A Texas Tragedy!
Save First. Account Later. When lives hang in the balance, money must never be the reason help doesn’t arrive. The tragedy in Kerr County, where 28 girls and over 100 others lost their lives to catastrophic flooding, demands answers—not excuses rooted in delayed reimbursements.
The Austin Fire Department’s decision to pause out-of-city deployments over $800,000 owed by the State of Texas highlights a devastating failure in priorities. Bureaucratic caution cost lives. Chief Joel Baker’s later clarification only underscores the confusion created by an internal email that halted vital rescue resources, while swimmers stood ready just hours away.
To twist this failure into a condemnation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—as Charlie Kirk has—is not just dishonest. It’s cruel. The issue wasn’t DEI. It was leadership, urgency, and fiscal accountability. When the water rises, people need rescue—not scapegoating.
If we want to honor those lost, we must demand systems where fiscal red tape never outweighs human life—and where leaders are judged by their actions, not politicized labels.
