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@@robertdavis3433 Well, he did explain that despite his skills, people won't interview him, and now he can't even do that work anymore, but I think that after 42 years of working, he's able to go eleven years without working, and I think he'll wind up finding work again soon.
@@robertdavis3433 Have you ever tried working a job without a private bathroom to clean in daily?? I have and it's not an easy thing to do! At all. Also once you get over 45 or so you are less likely to be considered against many more younger applicants, again this is from personal experience. Been homeless in PA since 2015. (Been homeless on and off since 2007) Blessings 🙏
@@debraallen63 Debra ,the thing I don't like about his story was, it is too simplistic. He blamed everything but himself. Failure is rarely due to only one bad decision, it's a string of bad decisions we make that ends up badly for us all. He made his story simple so we could understand his pain. I'm 66 yo and at my age, I'm sure there is a lot more he's not talking about. The truth is not what he is saying, its everything he's not saying. In there lies the truth. I've had many good jobs in my life, only my last big career choice at 35 yo stuck. U have to zig when they zag, and always believe in your ability to land on your feet. I do feel badly for your situation. Find a way to heal.
I’m glad I’ve watched this homeless man, he has helped me change my mind about people living in the streets. Bless them all, for whatever reason they out there, suffering in the cold without anything.
Thank you. This is what we are trying to tell people about our company. Like one day this could be you but they don't want to donate or buy a shirt because we are not known. Then one day god forbid they do need our help now they want to ask for it. We won't turn them away but what about when we were trying to raise money to start the company and now you need our help. People rather support gofundme or Kickstarter about technology then a company trying to do good unless they are known. It's sad.
We all need to know this can be any one of us OH Bullshit, it cannot be me or millions of others. Sick of hearing this stupid statement every time I watch a vid about homelessness.
So many people NEVER recovered from 2008. I'm one of them. I never ended up homeless, but my life took a nosedive and things have never been the same since.
I try to help as best I can. Food, money, radios, clothes, toiletries, cigarettes, rides. A lot of times I just sit and talk with them. I can only do so much... some of the guys I see on a regular basis are extremely mentally ill. It’s hard to see a way out for them. I have no professional training and am physically and financially limited myself. If anything, I get too close to these guys and need to set better boundaries. They have my number and aren’t afraid to use it. I feel for them because I know them 😢
I wish Mark and his wife the best. Sometimes you can make all the right decisions and still have a bad outcome. This can happen to You or someone in your family! Compassion in this world seems to be gone.
You know you're living in a satanic world when it's against the law to feed someone. You will be arrested and sent to jail for giving someone a plate of food. Unbelievable! If you're a fellow RU-vidr posting truth and valuable content. Thank you. Happy 2020🙌🏾😊
The bible says the world is in the hand od the wicked one and the whole world is under his influence! The Return of Christ to Rule as King with Fellow Chosen Human Rulers who will be Ascended to that level. We will be given perfected bodies with all the senses intensified and perfect. In paradise like living conditions. Plus More!! This will happen by 2030!
@Hell's favorite NPC #69OU812 . exe I agree, our life is determined by the conscious choices we make. This man is extremely intelligent and articulate and white; so there are many choices he could make.
AMEN. I am really baffled why someone so intelligent, articulate and white would not be able to at the very least have a vehicle to live in. Something is missing from this story.
No one wants to be home-less. Yes, most of us are just one or two paychecks from serious problems that could take what we have or what we are still paying on. I wish that people who do have - will share. Share your $5. coffee money a couple times a week with those who are on the corner with the cardboard sign. Talk to them - they are human as you are and acknowledgement means a lot. Care about others and share what you can.
Patricia Taylor well said I’m in Brisbane Australia,I buy them food or drink if I see them and I’ve been homeless before I will keep humility and compassion.
