1. Bush Budget Priorities - Our local governments across the country have cut "First Responder" budgets with a chain saw. That is Fire, Police, Rescue Medics.
2. The Misuse of the National Guard - The National Guard is the local Governor's Army for "civil insurrection" - but mostly for natural disasters. But the National Guard is getting ready to go to Iraq, in Iraq, just back from Iraq. And recruiting and retention are way down.
3. Demographics of the Volunteer Community. Have you ever looked carefully at the Red Cross
volunteers, the Salvation Army
volunteers, the Southern Baptist Brotherhood
volunteers, the Latter Day Saint
volunteers, the Chabad
volunteers, the Ham Radio
volunteers, the
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/CERT| FEMA Community Emergency Response Team> volunteers? We're all on Social Security and Medicare.Red Cross called us out for an apartment house fire last night - average age of the Red Cross responders -70. All on Lipitor and Metformin. :shrug:
In the town where I lived "back east" before I came to California - the "Chief Officer" for the "Fire Fighter Rehabilitation Company" of our local Volunteer Fire Department (that's the coffee and doughnuts for the fire fighters on the line) - was in his late 70's and had emphysema - and he was the "young guy" in the "Rehabilitation Company". :shrug:
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