USA on the Brink of Chaos: How Americans Are Living the End of the American Dream 

More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.

As a Pole I'm shocked to see people driving Tesla, Lexus that call themselves poor and ask for help to collect free groceries. I would teach them how to manage their own money first before they reach for any public aid.

What a scam in that food line! New mercedes, teslas, high performance sports cars- everyone is lying for some free food. America is truly lost.

My favorite part of being American is when a person comes from generational wealth and tells a someone who's struggling to "work harder".

" it's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. " - George Carlin

America is truly a wonderland! People have cars, they have something to buy gasoline, but nothing to eat? What is an upside down world?

I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.

GTFHO people rolling up in Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, 50k Mini Vans….its not poverty!! It’s living out of your means….

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless." - Thomas Jefferson

I was a farmer (yes, I said, was). This breaks my heart. I had to sell my cattle because the cost of hay, grain, minerals, diesel, etc. went sky high. I sold my hogs off also. Farmers are having to sell because of rising prices and falling prices for cattle. I don’t know what consumers will do in the future? People need to find local farmers and buy from them. Better product than store bought.

I was a plumber and welder before the pandemic, I was half way through an apprenticeship when the lockdowns began, I lost my job and the entire industry went under in my area, the bills stuck around though and everything I had built and saved since I separated from the military was gone within a year just trying to keep my head above water and hold out for the jobs to come back. They never did and I had to use my hail mary in the GI Bill so I can avoid default on my car note and bills, its been 3 years and I still haven't recovered, I'm going to be 30 next year and I'm still in debt, got out of homelessness by moving in with my parents and was forced to go back to my old line of work and join my local law enforcement (something I tried my best to avoid). I've gotten a lot of hate for becoming a cop from friends, family and strangers but they were the only ones who offered me a good job after years of looking, a whole lot of talk was going around about helping each other out but not a whole lot of walk.

Driving up in Mercs and SUVs to wait in queue for a box of free food? WTF?

The American dream is for the banks……not for the people. Get it right.

And what's worse is the folks are turning on each other instead of those who are at the root of this situation. Just as planned.

11000 dollars for a fracture ? I live in Qatar , I’m an immigrant and the healthcare is free for us. FREE. Something like this is unimaginable for us.

So the USA would rather destroy food than distribute it to the poor....that is all one needs to know about the profit system in that country and elsewhere....

One of the things that causes poverty is the obsession for living a luxurious and rich lifestyle. I believe this is heavily influenced by celebrities and the entertainment world. It's sad.

I worked in Los Angeles for seven years at a non profit that supplied affordable housing for people. It was both rewarding and extremely frustrating to help people that really need it while also seeing one out of every seven applicants driving up in a 120k Mercedes’a a 3k Tag Huer watch, gaming the system. So much fraud and so out in the open that it’s disgusting.

I got a bill for 6,000 USD for a CAT scan. I had told the Emergency room I had insurance. I gave them the info. I started getting collection notices that I owed the money due to not having insurance. I called and gave my info. Still more letters arrived. After 3 months and 6 letters, they finally updated the billing. 😃

$40 billion to Ukraine and we are getting poorer. I'm 58yrs old and I seriously don't want this life anymore. Every day is now a struggle, it's just not worth it. I work 5 days a week.

When the government cares more about what's going on in other countries than in its own land. Sad but true. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

The sad fact about this is, this food was being prepared to be thrown away, as it always been for decades. I work at a Airport and overnight I see so much unused food being thrown away nightly. The airport, cruse industry, and restaurant industry's excuse is " Avoiding Lawsuits" . It's like even though people in the United States have this illusion of owning, yet we all rent and borrow like crazy. It's so sad we just work to pay things off.

This is why Canada has a milk board, a chicken/egg board and a wheat board, to control production and keep prices stable. We know we have to supporr our farmers. Also, no growth hormanes allowed in our milk.

The expensive cars in line for food tells you all you need to know

America *IS* in chaos. The dream was just a nightmare, to begin with.

Never forget who did this to us. Never forget what they did. Instead of turning on each other we need to stand together and confront the evil in our government.

I am so glad that my family wasn’t economically impacted during COVID, but I lost 60% of my family. I hate that virus and the last three years have been horrible for my family.

