    if you have 300k house your yearly tax is going to be at least 3000.
    You can completely buy your house in cash and then if you dont pay property taxes for 7 years they file and gain the "right to sale" and they will literally list your property up for auction starting at what you owe so someone could end up with your 300 grand house for whatever the bidding ended at and they start it right at what you owe not what the property is so if you owed 20 grand on 300 grand house they could sell the house in auction for 21 grand and you would have to file for any extra money meaning you would get 1000 dollars after you just had a fully paid off 300 grand property. they still make their money and they will make sure they get it by having auctions like that where people can make huge returns.
    Owning a house in America isnt owning, is just Glorified Renting. Wanna build something? gotta go to county and get it approved and pay all their permit fees to build on your own land and if you dont get them they can show up and shut down building or they can force you to tear the building down and everyday you dont its an amount daily that will make you tear it down not say screw it ill pay it i dont care. This is northern California so im sure the taxes and everything are even higher the more south you go im 8 hours north of LA. then each county can impose its individually created taxes/laws where its legal by the state but not the county and the county has more say then the state. it goes from weakest to strongest: federal, state, county, then city.
    just like with cannabis. the state passed it but many cities to this day will no allow you to grow in your home or backyard and will not give out licenses for the stores theres plenty of cities still to this day in california you cant grow or go to a store for hours away in some places its stupid thats ecen more tax money that could be "filling the coffers" of the county and the state a lot more. they just made it for big corps and money doesnt produce medical cannabis, all the growers whos been fighting 20 years and risking our asses are they ones who should get the license

    • @NorceCodine
      @NorceCodine 8 місяців тому

      In Texas the property tax on a $500K house is about $20K. Just that you know.

    • @richardmorris7063
      @richardmorris7063 8 місяців тому

      Florida,300,000$ 3 br 2 BA house taxes 1500$

  • @007CCIM
    @007CCIM 7 місяців тому

    Incredible for me to see Harvey 40 years later. Fantastic and wishing you all the best! You taught me so much.

  • @joepass1883
    @joepass1883 7 місяців тому

    Good on the producers for not mentioning California politicians at all . Keep the messaging up

  • @VladimirMiroshnichenko-i2m
    @VladimirMiroshnichenko-i2m 8 місяців тому +12

    В каждой стране есть свои проблемы и это их внутренние проблемы которые должны решать граждане этих государств, а вы хотите решить? Надо решать проблемы своего государства, а не искатть пылинку в чужом глазу.

    • @breadfan9
      @breadfan9 8 місяців тому

      انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 4 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ بَاقَيَ عَلَيَنَا ''' اخيبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب ||| ماتستطيع مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواتي سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك ال°°••..°°••..°°••..°°••..°°••..°°••..°°

    • @geforce380XXL
      @geforce380XXL 6 місяців тому

      К сожалению эволюция и естественный отбор прочно укоренил в нас инстинкт соперничества. Это когда одному человеку поднимает настроение неудачи других и у него появляется иллюзия, что не всё так плохо, можно ничего не менять и прозябать дальше.

  • @davidjanson7982
    @davidjanson7982 8 місяців тому +14

    Democratic stronghold killed it

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому +2

      Thank you! you are so correct! FJB

    • @iamgabriel5823
      @iamgabriel5823 7 місяців тому

      30 years of corrupt elections killed it.

    • @markmaloney8154
      @markmaloney8154 Місяць тому

      Greedy men caused this!...

  • @rickeycook7940
    @rickeycook7940 8 місяців тому +11

    One party promised the people of California their version of paradise (meaning anything goes), and the same people vote for that party,time and time again,so you give people what they want!

    • @amandahugenkiss
      @amandahugenkiss 8 місяців тому

      If California was it's own country, it would be one of the richest in the entire world. Don't believe this propaganda from 2006. It's still the land of mansions and movie starts.

    • @hakujin1
      @hakujin1 8 місяців тому +2

      Ohhhh I get it. That's why dumpy, red inland CA stays the same.

    • @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO
      @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 6 місяців тому

      @@hakujin1 - Rational Conservative Politics, Basic Economics, Sound Morals and Patriotism, are what built California and made it the greatest State in the World.

  • @theslaughterdjdistortion5155
    @theslaughterdjdistortion5155 5 місяців тому +3

    Still on point for today, it isnt a crisis, its capitalism.

  • @elisannemulheim1427
    @elisannemulheim1427 5 місяців тому

    In which year was this documentary filmed?

  • @timothyschule3831
    @timothyschule3831 8 місяців тому +12

    Things are a bit more expensive but still grateful to live here.

  • @karlnapp7564
    @karlnapp7564 8 місяців тому +8

    This is from 2010.
    The $hit got 100 times worse.

  • @MarcosMunguia-jd2xw
    @MarcosMunguia-jd2xw 8 місяців тому +3

    🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 TRUMP MAGA 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 ONLY PATRIOTS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 WE NEED TO VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS BUT NO RHINOS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @putler965
      @putler965 8 місяців тому

      Voting for Trump isn't patriotic and Trump isn't a patriot.

