A 2nd theres also a nothing empty homes as of 2018 there are nearly 1500000 vacant homes in the us yet there are an estimated 553740 2 people experiencing homelessness on any given night so that means even before the pandemic there were 3 empty houses for every homeless person we could give every homeless person 3 and steve how does this not even accounting for empty apartments yog sheds extra bedrooms garages condos cubbyholes attic spaces basements pull out and walk in refrigerators and you would notice any difference except that homelessness would be over. The only difference is hugo whatever that guy usually sleeps over in the tomato patch over there oh hes not only us in the richest country in the world anymore oh how odd that would be the difference no more people on the street no more fear that a little bad luck in your life and you your family could could end up under a bridge given a guy your underwear in exchange for a sandwich and all that madness would be to her and the imp
Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Welcome to landmark cases. Our series of looking at the 12 most important cases in Supreme Courts history. We will learn more about the people in the issues behind them. Tonight, lochner v. New york, 1905. It is one of the controversial cases of the Supreme Court, and in fact the story of a baker from new york whose case gave rise to an era that defined Supreme Court cases for the next 30 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests who would tell us more about this important case
To talk about the impending homelessness avalanche we have to 1st ignore the fact that our government could totally bail people out and keep them in their homes not only have they already bailed out big banks and wall street to the tune of 4. 00 trillion dollars but you also have to remember that the pentagon has over 21. 00 trillion dollars of unaccounted for adjustments on their books over the past 20 years sure there is plenty of money money is not a problem money is an idea its a concept right and the u. S. Government has no unlimited imagination as philosopher alan watts once put it saying theres not enough money to do something its like a builder saying theres not enough inches to build a house here is the wood the nails the hammers hes just out of inches. The u. S. Government could easily give every american 2000. 00 a month for the foreseeable future which would keep most people in their homes and apartments but ignore the fact that theres enough money to let slip a flood past
A new tyranny. Those are the headlines from all those stories you can head to our team stay with us now Image International for more of a program. Welcome to redacted tonight this is the show where americans in america covering American News are called foreign agents the tsunami is almost here looming may soon to make 28000000 people homeless in the United States 28000000 of actions to put that into perspective only 10000000 people lost their homes during the 2008 you cannot macwrite this and that was considered the craziest thing that theyve ever happened and this would be 3 times as crazy. To talk about the impending home of this avalanche we have to 1st ignore the fact that our government could totally bail people out and keep them in their homes not only have they already bailed out big banks and wall street to the tune of 4. 00 trillion dollars but you also have to remember that the pentagon has over 21. 00 trillion dollars of unaccounted for adjustments on their books over the pa
And sewer pipes overhead and there were suers in the ground and sometimes were wood, rats ran freely and so did roaches. Bakers worked exceedingly long hours and exceedingly difficult work. It wasnt as difficult as a lot of work during that time, its true, but the title of my first chapter, by the way is not my grandma used to bake. They were handling 100 to 200 pounds of sacks of flour and its hard work and it was dirty and filthy and difficult work for long hours. But it wasnt just that it was difficult conditions for the bakers. There was also the Public Health was endangered by the conditions that these people were working in because the bread wasnt very sanitary. What was also happening in the country that people were beginning to look with Public Health and public safety. Well, i think this is a really good time after that clip to talk about the bake shop act and what the legislature of new york did to address the conditions that you so there were so well described in the video.