Austin cuts police budget.

[oldag]

I have to disagree to a point. There really never has been "compromise" in the true meaning of the word. Real compromise is when both, or all parties reach an agreement, or settlement that is mutually beneficial to to both, or all parties.

Conservatives, and gun owners have never really compromised, but have given, but never gotten in return. There never has been any mutual benefit for both parties in the settlement.

The time to draw a line in the sand may be gone already. Maybe that time was decades ago, by our parents and grandparents, and we are now paying the price for their decisions. And what line, and where, and by whom? As individuals, or collectively? It makes for a nice slogan, but what does it mean? And so what if we do decide to draw that line? Then what? What price are we willing to pay when that line is crossed? Imprisonment? Serious bodily injury? Death? And while the sacrifice may be very noble, but for what does it serve a purpose for? Does it change anything?

I drew my line in the sand many years ago. Where that line is, is my business. Very, very few people even know where it's at. Simply because I know that for the very most part, I don't, and can't trust many people to have my back when things get a little rough. I have learned that many people like to give lip service to such sentiments, but when things start to get critical, they tend to bail on you, citing all sorts of excuses or reasons they can't cover your back anymore. I have been stabbed in the back, and left hanging, by so-called friends at critical times. And by it's own design, it's left me cynical and lacking of trust in other people.

Just my thoughts on the matter.

Which is why I wrote "compromising", not compromising.

 

[jbgramps]

Six Austin City Council seats will be on the November ballot. It's going to be interesting to see if Austin voters get rid of any incumbents. I think/hope Austin voters see the police cuts as the straw that broke the camels back.

 

[TAZ]

Six Austin City Council seats will be on the November ballot. It's going to be interesting to see if Austin voters get rid of any incumbents. I think/hope Austin voters see the police cuts as the straw that broke the camels back.

They won’t. Too many imbeciles in this city. I hate this shithole of a city, but I have to try and make it work for another 3.5 years.

 

[Davetex]

They won’t. Too many imbeciles in this city. I hate this shithole of a city, but I have to try and make it work for another 3.5 years.

I'm just barely outside the freak show, but I can't wait to get out of this area.

 

[tired of sht]

I live in a place that used to be (West of Weird). The last few years this city has been adopted by Austin ideas. It spreads like CANCER.

 

[Wodon43]

Sadly it will take somebody getting hurt before they realize the mistake...

Unfortunately it’s going to take a lot of people getting hurt and killed

 

[SQLGeek]

Sadly it will take somebody getting hurt before they realize the mistake...

I don't believe that's enough anymore. Not with the type of ideological trash that the left is spewing these days like the idea that "Wanting to feel safe is an example of privilege."

 

[Axxe55]

I don't believe that's enough anymore. Not with the type of ideological trash that the left is spewing these days like the idea that "Wanting to feel safe is an example of privilege."

I agree. Look at what has happened in other cities across this country. Only when some of the "privileged" were being harassed, was something done.

So until some of the "right" people are attacked, or injured, or killed, will the leftist politicians want something done. We, mere common people are simply expendable to them.

 

[Ibmikey]

It is sad the liberal insanity is eroding away Texas, the last American vestiges of what the country was founded upon.

 

[TXShooter66]

It is sad the liberal insanity is eroding away Texas, the last American vestiges of what the country was founded upon.

And if you tell that to a liberal, they are proud of that fact. That's what they are intentionally trying to do. Sad is right!

 

[etmo]

It is sad the liberal insanity is eroding away Texas, the last American vestiges of what the country was founded upon.

True. Nothing lasts forever, and the American Experiment will be no exception. But we showed the planet how, for a moral and decent people, government is done best, and that lesson won't be lost. Next time, improvements will be made, and we'll go around yet again.

 

[Brojon]

Houston laid off fire fighters now they are defunding police in Austin. Let's hope the election coming up goes better than 2018 where even the suburbs in Houston turned blue, and Austin, Dallas and SA seems to be almost always blue, driving around I have been noticing a lot of out of state driver's license so far the big winner 3 VA license plates driving up NASA 1. I think they are running from newsome so they may vote red if they are moving here. MA and NY were some of the other foreign license plates I noted.

God we can only hope.

 

[DD130]

To All,

WATCH for Austin to magically turn into PORTLAND or SEATTLE., with all of the problems of those LEFTIST cities. = Calling 911 will NOT help you IF you should NEED a police officer.

Best PREPARE to defend your home with forearms or other measures, should you NEED a LEO.

yours, satx

I lived near Seattle for 13 years, then 5 in the heart of hippie-idiot-occupation before we were able to escape to TX. My first couple of years here I worked on the south side of Austin. The first impression I had of Austin, was it reminded me of Seattle, without Elliot Bay. And I meant that it was full of bums, always had to deal with druggies begging money and dodging them just trying to navigate a simple freeway onramp. Shameful. There is nothing on the Left Coast that is to be emulated; nothing.

 

[phoenix]

Hopefully the cops remember that when the white liberals have a call when one of their "chosen few" decide to not destroy their own neighborhoods ( subsidized by our tax dollars) and go to the white liberal areas.

 

[gambler]

Six Austin City Council seats will be on the November ballot. It's going to be interesting to see if Austin voters get rid of any incumbents. I think/hope Austin voters see the police cuts as the straw that broke the camels back.

Not one of those seats will elect a republican. Austin is a lost cause...

 

[Armybrat]

Not one of those seats will elect a republican. Austin is a lost cause...

You are correct. Austin deserves all the crap they vote for.

 

[Axxe55]

Wow. Just give up and don't even try. Every one of the men who died at the Alamo are rolling in their graves right now.

I sure don't remember the Texas battle cry being give in and give up.

 

[oldag]

Wow. Just give up and don't even try. Every one of the men who died at the Alamo are rolling in their graves right now.

I sure don't remember the Texas battle cry being give in and give up.

That is certainly one perspective.

The other is to let the Austinites learn the hard way. So the lesson may stick better.

 

[Axxe55]

That is certainly one perspective.

The other is to let the Austinites learn the hard way. So the lesson may stick better.

I use to to think that way too. But how many cities in the country have been turned in almost third world shitholes because of such thinking? How many more do we allow to become the same way because of leftist socialist thinking and allowing those that live there, to learn the hard way?

I have heard so many times over the years, well if you don't like the politics of the city, or state you live in, just move. Well, that's all fine and dandy for those who can afford such an option, of moving, and many do actually move. But what about those who don't have that option? But are sick and tired of the stupid politics that are disrupting their lives? I'm sure in Portland and Seattle and Wisconsin, there are residents that live there, that don't, and won't support this nonsense from their city leadership. Same with Austin. So what do they do? Should they just give up, and give in, or pick up and move to another city?

 

[gambler]

They have given up and allowed too many libs, socialists and terrorists move in to the area. Been happening for years and years and will not change until the people that live there learn the hard way. Same with other major areas of Texas that have been overrun with liberals looking for all that free stuff the libs are promising.