WE HAVE A PRETTY HEARTWARMING AND SHOCKING STORY OF GENEROSITY
THAT CAME ABOUT THIS WEEK, IT STARTED IN KENTUCKY AT A BERNIE
SANDERS RALLY TO STOP TRUMPCARE, A SET OF RALLIES THAT WE
PREVIEWED LAST WEEK.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WENT TO THEM AND FOUGHT
FOR INSURANCE AND EVERYTHING, ONE OF THEM WAS PAULA MARTINEZ
BENJAY, WHO WAS AT THE RALLY WITH A SIGN.
TYT POLITICS SINCE
JORDAN TO COVER IT, HE INTERVIEWS PAULA, THEN THERE IS
A SHOCKING TWIST AFTER THE INTERVIEW.
BUT HERE IS THE FIRST SECTION WITH PAULA DESCRIBING HER
SITUATION AND WHY THIS RALLY IS SO IMPORTANT TO HER.
WE ARE PART OF THE UNDERINSURED, WE PAY $600 A
MONTH FOR INSURANCE, AND OUR INSURANCE SUPPOSEDLY COVERED --
OR WE PAY 20% OF OUR BILL, BUT THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
WE WOULD'VE
HAD TO PAY $16,000 IF WE WERE UNINSURED.
NOW WE HAVE TO PAY
LIKE 1400.
THAT'S RIDICULOUS, WE CAN'T AFFORD THAT, WE HAVE A GAS
BILL, A LIGHT BILL, THINK ABOUT ALL THE BILLS YOU REGULARLY PAY.
MY HUSBAND HAS A QUOTE UNQUOTE DECENT COLLEGE DEGREE TYPE OF
JOB, HE GETS PAID $20 PER HOUR, BUT I DON'T WORK.
SO HOW DO I
PAY A MORTGAGE, ALL THOSE BILLS --
I DISAGREE, YOU WORK, YOU TAKE CARE OF THIS CUTE KID.
TRUE, I'M A HOUSEWIFE, IT'S NOT VERY EXCITING.
I WOULD SAY IT'S PROBABLY HARDER THAN MOST JOBS.
YOU CATCH MY DRIFT.
WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING
STARVATION WAGES, OR YOU MAKE ONE DECENT PAYCHECK BUT
CHILDCARE IS RIDICULOUS.
SO IT'S AND UPHILL BATTLE ALL THE TIME.
WE WILL HAVE SOME MORE BOTH IN VIDEO AND SOME OF HER EMAIL
CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE, IT'S BOTH IN THE
INDIVIDUAL CASE SHOCKING, HARD TO IMAGINE HOW YOU DEAL WITH THE
SITUATION, BUT ALSO TRUE OF A LOT OF AMERICANS.
BUT I WANT TO
GO TO WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT INTERVIEW.
TYT POLITICS GETS
REACHED OUT TO BUY THIS PERSON WHO IS AT THIS POINT ANONYMOUS,
WE WILL DESCRIBE WHY A LITTLE LATER ON, WHO SAID THIS --
THEY REACHED OUT TO PAULA, PAULA SAYS --
TAKING A MASSIVE LOAD OFF OF PAULA'S SHOULDERS.
THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
I LOVE YOU GUYS.
THIS IS US STICKING TOGETHER, THAT'S AN
AMAZING STORY, I DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN STUFF LIKE THAT CAN HAPPEN
BUT IT BRINGS ME TO THE EDGE OF TEARS, AND THAT'S WHY WE GO TALK
TO PEOPLE.
LOOK, ONE OF THE ISSUES IS THAT IF YOU WATCH THE
NEWS YOU DON'T GET A SENSE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN
THE COUNTRY.
YOU GET A LOT OF TALK ABOUT POLITICS AND WHAT
PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IN WASHINGTON, BUT DO YOU GET A
SENSE OF THAT YOUNG COUPLE IN KENTUCKY WORKING AS HARD AS THEY
CAN, DID ALL THE RIGHT THINGS, BUT NOW YOU HAVE A $12,000
STUDENT LOAN DEBT, $9000 DEBT FROM HAVING HER SON -- HE WAS
BORN PREMATURE AT SEVEN MONTHS OLD, HE WAS BORN AT JUST 3
POUNDS, HAD TO GO TO THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE, SO
BECAUSE HER HUSBAND HAS A JOB, THAT'S GREAT, THEY ONLY HAD TO
PAY 20% OF THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE.