Facts, folks - if you become disabled, you will be poor. If you get layed off from your job for any length, you could become poor. If a family member needs alot of medical care, you can become poor. If you are in an accident, you could lose your house and spend your savings. Same goes for divorces. . So, let the smugness go.. anything can happen to amny of us . Say your prayers ..and thank Jesus that you could maybe help someone..🕊️ I forgot natural disasters tornados hurricane fire or flood.

46:44 Dude was earning $100,000/month, but ran through his savings 3-months after losing his job? Did he save nothing for a rainy day? That's just insane!

America; where money is always more important than human lives. What a country.

This is very sad, but I'm thankful they didn't leave their furbaby behind!

Can't pay for home rent. In Asia, being bangkrupt, people usually go home to their hometown and live with their parents. It seems most of these people don't have "good relationship" with their parents or brothers/sisters. When people know someone becoming homeless, they will give bad label to his parents/brother/sister for being "mean" or "cruel".

We live and survive in what is basically become a giant pyramid scheme. But, as long as the handful of people at the very top of the pyramid are happy then its okay that the rest of us live in misery. At least, that seems to be the sentiment among my fellow Americans who are too distracted arguing over Bud Light than the real reason why their lives are so terrible.

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented." -Sir Josiah Stamp, former Bank president

God is with all of the people that have lost their homes and jobs. I pray for every single one of them. I pray for uplifting, I pray for internal peace, I pray for abundance and blessings for all of them. There is NO EXCUSE FOR ANY AMERICAN to be homeless at this point, we send BILLIONS in money alone to other countries, not to mention aid and other supplies that go to all of these other countries, those resources need to go to Americans for awhile. People shouldn't have to work as hard as they do, risk everything to lose it while all this money, aid and other supplies go overseas. There needs to be much better protections for ALL Americans when things like disaster and plandemics happen so that no one loses their homes or their livelihoods because of something totally and completely out of their control. We need to take care of our people better. We are America and no matter our differences we should be able to agree on basic principles. Such as protections from things we have NO control over. Our constitution was trampled in every sense thinkable. 😢

Despite the various problems we face here in Brazil, we have a public health system that provides relatively good services, free of charge, especially in large and medium-sized cities. However, we have states with very poor infrastructure, where medical care is very poor or almost non-existent. My 86 year old mother-in-law broke her femur on a Saturday, 5 days later she was undergoing surgery in a public hospital in the city of Itapecerica da Serra, close to São Paulo. Excellent service, without any type of charge. Thanks for the video!

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." Frank Zappa

A Tesla in this queue is ridiculous, that's not poverty, that's just bad money management

What I don’t understand is how ppl keep buying $300k homes but things are so bad? Nothing makes sense

Where are the friggin big mega walmarts and jewel and ingles?? Where are the McDonald's and restaurants and farmers who have excess crops?? I work in the catering arena and I can confirm from seeing it myself, nearly every time, after a big event, wedding, or convention, that tons of food is wasted. It all gets thrown out without regard for the kind of help they could offer, as shown in this video, if they would just donate their foods! Fresh veggies, soft bread rolls, braised meats, you name it. It all gets tossed into the landfills. It's so insane and heartbreaking. Also, hardly no victory gardens are grown in this country... my grandma had a small one, for just in case of whatever may be. People are not gonna be prepared for the kind of hunger crisis we will surely and sadly face here in the US 😢

It seems strange to see people with cars lining up for a food bank but in reality, in the US if you don't have a car you don't have a job, you don't have anything at all. Car ownership is 99% mandatory. You can do without a car, I do, I get around by bike or bus but it means being far outside the US mainstream.

"Went to sleep with the American Dream and woke up in Nightmerica". - Tom MacDonald.

Sadly, I looked up Mark Gomez and it appears he ended up drinking and driving and hit a motorcyclist in September. He left the scene and they tracked him to his house /: Interestingly, the detention center is DIRECTLY across from the shuttered restaurant. So sad, but I also see they do have a catering business I found on FB, so I hope that is working out well for them!

Managing money is different from accumulating wealth, and the lack of investment education in schools may explain why people struggle to maintain their financial gains. I personally benefited from the market crisis as I embrace challenging times while others tend to avoid them. Well, at least my advisor does too, jokingly….

I almost fall off my chair! 11.000 dollar for an elbow operation? Here in the Netherlands we all have a health insurance and the operation is paid from it. The costs of an elbow operation? 300 euro!!!! Glad I am not an American…

I pray for everyone here. Life is unfathomably heartbreaking at times.

