00:00The line is the firing line in which people face survival or death.
00:19Right now, they're so far below that line, it's beautiful.
00:28The line, the place that people on the bottom are trying to get to and the place that people
00:33on the top are trying to keep from going below.
00:46You can't be too prideful, too stubborn to not step across that line to say,
00:50I can do it on my own, I need help.
00:53Your ego is not important.
00:55What's more important is to put food on the table.
00:58I understand that people might look at me and say,
01:01Well, you're getting a handout and I've done everything that I can do to make myself better.
01:06It's like my dreams are the rich, this pain and all this grief.
01:10If you see God and you happen to speak, tell him it's crazy in these streets.
01:14Feel my pain and get so deep, that make it hard to sleep.
01:18If you see God and you happen to speak, tell him it's crazy in these streets.
01:22Tell him it's crazy in these streets.
01:24There's a certain amount of pride that comes in being independent.
01:27And there's a certain amount of shame that comes into having to beg for every little thing that you get.
01:33It's crazy in these streets.
01:35It's crazy in these streets.
01:36And it's hard right now to start judging.
01:39When you have to struggle paycheck to paycheck, it's a hard thing.
01:45There's no way that I can continue to do this and survive with it.
01:49I just can't do it.
01:51I mean, I've had my gas shut off.
01:53I've had my electric shut off.
01:54It's horrifying.
01:55And it's embarrassing when your kids go to turn on something and it doesn't work.
02:00I've seen a change, not only with income, but I can see a change in the people.
02:09You try to fight yourself out of it, but you can't. You can't.
02:16My income right now, between about $11,000 to $15,000.
02:23The bottom fell out.
02:26And that bottom was that line.
02:29They went below that line.
02:32Poverty is just every day for me.
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