Abuse, Trafficking, Assault and Neglect in Texas Foster Care Will Only Get Worse After Abortion Bans

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.120 Trigger warning. The contents of this episode has references to subject matter that listeners 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:10.160 may find disturbing or triggering of personal past experiences. For more information referred to 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:20.879 the description of the episode, please proceed with caution. Hey everyone, this 4 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.519 is Bellamers. Thanks for joining me on another episode of Big Time Fresh. 5 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.199 This one's going to be a different one at different vibe, different topic, 6 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:33.640 different everything. I try to stay away from politics, but this one is 7 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.840 not just politics. It's also about reproductive rights. So I just wanted to 8 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.159 give you one more time a trigger warning for this episode. Going forward, 9 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.640 we will be back to our typical format, but this one is important to 10 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.240 me on an important topic, so I definitely wanted to share my perspective. 11 00:00:52.880 --> 00:01:03.880 Um, I will catch you next week. When children are removed from their 12 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:08.200 homes because of abuse and neglect, it's because of extreme abuse and neglect, 13 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:12.359 and these children have been traumatized. When we take them into our system of 14 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:18.959 care, that's when we start re traumatizing them, and that's the beginning of 15 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.799 their life and care. All of us felt like we were criminals. We're 16 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:29.599 being disciplined for something that our parents did. It's like we're money to them, 17 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.079 like you see like Mr Gary would come to work in his corvette. 18 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.480 Well, all of us don't even have foodges. I remember one group home 19 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.599 and there's literally a boat lock on the fridge. That lock was always there 20 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.040 unless we had a visitor, which meant that we went some nights without eating. 21 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:48.560 So before we get too far into the into the story, there's gonna 22 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.159 be a lot to unpack here, and I'm not going to be able to 23 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.159 break it down. So I'm not going to really be able to break it 24 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.120 down all the way. But I wanted to mention real quick that I'm going 25 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:04.120 to have a link in the uh in the description of the episode that's going 26 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:08.240 to have the link to the article that I wrote. Because of that article 27 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:14.479 is where you can find a lot of the sources to where I actually got 28 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:20.360 the data, but also where I got the video and or in this case 29 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.759 the audio clips um but with the article has the links that you can watch 30 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.199 the actual videos as well. Here's a little bit more on the foster care 31 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:43.840 system in the total United States. Sex trafficking of miners is a major problem 32 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.439 in group homes, but despite the fact that this is commonly known by both 33 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:52.719 staff and case workers, underage girls and boys are able to easily leave the 34 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:57.639 home at all hours of the day and night. Once gone, sexual predators 35 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:02.759 are not far behind. We're the hotel across the street from the group home. 36 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:07.639 The guys would bring the girls here. They buy them alcohol, buy 37 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.759 them marijuana, They bring them in a room, they get drunk, they 38 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:15.400 get HI. Whatever they wanted to do. Our case workers weren't providing for 39 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:20.159 us. The girls felt that the only way they were going to get anything 40 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:24.560 is if they got it themselves. The prostitutes range from twelve to seventeen. 41 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:30.520 Some girls prostitute for money, Others prostitute for food. Others prostitute for drugs. 42 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:35.000 Some prostitute because they think that the person are with lovesome and being a 43 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.120 foster kid, mostly these bill don't get a lot of love. There's a 44 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:42.479 ton of foster kids in the system all over the United States, So I 45 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.159 do want to kind of get some insight into what it looks like right now 46 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:52.719 if you did want to become a foster family or or adopt the child. 47 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:59.759 Here are some of the things that I found online that we're definitely a resource 48 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.159 to use. At the same time, was kind of uh discouraging. I 49 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:10.000 guess, just the way it's set up like a sergery tool, so you 50 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.240 can go onto the website and search for different things that you are looking for 51 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.839 in a child, either to adopt or to to be a foster parent too. 52 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.519 And to me, what's what's sad is is that you know again, 53 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:30.040 I don't even know how. I'm sure the chain of command and pointing fingers 54 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:34.000 and blame is is all over their place. But the way it's set up 55 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.399 right now is you can say I would like a three year old who is 56 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:46.079 white, that is that has no behavioral issues. There's also options to say, 57 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.839 yes, I don't mind siblings, I don't