JFK's 'Ask Not...' Inaugural Still Inspires 50 Years Later

I thank JFK, RR, Newt/Clinton, & GW for our Nation's longest Bull Market in our history. Being stopped by Clinton’s messy housing plan. Many everyday Americans had their Roth, savings, investment, and retirement plans grew in value from stocks. Plus expansion of our economy & jobs.

Tax cuts to rich does not cost revenue to government bannon, if knew John F. Kennedy economics, you would know...

Too bad we had barry’s “spend out of recession”…

Bill Hedges of MO 1:56AM January 22, 2011

“Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.”

Judging from the company Bannon keeps (and whom pays a lot of his salary), that lesson was never taken to heart.

Junior of DC 11:56PM January 20, 2011

here is one thing we can all agree upon and that we can do for our country. We can agree to applaud and encourage thrift and fiscal discipline demonstrated by member from both parties.

For far too long, politicians from both sides of the aisle have used taxpayer dollars in the form of pork barrel spending to feather the nest of their pet projects and thereby inorder to win heir re-election

Bannon's observation is disingenuous. First he feeds us a talking point bulletin straight from MSNBC about how the Tea Party is bad because they rejected the notion of having to give more of their money to government. But then, in the next breath tell us to triple funding for medical research or hire more preschool teachers and highway workers.

Here is the problem with Bannon's thought process. His rationale does not address the acute problem which is unrestrained spending.

Let's follow his thought process: Triple medical research. Then what? Medical research makes a finding that requires more funding for more research which requires more money for more research. The spiral never ends leaving taxpayers always on the hook. If research is needed then great, let private industry and entrepreneurs pony-up the cash to fund it.

Let's put more workers on the government payroll. Great! They become dependent on government for a constant paycheck. Government grows. The more government workers, means non-government workers are taxed more to make payroll. But, more government workers means fewer tax paying non-government workers. It's not long before there are few non-government workers to tax inorder to pay for government workers. What then? Borrow from someone who has money OR monetize our debt by printing more money. Who has money we can borrow? Let's prit more money? Sound familiar? It should. We're borrowing from China and we just printed billions.

If Bannon is serious about Kennedy's comments. Then the best thing WE can do for government is wean government from our wallets. Fat bloated government rides an underfeed, emaciated, weak horse called the economy. The result only hastens the death of the horse.

So how do we strengthen the horse. First we put the rider on a diet. We wean the rider from the thing that causes growth...spending. Regardless of party affiliation, we should applaud and support Republican efforts to defund and eliminate government programs that waste billions of tax payer dollars every year. Namely Public Broadcasting Corporation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, subsidies to Amtrak, duplicative/redundant government programs.

How do we strengthen the horse?. Primarily we give it a rest. Get government off it's back. Secondly. we pay our debts and cut taxes. That, dear Bannon, is the horse's hay.

A strong horse carries a light rider longer and further.

david of ID 6:30PM January 20, 2011