{"id":342,"date":"2005-09-09T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=336"},"modified":"2005-09-09T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T09:49:16","slug":"9805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"9\/8\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by columnist Frank Grey of the Ft. Wayne, Indiana Journal Gazette <\/em>yesterday. He asked a series of rather probing questions about my platform, then he asked: “How have you changed since you started running for president?” It was a question I can’t remember being asked before. After some thought, I told Mr. Grey that being exposed the vast needs of people in the inner cities of America and in the Third World, I had become much more “compassionate,” you can’t help but become more compassionate going, for instance, into a gang war zone on the southside of Chicago and see little children trying to survive. And after observing, up close and personal, other problems around the country (pollution, drugs, violence…), I said I had become more “concerned.” Concerned America is going in the wrong direction in many areas. Note:<\/strong> Hurricane Katrina highlighted the glaring difference between the ‘haves and the have nots’ in society. If Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago… were flooded the same way, you’d see the same glaring disparity between ‘haves and have nots.’ The short term answer is to raise money to help the New Orleans victims in crisis now. The long term answer is for the ‘haves’ to slow their upward mobility climbs, roll up their sleeves and head into the inner cities to live and dramatically help (volunteer with mentoring programs, volunteer with tutoring programs, volunteer with more comprehensive social service programs, and so on) those stuck in poverty loops — like the ones we so graphically saw left behind in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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