JimBowie1958
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"Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people - the 150 or 160 million - is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.'"
President John F. Kennedy
Thats pretty much true except now it is the Democrats that represent the most wealthy and they use government regs, racism, political cronyism and organized crime to keep the Middle Class down, parasitically feeding off its ability to produce wealth.
Well, you don't know John F. Kennedy. If you hated Ted Kennedy, you would have despised Jack and Bobby. Medicare, civil rights laws and the war on poverty were ALL New Frontier programs LBJ adopted.
Of course, and I have no problem with most of that, but Nixon pushed it beyond LBJs intent and I suspect it was a Nixonian ploy to spoil the very thought of such programs in the minds of most Americans.
What JFK said and believed is presented here:
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
That kind of talking would get you banned from the Democratic Party and a rent-a-mob outside your office courtesy of Soros and his hired guns in a heart beat. Soros owns the Democratic Party and JFK would not have shared it with him for a second.
What is really disturbing is how you right wing turds have polarized brains.
Thats what I thought; you just be trollin.
No liberals, Democrats or even President Obama who you despise are calling for 'extreme socialism'.
Government take over of businesses and shafting their shareholders, and taking over entire industries is socialism. It isnt the most extreme form of socialism but it is socialism and extreme for the American public's tastes.
And Democrats have called for rational gun control measures like banning assault weapons.
Bullshit. They did not ban assault weapons at all. They banned scarey looking weapons that made them wet their panties.
The term 'Marketist' perfectly explains the blind religious like dogma and doctrinaire of America's version of Marxists. Marx, Engel, Stalin and Hitler were big believers is social Darwinism.
Marketism = social Darwinism = fascism = communism?
Dude, find your meds, please.
As far as good old Harry S., I will let him speak for himself:
"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement. They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again. They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it."
President Harry S. Truman
That was true then and some of it is true now.
Today though it is the Dems that promise racial equality while meaning all races are equally poor and enslaved to the government.
The Dems say that they want to grow jobs and build industry but just cant seem to find the time as they grow government and build a monolythic state.
The Dems say they are for democracy but only as long as they can steal votes and engage in other kinds of fraud and to stop them is racist.
The Dems say that they are for freedom then jail people for thought crimes and cannot find anything wrong with Chavez.
The Republicans are scarey, true, but the Democrats are worse than the Black Plague.
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