My $5.00 coffee is a 20 oz Hills brother can that last a month or two. Living so far below my income and investing keeps me so far away from living paycheck to paycheck. I wish our public schools would teach the importance of living below your means, saving in the good times because there will be hard times. Good luck
COPS = Catholic Officers Policing Society!!! They're 'brotherhood' bows to the Papal Powers. They are nothing but revenuers for the corporations, they're Not there to help you. It's a club and you ain't in it!! Just as George Carlin said it.
it really is. today i read that some people believe that covid is a govt scam designed to distract the people from the govt doing things they should not be. how scary is that. there simply is nobody you can trust. why vote? everyone lies, everyone is out for themselves. i amso glad i dont have kids. when i die thats it. i dont want to leave any kids here to try to navigate this terrible place. i live in the stix, all fenced in. keep people out. thats great with me. stay as long as my body allows me to, then thats it. just make it till then.
Natural Man so it s a horrible world then as we are talking about for the homeless u bring up ur ok in life and it is wat u make it yes for some people
I appreciate all this hard work you been putting into this I really do you are you're really something mark .... You were totally making a difference in people's lives directly and indirectly
The Police took his heater??? !!! I am from CA. originally and even in CA., it can get cold at night . But they don't want him to be warm ! SO SAD ON MANY LEVELS. Even if he had a solar powered warming blanket or a battery operated 'elec' Blanket , they probably would have said that was dangerous too. Upsets me. GLAD he has a voucher and that hopefully he will find a place soon.
@keecefly I cannot make a concise judgement as I cannot visit where "Mark' is at to see for myself .I do not even know where he is at . It was my opinion based on what Mark had said . Even "if" the Police are concerned about fire, they should also be concerned about a person staying warm . Maybe Police should get a fund going for the homeless and make sure they have top of the line sleeping bags , Mylar Blankets . There ARE battery operated heaters . Sounds like a good idea to me .! I have camped with propane heaters before without issue. I could understand them not allowing a campfire. But to take a heater that Mark bought and is 'his personal property' to keep himself warm just because the Police "think" it may cause a fire is thoughtless , cruel and uncaring. We care about animals being out in frigid weather and will receive warnings about the temps dipping down into the teens and please bring your pets in. But what about PEOPLE ? Also, I have known people who have lived at shelters in CA. If you are a senior citizen and get SS, half of that money will be taken by the shelter. So , how can you save money with deposits and all, for a small Apartment ? Plus, a lot goes on in Shelters that is dangerous, your few personal belongings get stolen and many do not want to risk it and feel safer elsewhere. Also, Shelters usually let you stay only up to 90 day and then you are thrown back out onto the Streets where you came from in the first place.!!! Its a vicious and cruel cycle . Only a few make it onto the housing Lists which are incredibly long . Peace.
This person has lost everything, and he worked concrete for 40 years he deserves a break, he still has so much dignity that’s what I call a real man, and God bless Eric he sounds brilliant, I hope 🤞 the new home 🏡 is brilliant
My dad used to say when we would see those in need "There, but for the grace of God, go I." It wasn't condescending, he would almost cry when he said it. He was right. You can do everything right and still have stuff happen. Many people lost their businesses in 2008 during the great recession. he had subcontractors not pay him. He is a decent and honorable man of integrity.
I pray for the homeless every day and night. I don't have money but I pray every wish is granted by our God in heaven. May there LORD protect them and deliver all they need. GOD BLESS YOU AND THEM IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan + That has always been God's truth. He tells us to ask and you shall receive!! Of course it helps when you believe God and Know Him!! HELP = H-His E-Eternal L-Loving P-Provision Blessings to you and your family!!!
Emily that's what I was wondering. He said he moved to L.A. after becoming homeless because his daughter is there. But then no mention was made after that of what's going on with that situation. Why can't him and his wife stay with their daughter? Can she help them with money? Can't they at least use the shower at her place? I love this channel, but I just don't get why Mark never just asks those questions to make it clear. This man is a saint. Imagine he was your father in the same city as you and he was homeless and you had a house or apartment. What could the possible reasons be of why you couldn't help him? Isn't that an important question to figure out if you're going to do an interview? I'm not trying to criticize. It's just that this video was heart wrenching. I know he's sitting in that tent right now and feeling bad, and then I'm just going to be left wondering all day why his daughter in L.A. can't help him. It's just really confusing and painful.
