currently in the nation we have six million two hundred thousand citizens who cannot vote or hold public office because they have been convicted of a felony that's a significant amount of population that we have around three hundred and fifty million people and like six million people is a lot of people who i mean have committed crimes of course but they're not like barring them from voting is almost like taking away like a human rights or like a rights given to all americans you know and so some states so i mean the majority of the country ok once when you're in jail  right is banned for life time so basically even when you release from prison even when you've served your sentence for the rest of your life you cannot and i think i disagree with this i mean america was founded with the you have like  when you go to jail you've done something wrong you don't cry and you pay your time the idea is once you get out of jail you're a free man you've you've done your due diligence you should be able the goal is that you're able to come back to society and contribute to society fully so by not giving them the right to vote it's also saying you're less of a person now that you've done this crime even though you've done your due diligence you would think after doing it time after you know paying back pain back to society you think that you now be allowed to vote but it's not the case and in many cases it goes past voting it's you know getting a job is a lot tougher now working under certain in certain industries a lot tougher so it's very hard to kind of a simile back into society after you've already paid the debt when you know you can disenfranchise at a felony can be really it's not even just like killing someone or it can be drug violations right selling drugs that can be a felony for you and so a drug dealer someone who's like living in like i mean a poor area and really house feels like they have to turn to drugs i mean if it's the only way you can get by and then i mean they do their time and they realize that what they did was wrong and now they want to change they want to get better but they still can't vote they suck it up and they're seen as less you know but when he gets dicey is that you know in the past marijuana was ranked as you know when it was ranked in the same status as you know cocaine as old as the drugs in the real sense it's not so having people in the who were convicted of a felony or you know with around marijuana and now they're having to serve time even though one of the laws of my want to have you know have been have been have been lessened and so we're seeing that the way the government perceived marijuana was wrong and it was not it was not accurate and people got punished because of that but they still have to serve the time and they still disenfranchised from a flawed system from the beginning you and i opinion all this is this just me if there's a law and you break it and later the law changes i still think you should do the time and pay the punishment now obviously i don't think anyone who commits a crime should be  illegal but i mean some people so for example in this case stefan harben he was arrested for selling cocaine and basically cocaine to pay for his tuition for college which is i mean ridiculously expensive in the united states extremely expensive very very difficult to afford and i mean ok obviously not a great i mean not a good way at all to be trying to get by but i mean he lives in kentucky you know and because of that he so he was arrested and put in jail for selling cocaine and he can't vote for the rest of his life and people what i see here is someone who's trying to better their life they're trying to go down the right path and they feel like they don't have a choice and they must turn aside and cocaine even though for many i mean selling drugs actually less profitable getting a minimum wage job or it's not worth the time but he felt like that that was the only option and he wanted to go to college you want to get an education he didn't want to be in this in this whole circle it was almost like a way from the get out and so obviously i think to just pull the plug about it i mean i think the one thing that really stand execution of the plan was you know wrong if you want money to go to pay for your schooling do it ethically do you do it there's better ways of doing it but once you already passed that point i mean this is like if even if right let's say he did want let's see after after you know  served his time he wants to make his life better it's tough because his voice is not heard exactly does not have the same right as all the other you know all the other citizens of kentucky do not have the same the majority of citizens of the united states have the right to vote and that's an important thing i want time people think you know they are coming around with the midterms actually coming coming on tomorrow the th right you know you people always being told vote so your voice can be heard vote so your voice going to be heard it's very discouraging when you've served when you've people you know and so i saw this in kentucky actually in two thousand and fifteen the democratic the democratic governor he issued i think that's those saying about one hundred and forty thousand residents who are non violent felons where will they get the right to vote vote back and i thought i definitely agree with a pos i thought was a great policy but his republican predecessor once he came back and he he issued another executive order reversing that and you see like these people who are like giving these opportunities and taking them away and based off where they live  in america right they have different rates just because something crimes are committed i think like it should be on the national level nonviolent felons i think should be given the right to vote once you get out of jail and i mean violent felons i mean that's another question by i still think they should have the right to vote because they did their time and they paid their penance and i'd hope they'd be rehabilitated to be able to reintegrate into society and become struct of members and i mean this kind of reminds me of another problem in our country i think just the prison system in general i mean what  this really show us and i mean obviously we know now and like we've compared herself other countries and we see that our prison system which we have a huge issue with st of all basically it's focused around punishing not really rebuilt all private it's all for money i mean yeah really goes off on this thing where like if you get into jail it's almost like a self fulfilling prophecy you're going to get back there right because when you're a felon people or people want to hire a phone it's people you know who do want to it's tough to get it's very very tough and actually no not me i think you can get money from the government for having no other way and if you're not even given this voting rights like how are you even an american citizen right how can you be considered an american how can you be like consider yourself a can should be member of society when you can't even express your opinion in society constructively through voting and this is mostly felt in the young african american community sadly you know it's mostly the young african american men who are you know if they make bad decisions fall into the prison system and it ends up ruining their lives because you know you came up from nothing you had to make me question  make to get money and then you know you get caught up in the system and then now leaving is hard because right if the you believe you are right if you want to get on bond you have to for that money somehow if you get released on probation you still have to meet up with the officer once in a while and that cost money so i've heard stories see even in some schools you can see this issue too where i mean nash in schools you see it last where there are more lenient they always want to teach you they always want to make it better for you but then once you've got to get out into the i mean i people would say the real world you do a crime they're not going to be as your punishment is three years in jail that's your punishment why why is this added on as well i mean there's so many other barriers that are added to a felon who wants