Prabhupāda: (break) ...reason they cannot keep this park neat and clean? In other cities they keep.
Ādi-keśava: They cannot pay the workers.
Prabhupāda: How is that? In America, city, New York, they cannot pay?
Hari-śauri: New York almost went bankrupt.
Devotee (1): They have mismanaged the whole thing.
Hari-śauri: They had big strikes last year or early this year. They wouldn't clear the garbage away, and the whole city was piled up with garbage everywhere.
Devotee (2): Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says in this Kali-yuga they are all lazy, misguided.
Prabhupāda: So much drinking, they must be lazy.
Devotee (1): Yes.
Prabhupāda: So much drinking excessively. Drinking means laziness.
Rāmeśvara: Also the banks, they loan the city money, but at a very high interest rate. So then the city cannot afford it.
Hari-śauri: People nowadays are so filled with intoxications they are not fit to do anything.
Rāmeśvara: They loan the city money at a very high interest rate, so in order to pay it back they have to borrow more money.
Prabhupāda: Dried up on account of being detached from the original bark. Similarly, as soon as any civilization detached from God consciousness, they'll dry up.