Long Island's Poverty Mentality and Entitlement to Inheritance

• 23:42Tim describes eating baked beans and sauerkraut in a wooden bowl during his poorest days in Manhattan.
• 23:59He tried to claim victim status after Sandy, pretending he'd lost everything while actually living in Manhattan.
• 24:25Living on the fifth floor of a tenement with no door, only a curtain, bedbugs, and rats—but he loved it at 25 doing stand-up.
• 24:56During Sandy, Tim had no power for a week and was upset the frozen yogurt place wouldn't rotate flavors, while his Manhattan neighborhood had full electricity.
• 25:27FEMA gave him $1,100 instead of the usual $35,000 because they smelled fraud in his Sandy claim.
• 25:56Long Island County allegedly set up fake FEMA emergency centers to collect overtime money and inflate reimbursements from the state.
• 27:01Long Island concentrates American selfishness and dishonesty in a way that's hard to believe unless you've lived there.
• 27:43After Sandy, Long Islanders spent the next seven years using the disaster as an excuse for everything.
• 27:55Grown adults on Long Island have their own houses but their retirement plan is waiting for their parents to die.
• 28:49Someone working retail or as a medical biller feels entitled to own a house just because they'll eventually inherit from their parents.
• 29:43These Long Island people openly discuss waiting for their parents to die—it's not hidden, people laugh at jokes about it because they recognize it.
• 30:02The grimy mentality of clinging to every bit of food at dinner, wrapping up leftovers from Texas Roadhouse, despite having financial security.
• 30:15Nobody on Long Island is actually in need, yet they walk out of restaurants with leftovers as if there won't be more food next week.

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