Proposition 420

Section 3: Industrial And Economic

Part B: Fire/Safety/Emergency

8% of Total Disbursement

"If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of Heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the Gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?"

~ John Godfrey Saxe, (American journalist, poet & lecturer) circa 1850

A Portion of the Hemp/Cannabis tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to supplement Fire/Safety/Emergency Professional's salaries from a Federal pool diverted proportionately Nationwide with the Sole Purpose of increasing the salaries of Fire/Safety/Emergency Professionals. An anticipated goal is to achieve, within a decade of enactment of the U.S. H.E.M.P. Act, a doubling of the pay of Fire/Safety/Emergency Prfessionals relative to that which it is at the time of enactment, consistent to salaries currently in effect in each State and Local jurisdiction.

"I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine."

~ Kurt Vonnegut

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to supplement State, Local and National Fire/Safety/Emergency agencies upgrade and purchase of new and modern critical equipment nationwide. Emphasis is to be given to those jurisdictions, either rural or urban, which are most in need of equipment upgrade. Primary use of such funds should be focused on communicatin equipment, vehicles and other daily critical equimpent needed to sustain an effective and functioning Fire/Safety/Emergency community. This funding wil be permanent and ongoing, spreading through jurisdictions and repeating thereafter to provide a continuous and growing fund with which to supplement equipment purchase on a State, Local and Federal level.

"When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work."

~ Edward F. Croker

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to provide funds with which to train and hire State, Local and Federal Fire/Safety/Emergency Professionals nationwide. This funding will be permanent and ongoing.

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."

~ A.A. Milne

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to establish regionally relevant Citizen Emergency Preparedness programs nationwide. Such programs should be established with regional situations in mind to deal with natural or catastrophic events and disasters and focus on Citizen based education and training programs. Such programs should be 100% voluntary yet strongly encouraged through all available spheres of influences with emphasis on community service and community pride. Local recruitment efforts should be as broad as possible, including such tactics as competitions and fairs, reaching through both the Educational systems as well as tapping into the broad Faith-Based Activism communities available. A modest goal is that if even one in ten individuals are aware of what needs to be done in a crisis situations, such events as evacuations as well as disaster preparation and prevention will be more effectively accomplished.

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