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Texas city sparks fury by trying to divert millions from ambulances and firefighters to the homeless
UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/11/2025 | MARYANN MARTINEZ

Posted on 11/12/2025 4:47:44 AM PST by DFG

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1 posted on 11/12/2025 4:47:44 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

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.


2 posted on 11/12/2025 4:52:08 AM PST by Skwor
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To: DFG

San Francisco, Texas.


3 posted on 11/12/2025 4:53:42 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: DFG

No comment.


4 posted on 11/12/2025 4:53:53 AM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: DFG

Gee, that will do wonders for your house insurance cost.


5 posted on 11/12/2025 4:59:39 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: DFG

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.


6 posted on 11/12/2025 5:01:49 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: DFG

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.


7 posted on 11/12/2025 5:10:38 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Skwor

Help someone out and they will remember where to go next time they want something.


8 posted on 11/12/2025 5:11:40 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: DFG

Austin is a Disneyland for far-left loony toons. That place is crazier than hell.


9 posted on 11/12/2025 5:19:03 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where does it say in the Constitution that taxpayers must feed the 42 Million SNAPPER LOSERS?)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Unlike San Fernasco, they don't crap on the sidewalks in Austin. THEY ARE THE CRAP ON THE SIDEWALKS.
10 posted on 11/12/2025 5:23:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where does it say in the Constitution that taxpayers must feed the 42 Million SNAPPER LOSERS?)
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To: Skwor

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?


11 posted on 11/12/2025 6:02:39 AM PST by healy61
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To: logi_cal869

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.


12 posted on 11/12/2025 6:04:14 AM PST by oldtech
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To: DFG

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.


13 posted on 11/12/2025 6:18:48 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: DFG

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.


14 posted on 11/12/2025 6:27:59 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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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


15 posted on 11/12/2025 6:28:36 AM PST by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.. DEI gone. Yippee)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Keep Austin Weird”.

Bumper sticker seen in Austin for a couple of decades.


16 posted on 11/12/2025 6:30:27 AM PST by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Skwor

“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”?


17 posted on 11/12/2025 6:37:05 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: DFG
Such madness must be opposed and conquered. Woke masquerades as compassion and enlightenment, but it is cruelty, darkness, and oppression.

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.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5924966/

18 posted on 11/12/2025 6:46:55 AM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears.)
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To: KrisKrinkle

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.


19 posted on 11/12/2025 6:54:59 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Deepeasttx

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.


20 posted on 11/12/2025 6:57:27 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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