{"id":914,"date":"2009-05-26T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=351"},"modified":"2009-05-26T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T00:10:01","slug":"351","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica on $2 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"

At St. Patrick’s Church in Cleveland yesterday a missionary priest described the abject poverty in Jamaica. \u00a0 He said in the real<\/em> Jamaica, not the resort<\/em> Jamaica, some 74% of the people live on less than $2 a day. \u00a0 There are scores of slums with \u00a0tiny shacks, no running water, no electricity… and worse. \u00a0 Yet the priest said \u00a0Americans will \u00a0think nothing of spending 10 bucks on a couple “Happy Meals” at McDonalds, or $50 on dinner out and a movie, or, well, whatever it takes to satisfy our “wants” — \u00a0while little children go hungry all over the world. \u00a0 Question<\/strong>: \u00a0 If I continue on in \u00a0all the comfort of my \u00a0American lifestyle knowing people are starving to death elsewhere (24,000 every day), how “pro-Life” am I really? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 We spent three weeks on a farm in mid-Ohio where I never once heard a police siren. \u00a0 And when we got back to the city, I didn’t here a siren either — for the first 10 minutes. \u00a0 There was, however, a police helicopter hovering above the neighborhood as we pulled up. \u00a0 “Green Acres is the place to be…”<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 Have I mentioned we’re trying to raise donations? \u00a0 We need $3,000 for our next tour so a voice so badly needed in this society can continue to reach as many people as possible. \u00a0 Thanks. \u00a0 Schriner Presidential Election Committee, 2100 W. 38th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44113.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At St. Patrick’s Church in Cleveland yesterday a missionary priest described the abject poverty in Jamaica. \u00a0 He said in the real Jamaica, not the resort Jamaica, some 74% of the people live on less than $2 a day. \u00a0 …<\/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-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}