{"id":347,"date":"2005-09-16T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=341"},"modified":"2005-09-16T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:36:23","slug":"91605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"9\/16\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by the Piqua (OH) Daily Call <\/em>newspaper yesterday. The reporter asked if my family’s giving up everything to “follow a dream” had inspired others to follow their dreams? I said: “I hope so.” I also told the reporter that it occured to me that it was an awful knee jerk reaction to start pumping billions of dollars into New Orleans to rebuild right away. I said what would make more sense, I believe, is to allow for a time of considered study, debate, and discernment…. In Sidney, Ohio last night, I interviewed Dan Howk who had worked as an emergency room nurse in Brunswick, Georgia for six years. He said like with the poor who had been left behind in New Orleans, Brunswick has a whole population of poor “whose primary care physician is the: Emergency Room.” And Dan said hospital staff there had seen this from generation to generation… During an interview with the Sidney Daily News <\/em>today, I said Americans should consider house sharing (two families to a home). You would cut expenses in half on shared appliances, heating, lawn equipment, mortage payments… And some of the savings, hopefully a significant amount of the savings, could go toward ending, oh, things like inner city poverty and world hunger. Note: <\/strong> At Mass at Holy Angels Church in Sidney today, the Gospel reading was about the Apostle Paul exhorting people not to make money (and all it can buy, read: comfort, status, and so on…) their main priority; while making the things of God secondary. Translated: Wouldn’t that mean sacrificing some of our American ‘comfort’ in single family dwellings, as an example, so millions living in abject poverty in the Third World can have at least the bare necessities in shelter, food, clothing? I mean, a third of the Gospel message, for instance, is about helping the poor. So in this case, wouldn’t cutting back on our ‘comfort’ levels in the U.S., to help the poor of the Third World, be: putting the things of God first — as opposed to making money (to purchase ‘comfort’) their main priority? What we spend the most money on, ultimately, indicates our main priority — no matter what we say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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