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Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/em><\/strong> In honor of Labor Day, I spent part of the weekend talking to people about, well, labor. (And we continue to do this all without paid consultants.) After taking my picture, Crescent News <\/em>(Defiance, Ohio) photographer Thom Born told me he goes out of his way to: “buy American.” We promote that too because we believe, strongly, in: local production for local consumption.<\/em> And we don’t support NAFTA (as it currently stands), as an example. On a research trip to Juarez, Mexico three years ago, we learned the Mexican government stopped helping subsidize the subsistance farmers in the interior of Mexico after NAFTA passed. At the same time the multi-national company factories started going up on the northern border of Mexico. With the Mexican farmers losing their land in the interior, Mexico then had an influx of people to the north to work in the factories. At the time we were there, these jobs paid a mere$3 a shift, mothers and fathers were working two shifts, and the children were out on the streets — when they weren’t in their homes (read: shacks) with no running water, no electricity. [We might want to think about all that (morally) the next time we’re in Wal Mart trying to get the cheapest price on something.] Our platform calls for more social justice outreach into the Third World so, for instance, Mexican subsistance farmers can stay on their land. What’s more, through expanded Peace Corps work, and the like, we would also support a lot more initiatives to help create more sustainable local economies in general in the Third World. And back in this country, we’d push for much more economic equality. In Mt. Vernon, Ohio, I interviewed Whitney Wolfe, 18, an employee of McDonald’s. She is a high school senior who also works 30 hours a week. While she said she liked working at McDonald’s, long term here ideal job would be a more lucrative “9 to 5 desk job.” She continued: “I want to make decent money (she currently makes $6 an hour) and have benefits for my kids.” I couldn’t help but think about all the mothers, and fathers, currently working in the fast food, or other service industries, who are making $6 an hour, with no benefits. In the book: Nickled and Dimed (On Not Making it in America), <\/em>the author points out that those working in these service industry jobs are often exhausted by the end of the day and barely treading water financially. Having worked at my share of these types of jobs, I know you also have little time, or energy, for family, community involvement, or for that matter, politics. (So you seldom have the time, or energy, to lobby to change the system that’s keeping you stuck and impoverished.) And maybe, just maybe, the “haves” (read 9 to 5ers) want it just that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. In honor of Labor Day, I spent part of the weekend talking to people about, well, labor. (And we continue to do this all without paid consultants.) After taking my picture, Crescent News (Defiance, Ohio) …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}