"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".Did you think it was funny during the debate it seemed as if they where trying to see who could give the most "free" stuff?
2007-11-15 18:19:20 · 9 answers · asked by jay f 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Unfortunately the Dems Mantra is to buy the "masses" vote, as apparently they think it is Up for Sale.....kinda cheapens the whole process.........but unfortunately many will fall for the bull sh*t! ....and sadly some people seem to think We Owe them, .....
2007-11-15 18:24:22 · answer #1 · answered by Rada S 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since your old enough to remember Kennedy you also remember what happened when Carter asked people to curb energy use during the OPEC embargo. In a republic you get a government as good as the people. Kennedy was talking to a generation that had saved the world as a guy that had been there. It's not just the Democrats who have gone soft it's the American people. Who else would think it's a great idea to go out to dinner and go shopping after a major terrorist attack?
2007-11-16 02:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by Hubris252 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It became "gimme, gimme, gimme" when the "War on Poverty" started up by LBJ handed out all kinds of government freebies , otherwise known as "entitlement programs".
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to educate liberals and other deadbeats that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
2007-11-16 02:30:16 · answer #3 · answered by commanderbuck383 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that Democrats are afraid of the word "not."
They changed and abridged the quote to read "Ask what your country can do for you. We'll bill the wealthy for it and blame the Republicans when you don't get it."
2007-11-16 02:22:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well the peace corps still exists. That was a product of the sixties. There are plenty of democrats and others doing things inthe name of America while Republicans are bombing innocent people and ripping off people with their get rich schemes like Enron.
2007-11-16 02:34:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
During the cold war, the hippie movement started to hate the US but respect brutal soviet russia, for reasons I still don't understand.
2007-11-16 02:24:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They stopped using that coz
1. people never asked the question were all to lazy and
2. it became one of the biggest cliche's ever and the party who said that weren't voted in
(ok so no. 2 is only half true)
2007-11-16 05:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by sumthing_to_say_12 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What Conserva-Crazies want from government is, ensuring of social stability and subsidy of institutions -- all so Conservatives can feel secure. But Conservatives are whiny, they don't want to finance their feeling of security by themselves. I think that is rather pathetic. So lazy.
2007-11-16 03:09:08 · answer #8 · answered by Socion 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They're a sad, sorry azz bunch.
There are only 3 candidates worth listening to:
Ron Paul
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
In that order.
2007-11-16 02:23:59 · answer #9 · answered by doug4jets 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