1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,840 Hey guys, I'm MDL High and also running for the 2 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,560 Texas State Senate, alongside the Senate. 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,480 So my business. 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,760 One of the first warnings I got about how public 5 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:27,840 things are down here is when I studied mine down 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,840 here, a woman named Link Connect who owns her own 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,320 LLC program. 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,840 She has to drop her Medicaid recipients because the Medicaid 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,600 money is just not there anymore that she used to 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,000 be because he writes something up and adjusted as long 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,880 before the independent way she's killing her. 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,200 On top of that, Texas is not part of the 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,560 Medicaid Expansion Program. 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,280 Medicaid expenditure programs and national money bucket that we all 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,280 pay money into, money flows in this bucket in the 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,000 state, but not us because we're not making another program. 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,800 So Texas. 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,520 So when Texans are paying for medical programs in California, 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,080 we Texans are paying for medical programs in New Jersey, 20 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,200 but not back here. 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,840 All meanwhile, my friend Connects happened to drop her Medicaid 22 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:12,720 Savings. 23 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,320 So only those who are rich enough to pay out 24 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:16,320 of pocket if it's stayed, but the other ones have 25 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:17,280 to get booted out. 26 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,640 And she doesn't want to do this. 27 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,960 She's having a moral dilemma with that. 28 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:22,320 This affects people's lives. 29 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:24,080 I've seen it especially with my father in law in 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,920 the later years of his life when he was worrying 31 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:26,960 about the financials. 32 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:27,680 This is terrible. 33 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,080 It's not good, especially today as a retired private school 34 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:30,560 teacher. 35 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,880 I was shocked to find out how little amount of 36 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,560 money the public school teachers made. 37 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,080 I was shocked to find out how little amount of 38 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,480 money people made teachers made before they were fired. 39 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,120 A friend of mine, Vicky, Chris Bonaparte, she was telling 40 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,120 me how much money she made before she retired as 41 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,800 a public school teacher, and I said, My God, we 42 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,880 need that's the same amount of money I made in 43 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,320 my first job in college. 44 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:49,600 It's insane. 45 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,960 You see, like a decade ago, our the same as 46 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,680 she gives more direct funding to our ISDs, which independent 47 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,400 school districts. 48 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,720 Um they've refacted that over the past decade to make 49 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,280 it more dependent upon reproductive taxes, which is a lot 50 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,120 tighter way of funding our studies 51 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,520 We need to fund our public school teachers, guys. 52 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:06,920 We have to. 53 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,480 We're too dependent upon bonds right now. 54 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,600 Because every time they need to they need additional funding 55 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,760 for their facilities so they can seem like only get 56 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:16,840 it through bonds because they're not getting them from our 57 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:17,400 state. 58 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,120 Right. 59 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,840 And those bonds, by the way, there's a law that 60 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,480 prevents those bonds from upping the teacher's salaries. 61 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,280 Those bonds can only go to the facilities, not to 62 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:26,840 the teachers. 63 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,160 And that is why we have lost forty percent of 64 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,400 our school staff in the past two years. 65 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,160 So we need to fix this system. 66 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,440 Again, one name is still afraid. 67 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:35,960 You want to learn more about me, you can afford 68 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,160 Texas.com, this F R F U I protects.com. 69 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,680 I also have some literature set up here that you 70 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,320 can pick up.