{"id":2250,"date":"2020-04-14T23:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2020-04-14T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:20:03","slug":"third-world-debt-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Third world debt relief&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/catholic-voice.org_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/catholic-voice.org_.jpg 339w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/catholic-voice.org_-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><figcaption>catholicvoice.org photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Easter Sunday, in the midst of Third World countries battling the pandemic, <strong>Pope Francis <\/strong>called for &#8220;debt relief&#8221; for these countries.  <strong>France&#8217;s Emmanuel Macron <\/strong>followed suit several days later.  (At the turn of the millennium, <strong>Pope John Paul II<\/strong> called for the same thing in his Jubilee 2000 initiative.)  As president, I would be wholeheartedly on board with this as well &#8212; and not just because of the pandemic.  These Third World countries are barely treading water year-to-year, with the interest on the loans, and so on, keeping them there &#8212; with little left over for medical services, education, infra-structure&#8230;  And as I would push for permanent debt relief for these countries, I would just as stridently push for <em>a lot<\/em> more aid into the same countries to help them become as sustainable as possible.  My faith, the Catholic faith, teaches that in the Catechism actually:  &#8220;Rich nations have a grave moral responsibility to ensure economic development in poorer nations.&#8221;  Our administration would have this as a major priority.  For more, see our position paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/foreign-policy\">Foreign Relations<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Easter Sunday, in the midst of Third World countries battling the pandemic, Pope Francis called for &#8220;debt relief&#8221; for these countries. France&#8217;s Emmanuel Macron followed suit several days later. (At the turn of the millennium, Pope John Paul II <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2250\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","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=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}