{"id":873,"date":"2009-01-20T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-01-20T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:25:03","slug":"12009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"1\/20\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate to be a party pooper, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I was talking to a political science professor over the weekend who said that $24 million<\/em> \u00a0 had been raised just the Inaugural Ball activity, etc. \u00a0 What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more, some five million people have come to D.C. to, simply put: be part of this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s party. \u00a0 They will spend billions on plane flights, lodging, food\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 During one of our campaign tours several years ago, I interviewed a woman in Cortez, Colorado, who was recently back from a missions trip to Uganda. \u00a0 She said emaciated children slept atop burlap bags on the dirt floors of huts as their parents, and many of them, died of starvation and AIDS. \u00a0 We also stopped at Habitat for Humanity<\/em> headquarters in Americus, Georgia, where we learned millions of families living in the abject poverty of Third World slums could be put in Habitat Homes for prices ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 a home. \u00a0 Question:<\/strong> \u00a0 How far could the billions of dollars being spent on all the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcparty goers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in D.C. this week go toward building these homes and helping these starving children? \u00a0 Our priorities are getting so<\/em> out of whack. \u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate to be a party pooper, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I was talking to a political science professor over the weekend who said that $24 million \u00a0 had been raised just the Inaugural Ball activity, etc. \u00a0 What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more, some five million …<\/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-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}