mind special needs, I 58 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:57.720 don't mind if they are they have behavioral issues. But you can also exclude 59 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.439 those options. So any of the results that would come up in the database 60 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:05.879 would show you the children that are available to be adopted or to um be 61 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:13.519 uh so that either to be adopted or have an opportunity to be a for 62 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:18.079 you to foster. You can pick and choose from there. So it's just 63 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.879 hard. The pictures are up there with the kids, all of the information, 64 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.279 a little bit about their background, so it breaks my heart. But 65 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.839 you know, this is why we need reform. This is this is um. 66 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:39.399 This is going to get worse because with the overturn Roe v. Wade, 67 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:42.759 this is just a reality that's that's going to get worse. So, 68 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:50.319 um, let's get into the state of Texas specifically, a federal judge scolded 69 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:56.399 the people in charge of the Texas foster care program about unsafe conditions for children. 70 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.720 Oxford Rolling Brown joins us with the story, LORI, how they're in. 71 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.279 One of the cases in question, a caretaker put two girls in a 72 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.079 hotel while she went out of state. She then asked two men to go 73 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.279 and check on them, and the men assaulted the girls. It's one of 74 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:16.199 the many failures that the judge reviewed today. This has been going on for 75 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:21.279 eleven years now because of how bad the foster care system is in Texas. 76 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:29.040 The state of Texas has been in litigation against Greg Abbott for not doing anything 77 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:35.040 or not addressing what needs to be done. Eleven years okay, and because 78 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:44.720 it's so dangerous and there's no solutions that Texas is providing. Guess who else 79 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.480 they're shipping out of state? Oh, kids, They're shipping foster kids. 80 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:54.480 Foster children are being shipped. And I say shipped because that's what they say 81 00:06:54.480 --> 00:07:00.040 everybody else, they're being taken out of state. Two. The example I 82 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:05.319 have here from the source that I have here, uh, two point one 83 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:14.160 million dollars in was put for children to move out of state into a different 84 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.240 foster care system in another state. Oh. That sounds exactly like how much 85 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:28.199 money it took for uh for the Santis to fly those Venezuelans who were not 86 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:33.360 here illegally, they were seeking asylum. They did it legally and they sat, 87 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.639 you know, let's fly him over to Martha's vineyards. That was about 88 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:46.040 two million dollars right. Recently, one of these instances here a prairie harbor 89 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:51.120 foster home m a prairie hard harbor foster home. So that foster home on 90 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:59.639 its own, uh, showed the structural deficiencies that violated the General Classes fourteenth 91 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:05.360 the men meant right to be free from an unreasonable risk of harm. Let's 92 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:13.839 go to twenty nine. Let's go to the number of suspected unconfirmed incidents of 93 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:26.199 sex trafficking. Number of confirmed incidences of sex trafficking in Texas for the children 94 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:31.559 for the Department of Family Protective Services. Okay, in one year, one 95 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:41.600 one eight numbers of confirmed incidents of sex trafficking in for children involved with the 96 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:50.039 for the Department of Family and Protective Services. Here are some examples. A 97 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.759 woman who was sexually abused children at one facility was fired from one that facility, 98 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.720 but then was hired by a different fastic care facility for victims of sex 99 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:05.440 track picking and soliciting, selling and selling news of the girls in her care 100 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.080 subs and this is from the ruling. Subsequent sexual aggression manifestation as child on 101 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:20.879 child sexual or physical abuse is also quote typical, common and widespread throughout Texas 102 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:30.360 foster care. Another former foster child name uh I'm gonna leave out the name, 103 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:35.200 testified that sexual assault between foster children was a common thing in big group 104 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:43.519 homes where caregivers were simply not able to watch everyone. So the judge who's 105 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:50.320 still on the case, uh, Judge Judge Janice Jack has been on this 106 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.519 class action lawsuit for these alas for these last eleven years. In her scathing 107 00:09:54.600 --> 00:10:00.879 three fifty five page ruling, Judge Jack reprimanded the state for running a system 108 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:07.200 where rape, abuse, psychotropic medication, and instability are the norm, where 109 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:13.960 children are almost uniformly leave the state custody custody more damaged than when they entered. 110 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.960 Federal Judge Janis Jack told leaders with the Texas Department of Family and Protective 111 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.240 Services that their actions have been shameful. She voiced her frustration with the lack 112 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:31.919 of controls to keep workers accused of wrongdoing at one facility for being rehired elsewhere. 