{"id":362,"date":"2005-10-11T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=362"},"modified":"2005-10-11T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T19:15:15","slug":"10905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"10\/9\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent the weekend back in Cleveland’s inner city. While back here, I talked with Joe Bouman who is running for Mayor of North Olmsted ( a suburb a bit southwest of Cleveland). A strong one for fiscal responsibilty, Bouman showed me one of his campaign signs. It read: “Vote Joe… If You Want Dough.” In an article in Elyria, Ohio’s Chronical-Telegram<\/em> newspaper, Bouman was quoted as saying: “I’m disappointed in the performance of the (local) administration, especially in waste and debt.” Likewise, on a national level: we have amassed quite a debt. Someone told me USA Today <\/em>had recently run a piece saying that the current Federal deficit translated to a whopping $124,000 <\/em>for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not sure how I’m going to come up with that much… On Sunday afternoon, our kids played football with some inner city kids in a school yard parking lot. I joined in for awhile. The kids (ages 8 to 12) seemed to be having a great time, and were quite lost in the play. Some were probably trying to mentally escape from what’s going on at home. The backdrop for this game was dilapidated row-houses — with metal bars on most of the windows. Inside, some parents (I’m sure) we’re getting drunk, or high, watching the Cleveland Browns football game. (None of the parents were watching their kids play on this cold, gray afternoon.) I couldn’t help but look beyond the game on this parking lot… to these kids’ futures. Fighting the odds (of getting out) seemed about as dismal as this gray Fall afternoon weather in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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