BUT THAT 20% IS STILL
A TON OF MONEY.
SHE HAD TO SPEND TWO WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL AND
HER SON HAD TO SPEND TWO MONTHS IN INTENSIVE CARE, THEY HAD
NEARLY $10,000 IN MEDICAL BILLS.
THEN SHE HAS 12,000 IN STUDENT
LOANS, THEN THEY HAVE A MORTGAGE, THEN THEY HAVE TO TAKE
CARE OF THE KID, HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET ALONG?
AND WHAT
DRIVES US CRAZY AND RECOVER IT ON THE YOUNG TURKS, ON TYT
POLITICS, IS THAT THESE GUYS, YOU DON'T SEE THESE STORIES.
I
FEEL LIKE THE PEOPLE IN POWER DON'T HAVE ANY SENSE OF THE REAL
STRUGGLES OF AMERICANS.
AND THEN OF COURSE FOR HER -- AND BY THE
WAY, WHAT DID SHE DO?
SHE SAID HER HUSBAND TALK HER INTO GOING
TO THE BERNIE RALLY --
SHE WILL DESCRIBE WHY IN SOME OF THESE QUOTES.
WE WILL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND.
AND THEN IT TURNS OUT
THIS AMAZING ACT OF KINDNESS FROM SOMEBODY WATCHING THERE.
YOU NEVER KNOW, TAKE ACTION, BE PART OF CHANGE, STAND UP, YOU
NEVER KNOW WHAT COULD COME OUT OF IT.
AND I CAN'T THINK THAT
ANONYMOUS DONOR ENOUGH, I DON'T KNOW HIS OR HER NAME EITHER, BUT
IT'S WONDERFUL.
MORE DETAILS.
REALLY FAST, ONE OF THE SAD STORIES THAT CAME OUT A FEW
WEEKS AGO WAS THAT SO MUCH OF GOFUNDME IS RELATED TO PEOPLE
DESPERATELY TRYING TO PAY THEIR HEALTH CARE BILLS, BUT ALSO YOU
SEE A LOT OF SUCCESS STORIES WHERE YOU DO HAVE PEOPLE IN MANY
CASES WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW THE PERSON THEY'RE HELPING OUT TO
GET THEIR LIFE BACK ON TRACK, TO FINANCIALLY GET THEIR HEAD ABOVE
WATER, THAT IS AMAZING.
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE THIS PERSON
DONATED SO MUCH MONEY JUST BASED ON SEEING A COUPLE OF MINUTES OF
A PERSON'S STORY, IT'S AMAZING, IT'S BEEN A DARK TIME IN AMERICA
SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT.
AND FROM WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, YOU
HEAR A LOT OF POLITICIANS TALK ABOUT WANTING MORE FREEDOM FOR
AMERICANS.
IMAGINE IF YOU HAVE $12,000 IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT,
TONS MORE IN HEALTHCARE DEBT, HOW FREE ARE YOU?
IF SHE WANTS
TO HAVE ANOTHER KID, DOES SHE FEEL FREE TO HAVE ONE?
IF SHE
HAS AN IDEA FOR A BUSINESS, IS SHE FREE TO START ONE?
IT'S NOT
ILLEGAL, SHE COULD TECHNICALLY DO IT, BUT IT WILL BE HARD WITH
THE FINANCIAL BURDEN ON HER BACK.
BUT AFTER THE DEBT WAS
PAID OFF, PAULA HAD THIS TO SAY, THE ENTIRE THING IS HEARTWARMING
AND WE WILL BE SECTIONS --
WHICH SHE DID.
SPEAKING ABOUT WHY SHE WENT TO THE RALLY, SHE SAID --
AND TYT MEMBERSHIP.
SHE, BY
THE WAY, GRADUATED WITH A 4.0 GPA.
