{"id":885,"date":"2009-02-18T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-02-18T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:01:31","slug":"21809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"2\/18\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama was in Arizona yesterday announcing his new plan to curb home foreclosures. \u00a0 He said there are currently some 6 million homes in foreclosure or at risk of foreclosure. \u00a0 (Many of these are your average size, or bigger, suburban homes.) \u00a0 This wave of foreclosure, \u00a0the president \u00a0said, is putting the “American Dream” in jeapordy for many. \u00a0 Maybe it should be the other way around… \u00a0 That is, instead of families scrambling to stay in these places — maybe they should look to home sharing with another family and cut expenses (mortgage, utililites, furniture, appliances…) in half. \u00a0 At this, all of these American families would still be living way<\/em> \u00a0 better than billions of people who live in the Third World often without just the basics in adequate shelter, food, \u00a0medicine… \u00a0 So if we connect the dots here: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If some of this home-sharing \u00a0savings in America starts going \u00a0to more help for people in \u00a0these Third World countries — doesn’t the “American Dream” get realigned a bit better with, oh \u00a0I don’t know, maybe the Gospel message? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I was just reading the kids a story today in the Bible about a farmer who has a good crop and \u00a0fills his barn up. \u00a0 But instead of giving the rest of the crop away to the poor, the “fool” (Jesus’s word) decides to build another barn and store it for himself. \u00a0 Are we doing the same by hoarding all this home space for ourselves in America, while billions live worldwide in tiny slum dwellings? \u00a0 Sure we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama was in Arizona yesterday announcing his new plan to curb home foreclosures. \u00a0 He said there are currently some 6 million homes in foreclosure or at risk of foreclosure. \u00a0 (Many of these are your average size, or …<\/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-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}