{"id":949,"date":"2009-10-02T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-10-02T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T00:25:40","slug":"387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"“…war on poverty”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned in the last blog entry that I talked to a couple classes at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Indiana. \u00a0 The classes revolved around a Christian response to our global society. \u00a0 One of the classes is taught by professor Michael Griffin, who is also an associate editor for the magazine Sign of Peace<\/em>. \u00a0 He is a tremendous advocate for non-violence, and is the type of person we would recruit for the U.S. Department of Peace<\/em> that our administration would propose… I turned professor Griffin’s class into sort of a ‘town hall meeting,’ and it got pretty lively. \u00a0 The students were quite vocal about the environment, health care, the economy, war… \u00a0 One student, Dan Hatfield, said that “…if we fought a war on poverty, there wouldn’t be a war on terrorism.” \u00a0 We have often said that our administration would propose using a lot of current military hardware (cargo planes, ships, etc…), to deliver much more humanitarian aid worldwide. \u00a0 As an example: \u00a0 When you think about it, a percentage of youth caught in dead end inner city poverty in this country often join: gangs. \u00a0 A percentage of youth in dead end Third World poverty join: terrorist cells. \u00a0 If we were as proactive as possible about building the kind of peace Mr. Hatfield proposes, there would be a whole<\/em> \u00a0 lot less hot spots around the globe. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 For a time, professor Griffin was the managing editor of Signs of Peace<\/em>. \u00a0 In a 2005 edition he helped publish, it was noted that a Catholic Worker Peace Team traveled to Darfur, Sudan, to distribute some $17,000 in humanitarian aid. \u00a0 We propose<\/a> that start happening exponentially in that country to help stop the genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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