What Can Your Country Do For You?

The theme of this week's discussion on 51/49 is rethinking JFK's famous quote from his 1961 inaugural speech: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.

Underlying Kennedy’s “Ask Not” speech is an assumption, or a contract, that both the government and the citizens are responsible for the welfare of America.The problem is that the American government has completely abdicated its Constitutional duty and failed its people and its citizens. Our government and our leaders have become so perverse and corrupted. They serve their donors and accept zero responsibility for anything and do nothing except point fingers at the other side when nothing gets better. Worse yet, our government, along with our media, have conditioned Americans, us, to blame each other and hate each other for all the bad things that happen.

But people are not the enemy. The enemy are our supposed “public servants” who are hypocritical, who have abandoned their duties, who are after power, who are out to enrich themselves and line their own pocketbooks with checks from corporations and from special interests.

So it’s time to ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.

0:00 Introduction
0:18 A Brief History of Disney
1:38 Some Bad Things Disney Has Done
2:55 The Human Cost of Happiness

51/49 with James Li - Commentary on business, politics, and the other things (from an independent perspective)

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