Did I just saw someone pulling with a MERCEDES ? LOL

Soo many recipients, so many very expensive cars!

Wow to see the most wealthiest country in the world and this is what they allow their citizens to go through! That's why i am so grateful for being born and raised in the Caribbean where you don't need money to survive....

First sell your luxury car and purchase a used cheap one. Live off of the proceeds from that sale. THEN you may ask for free food.

I’m from Dallas Tx and didn’t realize COVID impacted the oil industry. The Old Oil man & his friends had a bad vibe. The Family is very humble God bless them, and Miriam was so kind to raise that money for them.

Its Heartbrakeing to see how Millions of People are becoming insolvent and Homeless in the once richest Country in the World America 💔💔💔

And the rich get richer - faster than the poor get poorer... Over and over again.

Giving food away, "regardless of the income" like this documentary points out is a stupid thing to do in America. I had a friend who had 3 houses that he rented out, and he was living in his own house. He's rich by any standard. Wife had great job. But they went to food banks like this to get their food -food meant for the poor and the struggling but many greedy, rotten people take advantage of it. There should be an income verification and the money saved should go to other assistance programs

People with cars worth $50 000 cant afford food? They need to change their priorities!

There are places like Florida and California where insurance companies have chosen to double and triple their rates so landlords have no choice but to pass along the added expense. Also you have to look at how landlords were screwed out of rents due to the pandemic eviction moratorium. Those landlords had to pay the mortgage regardless. Now the renters are reaping the end result.

My great grandparents went bankrupt three times before their candy factory took of like a rocket in Chile. Instead of selling to stores that never payed them back, they sold their candy directly to the public. Plus some other things they changed every time.

Hard to believe that people want to bring kids into the world the way it is now. Insanity.

Why didn't they give that milk to the food pantries ?

I am glad living in Japan after seeing this video.

While California is the richest state in the U.S. it also has some of the worst problems with poverty. A lot of that wealth is generated by large companies that don't necessarily sell their products or spend their profits in California. Peoples' paychecks are also effected by California's high taxes meaning a lot of the state's wealth is owned by the government. Finally California shares what is left very unequally among a huge population. Unfortunately company headquarters, luxurious government buildings, and private yachts don't help combat poverty.

Bloke driving a $60,000 Tesla and that’s considered poverty? Sell the damn car. Watching this as an Australian married to an amazing American women living back in Australia I feel so blessed we settled back in Australia 🇦🇺

Would be interesting to see some news on how those people are doing now in 2024

No more "his/hers birthday cards at our store. No more. It's no Hallmark shortage either. 2 stores no longer cash back at check out. They are trying to pass a bill to charge 23 cents each time one swipes their DEBIT card. Adding tax to food, current. Either way, we are in a very, very dire place in Am. 💔💔💔

In Germany, Switzerland, and several other European countries, if you're made redundant after dedicating 11 years to a company, you can expect to receive 80% of your salary along with health insurance coverage for up to a year. This means you won't have to rely on food banks or worry about your financial situation while driving your Tesla for a while. Enough time to get back on track. America is a very weird country but well, "This is America"...

A strong family network is very important in times like this. Where are the brothers, sisters and relatives of the people being kicked to homelessness? I guess one major problem in America is social and emotional - not only economic.

My rules to lived by so far 1. Never Insult one's faith and Religions 2. Never Insult their race and culture 3. Never Insult One's job as long as their job doesn't harm others 4. Never Insult one's opinion 5. Never Bought what you cannot afford 6. Never go into debt unless you're absolutely certain that you are able to pay it in short term 7. Saving, Invest, charity 8 Always live below your means 9. Be courteous, and optimistic 10. A little bit of Humor and Jokes over hardship in live always help 11. Get rid of your credit card. 12 Never break the laws Guess what?? it Works 👍👍

Greetings...could you please inbox an update on how these families are presently doing..

They don't have food but they have cars

But the government have no problem sending billions to Ukraine and elsewhere in the world.Over 700 military bases.

downward mobility is scary

you shouldn't be allowed in the free food line if you drive a Mercedes! I'm pretty sure I saw several.

To the mexican guy who wants to commit suicide. You dont have to do that. As a black man I have come to see that life is full of ups and downs. Dont give up because good days will come.

25:35 Though this guy has no sympathy, he's telling the truth in a way. I remember seeing people buying flat screens tvs and apple products like crazy while they were getting their stimulus money.

