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friend of mine was telling me how difficult it is to file for assistance using her state's dashboard.
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which is where they require them to go and fill out a bunch of forms.
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she said they make it so cumbersome, that most people quit halfway through because they just get so frustrated. they're asking people to jump through rings of fire.
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they would just figure out a way for you to go into a website or dashboard or portal, whatever you want to call it, and put in your landlord's information.
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but my friend was telling me it was a complete nightmare to try to fill out any of this paperwork.
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because she's doing it online. and then there's forms that i guess she has to print out.
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what a nightmare. it almost seems as if it's intentional that they make it so difficult.
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but i'll even take it a step further back from this. so-
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going through the cdc, and the supreme court said that they did not have the authority to do that.
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why does it feel like our federal government is like a really crappy marketing company?
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let's go with that. let's not do a focus group.
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some of these rental properties don't want to take the federal money, because of whatever strings might be attached.
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i can't even fathom. a lot of these people don't have family to rely on.
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you know, who have had to take a cut in pay, because the pandemic, just to keep their job.
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people in the service industry, who aren't making the money that they used to make in tips, because people aren't going out as often.
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especially during the height of the pandemic, which has put them behind in the first place.
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so what way can these people get immediate relief, and not have the stress on their shoulders?
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this is either willful ignorance or a major failure on the federal government's part, to have let this get to this point.
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feels like our federal government is always responding, instead of being proactive.
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kept hearing about how there was not enough masks and for frontline workers.
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so what's the point of sending out this like $46.5 billion dollars in aid, to be dispersed to renters and landlords, and only about $3-5 billion dollars of it has even been-
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...spent? i'm lost.
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so lost. it's so easy for those of us who are not facing this issue to dismiss it.
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but if this many people become evicted-
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...there will be some financial thing that is going to come back and haunt us. like we're going to pay for this anyway.
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right, because then it'll be, "well they're living on the streets, we're going to have to put them up in hotels."
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taxpayers, us. so it does affect you.
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right. are republicans and democrats so split that we can't even come together on this?
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guess what, republicans? you have republican constituents who are about to get evicted, as well as democrats.
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time out. why does our government fail on these-
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don't even at me going on the billions of dollars of military equipment we just left in afghanistan, as parting gifts. like-
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...i don't know. do you have any friends or family who might be facing eviction?
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this has got to be tough. and i was trying to help my friend looking for some resources, and i spent several hours searching for places where she might be-
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and by god, even those places, they want your blood type and your firstborn child.
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but it seems like they purposefully make it this difficult for people. we'll help them.
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you'll certainly like this. so then i watched another video and then another video-
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...and realize how much hyperbole were in these videos.
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well i have to first think, i remember this video i watched with dr. wayne dwyer, and he quotes albert einstein. and he says, "when you change the way you look at-
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so whether it's our memories, or our ideals today, or political leanings-
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...it's all just based on what we perceive.
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which one is it? is it a universe that is filled with hostility and anger, and people want to hate each other, and people want to kill each other?
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well, then you just become resigned to that, and things don't change so-
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...if you change the way you look at things-
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my memories of school were kind of fond-
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...from as far as i can remember. from elementary school to junior high school.
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i was blessed to have people around me that had my best interest in their heart.
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fun. they made it interesting to learn.
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elder was hosting a discussion on what was wrong with the american school system, and what can be done to change it.
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you know, there's a famous saying, "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
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yes, i know that there was a time in american society when our schooling system was based on an old prussian model.
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it was a very regimented and disciplined way of educating and that this prussian model was more to create obedient children.
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to prep them for the industrial age and working in factories, to teach them attendance.
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and yes, i guess, indoctrinate them into a certain way of life.
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but that was for that age.
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i think we've come a long way since then.
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watching these videos, there was this very oppressed view. that wasn't my memory.
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having the expression of free thought, to be able to challenge things.
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in fact, i remember being able to be more of a critical thinker.
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a divergent thinker. to look at things from different angles, to have different perspectives.
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instead of just formulating one hard opinion.
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i mean, i know i've seen things like that and watching the movie, the dead poets society with robin williams.
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that movie takes place in a very different time than closer to today.
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i grew up. i remember being able to read what i wanted to read.
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kind of learn at my own pace, or there was more focus on the individual.
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you felt like you had individual focus on you.
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i understand that there's issues socioeconomically, and some people don't have the same starting point and that a lot of people have different home lives.
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i understand all that. i had a really great opportunity when i was young.
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pennsylvania. now, i'm originally from this area, so this was kind of like going back home.
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they could not have kids, so they wanted to set up a school for children. and currently, part of the admissions process is that an applicant's total household income may not-
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... exceed 200% of the federal poverty level.
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or at or below the federal poverty level.
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well, this is great. this takes children that might not otherwise have an opportunity to have an amazing education.
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a chance to succeed. we lived in a house.
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there was eight bedrooms on the second floor, and we each had a roommate.
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we did chores together. we had activities outside together.
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but the other great thing is my brothers were of different races.
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this was one of the most unique opportunities i've ever had in my life.
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i mean, it's one thing to go to regular school, right, where you go home every day and you're away from your friends.
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i mean, that many people, it's totally different. and the only thing i can equate it to in my mind would be like when you go to the military and your-
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experiences when he went into basic training.
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you kind of have this band of brothers image in your head.
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we protected each other. we had a true unconditional care and love for each other, like brothers.
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so it was kind of nice to go off to someplace else.
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now, i mean, many years later now, my brother and i get along famously.
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you know how it was when you were a teenager in a high school.
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this idea that the school systems are failing. and this is an epi-
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... demic, that this is a crisis.
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again, that's not my worldview and i'm not hearing these things.
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but no, sure enough, there's many videos on there from sir ken robinson carrying on about the prussian model of schooling and how he equates the education system today being the-
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but i know throughout time there's always been adversity.
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right. not everybody gets the same fair shake, and that's anywhere in life that we go.
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i mean, if this is a mandatory, tax-funded, compulsory education, that's supposed to be fair to all.
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i mean, this schooling is funded by a trust created by milton hershey.
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didn't have to worry about clothing that was supplied to us.
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but we had a full wardrobe that was supplied to us.
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our families didn't have to worry about it, and there wasn't a whole lot of animosity about-
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... if you felt better than somebody because of what they were wearing.
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no, we all had the same stacy adams sneakers, and we all ate the same food.
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i was never not focusing in school because i was hungry, and i know a lot of people deal with that.
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you got glasses and you got braces. and if you're ever sick, you went to the infirmary there. you were literally looked after in almost every facet in your life.
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