DEW-fired Wildphyres as Disaster Capitalism

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hello everyone i'm Tracy Derwin thank
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you so much for joining me today in
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today's video I'm going to be discussing
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the topic of disaster capitalism now
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after these disasters happen there is a
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influx of government funds and most of
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the time these funds go to government
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contractors
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and a lot of these contracts are worth a
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lot of money hundreds of millions of
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dollars so I'm going to give an example
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of a property management company that is
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working in Maui right now and show you
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the kind of payments that this company
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is getting i'm also going to show some
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clips from uh Luke who is doing uh reals
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on Instagram pointing out this same
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topic going on in LA as well as uh the
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company that he's going to be talking
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about is also working on the aftermath
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of the Lahina fire so I'll I'll show you
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this one
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all right so if you thought that my last
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post about the FEMA funded tiny homes
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was bad this one is going to blow your
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mind the US Army Corps of Engineers paid
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$396
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million to ECC the same company who's
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doing the LA fire cleanup to clear 268
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lots that's almost $1.5 million
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per lot which is not only enough to
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clear the lots of their fire debris but
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it's enough to rebuild the homes
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how can this not be corruption leave me
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a comment let me know if you think this
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is waste fraud or abuse or if you've got
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your head in the clouds and you think
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everything is kosher with this
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now he was talking about the cleanup um
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process i'm going to bring up this
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this page right here and
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anyone can go here it's uh
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usspending.gov
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any kind of government spending
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uh of this type has to be public okay so
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Lima Charlie is doing the property
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management for the homes that are being
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leased to the victims of the fire so
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people that didn't have homes can
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qualify for this program and they hired
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this outside company to do the
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management now um you know a few months
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after the fire the governor released an
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offer for people that own property on
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Maui they can get a pretty decent um
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payout if they rented their property to
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uh a fire victim or a fire victim's a
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family or something like that the
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payments go from $5 to $11,000 a month
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so it was pretty generous so I think a
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lot of people did sign up to do this but
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that number pales in comparison to the
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amount that the property management
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company is getting so here is the
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overall amount so total awards $177.5
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million goes to Lima Charlie
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okay some a lot of these uh leases
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are just I mean every time I look here
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the number goes up so I think there are
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637
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properties signed up in this program now
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let me pull up the here are the
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individual leases
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so these are the highest so I I filtered
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them from from the highest to the least
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but look at these amounts the top one
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$3.1 million
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for a property that is leased from
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November 28th no October 28th of last
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year till November 28th so this is a 13
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month lease and it's it cost $3.1
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million here the next one is from
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uh December of last year till June 30th
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of this year so that's that's only a
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sixmonth lease this is not even a year
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it's $1.263 million and you can go on
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this site I'll link it in the
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description you can see all of the
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individual leases that they have that
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they're managing i mean there's tons
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that are over $900,000
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so the majority of this amount goes to
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the property management company not to
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the victims definitely not to the
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victims and not to the property owners
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and it's not hard to say that with a lot
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of these properties uh homes could have
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been built with this amount for those
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victims or some of this this money could
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be going directly uh in cash assistance
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to the victims and let me just remind
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you that each household got $700 as a
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one-time payment to help
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so that I think came out to I think $2.5
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million total for the $700
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and look at how much money is going this
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is just property management
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so of course you could go on this site
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and see it for yourself i highly
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recommend you do that and again this is
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just one of the companies
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i think there are other property
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management companies i'm not sure but it
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seems like this one is the main one they
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do um manage a lot of the properties
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uh so another topic that he has brought
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up is that these contracts don't go back
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to the community often times at least
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with these two cases they go to outside
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agencies that have connections with the
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federal government
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so instead of hiring a local property
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management company that you know the
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person the company could you know
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provide jobs and you know the the money
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will go back to Maui that's not
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happening it's going outside and that is
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a big problem and I'm going to play this
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clip of some contractors that are being
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um shorted from the work they're not
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getting paid for the work they did
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shortly after the LA fires for for us
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it's it's it was a ripoff the only
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people that are making money it's the
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Army Corps of Engineers ECC maybe it
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stops at Shimmick everybody after that
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everybody's getting screwed how many
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other truckers are you guys aware of
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that are in the same boat i think it's
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probably about 35 trucks that haven't
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gotten paid do you think you'll get paid
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or We've already asked ECC they have no
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answers we asked Shimik they say that
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the same thing nobody has an answer the
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agreement was we're going to get work 30
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days after the 30 days it was going to
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become a weekly payment there was a
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government contract that we were going
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to get paid it never happened we were
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doing probably from 12 to 14 hours a day
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$300 a day in fuel plus your labor yes
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got it 2 months you guys driving without
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without being paid and I don't know if
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you guys have looked into this but I
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want homeowners to be aware the buck
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stops with a prime contractor he's
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responsible to pay all of the
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subcontractors that could include people
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who are renting vehicles truckers you
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name it you guys have the right to put a
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mechanic's lean on these properties to
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make sure that you get paid and
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ultimately you can't sell your property
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until you've resolved those leans you
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guys deserve to be paid and and for a
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homeowner by the way you should be
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checking with the Army Corps of
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Engineers to make sure the bills have
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been paid on your property you know for
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truckers and equipment rental and
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everything else because you could end up
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getting hit with a mechanic's lean or a
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big lawsuit because your subcontractors
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weren't paid
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so that you're hearing about guys that
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had already done work for the cleanup or
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the rebuilding i'm not sure exactly what
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they were doing but they have done the
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work they said 12 to 14 hours a day and
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they haven't been paid by the government
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for the work they've already done you
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know ECC and these big contracts get all
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the money and the amounts are very high
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so one point in Maui he said $1.5
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million to clean up each lot on average
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and you saw the Lima Charlie property
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management fees um upwards of a million
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dollar for a year lease on these
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properties that the victims are living
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in so I just wanted to bring up this
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topic of disaster capitalism this is a
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opportunity for a lot of companies to
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make a lot of money and that is after a
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big disaster so I wanted to make a very
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concise video because I discussed this
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in my live but that was over an hour and
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a lot of people wanted to send this
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information out so I hope this is going
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to be helpful if you want to share this
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video because a lot of people just
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aren't aware of the funds and where
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they're going and the fact that there is
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money to help the victims as you have
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seen the government is just reluctant to
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do that
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so I wanted to make that very clear
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please let as many people know what's
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going on i highly doubt this is limited
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to LA and Maui and I really think you
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know more people need to know and and
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things really need to change when it
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comes to these disasters so that's going
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to do it thank you guys so much for
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watching and I'll see you soon
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bye