Yesterday I was filled with righteous indignation over my injury caused by the Forest Service, but overnight I realized just the opposite, they need their budget doubled. Last week there were over one hundred fires in Arkansas, so the Forest Service was overstretched. By August the number of fires in Arkansas will be 500 or 1000/week. If you doubt this, watch the local weather shows and watch the drought monitor and national fire zones. Everything you ever thought you knew about life is no longer true.
The second life-endangering problem is that within weeks, the government is going to abolish Social Security and likely Medicare. Therefore, millions of Americans will no longer be able to afford lifesaving medications or food. I am one of those people!
So, we all must think differently. Here’s my suggestion. We must organize to influence the State Legislature to increase the budget to the Forest Service. Additionally, we could save thousands of disabled and retired people, who [could] die without Social Security, by hiring them as fire wardens to drive through particularly rural areas to warn every person of impending fires and check on the old and disabled who might be without food or prescriptions.
I haven’t figured it all out and need your brains to help come up with a plan, although I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s and have a few ideas.
If you realize the immediate dangers we all face, please join me in brainstorming about how we can organize and save our lives and our environment. I’m trying to find a web page where we all can communicate together. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.
Ron Horton
Great suggestions, Ron. What’s in front of us is terrifying.