113 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.799 One example, an employee with the refuge a care facility and bash drop 114 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.960 for child victims of sex trafficking. The employee allegedly exploited child residents, selling 115 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.799 nude photos of them and using the money to provide alcohol and drugs to the 116 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:48.879 miners. The judge questioned why there was no state database to show that employee 117 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:54.000 had previously been terminated by the juvenile justice system, and response, state leaders 118 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.519 told Judge Jack their access to certain files is restricted under state law. Paul 119 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:03.159 yet Or, the attorney who brought the case against the state's foster care system, 120 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:09.679 said that needs to change. Uh, the lawsuit that was filed against 121 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:15.480 the crag Abbott and it's like the fourth or this is on the eleventh year, 122 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:20.159 so it was either a response or sanctions. I don't know. I'm 123 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.559 so sorry, but um it's three hundred and fifty five pages. Right at 124 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:31.360 the end of those, at the end of the on three one of civil 125 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:39.480 action number two eleven CB zero zero zero eight four, he says teachers were 126 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:45.039 not present in two of the classrooms during three of the days the monitoring team 127 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:50.480 visited, and the school district did not provide substitutes, So students were just 128 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:56.000 chilling. Uh, they were playing cards and sleeping under death and and um 129 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.399 and playing games. So the picture they took is of um, some of 130 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.639 the kids that were sleeping on the floor because there was no substitute teacher. 131 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:16.799 So the judge, the judge who has been on this case for the eleven 132 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:22.120 years that it's been in existence, it says they planned to have plans to 133 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:30.000 levy substantial finds after Texas failed to comply with court ordered fixes to its foster 134 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:37.679 care system. Uh, the Abbott the Abbott's Administration's lack of competence and failed 135 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.879 promises were all part of the Texas Supreme Court's decision to hold them in contempt 136 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.120 of court with the three page ruling. Okay, that's what that was. 137 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:58.519 It was a ruling. And so this executive order for the Family First Prevention 138 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:05.799 Services Act was signed into or this it was an executive order signed in by 139 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:15.320 President Trump with bipartisan support to quote strengthen America's child welfare system by signing a 140 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:22.399 historic executive order aimed at improving outcomes for children and families. This executive order 141 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:28.159 focuses on three key areas of action, improving partnerships, improving resources, and 142 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:37.080 improving oversight. However, the state of Texas is failing children and families in 143 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:43.840 Texas. Therefore, Texas is going to lose seventeen point four million in federal 144 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:50.600 support and in two and twenty five point six million in three because it's not 145 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:58.000 compliant with the Family First Prevention Services Act. Yeah. So this is something 146 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:05.799 Trump put into UH as an executive order, which is wonderful. Um, 147 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.639 but his buddy Abbott is not like, oh okay, great, I don't 148 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.200 care. So because of that, he lost, he's about to lose. 149 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:22.000 I don't know if he has ord, but the article says he was um 150 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:30.279 supposedly about to lose seventeen point four million dollars and federal support in two and 151 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:35.519 twenty five point six million because he's not compliant with the Family First Prevention Services 152 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.799 at So it's his fault. He's not doing what he was supposed to do, 153 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.679 and he's not he's not filling the requirements that needs to be filled to 154 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:48.440 in order for these fundings. That makes sense. I guess how many children 155 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:58.120 are staying in unlicensed foster homes in Texas? Over four hundred If you look 156 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:09.000 back in ten, it was about less than fifty twenty eighteen, probably about 157 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:15.720 ten right now on a legal situation that has been ongoing for about a decade 158 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.559 accusing Texas of running an unsafe foster care system, and this week a state 159 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:26.000 judge says that she's still unsatisfied despite changes that have been made even up into 160 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.960 the last few months, so she will soon start slapping the state with some 161 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:35.320 massive fine similar to what happened back in She says the system is still a 162 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.960 dangerous system for the more than thirty thousand children in its care, so much 163 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.440 so that she sees it as a violation of constitutional rights. How So, 164 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.440 well, the judge has acknowledged a few facts. There's a high rate of 165 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.120 sexual abuse, with the court finding as many as one in four kids have 166 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:56.440 been victims. There's a lack of permanent housing, with children being housed in 167 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:02.039 