Presidential Candidates' positions on first responders

Popular Logistics is combing the candidates’ position papers to compare positions in the following areas:

  1. First responders – policy and funding of equipment and training for paid and unpaid, full-time and part-time first responders, and the infrastructure that supports them;
  2. Energy policy (conservation, strengthening power grids, renewable energy, emergency power)
  3. National Health Insurance. Our position is this – ideology is more or less irrelevant in the face of potential bioterror or WMD attacks; if only because of those circumstances – the entire population needs catastrophic health and disability insurance.

We’re going to do these an issue at a time. That’s for two reasons. Because we’ve got limited resources and would like to report as we have something to report. And because, based on our preliminary research, on issue #1 – it looks like the issue isn’t on anyone’s radar screen.