Rumpel Stiltskin yes, you’re right. That could also easily be the case too. I’ve just seen a lot of women controlled by mean stingy men and that was my first thought. But you’re absolutely right.
Jesus? where was he when this man had his business taken from him? when he lost his home? when he sleeps outside, has mice get into his food? where is jesus?-not here, that where
the world needs a hand up, lay not your treasures in things that rust and rot or carry mold, but rather the eternal treasures, love kindness and charity.
I wish the billionaire and millionaire pastors were aware of this fact; because if they did they would use their billions and millions to help the poor and needy. Instead they are buying 65 million dollar jets and multi million dollar houses and yachts.
Mark keep the weariness going you're doing good work these people are amazing and we are all the step of being homeless ourselves he's absolutely right the awareness is the answer for change
This really makes me cry. I’ll be reaching out very soon as soon as i get my business up and running and i build my connects and resources to help these people you will hear from me!
This is a prime example WHY we need to worry about our US citizens who are living on the streets. Stop looking over the boarders to feel like your helping. we have plenty of needy people right here in our own back yards!! HELP THE HOMELESS IN THE US!!
I'm 69 and fully retired. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. As a 10 year old boy moved there in 1961 into a tract of houses that hadn't been built yet. Only 3 models surrounded by dirt terraced hills. Our small boxy 3 bedroom two bath house cost $13.5 K. Now its up to $750K (we put in a pool, retaining walls and landscaping). Its a beautiful neighborhood now. Its a shame to think of how wide open it was in '61 and how the people that lived there can't even find a place to live now. Shocking and shameful.
There’s a woman who sleeps under the 101 off the shoup exit going north. She’s always alone. I see her every night when i get off work at 9pm walking back and forth before she lays down on the concrete covering her entire body under a blanket to sleep. I’m so curious about her and her story. I’m a young female and i get scared approaching homeless people even though i feel so inclined to. Please try to speak to her if you can!
If you feel it in your heart you want to know her story, you should take this chance to talk to her. Maybe offer her a gift card for something to eat. I'm sure she is completely harmless, it would change her life if just one person would acknowledge her as a human with feeling's. There is a reason it's weighing on your heart, and you shall be repaid for your good deeds, when the time is right. God placed this on your heart. Just take a chance! 🙏 I live in Ohio otherwise I would take the chance.
Chances of a homeless women being bad is slim. But handing out money is not the best idea. Unfortunately we live in a country where being homeless is a slow death sentence
You should approach her during the daytime with a friend if that would make you feel more comfortable. Take something for her. Even something as simple as a pair of socks I’m sure would mean the world to her. Good luck!
What a precious and handsome man.I hope he finds a cozy home to live in.It breaks my heart to see this lovely man go through what he has had to endure.
If you aren't compassionate nor offer a hand up, DON'T PREACH UNTIL YOU HAVE WALKED IN HIS SHOES. Nobody wants to be homeless. It can happen to the best of us. God Bless You, Mark and partner. May you find a decent roof over your head and a warm bed and decent hot meals through the winter and a brighter 2020 that will change your present circumstances. 🙏🙏
As much as I love listening to these stories, I hope to god that they paid him for this interview otherwise they're just making money off of people who literally have nothing. I've been where he is. I've slept in doorways and tents and had nothing to my name except for what's on my back. My life was like that for 3 years until March of this year. I honestly think I would still be in that situation if I wasn't a female. People are more likely to help you as a young female, I also had my dog with me. Now my dog and I are so thankful to be indoors. Things aren't perfect, but man did being in that situation humble me. I will never let a change in lifestyle cause me to lose sight of what's important. I still think of those I met out there who still struggle, I come back out often and help them. I can't change the world, but if all of us did a little something, whether it's giving a few bucks here and there, a meal, a coffee, water, handing out gloves, hand warmers, blankets, during the colder months. It doesn't take much to help people. Be kind guys. He's right, most of us are just a paycheck or two short of being where he is. Living indoors doesn't make us any better of a person.