to get back and do the right thing and really step back into the real world i mean this is just an extra thing that is not private they're becoming a private industry you can own in prison and you can be get paid by the government to house prisoners i mean so that you can profit i mean other things move slow on the national level and then the state level if you have a state that's pretty rather conservative rather  why put all this effort into making someone better if you're a private prison when really if you don't rehabilitate them if you just make the prison system so they do their time and they don't get any benefit or any like anything from the from that system used to get them back again so it's a loop where the private sector is nonsense advised to make to make you be a better person when you go to jail now the public now if it was run by the government right and i mean that might be bless a fish and this is what you'll see right the government doesn't want you back there because then they have to pay for you to go to jail you have the private sector is getting money from the government and they want to make a profit off of that i mean it's a it's a competition is really like capitalism working in the prison system if you like those really you should not be working for sexual harassment claims and then they want to get rid of that as well which i mean makes sense to me i mean at least if you're working at this company and you're hearing all this i feel firstly as a woman and i think it's right i mean obviously you have the right to protest and  it has been on the front line as a lot like it to be out there but in comparison to you know last december last january last year when i was really hearing about it but i feel like this is kind of like it's a really getting that this stuff is still going on just as you don't hear about it every single day but it's still going i look to the final four star betray chinooks i think that might be unclear some people if someone is has forced arbitration i google that means they waive their rights to be able to sue or participate in a class action lawsuit against google for sexual harassment or anything so this is essentially google saying like i mean if there is something fishy going on you can't do anything about it right in non disclosure it's very it's where they're saying if a problem arise it we're going to control it in house and we're going to take care of it in the house we're not going to let it get out of hand because they don't want to lawsuit obviously but i mean i think this is very bad because in my opinion i think this goes against the whole point of the me too movement and everything that they go for because they they believe if they're getting harassed i mean if they said it through the government the government i mean is going to decide the then that's probably that's not very it's not a conducive environment for women who go through this place and i mean it's kind of interesting to me how all these huge you know i mean for more than doing their companies basically how they basically have this was sad really trying to show the public i mean if you fire someone you're supposed to give them severance rights for their time but what he did right use accused sexual assault google believed what the allegations were credible and they decided to fire him and then they give him ninety million dollars it's almost like  thing i mean this might just motivate people to go out there and see that there's obviously still big problem you know it like when they saw that things have been quoting down a bit there might have been a single some people i mean maybe things have stopped i mean clearly not so i think this could just motivate people to get out there more and give people the courage to get out if they didn't have it before what do you think what i think is like i think this is really good because what let me go more in specifics you see a one thousand google workers walking out that shows that really they have a choice if they think something's wrong they can decide not to stand for it right there not just listening to google saying oh you're forced arbitration ok you want this they're standing up to the big companies and they're really saying like we think we deserve these rights and that i think it's a really good way of expressing yourself or you're walking out right you're showing them like we're not going to work until you fix this and i think this is yeah especially just like the number of people that just shows how much support there is for the program but i think it's better when you start to such a large scale so that small is one of the most i mean probably progressive it's still com valley where it's one of more progressive areas their campus is known to be amazing for everyone right deb an amazing campus for where they work at and what you're seeing is even google who people would probably say is a good model company  still has these issues so if google has issues like this with force arbitration which i'm assuming is that is present in many companies it's widespread right and it's a way for to cover themselves so that they don't get lawsuits but i mean women and people don't want to stand for any more if they think something's wrong in a company they want to be able to have power they the power needs to be in the hands of the workers not just the company all right we have one more topic left for today and going to off yes so essentially our last topic is aware of any real illness where you need something much more powerful than fan to know and what i'm seeing is if this drug really comes out into the market they're saying it would be a very tight restrictions right whereas the people to get it would have to like there's a lot of ropes and hoops you have to go through but what we're seeing is drugs like fentanyl i mean they still have high restrictions right and the way it's getting out isn't i mean from the mexican border i think it's from really people who are describing it that or selling it i would side of  could give to soldiers so that they could get back into about you really quickly and actually i found this interesting because i've heard stories of soldiers so she'd go into battle go into war and they're given drugs and then when they come back they're addicted and so i don't even know if if you'd want that for the soldiers in the military because i mean it can ruin the lives of the soldiers and their actions and their sachar they're sacrificing they're giving them they're giving themselves to the government saying we want to fight for the government we want to make america safe and then you're giving them these drugs which on top of the risk they're putting on themselves is putting a risk even if they survive to really have issues besides p t s d among other things yes and i mean that is the question is so the problem with homeless veterans that we already have and the v a which i and this is where you're saying it's all about the profit it's all about the bottom line is this really necessary does you need to approve it no but it's going to give a lot of money to this summer to sort of become an obvious lobbying everything we i mean we can't say for sure that i mean the money that i mean this company gave to officials in the government officials who run campaigns actually helped but it kind of and it's just the the whole pharmaceutic america's just fishy i mean how much money do they give to campaigns and candidates sure of what exactly are you prescribing what is that you give and you want to be wary of exactly i mean how much they tell you to take like i want to be able to go to my doctor and be able to trust exactly what he says but i feel like i mean there are stories of people who go to the doctors to get prescribe opi  with with prescription drugs they also end up affecting the race too soon this is like you know some drugs or you know the old mostly like you know mostly really rabid you know the poor the community but with drugs like this we're seeing like new hampshire parts of because it's going to be in the states probably to be blue but it shows that when you go out and vote it shows that like a lot if it's a blowout it shows that a lot of people believe this and it's going to it's going to make the way people i mean the way candidates addressed