"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.".....President John F. Kennedy
At the time that this historic statement was made by an iconic President, our country and people were a different breed. Sure there were still "good ole Washington Politicians" but America still stood for something and we were a proud people. We still had our struggles with issues regarding Cuba, Russia and Civil Rights, but we still had a moral standard that seems to have simply diminished.
When JFK spoke this historic line it was not a call for us to hand over what we have worked so hard for to someone who sits home watching the soaps, collecting a check and helping to increase the population. To me....this is a call to stand as an American and support our country and constitution.
In November I plan to do just that by voting NO to the O.
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ReplyDeleteI really believe this problem is so much bigger than just the handful of people who are taking advantage of hard-working Americans. I believe there is a problem with the 'system' and there are people who know how to abuse it, but I just think that is just a needle in the haystack of corrupstion and immoral acts of people that span all incomes. I think we all need to start acting locally as much as we can because the problem we have in this country needs to be fixed from the bottom up. We need to be involved in local government and we need to be volunteering locally so we can see with our own eyes the 'types' of people that we are all up in arms about. It's not what you may think it is.
ReplyDeleteWe do need to get involved in our community and in our local government, but I believe that it's more than a handful of people taking advantage of the system. It could be what I have witnessed myself that gives me such a cynical view of that particular aspect of the problem, but it's the way I see it. Our system has been tailored, whether purposefully or accidentally, so that it is more profitable to stay home and draw a check than work. The people who need help can't get it and the ones who could do better for themselves don't try. But we also have to ask where did they learn that from? Are we raising our kids properly? What values are they getting? There are some kids you couldn't BEAT values into their head, but on the whole I'd like to think it would stick. Looking out our present day America one would have to wonder.
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