Becky Shaulis

And when I was working at that agency, I was I had just was just out of grad school and

And we were working with primarily Medicaid.

clients in the ghetto of the town that i grew up in and i eventually just couldn't do it anymore because those kids were getting better christmases than my kids were getting and and it was because people were stepping up to take care of like people were donating to them and and here i am taking them their gifts knowing that i can't give the same thing to my kid because i'm barely making enough to stay alive and i don't even know if i have enough money to put gas in my car

you know, or food on the table.

Not that my kids ever knew that that was a thing.

They didn't, they were too little, but that's not what it was ever intended to be.

It just turned into that.

Well, initially it wasn't intended, intended to be that.

I do believe that, you know, there was some intent maybe underneath to keep people in that bondage.

And yes, I'm using that.

I think.

They throw that around and they have no idea.

Yeah, when I was, before we moved to Texas, when I was working in that agency, one of my colleagues was verbally, very verbally left.

And so was it, that would have been, I think it was Obama's second campaign.

And she posted, I ended up unfriending her.

She posted on Facebook at that point that if I didn't vote, if you, I think her statement was, if you didn't vote for Obama, you can F off.

like on her public social media.

And I was just like, and I mean, as a person, I, I liked this person until that happened.

And then I was like, I have no room for that in my life.

Like if you're going to judge me because I chose not to vote for somebody simply because I disagree with policies, but that's what one of the things that we would get.