KEEPING US IN THE GAME, BARELY

摘要

IN MID-December, 2000, WE PROCLAIMED POLITICAL VIC-tory. By the first of March, it was all slipping away. Just a couple of months after eleventh-hour, historic fire service legislation made federal funds available to strapped local fire departments in 2001, President George W. Bush threatened to take it all away in 2002 and possibly beyond. Released in February, the Bush Administration's 2002 budget proposal, entitled "A Blueprint for New Beginnings: A Responsible Budget for America's Priorities," threatened to terminate the FIRE Act, calling it "unneeded."