motels and office buildings. There's a lack of background checks on foster care employees 168 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:07.159 and poor follow up for foster families who are not following regulations. The judge 169 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:12.440 says she's sick of hearing horror stories that she feels were preventable. And we 170 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:17.000 begin tonight with the story that you'll only see here on Fox. An employee 171 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:21.759 with Child Protective Services is caught on camera telling a fourteen year old girl in 172 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.080 foster care to become a prostitute. In the video, she tells the CPS 173 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.919 employee she wants food. The CPS worker tells her to be APPROPS. There's 174 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:34.639 all of this going on, this sexual abuse, this sleeping on floors, 175 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:38.799 these you know, kids coming in worse, leaving worse than they came in. 176 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:45.919 UM. In some cases, I think only sixty two of the children 177 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:51.000 who come in as group sibling groups actually get placed as siblings into the same 178 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.720 foster care, into the same foster home. That's just traumatic in itself. 179 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:03.799 UM. But now, not too long ago, remember this, remember this 180 00:17:03.880 --> 00:17:11.359 press release investigating gender transitioning procedures as child abuse. Because the Texas Department of 181 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.960 Family and Protective Services is responsible for protecting children from Abuse. I hereby direct 182 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:22.960 your agency to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of every any reported instance of 183 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:29.359 instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas, says the Letter to 184 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:34.799 Protect Children from Abuse DFPS and all other state agencies much followed must follow the 185 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:44.200 law as explained in OG opinion number KP zero four zero one. Um, 186 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:48.279 why don't you fix the problems that you already have before making it worse from 187 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.440 people that don't even need to be UM investigated? Why would you take why 188 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:59.079 would you investigate somebody like step back, take everything out of it, take 189 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:06.720 all the bullish it of trams and whatever. If a child is happy in 190 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:11.440 their home with warm and loving parents, why would you take them away and 191 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:19.559 put them into an overly it's over capacity? Uh, sexual abuse rampant, 192 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:26.519 Uh, sleeping on the floor. Look, environment, why would you put 193 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:32.559 them environment? Then you're making them worse. All of the kids are worse. 194 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:38.920 Okay, So let me wrap this up because I'm just I'm just getting 195 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:44.720 pissed now this one in particular. I'm just gonna read through to here's some 196 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:49.480 more facts. Sixti percent of siblings and foster care were placed together at one 197 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:55.839 of the foster Cares at home foster care facilities in San Antonio. Foster Care 198 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:02.240 Shelter had two thirty nine citations that were documented finding of abuse, self harm, 199 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:07.079 medical neglect, and sexual allegations. Texas has yet to come up with 200 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.200 a way to track where children in foster care are placed. In one thousand, 201 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:15.960 seven hundred sixty seven children and you were missing at some point during the 202 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:21.359 year, within the Department of Family and Protective Services, they were one eight 203 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:26.359 confirmed cases of sex trafficking. Um that I said that one earlier, So, 204 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.200 uh, this one's sex the most and I need to do a little 205 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:37.440 bit research. It was in a reputable news um from a reputable news article. 206 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.039 I personally want to go through the state budget because all of that's public 207 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.200 online. So if you go through the states where they spend all the money, 208 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.319 it's it's probably in there. It's just data I need to go through. 209 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:57.559 But here's here's where it is. Uh. In Governor Abbott took thirty 210 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:03.240 one million from the state's Juvenile Justice fund so that he could pay for Operation 211 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:11.359 Loan Star, sending National Guard to the southern border of Texas. Governor Greg 212 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:17.799 Abbott redirected five hundred million from other agencies to fund Border Security Mission, taking 213 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:23.720 funding from two hundred and ten million from the state's Health and Human Services Commission 214 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:30.279 over two years and about a hundred sixty million from the Texas Department of Public 215 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:38.839 Safety. Operation loan Star cost Texas taxpayers two million dollars a year. Uh 216 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:44.480 So this this is the way beyond, This is way beyond a problem of 217 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:51.599 uh, reproductive healthcare. I wouldn't have an abortion because I don't want to 218 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.640 have a child. This is a reality that they didn't. They need to 219 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.920 fix on the other end, or at least addressed on the other end. 220 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:04.680 If if a child can't if a child has to have a child, uh, 221 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:08.880 if a child is forced to give birth not old enough to work, 222 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:15.319 the does a grandmother have to take custody? Uh? If the grandmother can't 223 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:21.119 take custody and nobody else in the family can take custody, then I assume 224 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:26.400 the child goes to CPS. Right, Um, so what's the plan there? 