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My son doesn’t know who Kristi Noem is, but when he came home from summer camp and learned from the news about Camp Mystic, the Secretary of Homeland Security’s failed response to the Texas Flooding, and her plans to gut FEMA to give billions to the rich, he felt like he had to say something.
If you don’t know, he has his own substack, The Political View from Middle School [ [link removed] ], where he lets us adults know what the kids are talking about.
His latest, on how what happened at Camp Mystic impacted them, and his disbelief that grown-ups would cut funding to keep future kids safe, is below.
If you’d like to support him, give him a follow! All links below are his. If you’d like to learn more, his initial substack: “Why Are They Attacking Us Kids? [ [link removed] ]” explains that he is doing the substack because he feels like the people in charge don’t seem to care about the impact their decisions have on kids, and that kids deserve to be heard, too, especially since in the long run they will live with the decisions made today longer than any of us will.
And now, here he is!
Lucas
It pains me to see people getting hurt, especially other kids like me that didn’t get a chance at a long life. So that’s why I decided to write this Substack.
Kids are this world’s future and I don’t like it when somebody who has a chance to change the world doesn’t get any chance to. So you see, after I came back from sleep away camp this summer, I learned something terrible about another sleep away camp, just like the one I went to.
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The other one, Camp Mystic, had been flooded, and multiple kids had died. Kids of all ages had gone to this camp to have fun, but it had turned into a disaster. But why? I was confused. How had so many kids died? The flash floods were fast, sure, but it still takes multiple hours to get so bad. Surely there were warning systems and the camp would have had time to evacuate and had other people to help them. And surely there was help to search and rescue afterward and to clean up.
It turns out that those things do exist, but that they are underfunded in a lot of the country. Then I found out that the Trump administration and the lady in charge of managing our country’s emergency responses were actually working to CUT Federal Emergency Management Agency funding, so there will be less help for cleanup, search and rescue, and people in the future.
And this news left me dumbfounded. Why are we cutting budgets for things that are keeping people (and kids) safe? Kids are our future!
So I asked a couple of my friends what they thought about the budget cut, and just like me, they said that it was a pretty stupid idea, and that they agreed with me. But the part that I’m really confused about is where this money that should be for ensuring people’s safety is going, and I’ve got a suspicion that it’s going to somewhere that it doesn’t need to go and to some people that already have more money than they could ever need. Just like when they wanted to cut the Department of Education (which I wrote about in Why Are They Attacking Us Kids? [ [link removed] ]).
I don’t understand if the people in charge are just stupid and don’t understand what they are doing, or are just greedier than anyone I have ever met face to face in my life. Because this money was going to somewhere useful and now it’s probably just going somewhere where it won’t do any good at all, at least not for most of us.
So I really hope that nobody else is affected by this decision, and I’m sad some people already have been.
So thank you for reading this Substack, and I hope you are able to stay safe on your own.
Thank you for reading— And please share with your friends and family and everyone else if you’d like to help me keep getting the word out about how political decisions affect us kids and what we think about them.
Grady
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