{"id":806,"date":"2008-04-24T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-04-24T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:09:19","slug":"42408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"4\/24\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0We stumped at the Steel Trolley Diner in Lisbon where a man from East Palestine, Ohio, told me he was out of work for a year (actively looking the whole time) when he finally got a job at the local steel mill. \u00a0 “There doesn’t seem to be a middle class anymore,” he sighed… We drove on to Scio, Ohio, stopping to talk with people in little villages along the way. \u00a0 We talked with George at “George’s Automotive” in one of those villages. \u00a0 I asked him how he came up with the garage’s name… \u00a0 In Scio our son Joseph, 10, was allowed to practice with a Little League Team. We cheered Joseph on and passed out some flyers in the stands… \u00a0 The next day it was more back road stumping on our way to Steubenville, Ohio, where I talked to a group of Franciscan University students at an “average Joe Politics in the Backyard Barbeque.” \u00a0 <\/em>I said that in a speech to the United Nations, Pope Benedict said we must “…eliminate inequalities between countries.” \u00a0 To put a face on this, I said we had done research in Juarez, Mexico, where 200,000 people — many of them families — live in one room, cobbled together shacks the size of the porch I was talking on this night (about 15 ft. by 15 ft.). \u00a0 If we want to bring “equality” between nations, \u00a0shouldn’t the average American family go to “house sharing” with one, two, three… more families, and take the savings so that many \u00a0people in Mexico (Haiti, Uganda, Nigeria…) had at least the basics in adequate shelter? \u00a0 Of course we should. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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