{"id":305,"date":"2008-10-08T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T00:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathansnews.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2008-10-08T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T00:48:03","slug":"tough-times-call-for-tough-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathansnews.com\/2008\/10\/tough-times-call-for-tough-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough times call for tough measures!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3233\/2925832404_29351bcb70.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<p>While the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iCBEplezRU4MUlI3wKRd0IZ9GCgQD93M2CP00\">AIG are spending bookoo dollars on luxury trips <\/a>&#8211; weeks after a nice tip from Uncle Sam &#8211; folks in the &#8220;real world&#8221; are finding times a little bit tougher than they have been in the past.<\/p>\n<p>With my paying job being with <a href=\" http:\/\/mortgage.wachovia.com\/house\/nathanballentine\"> <strong>Wachovia Mortgage <\/strong><\/a>&#8230;.ummm&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/09\/29\/news\/companies\/wachovia_citigroup\/index.htm?postversion=2008092908\">Citigroup<\/a>?&#8230;.ummm&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/SmartHome\/story?id=5946486&#038;page=1\">Wells Fargo<\/a>?&#8230;&#8230;I  certainly see the effects this housing market\/crisis is having on builders, contractors, subcontractors, electricians, plumbers, realtors, lenders, real estate attorneys, title insurance companies, etc.<\/p>\n<p>As an elected official, I&#8217;m witnessing first hand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/17661850\/detail.html\">budget shortfalls of our state and the inevitable emergency-session<\/a> coming our way in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Well, closer to home, in fact &#8211; at home &#8211; we&#8217;re exploring new ways to help out the budget. We&#8217;re thinking <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/statehousewife\"> <strong>Karen<\/strong> <\/a> may be heading back to work next year (note: PAYING WORK, she certainly works her butt off at home like all the other mothers who sacrifice careers to be with their kids during the early years). But it&#8217;s not just the grown-ups pitching in here.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, our four-year old, <strong>J.C.<\/strong> has pitched in and is doing his share! As I type this, he&#8217;s anxiously waiting on a <strong>&#8220;Tooth Fairy Bailout&#8221;<\/strong> that (based on the number of times he keeps getting up) can&#8217;t come soon enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the folks at AIG are spending bookoo dollars on luxury trips &#8211; weeks after a nice tip from Uncle Sam &#8211; folks in the &#8220;real world&#8221; are finding times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tough times call for tough measures! - Nathan Ballentine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nathansnews.com\/2008\/10\/tough-times-call-for-tough-measures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tough times call for tough measures! 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