State-Level Emergency Action

To provide for a community when natural disasters occur, or to come to the aid of other towns affected by the same as first responders.

1. Location: If all states encourage their towns to find a vacant building no longer in use and prepare it for storage. The town can use this as a tax write off.

2. Supplies:

   1. Have the town managers talk to local businesses like Walmart, Sam's Club, etc to donate (tax deductible) camping articles, tents, flashlights, sleeping bags, etc to be used in case of emergencies.

   2. Have the same town managers talk to grocery stores to stock pile can goods and discontinued items that they would normally throw away into the town storage building. Fresh produce should be given to soup kitchens in the area for seniors and the indigent.

3. The same town managers should talk to fast food businesses to collect their waste grease at a town facility to be filtered and resold as bio-fuel at a slight profit, or used for town vehicles.

The reason for this is to provide for the community when natural disasters occur, or to come to the aid of other towns affected by the same as first-responders. As we have seen FEMA just doesn’t work the way we all thought it should work, so let’s do it ourselves.

WE CAN DO THIS! It doesn’t require an act of congress… thank God!

As a result, for instance, southern states – typical victims of hurricanes – and the variety of states plagued by floods would get a faster first response with the feds assistance as a follow up second responder. Many towns coming to the aid of another would be heart-warming and give an added sense of community beyond their borders.

More importantly, each state could now practice and exercise a greater autonomy.