Seeing a lot of expensive cars in that line 🤬 I drive a 20 year old car and a strict budget 🤬

You arent broke if youre driving a $60k car. Taking food from families who are really broke while you drive a luxury car is gross. If you just lost your job last week, you had a week to sell that car.

Im 40. I have a wife and 2 kids. I drive a truck for a living and wife stays home with kids. We rent. We have 2 old cars that work great. I saved most of my money for years. Never borrowed any money. Never just bought a bunch of crap. Due to managing my money since a younger age, i learned how to work on cars. I change tires, struts, all fluids, brakes and anything the cars may need. We eat a healthy, simple one meal a day diet. Kids eat what they want, when they want. We played life smart as if money actually has value. I stashed and stashed my paycheck in my savings account. I have close to 6 digits. I navigated money as if my life depended on it and it certainly paid off. Start saving and stop spending. Buy necessities only. Buy a $5k car, even if you cant do the work yourself. Still cheaper and no one can take it from you. Payments=slavery. No matter who youre making payments to.

I’m so happy for you, Tonika, so happy, I cried WITH you, watching you go through Court and being able to reach an agreement with your sensible Landlady. Thank you, Landlady. Thank you, Social Worker and Association. It’s so nice to see someone get the help they fully deserve. {{{God bless, guide and protect you and yours, Tonika - ALWAYS!!}}} May you be spared further griefs, IJN🙏🏻❤️🥰😘🌹

I think that's wicked of the landlord to evict!!

When we ran into financial difficulty years ago(we were running our own business) we sold our camper van, our garden tractor and used up our savings. A state that can hand out food to someone driving a Tessla is not in bad shape. Rediculous.

lexus,mercades,range rover. gee i wish i was that poor

I never had children because I was always worried that something like this would happen and not only would I have to worry about myself, I would also have to figure out how to feed my kids. Might seem a little over paranoid but now that I am 43 I am super grateful I made that decision.

the 38 to 40 minute one contemplate how he is gonna pay for his kids arm operation, the other show off his sport car's collection.

The American dream is being realized with loans that most people will not be able to repay.

This is sickening. I have no desire to visit the US.

28:00 oil, zero cents a barrel, yet it was never anywhere near that low at the pumps. 😏 "Somebody doin’ somethin’ slick”

The dream changed. Now everyone prefers to be on social media all day, play video games, smoke weed and blame everyone but themselves for their problems. We don’t care about buying a home because we don’t understand money or how to fix anything. This new dream has been highly achievable.

This video is old and made during Covid at least two years ago. A Recession is looming so we might see something similar by the end of the year.

Bringing a child into this evil, fucked up world is the cruelest thing you can do. Nothing but pain, misery, suffering and a 70-80 death sentence. People say they "LOVE" their children but you can't love something when you don't have the slightest clue what that word even means. There is no real love in this world. Not how it used to be. Words like love & friend have completely lost their meaning these days. Now all we have are warped, twisted versions of those words.

That Asian Tesla guy is ridiculous, guaranteed fortune in savings and likely to get re-hired or get a new job soon

All this property bubble is going to burst finally

I understand loosing a job is devastating.. Been there .But some of these people were earning well.The fact that they have no savings to go on shows that they lived beyond their means

Every body been walking around with their eyes glued to cell phones and playing video games and listening to rap music while the elite was stealing the dream from under our noses

Social Services failed us 3x even as we were homeless living in our cars; good news we now reside in an RV! "Amen"

I'm a very old American. I can never remember a time when there weren't a lot of people saying American was failing, brink of chaos, end of the world. Those people seemed dumb to me. America instead got stronger, richer and more powerful. Absolutely if you go into the 0.00001% of the US where drug addicts live it does look like end times. But I prefer to not hang around drug addicts...and I get not "all" homeless are drug addicts....only 98% are.

The fact that this documentary is free on RU-vid is very interesting. Thank you so much for great information

I like how no one mentions the generosity of the Texans who helped one another.

These people on Teslas and BMWs begging for food are utterly ridiculous and a perfect synthesis of US society

Actually when the stimulus cheques went out i noticed alot of people leaving both walmart and cosco with large big screen tvs

I never quite understand how these "young entrepreneurs" and "start-ups" are equipped with top notch IT and hardware, offices, cars etc. If you just "started up" your business....how the foogle do you pay for all that prior to even gaining any profit?