REPUBLICANS LIKE
TO PUT OUT THE THING, BOOTSTRAPS, IF YOU HAD
BOOTSTRAPS AND WORKED HARD THINGS WOULD MAGICALLY GET
BETTER.
HOW ABOUT IF YOU WORKED HARD AND GOT A 4.0 GPA WHERE YOU
LITERALLY COULD NOT HAVE DONE ANY BETTER?
THAT DOESN'T MAKE
YOUR STUDENT LOAN AND HEALTHCARE DEBT MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR.
NOBODY
SAYS YOU GOT A 4.0, WE WILL PAY YOUR BILLS.
BUT TO ME THE MOST
POWERFUL PART OF WHAT SHE SAID WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH SHE IS
GRATEFUL, ISN'T IT SAD FOR ALL OF US THAT SHE HAD TO RELY ON
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, WHEN IN FACT WHY DON'T WE BE KIND TO
ONE ANOTHER?
THAT'S WHY WE SET UP GOVERNMENT, SO THAT IF YOUR
NEIGHBOR HAS A FIRE WE ALL GO PUT IT OUT TOGETHER.
WE PUT IN
MONEY SO WE HAVE A FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT PUTS OUT THE
FIRE.
WE PAY FOR COPS, ROADS, SCHOOLS, THAT'S US HELPING EACH
OTHER, HELPING OUR KIDS GET A BETTER EDUCATION AND
OPPORTUNITIES.
AND JOHN IS RIGHT, IF YOU AREN'T PLAGUED BY
STUDENT DEBT THEN YOU MIGHT BE FREE TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
I KNOW BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO MY DAD, AND THAT WAS
BACK IN TURKEY IN THE 1960S.
YOU ARE TELLING ME WE CAN'T DO IN
AMERICA IN 2017 WHAT THEY DID IN TURKEY IN THE 1960S?
WHICH IS
PAY FOR COLLEGE EDUCATION?
MY DAD HAD NO MONEY WHEN HE CAME
OUT BUT HE ALSO DIDN'T HAVE DEBT, SO HE COULD START HIS OWN
BUSINESS, AND IT WOUND UP CREATING HUNDREDS OF JOBS.
WE'VE
GOT TO BELIEVE ANY GENDER, AND THE WAY YOU DO THAT IS NOT JUST
ONE-OFF ACTS OF KINDNESS, ALTHOUGH AGAIN I CANNOT DESCRIBE
HOW WONDERFUL THIS IS, BUT WE'VE GOT TO DO IT ON A MASS SCALE.
IF
GOVERNMENT IS DONE RIGHT, THAT IS A BIG IF, BUT IF IT IS,
THAT'S WHAT IT'S THERE FOR.
THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HOW WE
TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER.
FINALLY, I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU
A QUOTE FROM THE ANONYMOUS DONOR -- AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A
HE OR A SHE, BUT THEY SAID --
PAULA AND I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EACH OTHER AND THAT'S
ENOUGH FOR ME, I UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL OF THE ALL TOO COMMON
STORY THAT THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS IS NOT CURDLED, BUT I
DON'T WANT TO GET MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME FROM BEING THE POSTER
BOY.
PAULA ALSO THANKED JORDAN, SHE MENTIONED JIMMY DORE AND ALL
THE OTHER FOLKS SHE WATCHES AT THE TYT NETWORK.
SO WHEN HE OR
SHE IS TALKING ABOUT KNOWING PAULA LITTLE BIT, THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT JORDAN'S REPORTING AND WHAT THEY SAW IN THE VIDEO,
AND THAT WAS ENOUGH.
SO FOR ALL YOU GUYS OUT THERE BANK, THAT'S
WHY I KEEP TELLING YOU, WE AREN'T THE YOUNG TURKS, YOU ARE
THE YOUNG TURKS.
THAT WAS AMAZING, THANK YOU, AND ALSO LEARN NOT JUST FROM
THE DONOR'S EXPERIENCE BUT FROM PAULA'S.
GO OUT AND FIGHT, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF YOU
MAKE A LITTLE SIGN AND YOU GO OUT THERE AND SHOW PEOPLE THAT
YOU CARE AND YOU WILL FIGHT BACK AND WE WILL FIX THIS TOGETHER.
THANK YOU.