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
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.
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?
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 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’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.
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 .
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. 😢
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).
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.👍🇺🇸♥️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🙌🏼🙏🏾🙏🏽🙌🏽
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
My grandparents are buried in a country church cemetery yard. The church is still active with the small community. The cemetery includes people whose children moved to the big city after the 2nd WW. Farming had become more efficient, then bigger and bigger with fewer hands needed. The nearby big city, meanwhile, grows ever outward.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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🙏
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.
Keep it up you wankers you fat headed corporate idiots keep pimping America out to overseas keep selling by Changed by chink by chunk and eventually they won't be anything here to spend that extra money on and then people will start figuring out who's screwing them and they'll follow the money back to your door
Good grief the city can't even afford to do a clean up or fix the water main leaking for years. Hope people aren't drinking the water. These cities will NEVER be back...NEVER
What a fascinating retrospective! What is sad about these once-great towns and cities is that, at some level, the decision-makers knew full well what would be the consequences of their decisions. And yet, here we are today with the decay and destruction. Thank you for another compelling look at parts of our great country that many of us would not have the chance to see.
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¢.
It's funny how they blame "The Man" for the way there cities have been destroyed but I don't know of any rich people that went there and unloaded tires from the trunk of there Cadillac or Lincoln and threw them in the street. Who broke out all the windows in them factories and homes. They did.
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
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
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 😂
America is a continent.
@@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?
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
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.
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’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
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 .
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
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.
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”
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. 🐈⬛
Probably the saddest vid yet😢. Thanks for sharing Nick
YES ALL THOSE REPUBLICAN LEAD STATES
Small town America has been dying over the last 50 years
Same with Canada .
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.
Let’s go Nick! Happy belated Thanksgiving! Hope you and family had an awesome one 🇺🇸
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?
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
All the homeless out there and we have houses rotting away. The irony is strong with this one.
Nick,
Your great services are greatly needed in Western NC. The world needs to see whats really going on there.
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.
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 ❤
Unfortunately, these scenes are repeated all over the USA.
Trump can't fix the USA. NOBODY CAN.
THIS IS SO Sad.
These are some of the nicest places to film that T.V. Show The Walking Dead. Very Ominous.
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?
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
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.
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.👍🇺🇸♥️
I'm 66 years old and the America i knew is gone. Gutted. What's next?
War!
The Great Awakening happening right now.
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.
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.
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.
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
All that’s missing is the zombies & you’d have The Walking Dead
We've been following you for years and love the latest videos. Fantastic work.
Ok cool Matt!
Happy Thanksgiving to all yall.
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.
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! ❤️
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
🙌🏼🙏🏾🙏🏽🙌🏽
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.
You do good work documenting history with a video record . Thank You Young Man !
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.
Great Intel, Brother.
Watching this gives me the chills and saddens me. Our new administration needs to see this video! Make America Great Again.
Nick, this video is well done. But man it is so sad! It shouldnt be like this in America
No, UA-cam 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
Twelve dollars and nothing extra for the food poisoning! You're a brave guy!!!
$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.
WELCOME TO THE GREAT RESET
The jail in Pine Bluff is a former Walmart!
Hell, it used to have 2 Walmarts!!!!
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.
Thank you Nick for doing this work.
I died laughing when I seen ObamaCare sign just pure irony 19:02
ITS A REPUBLICAN LEAD STATE
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.
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.
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
Unfortunately, within the next 20 years or so, this is what the entire country will look like.
If we are lucky, might be a nuclear wasteland...
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.
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.
These places look like an economic tornado hit them.
This is what happens when greed takes over.
2008 hit them.
this is America-the good and the bad! some see broken down buildings & some see opportunity.
There's a ton of opportunity !
I see future forests and maybe farm land again
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.
America is becoming like Mad Maxx
It's sad that these places has not been unburdened by what has been in time.
My grandparents are buried in a country church cemetery yard. The church is still active with the small community. The cemetery includes people whose children moved to the big city after the 2nd WW. Farming had become more efficient, then bigger and bigger with fewer hands needed. The nearby big city, meanwhile, grows ever outward.
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.
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]
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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None of these governors or mayors or city and state legislators haven’t the decency or ambition to clean up this mess
And the people still vote for them!
I’ve lived in the city and suburbs
Rural is so much better. These towns can make a comeback. Who wants a huge population?
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.
Sadly the US is not what it used to be.
Rooting for you guys from Australia
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I’ve driven through there myself a couple of months ago. Absolutely horrendous !
Sad to see once vibrant cities vacant of life.
They could film The Walking Dead there!
All Blue city’s
Black and blue.
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
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 see opportunity. Those bricks can repurposed. Land everywhere…
Lead the way
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.
Nick, i normally love your videos, but this one was hard to get through. very sad state of affairs in parts of our country.
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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😂
Woke hollywood could not come up with better ghost towns
THAN REPUBLICANS STATES
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...
Happy Thanksgiving Nick. Keep up the great work
Happy Thanksgiving!🍽
That house at 19:04 really needs some "Obamacare".
From the looks of things, that's exactly what it got
I see opportunities! If they’re abandoned, what’s to stop a bunch of people from moving in and resurrecting them? ❤️🇺🇸🙏
High property tax for gary and Detroit..crime...lack of infrastructure
Big companies like Blackrock and Vanguard own them...
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
Keep shining that light on our blight
Just what I need on this bleak overcast day
Happy Thanksgiving Nick and everyone! USA needs to reopen coal mines. We need to bring that back for our energy and economy. 🇺🇸🙏🏼
Keep it up you wankers you fat headed corporate idiots keep pimping America out to overseas keep selling by Changed by chink by chunk and eventually they won't be anything here to spend that extra money on and then people will start figuring out who's screwing them and they'll follow the money back to your door
They destroyed all the coal power plants that’s why your lights are gonna go out soon
Good grief the city can't even afford to do a clean up or fix the water main leaking for years. Hope people aren't drinking the water. These cities will NEVER be back...NEVER
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Just like Martin County, KY. water loss over %60 to 80% for 10+ years!
America has seen better times.
Great Factual Information on the Acquisition of the property in America. Who Owns the Land Now? 🙏
What a fascinating retrospective! What is sad about these once-great towns and cities is that, at some level, the decision-makers knew full well what would be the consequences of their decisions. And yet, here we are today with the decay and destruction. Thank you for another compelling look at parts of our great country that many of us would not have the chance to see.
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 ✡️
It's funny how they blame "The Man" for the way there cities have been destroyed but I don't know of any rich people that went there and unloaded tires from the trunk of there Cadillac or Lincoln and threw them in the street. Who broke out all the windows in them factories and homes. They did.
Nope but they outsourced the jobs that helped these places survive. Meanwhile they make more money that ever it is really disgusting