Andrew Yang is running for president. One of his policies is to enforce a Universal Basic Income of $1,000 per month for every American adult. This will help those who need it the most, especially those living without a place to go. I pray he wins. If UBI were enforced decades ago, as M.L.King Jr wanted, I doubt homelessness would even exist today. Yang needs to win.
@@avvidream582 Andrew Yang has by far the best plan for these people . He considers them as value and not as burden, the freedom dividend is a first step in that new way of thinking. of which this guy and many others , homeless or not, would profit enormously. No other candidate puts the trust so much directly into the hands of the people.
@@sondorp You worded that beautifully. He needs to win. He is the only candidate that genuinely cares for people. I have been brought to tears several times upon visializing how well our country will prosper with him in the White House.
@@avvidream582 thanks , it is your country , not mine, i live in Europe, but similar problems are here too. And Andrew Yang in the White House would create whole new movements to get the same done in other parts of the world. So i ll be watching Debates tmr night, no matter 2020 or 2024, he s a milestone. Good luck!
Love your good work brother and best wishes from Ireland you should come to Dublin Ireland sometime it's crazy the homeless problem I'm currently homeless myself and I'm currently living in a 2 man tent finding it very hard to get through the days,especially this days so close to Christmas In not even sure if I will get to see my three children that's the hardest part take care and God Bless
There are so many aspects to homelessness which are so, heartbreaking. I have learnt about them ALL from watching these videos. I imagine that it is also hard for Mark, when he interviews all of these people and is unable to save them, all. I feel so SAD sometimes, when I hear these stories. You can see how the homeless people are sometimes just TIRED with a self esteem that is beaten down. Thanks Mark, for making us all, aware.
The government should bring back some version of Homesteading where you get a small piece of land to own with the promise you will build a house or cabin and farm a small plot.
LadyTea It's call move some place else why stay in the same city having a vocher only gives you 90 days he just said he rather be outside then live in some of those places ok enough of his story he could change his life by moving there are many states where housing is cheaper and jobs it's all about choice
@@lynneprice8463 EXACTLY. Life is all about the choices we make. Back in 2006 I was about to become homeless, could not find work in Georgia to save my life. I filed chapter 11, locked up my beautiful home and drove all the way to Canada where I was able to find work paying me enough to dig myself out of the hole. I had to live in my vehicle while I worked 24/7, but I managed to keep my home and today I am set financially. I made the choice to get out of my comfort zone and face the great unknown completely alone. Not completely, I had Jesus.
Look at that, 441-people liked this post, and 11-people employed by the Government in San Fernando clicked thumbs down because they don't like it when people see THAT THEY DON'T DO JACKSHIT for the Homeless.
Heartbreaking I feel his pain I lost everything in the recession and was homeless I'm lucky to be paid back by someone who I helped for years and how the tables were turned God bless everyone who is suffering
If a cop has a voucher to take them to a real home/appartment for 5 years then they shouldn't take peoples only shelter and essentials that they need to survive. Shameful conduct. Love your interview with Mark. He's a nice man. 😍👍🏼😍
i know that makes me so sad. dirty cops hurting these people even more. how shameful! sure way to go to hell. hurting people who are already down in the dumps....
Thanks for being honest Emily, I would like your opinion on this, we must stop the root problem ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BG2pSjQILIY.html
Good GOD I feel for this guy! :'( Could have been me, I'm a swedish resident who lost my home to a conman back in 2007, he got sentenced but never paied me back so I havent had a safe place to live since and its worn my health down. I understand him completely. I get so happy when I see all these little beautiful tiny homes being built.
