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Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 On the current ‘financial crisis’… \u00a0 Foreclosures seem to be starting a chain reaction. \u00a0 A homeowner is foreclosed upon when they can’t pay the mortgage anymore. \u00a0 This begs the \u00a0question: \u00a0 How many people are simply living beyond their means these days?<\/em> \u00a0 Sure there’s inflation. \u00a0 And yes, variable rate mortgages are going up. \u00a0 So in the face of this, \u00a0many could adjust by, say, living more simply, and creatively (like house-sharing). \u00a0 This should be how we approach the National Debt as well. \u00a0 That is, the Federal Government should: tighten it’s belt and come up with creative ways to pay it off. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 During a talk I gave to \u00a0a group of \u00a0Amish in Kidron, Ohio, during Campaign 2004, one man said he had a fool proof answer to \u00a0keeping the \u00a0National Budget out of the red: \u00a0 First, we should have someone in D.C. with “a caluculator that works,” he said. \u00a0 And secondly, we should use this calculator to count up how much tax money has come in in a given year. \u00a0 “Then we shouldn’t spend any more than what’s come in,” he added. \u00a0 A lot of people might look at this as tremendously over-simplified, even naive. \u00a0 But is it? \u00a0 Maybe it is, indeed, \u00a0the simple common sense way we should have been approaching this thing all along. \u00a0 I think it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: \u00a0 On the current ‘financial crisis’… \u00a0 Foreclosures seem to be starting a chain reaction. \u00a0 A homeowner is foreclosed upon when they can’t pay the mortgage anymore. \u00a0 This begs the \u00a0question: \u00a0 How …<\/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-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}