{"id":713,"date":"2012-11-07T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=713"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:45:27","slug":"now-can-we-solve-our-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/713","title":{"rendered":"Now can we solve our problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I voted; did you?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good morning all, I hope this finds you well.\u00a0 Last night was our countries 57th election; and our 44th president was given another four years. I hope all of you voted yesterday, or at least submitted an absentee ballot.\u00a0 Whether or not your candidates won, we participated in the process and performed our duties as citizens.\u00a0 Hopefully, this time all<\/span> sides will work together.<\/p>\n

Yesterday ended, at least for the time being, the bickering and finger-pointing we affectionately call our political season.<\/p>\n

No matter what side of the isle you stand on; today is the day that our elected officials should to start coming together, and placing OUR country above the political parties.<\/p>\n

To all of our elected officials I have but one statement, and that is a quote I was once read:<\/p>\n

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Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often, and for the same reason.\u00a0 -Mark Twain<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are not Red, Blue, (fill in color here) — We are Americans, we are the mutts of the world, and as is so common with mutts; we have the best of all nations while minimizing the worst.<\/p>\n

So, let’s put some gloves on, put down the coffee and get to work. Together<\/span> let’s solve the issues that are crushing our country: debt and spending, jobs (These are the 300 lb gorillas in the room; let’s take care of them first).\u00a0 If we can tame these two really big issues, I believe the rest will sort of “fall” into place.<\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00a0 What issues do you think our elected officials should work on first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning all, I hope this finds you well.\u00a0 Last night was our countries 57th election; and our 44th president was given another four years. I hope all of you voted yesterday, or at least submitted an absentee ballot.\u00a0 Whether … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[50,80],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants-raves","tag-america","tag-duty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15068,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/15068","url_meta":{"origin":713,"position":0},"title":"Time to strap in and buckle up!","author":"DR D","date":"January 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is January 20th, 2025, Inauguration Day, which, by all accounts, should be a peaceful turnover of power from the current democratic president to a recycled republican president (yes, the lower cases are intentional). 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