{"id":1316,"date":"2012-02-23T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T18:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2012-02-23T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T18:18:24","slug":"student-senate-debate-oped-piece-never-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Student Senate Debate, op\/ed piece, never giving up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heck with the Republican Debate this week, I went to the Bluffton University Student Senate President Debate instead.\u00a0 The two candidates squared off on, of all things: jobs.\u00a0 Just can’t seem to get away from that subject this year.\u00a0 There’s a policy here that students can only take one on-campus job a year.\u00a0 But both candidates “pledged” to lobby to broaden that.\u00a0 I, on the other hand, would have lobbied to split each job between two students, seriously (sort of).\u00a0 Actually, I had an op\/ed piece run in The Courier <\/strong>newspaper in Findlay, Ohio, yesterday promoting: “job sharing” as a way to help the five million who are currently unemployed in this country.\u00a0 The concept is simple.\u00a0 Someone works from 8 a.m. Monday until noon Wednesday, then the other person comes in the rest of the week.\u00a0 Or, you could split the days in half, or work every other week, or…\u00a0 During our campaign travels out west, we learned the Monterey School System in California allows teachers to alternate half years, or even years.\u00a0 Some people who are currently employed are financially capable of doing this, tomorrow.\u00a0 Others might have to be a little life-style savvy and cut back in various areas.\u00a0 Either way, for some (like 5 million) this would definitely be doable.\u00a0 Stop me if you’ve heard this before:\u00a0 “It’s not what your country can do for you, but it’s what you can do for your country (including your neighbor up the street whose out of work).”<\/em>\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Our Sarah’s homeschooling basketball team, the Eagles, soared (sorry) to victory in an eight-team tournament over the weekend.\u00a0 The Eagles beat their “arch-enemies” (their words) the Cougars.\u00a0 A team they’d lost to every time in the past two years, since the rivalry began.\u00a0 It was a real story in “…never giving up.”<\/em>\u00a0 Something we’ve known well in the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The heck with the Republican Debate this week, I went to the Bluffton University Student Senate President Debate instead.\u00a0 The two candidates squared off on, of all things: jobs.\u00a0 Just can’t seem to get away from that subject this year.\u00a0 …<\/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-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","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=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}