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Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.<\/strong>: \u00a0 Liz and I talked to three classes at St. John’s Catholic High School in Bellaire, Ohio. \u00a0 The last presidential debate was the night before and it was dominated by talk of the economy. \u00a0 I said to the students that today in America (like everyday<\/em>) some 4,000 little, innocent babies will be violently killed in their mothers’ wombs, yet a majority of Americans seem more concerned about gas prices, their 401ks, their ability to purchase the new TV… \u00a0 “What would that say about us as a society?” \u00a0 I asked the class. \u00a0 “Selfish,” a student instantly replied… \u00a0 At Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, I met with Economics professor Mike Welker. \u00a0 He told me we have become a tremendously complex society where, among other things, credit is embedded at almost every level. \u00a0 This allows for increased problems around living above one’s means, of greed… I asked him what it would take to shift this around at a grassroots level? \u00a0 He replied: \u00a0 “Spiritual conversion.” \u00a0 That’s what I love about Franciscan University. \u00a0 You can’t even take a Math course here without learning about God’s Natural Order… \u00a0 Earlier in the week, I talked briefly to an Ohio University Professor of Finance in Athens, Ohio. \u00a0 She’s from Africa and said that trying to practice consumer moral constraint — in the midst of so much “temptation” (read: advertising) in America — is extremely<\/em> \u00a0 hard… \u00a0 A front page article in the Athens Messenger<\/em> \u00a0 this week noted I “jog through the streets of Cleveland in an old pair of gray sweats and my favorite place to eat is the Old Fashion Hot Dog Place<\/em> around the corner — chili dogs a buck and a quarter.” \u00a0 Rampant consumerism? \u00a0 Hardly… \u00a0 Actually, the Columbus Dispatch<\/em> newspaper this week noted that if I was president the traditionally lavish Inaguaral Balls would be preempted by a simple rice and beans meal in solidarity with the poor of the world — the saving going to help starving children. \u00a0 The Dispatch<\/em> also noted that the last thing I’d probably do on the first night as president would be to: shovel the walk. \u00a0 (I would be a Secret Service nightmare.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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