{"id":735,"date":"2007-10-31T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-10-31T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T21:36:00","slug":"102807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"10\/28\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just finished Project Vote Smart’s<\/em> “2008 Presidential Political Courage Test.”<\/strong> \u00a0 The following is an example of another 100 word essay I wrote for the test, this one on “Social Security Issues”: \u00a0 I told the News Gazette<\/em> in Champaign, Illinois, that we would inspire programs to reestablish the elderly as valued members of their communities. \u00a0 (This \u00a0 is the essence of “social security.”) \u00a0 We also believe the Social Security Fund should be a “lock box,” where the money put in isn’t diverted. \u00a0 And we believe the SS Fund should be like paying into another insurance fund — the same as car insurance, health insurance… You only collect if you need<\/em> it. \u00a0 That is, if a retiree’s yearly income — from pensions, stocks, bonds… — \u00a0exceeds $70,000 (currently an arbitrary figure), then one wouldn’t be elibible to collect that year. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 This would help keep the fund bouyant as more and more Baby Boomers move into retirement, and it would bring more of a measure of social justice to society. \u00a0 And along that vein… Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 Some friends from Georgia just got me a subscription to the Chersterton Society magazine: Gilbert<\/em>. \u00a0 In a review of the book God Has Not Changed<\/em>, reviewer Chris Chan writes: \u00a0 “Throughout these essays, Ellis (the author) makes it clear that God wants us to be good, chaste, honest, temperate, prudent, faithful, charitable, and hopeful, but He does not<\/em> want us to be bunch of wussies. \u00a0 [I would agree \u00a0with that.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have just finished Project Vote Smart’s “2008 Presidential Political Courage Test.” \u00a0 The following is an example of another 100 word essay I wrote for the test, this one on “Social Security Issues”: \u00a0 I told the News Gazette …<\/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-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}