Very gentle, kind, articulate and a real man. So glad he has a wife to be with. Terribly troubling. We are all potentially homeless or houseless. I pray they find a safe home and employment. Personally I don't think I would make it, and I think about it often.... God bless
This was a sad one. I'm also from the Valley. I remember when the valley was a big beautiful clean place to live in. I can't believe what's happened in LA. I don't understand why he didn't get a job working with cement in 2009 and 10 when construction started picking up. I hope he and his wife make it. Good video From Sacramento
This man seems like someone who just needs to catch a break and get back on his feet. This is exactly why I am saving for my rainy day. I have lived thru homelessness once and that was enuf for me. I was helped by someone who sneaked money to me and through a couple who ran a small church. Without those, I would probably be dead and buried in Mississippi. I really pray this couple gets a hand up soon.
Hell's favorite NPC #69OU812 . why do you always put things in a male vs female stand off? Don’t be mad at me because you don’t like Nancy Pelvis! I think people who are homeless due to economics need a hand up, speaking from experience. People who are homeless due to addiction need rehab or to quit on their own if they can. I don’t give homeless money unless I know their story and that’s to pay it forward for the help I received. So far, I only know of one!
Hell's favorite NPC #69OU812 . Many times at this age, people cannot see the screen or stand over a grill all day or walk safely on all that grease. Burger King is a good place for kids to work but not after a certain age. Many times they cannot shower daily or shave, and that’s a big no no for the workplace. Please don’t lump ALL homeless together. Not all are out there by choice. I know. It has nothing to do with feelings. It is knowledge and experience, something you still are acquiring as your life continues.
Hello Mark - I live in India . I recently started watching your videos . They make me think and feel . One impact your messages made is I bought blankets and socks for the watchmen in my residential complex as they feel cold at night ..... thanks to God . Thanks to you .
We all are 1 step away from homelessness. You loose your job tomorrow uou be in the streets 3 months . So sad. God bless all these men an women out on these streets
GREEN STEEL USA,LLC unfortunately everyone is not taught about things like money management. When people think of retirement, they think of a 401K that most jobs don’t have. They don’t think of Roth IRAs, CDs, Bonds or anything else. A lot of people actually don’t know about those options. It’s why I decided to change up my Facebook page in 2020.
I lost everything in 08 job car house husband me and 2 kids in a tent family would not help . We lived in a tent next to the lake. It took us years to come back .
Unfortunately I most of us are invisible and I don't see anything changing any time soon it's starts with the people not the politicians if more people hit the streets to help the issue wouldn't be this bad. It's just another way to make money now that it's an issue it's created jobs, government grants public funding and all that jazz so we can't solve the issue in it's entirety cuz we'd be eliminating a whole field of jobs and then those people will be Jones no income loose their homes and it's a cycle we took from 3rd world countries we bail out. Who's going to bail is out?
Thats the sepulveda basin. Not only that fires happen constantly. There is even booby traps. Added bonus mayor knows about it and doesnt do anything. Crazy time i live in.
I was truly captivated by his profound messages. People are scared of homeless people because they are labeled as dangerous and thieves. That broke my heart. I still go out and give water, food , clothes and whatever I may have. I don’t have much but I’m willing to try.
Man isn’t that the truth. My husband and I have been married 15 years raising 2 amazing young men! We have lived paycheck to paycheck and at one point we were just days away from having to live in our tiny truck w our kids or camp in the streets. Luckily someone took a chance and helped us out... Worst feeling I’ve ever had as a parent not knowing where or how we were going to live !! And sadly it could happen to us again , except we might not be as lucky.... A lot of us out here are one tragedy away from homelessness, and the welfare system failed me as well as many others. We were moments away from living in a vehicle and we were told my husband made 80$ too much that month for us to qualify for ANY food stamps or anything !!!
