{"id":1815,"date":"2018-11-09T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:57:43","slug":"my-interview-with-u-s-congressman-jim-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"My interview with U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan; Welfare Reform, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our newspaper, I interviewed high-profile U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan<\/a> in Bluffton the day before the Mid-Term Elections vote. [Jordan is a top candidate to become Minority Leader of the House, since Republicans have now lost control of the House.] \u00a0Jordan had several basic talking points: \u00a0He said he wanted to continue to push to “build the wall” (southern border) because safety of Americans was paramount. \u00a0Jordan is also all in on Welfare Reform. \u00a0And he believes in a much more decentralized approach to education, with much less standardized testing (and teachers teaching to these tests), and much more creative, teacher-driven curriculum that fit the various needs of their students, from year to year. \u00a0Note 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Several days ago, I heard a conservative talk show host say she’s lobbying for Jordan to become the Minority Speaker because he will adamantly “fight” for Republican priorities. \u00a0Jordan’s sport in school? \u00a0Wrestling. \u00a0Note 2: \u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Jordan talked about Welfare Reform<\/strong> and that it is an issue both Parties have expressed interest in addressing… \u00a0In the book Repackaging the Welfare State<\/em><\/strong>, it’s noted that increasing productivity in a country can offset, say, a growing dependency ratio. \u00a0What’s more, the author writes that the Welfare State “…is unquestionably one of the noblest accomplishments of the 20th century. \u00a0It meant a shift from purely private charity to protection by the state as well.” Where the balancing act comes in, according to Congressman Jordan (and others), is discerning between legitimate welfare recipients, and people on the Welfare dole, so to speak, who could be, in fact, considered legitimate “able-body workers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For our newspaper, I interviewed high-profile U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan in Bluffton the day before the Mid-Term Elections vote. [Jordan is a top candidate to become Minority Leader of the House, since Republicans have now lost control of the House.] …<\/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-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","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=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}