225 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:33.279 And then also the minimum wage in Texas is seven dollars and twenty five 226 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:41.400 cents an hour. So okay, how are you supposed to buy diapers? 227 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:45.960 Which are like I don't know I don't know, I don't remember, but 228 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:49.160 they're like twenty bucks at least a month. I think they're like forty bucks 229 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:52.680 a month. So how are you supposed to buy that? Um if you 230 00:21:52.920 --> 00:22:02.039 physically aren't able to breastfeed, which was my case formula. Uh, how 231 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:07.160 are you supposed to go take care of the baby with no money if you 232 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.319 can't pay for electricity or a place to live? Like, there's a lot 233 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:15.559 of assumptions that there's gonna be people to support, but clearly not the state 234 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:21.839 of Texas because Medicaid is one of the things that they decided not to um 235 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.440 extend like the rest of this, like most of the states in the United 236 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:32.039 States, So there's no there's no plan um. So what I think should 237 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:37.119 happen is that every single man in the United States should be forced to have 238 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:42.079 a vasectomy and when they're ready to have children, they can get it reversed. 239 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:45.640 Problem solved. Then we don't have to deal with any of this. 240 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.599 Okay, So how old are you? Six? Team? Great? Time 241 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:52.960 for you to get a vasectomy. You have no choice, no choice for 242 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.880 you, Uh, no choice in your body. So vasectomy for you. 243 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:03.759 They're reversible, So it's okay. Vasectomy sixteen, when you're ready to start 244 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:10.720 a family, you come back and we'll get that vasectomy reverse. Um, 245 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:14.920 And so you let, okay, it's reverse. You've had kids and now 246 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.440 you need a viagra. Oh, we're not going to have that anymore. 247 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:26.359 It's not a thing because viagra leaves to children. Viagra results in and pregnancy. 248 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:32.640 That's what it does, medication that causes pregnancy. Now, clearly i'm 249 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.960 being sarcastic, but let's say this, Um, this, this is okay. 250 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:41.640 If the solution is women can't control it, then the solution is men 251 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:48.799 shouldn't be able to either. So men at sixteen years old must get a 252 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:53.119 vasectomy, and when they are ready to have children, then they can go 253 00:23:53.400 --> 00:24:02.599 get the procedure reversed. Problem solved. Right when you're older and you can't 254 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.440 and you can't get an erection, well that's fine. It doesn't matter. 255 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:11.160 You're not trying to have a kid, right since the only reason to have 256 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.519 sex is to have a kid, So why do you even need it if 257 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.319 you want to have a kid. Maybe until you get somebody pregnant and then 258 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:23.799 we'll take you back off of it. So that's my solution. Um, 259 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:26.640 thanks for listening. I had to rance about this one. I couldn't take 260 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.359 it anymore. I still can't take it. And I don't understand why this 261 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.680 isn't a this isn't this isn't in the news. What is happening after the 262 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:40.000 fact. We need to look even if we look one year forward, what 263 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:42.799 are the implications one year forward? And I'm gonna be talking about that and 264 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:48.640 writing up about that after I do my data nerd research. Um, the 265 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:52.920 cost to the taxpayers. There's no way this money is gonna come out of 266 00:24:52.920 --> 00:25:00.559 nowhere. Someone's gotta pay for it. We were supposed Texas with supposed to 267 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.559 get help to pay for it from the federal government, but they didn't follow 268 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.119 the rules. Okay, so taxpayers are going to have to fill that gap. 269 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.759 There's just no way around it. People need to think forward. So 270 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:17.839 again my solution, this is my solution. At sixteen, all men need 271 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:22.079 to get vasectomys. When they're ready to have children, they can get reversed 272 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:26.200 and then um older. If they're not able to get it up, they 273 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:32.799 can have their viagra, but only if they're trying to get pregnant. Otherwise, 274 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:36.559 no viagra for you. And as soon as you have that child, 275 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.759 you get off of viagra, and as soon as you're done having children in 276 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:48.839 general, you get that vasectomy again. And we're on the same page anyway. 277 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:56.240 UM, please subscribe, like uh, follow me on Instagram. It's 278 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:03.160 Big Time Fresh as always. I appreciate you. Thanks again, guys, 279 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:07.400 this has been Bella from Big Time Fresh and I will see you next time. 280 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:11.519 Thanks for listening. 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