June 30, 2010
In Case of Emergency
The City asks that those who serve on Council to obtain a certain level of emergency preparedness. In connection with NIMS (National Incident Management System), I just completed three FEMA independent course studies. Each class was over three hours long and caused me great brain drain. However, I can now boast that I’m equipped in crisis management, whether it is local, tribal, state or federal. I can handle any catastrophe or disaster - up to and including Armageddon. I figured it wouldn’t do any good to tell them that I’m a pre-tribber and won’t be available at Armageddon.
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Gail;
-----The general population needs training in emergency preparedness more than government officials and personnel. Natural disasters occur from time to time, certainly. Some regions are more prone to specific disasters than others. The Midwest, for example, faces the threat of tornadoes every year. Any community or city built on low ground near major rivers is in danger of flooding. And hurricanes ravage the East coast and Gulf of Mexico regions yearly. Western Colorado seems blissful in comparison. Yet we have sharply felt the economic disaster caused by bad government.
-----This was a storm brewed by progressive policies over a thirty year period. Land use restrictions drove the price of housing in many areas so high that a crusade for affordable housing became palatable policy to the public. Regulation followed in the wake of the crusade, requiring banks to make risky loans by lowering lending standards. Larger numbers of home owners bought homes they could not afford through financing they did not understand, while the banks flowed these risky mortgages through their balance sheets to FNMA, FMAC, and into the national and international securities markets. When the regional markets whose housing prices were exorbitantly overpriced by land use restrictions crested the top of the bubble and collapsed, a shock wave sent the whole housing market into decline. At that point everyone was forced to hold what was in their hand: homeowners holding upside-down mortgages, banks holding bad mortgages they had not yet sold to FNMA, FMAC, or financial securities firms, and investors holding worthless securities.
-----Twenty years ago, many intelligent economists saw the storm brewing and warned policy makers of its impending doom. But they were like a good doctor trying to convince a conniving wife to stop lacing her husband’s coffee with arsenic. She has the life insurance policy in mind, not her husband. Had the general population learned emergency preparedness from these economists, they would have seen the storm brewing, too, and would have averted it at the ballot box. But progressive ideology had become so accepted into the mainstream dialogue that the general public was almost totally sheltered from any economic warnings, let alone from learning and understanding any real economic principles.
-----Moreover, Louisiana granted BP permission to drill in 500 foot water. The Federal government forced them to risk drilling in 5000 foot water. Now the Federal government wants to respond to the crisis they instigated by shutting down all drilling in the Gulf, whether or not you mind the job loss and $4.00 a gallon gasoline. Social security is no longer even near secure, and the entire health care system is in danger of following Medicare down the proverbial pipes. All of this is no surprise, having come from a government which can not understand that life is life whether inside or outside a womb. Seeing the simple ability of the government to reach out and touch you in so many important ways, I am soundly convinced that the general public needs emergency preparedness before they again enter those voting booths in November.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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