  • @TVluver2
    @TVluver2 2 місяці тому

    I've lived in California all of my adult life and most of my childhood. Really, not much has changed here in the past 50 years. California has always been a more expensive state to live in, but wages have always been higher here than in most places and opportunities plentiful for those who take advantage of them. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else! These stories that pop up every decade or so about California's imminent demise have been greatly exaggerated! This video was produced in 2009, and here it is 15 years later and we're still standing. Californians have had good times and bad times in that 15 years, just like the rest of the country. And just like the rest of the country, California will continue to survive and thrive.

  • @elijahwilson1422
    @elijahwilson1422 7 місяців тому +1

    Back in the 1980s when I was a kid tv shows and movies made California seem like the most awesome place in the World. But as I became an adult I kept actually meeting people from there and a great deal of the time they acted extremely stuck up and would talk down on where(Missouri) I am native to. Now we know the truth and see which place us better off and which worse off

  • @DavePocklington
    @DavePocklington 8 місяців тому +4

    This must be old. A house for $500 000 in LA. There would be 20 000 people trying to buy it in that area. The average house price in 2024 is $954 000. The Blackberry phone kind of dates it. "What's one of those? I bet a lot would be asking.

  • @janetjacoby9507
    @janetjacoby9507 8 місяців тому +4

    Greed has fueled the spiral down.

  • @narfle
    @narfle 8 місяців тому +4

    If only USA were not the only nation on the planet and there were other nations they could look to, who had way lower rates of recidivism. Its such a shame that USA is the only nation on the planet and there are no other nations that USA could possibly learn from.
    Oh well.

    • @colorocko1
      @colorocko1 8 місяців тому

      what?

    • @Matthew_Loutner
      @Matthew_Loutner 8 місяців тому

      Learn what?
      We are not exactly dumb, you know:
      The facts are . . that the Americans created your whole life:
      Every minute of every day of your life an American invention is giving YOU a better life. So let us look at some American inventions that YOU could not live without:
      Lightbulbs
      Aluminum foil
      Frozen Food
      High Process Food Canning
      Can Openers
      Microwave Dinners
      Peanut Butter
      Breakfast cereals
      Fluoridated water that prevents cavities
      Durable Vehicle tires
      Electric starters for cars
      Generators to charge car batteries
      Airplanes
      The Modern Jet Engine
      Electric well pumps that bring water to your house
      Electric power generating stations
      The whole electrical grid
      Every fan or blower in your heating system
      Your air conditioner
      Your refrigerator
      Your microwave oven
      Automatic Clothes washing machine
      Radios
      Television
      Satellite telecommunications
      GPS
      Fiber optic cables
      Lasers
      Sound and music recording
      Industrial computers
      Desktop computers
      Laptop computers
      Cell phones
      Smart phones
      Smart watches
      Videos
      The internet
      Anything with a transistor or microchip
      The factory assembly line
      Cotton Gin
      Various Farming Equipment
      Metal-hulled Ships
      Petroleum refining into gas and diesel
      Petroleum refining into plastics
      Polyester and Nylon
      Nuclear power
      Solar panels for green energy transition
      and . . .
      Soft Drinks (Have a Coke. 🧋)
      Then there are business models invented by Americans:
      McDonald’s
      Burger King
      Kentucky Fried Chicken
      Starbucks
      Circle K
      Tesla
      Walmart.….
      It was ALL invented in America.
      And if you live in a constitutional republic, the Americans invented your entire political system.
      An American farm yields up to 30,000 pounds of potatoes per acre.
      And this is just a tiny mention of how Americans have improved your life. The fact is that Americans are so ingenious that the United States patent office has over 3 million American patents on file (in a country only 247 years old).
      The Americans are the smartest, most creative, most industrious people in the world who created the entire modern world.
      Without the United States of America YOU would be living in a cave, stone building, or wood hut with a thatched roof, carrying your water from a stream in a bucket with half of your teeth missing and cooking and heating over a campfire using wood that YOU PERSONALLY went out and gathered from a forest. And you would be using the bathroom outdoors and washing your clothes in a stream.
      Your connection to the outside world would be extremely limited and depending on your specific situation, you may not even know what is happening beyond your own village -- let alone around the world. 🌎
      My advice is that before you "laugh" at any American, first try going without American invented lightbulbs 💡 for 24 hours and learn how American 🇺🇸 ingenuity has helped YOU see 👀 in the dark.

  • @redonebeatbox
    @redonebeatbox 5 місяців тому +1

    As an Eastern European, I was born and raised with the mindset that everyone (more or less) has to OWN a place to live, so homelessness is not a real issue here. Someone care to explain why it is the total opposite in the US, everybody living on a rent etc? There should be some serious reasoning behind this, since it's been the norm for decades, I just have no idea why 🤔

  • @kurtdowney1489
    @kurtdowney1489 4 місяці тому +1

    Oh the irony of Dondi not understanding how taking away a program doesn't relate to him taking a life that got him in prison in the first place is a prime example of the need for the death penalty.