{"id":1098,"date":"2010-10-03T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=536"},"modified":"2010-10-03T00:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T00:23:31","slug":"town-brain-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"town “brain trust”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night as we were leaving Mosquito Lake Park, a man approached and complimented us on our new (yet tremendously “vintage”) 1978 Dodge Beaver Motor Home. \u00a0 (We got it in Colorado several months ago and it only had 79,000 miles on it. \u00a0 Not bad for a 32-year-old vehicle. \u00a0 And it’s being fixed up in a really retro way, turquoise walls, black and white tile floor…) \u00a0 Anyway, Liz gave the man a tour and afterward he told us that he had just retired after forty years at the GM Plant here… \u00a0 This morning at McDonald’s, I approached a group of guys who meet there every day (the town “brain trust,” I always joke) and passed out some campaign cards. \u00a0 One man, who was wearing a GM hat, said if he were president he’d try to stop the outsourcing of jobs. \u00a0 I said in the wake of NAFTA, for instance, that might be hard. \u00a0 That is, the guy we talked to last night retired making some $35 an hour. \u00a0 While someone working in a similar plant in a border town of Mexico, is making approximately $4, a shift<\/em>. \u00a0 What’s more, common sense says that it’s the American consumer who is driving the demand for cheaper and cheaper products coming out of these foreign factories. \u00a0 And until we address this, well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night as we were leaving Mosquito Lake Park, a man approached and complimented us on our new (yet tremendously “vintage”) 1978 Dodge Beaver Motor Home. \u00a0 (We got it in Colorado several months ago and it only had 79,000 …<\/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-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","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=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}