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<< Back to "Your Voice" Archive“YOUR VOICE”For Urban Emergency Evacuation Development Plans We must all recognize that there may come a time in this country when the major metropolitan areas may need to be evacuated due to some unfortunate and unforeseeable event such as a health pandemic, a national threat, a bio-terrorism attack, or any other of a number of reasons. If that ever happens, where are those people going to go? You’ve got it, the country. They will be escaping from the city to a place where the threat is less, namely, into your community. We all pray that no harm will ever come to the citizens of our cities, but if the threat arises, we need to plan now on what will happen. If millions of people flee from our cities into the rural areas, who will feed them, who will house them, who will take care of their health needs, their emergency service and ambulance needs, their law-enforcement needs and educational needs? Again, you know the answer, we will, graciously, whether we are ready or not. Recent experience with Hurricane Katrina victims showed us how the world really works. While the mega-bureaucracies of the government fell apart and did nothing, country people took in hurricane refugees and cared for them. Despite the rhetoric in Washington, if it happens again, the same result will occur. We will face the problem as citizens while the government does nothing but point fingers of blame at each other. Now is the time to get ready, not when the disaster is occurring. The wealth of the cities in jeopardy should be shifted to the needs of the rural citizens for the development of improved and disaster-ready housing, food supplies, education and other essential public works. And those plans and the implementation of those activities must be under the control of the people who live here, not a government bureaucracy. Vote for the Needs of the Citizens, Locally and Nationally. Write-In:
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