{"id":1097,"date":"2010-10-01T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=535"},"modified":"2010-10-01T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:19:19","slug":"social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked with a man who was a member of Warren, Ohio’s City Council for 18 years and was on Warren’s Budget Committee for eight years. \u00a0 (He requested anonymity because he doesn’t like his name on the internet.) \u00a0 However, he wasn’t short on opinions. \u00a0 For one, he said he believed Social Security should be, at least in part, made private. \u00a0 That is, as former President George Bush proposed, people should be able to invest \u00a0a percentage of their \u00a0Social Security money themselves. \u00a0 For instance this man \u00a0said that 45 years ago, he spent $1,500 on bonds and didn’t cash them in until last year. \u00a0 The yield was: $10,000. \u00a0 He said because of his experience, he “knew money,” and believed people like himself should have access to some of his SS money because he thought he could actually do better than the government in investment strategies… \u00a0 After the talk with this former city council member, we went to Mosquito Lake State Park<\/strong> (Who was thinking on that public relations gaffe?) to work on our campaign vehicles. \u00a0 While I was painting part of the ceiling of the “average Joe mobile,” I noticed a group of some 10 people on a walking tour of the park. \u00a0 I burst out of the vehicle — paint on my hands and sweatshirt (authentic “Joe the painter” stuff) — approached them and said I was running for president. \u00a0 Of the United States. \u00a0 Of America. \u00a0 We talked politics a bit and I passed out some campaign cards. \u00a0 Toward the end, I apologized for interrupting the tour, “but whenever I see a crowd…” \u00a0 One guy responded. \u00a0 “This isn’t exactly a crowd <\/em>.” \u00a0 I said: \u00a0 “When you’re an independent candidate, it can be.” \u00a0 They smiled, then headed on to look at more mosquitoes, or something. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I just spelled mosquitoes without the e, but the spell check corrected me. \u00a0 If Dan Quayle had only had one of those on the potato(e) thing, huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked with a man who was a member of Warren, Ohio’s City Council for 18 years and was on Warren’s Budget Committee for eight years. \u00a0 (He requested anonymity because he doesn’t like his name on the internet.) \u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}