{"id":1129,"date":"2011-05-19T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=602"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:50:59","slug":"middle-east-policy-third-world-debt-and-diagonal-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"Middle East policy, Third World debt, and: diagonal parking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our \u00a0Florida Panhandle Tour<\/em> continues… \u00a0 While in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, I watched President Obama’s speech on current Middle East policy today. \u00a0 My beliefs square with his in standing in opposition to regimes that rule by “coercion, not consent.” \u00a0 And this would, indeed, encompass half of the Middle East. \u00a0 President Obama also said that successful transition to democracy hinges on “economic growth” as the reigns of commerce pass from a few to many. \u00a0 And he proposes to relieve $1 billion in Egyptian debt and to establish “Enterprise Funds” to help some of the Middle Eastern countries. \u00a0 Both well considered moves as well, I believe… \u00a0 In tandem with debt relief to, say, Egypt; our administration would also propose debt relief for many Third World countries struggling to simply stay afloat. \u00a0 The late Pope John Paul II called for this a number of years ago. \u00a0 And I see it as tremendously sound, spiritually… \u00a0 On a campaign stop in Cortez, Colorado, several years ago, we met with a woman who had gone on a missions trip to Uganda where she stayed with a large family living in a small hut. \u00a0 The mother and father had AIDS, as did half the children. \u00a0 They all slept on burlap bags \u00a0on a dirt floor, she lamented. \u00a0 Forgiving Uganda’s debt would help free up government resources (a \u00a0significant part currently being spent \u00a0for the interest on the debt) to help families like this. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Recent bumper sticker sighting in Niceville, Florida: \u00a0 “I’m diagonally parked — \u00a0in a parallel universe.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our \u00a0Florida Panhandle Tour continues… \u00a0 While in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, I watched President Obama’s speech on current Middle East policy today. \u00a0 My beliefs square with his in standing in opposition to regimes that rule by “coercion, not …<\/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-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","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=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}