2007-12-08 00:59:47 · 14 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
i miss talking to you as adults, i will stick to my dream talk then, this seems to serve no purpose, you dont want to give no matter how much you are hurting me
2007-12-08 01:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by radharani 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I hate the quote from Kennedy about asking what you can do for your country! Certainly the country has done a lot for its people but lesser countries, including Iceland, Norway, and Australia Provide better educational opportunites, a better adjusted real income and better medical care according to the United Nations Human Index Report and we have the highest infant death rate of any other modern country. We have millions of homeless who are on the streets though no fault of their own, millions of homes being taken over because people have lost their jobs or made the mistake of using a credit card and not being able to make the payments because of usurous interest rates and property taken from legitimate owners by public right law in order to build shopping centers. We have a president that over 60 percent of our country think is doing a horrible job, engaged in a war that few agree with and a congress that is for sale to the hightest bidding lobbyist. It is time to stop asking what we can do for our country and ask instead what your country has done to us, and then work for those changes the American People should expect from their government.
2007-12-08 10:19:14 · answer #2 · answered by Al B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every day I wake up in my home which cannot be stolen from me because of the titles and laws that protect my property. I walk down the sidewalk constructed and repaired by the city. I am not hit crossing the street because of traffic enforcement. I can use my cellphone that operates on a frequency regulated by the FCC. I get a cup of real coffee which is not poison, dirty or rat infested because of health inspectors. I go to work in a building which is safe due to building inspectors, preparing tax returns regulated by the IRS. I can expect to be paid because of labor laws. I put the money in the bank regulated and insured by the FDIC. No airplanes crash into the building because of the FAA. I am not robbed and do not have to carry a gun to protect myself against foreign armies because of the police and military.
I could go on, but the point is that everything I do is because the government has provided the environment that permits me to do it securely.
2007-12-08 09:17:38 · answer #3 · answered by BruceN 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, lets see. Oh yes, I enjoy the highest standard of living of anywhere in the world. I can drive my car down the road without fear of being bombed by a roadside bomber. The police and fire departments protect me from murderers and fires at night. I OWN my home, not the government. I enjoy freedom of religion so I get to go to the church of my choice this Sunday. I enjoy freedom of press so I speak my own mind here. Need I say more?
2007-12-08 09:22:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Besides anger and get me aggravated? Nothing. And what really gets me mad is that the Democratic Congress voted to work just 3 (40) hr weeks for next year !
2007-12-08 11:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
--John F. Kennedy
That said, my government (the U.S.A.) has provided me with the greatest country the world has ever known. It has protected me from foreign invaders, provide a strong economy so I can work for a living, it has guaranteed safe products for me to use, it has provided protection from crime and fire, and it has allowed the free market to create a medical system to assist me in caring for my health.
Need I go on?
2007-12-08 09:18:37 · answer #6 · answered by Rick K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go cookie monster!! Ron Paul will see that the government would not be infringing on your private life!! His policy is that of the golden days of America modernized. But yes my government has done something for me and that is raise taxes, and put the economy in a downward spiral! Its gonna take something pretty radical to get us out!
Ron Paul 2008!
Rick K - good quote but free market??? what free market? the gov. controls everthing! especially in the medical area!
Loyal- you own your home? hate to break it to you but thats not true! What happens if you don't pay property tax! the gov. chares you that tax to live on their land!!!
2007-12-08 09:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Benjy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The gov't does many things for each and everyone of us ! Roads are built,schools are provided,transport of goods is secured, and the list goes on and on !' Ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country' ! John F Kennedy
2007-12-08 09:15:40 · answer #8 · answered by atsugi60 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My government, in the last years has taught me not to take my liberties for granted because they have started to take those very liberties afforded to me by my constitution away in the name of security. "If you sacrifice freedom for security, you get neither"
2007-12-08 10:27:02 · answer #9 · answered by muruch 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The governement is not there to do for you. You are supposed to do for yourself.
2007-12-08 09:03:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