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Posted on 11/12/2025 4:47:44 AM PST by DFG
Voters in Texas' capital overwhelmingly rejected a plan to raise taxes to pay millions for homeless services last week, but that isn't stopping local leaders from looking for the money in other places.
The City of Austin is now proposing cutting millions in funding from the fire and ambulance services to give it the city's unsuccessful program for people on the streets.
'It's a slap in the face because they really aren't listening, and they really are steamrolling, whatever they want to do, and continuously trying to undermine the public will,' local public safety advocate Cleo Petricek told Daily Mail Tuesday.
In a Friday night dump, Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax released a new budget proposal that calls for over $7 million in cuts to public safety.
While nearly every other city department facing cuts, the Homelessness Strategy Office gets a nearly $3.7 million boost under the same proposal.
The $1 million cuts for the fire department means emergency responders may not be able to attack a blaze as soon as they arrive.
'You can't do more with less; you can do less with less,' Austin Firefighters Association President Bob Nicks told Daily Mail, explaining that each fire truck will only operate with three firefighters, instead of the four as mandated by local law and safety standards.
'If you have three people show up to a fire instead of four, we can't even start attacking the fire yet til we assemble at least four on the scene. Time is very important on a fire. If we don't have have enough people on scene to act quickly, the chance of a good outcome is very diminished.
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Care for those often unwilling to work and who have chosen addiction above those who work, add value to society and are usually the actual providers of charity is not compassion, it is a disgusting moral inversion and pure evil.
Liberal politicians are horrible self serving, virtue signaling, tyrants.
San Francisco, Texas.
No comment.
Gee, that will do wonders for your house insurance cost.
It’s not some Texas city fer crisesakes. It’s Austin. The twit who wrote this should have written that in the headline. It’s not like Waco or Lubbock or something. It’s effin Austin.
Austin is diverting public safety funds for ‘homeless’ and Harris Co. is using taxpayer funds to defend illegals.
Blatant actions by leftists occupying the state which merits far more scrutiny and action upon those making policy.
Help someone out and they will remember where to go next time they want something.
Austin is a Disneyland for far-left loony toons. That place is crazier than hell.
Why do liberals want to always be the ones giving aid and money to the homeless? Did they miss out on love from parents or friends or teachers?
That’s about one of the dumbest things I ever heard of. Homeless folks may be important, but if they happen to be illegal homeless, then maybe not quite as important. To divert public safety funds rather verifies what I had heard about Austin for some time now;the city is liberal top-heavy. Public safety funds must come first, I should think. If there is to be help for any homeless, it must come from another source. If they can’t come up with another source, then a complete re-think on how the city is to be run is in order. The only variation I could see for diverting safety funds would be if they had an excess of them & that is hardly likely. Arent there already programs in force for feeding any homeless? In a city the size of Austin, I should think so.
Since they are so determined to get what they want, take the salaries of those who insist on funding the homeless to pay for this crap.
Enough already.
Austin is the Texas State Capital.
The Texas Democrats want to have hundreds of homeless in Austin so they can use the homeless to coerce the State of Texas politicians to provide homeless care at the taxpayer’s expense to all of the cities in Texas.
Such are the political games being played today.
Gee, that will do wonders for your house insurance cost.
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Pls don’t say that. My 1000 sq/ft house, insurance company says has to be insured for a quarter mil. Called around and all others are in the same ball park. And don’t get me started on car insurance here in TX. 2 cars, 2 drivers, $2000 for 6-mnths. Can’t find no better deal on that either.
Combined, annual car/auto is more than a month’s household net income....SMDH
“Keep Austin Weird”.
Bumper sticker seen in Austin for a couple of decades.
“Care for those often unwilling to work and who have chosen addiction above those who work, add value to society and are usually the actual providers of charity is not compassion, it is a disgusting moral inversion and pure evil.”
I don’t disagree, but what should be done with “those often unwilling to work and who have chosen addiction”?
In the Russian TV series The Red Queen (2015), also known as Krasnaya koroleva, such cruelty, darkness, and oppression are exposed relentlessly in all the horrors consequent to the theories of Karl Marx, which woke and its advocates promote, either wittingly or unwittingly.
It should be required viewing for students in every school, college, and university.
It offers a unique (in my experience) view of life in the Soviet Union and by extension under any totalitarian regime. The oppression, cruelty, bureaucratic exploitation, and hopelessness are exhausting and horrifying.
Dramatizations of war, violence, child abduction, the mafia, human suffering can be overwhelmingly horrifying, but this horrifies in a different way.
It serves as a call to arms for all people to fight against totalitarianism--and specifically against the horrifying and fundamentally evil theories of Karl Marx, including socialism and communism.
My wife went from Med Surg to Drug Recovery RN, she has been doing that for the last 5-ish years. I can say anecdotally most do NOT want to change and actually want to remain homeless.
I do not have an answer specifically but it sems to us the best we could do is offer a controlled voluntary shelter somewhere and continue to offer recovery services, but not at the expense of taxes other than those required to keep the streets and common areas safe.
Ideally, we need to bring back Mental Institutions but with much better controls for humane treatment, that would be the best use of taxpayer money in our personal opinion.
We shop every year for both. This year’s winner is AAA insurance on both house and auto. I suggest shop around to many different well known insurance companies. Higher deductible also helps decrease premiums. Good luck.
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