John F. Kennedy Quotes
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.
Kennedy, John F. "Statement by the President on the Establishment of a Task Force on Manpower Conservation." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, United States Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 753.
Fiji had undergone a succession of coups and the unstable political situation and the ethnic strife had caused man of the educated young people to emigrate. This “brain drain” is common in many third world countries.
On observing unemployment in France while it was virtually unknown then in America:
This incredible quotation was actually typical of many of the extremist right wing views that Angle had. Very few conservatives who may have problems with the unemployment insurance system believe that the benefits are so generous that anyone would possibly be spoiled from the benefit. An unemployed family head, who may have been middle class, if he or she lost a job and while looking for another is supported by unemployment in almost all cases will be below the poverty level. This is hardly a standard of living that would spoil anyone. The voters of Nevada certainly thought so as they defeated Angle at the polls.
The Arab countries (with the exception of Jordan) did not allow the Palestinian refugees to work or to establish their own factories or to accept economic development. Any semblance of independence would, the Arab leaders thought, remove pressure to have the refugees returned to Israel. In contrast, hundreds of thousands of Jews were forcibly expelled from the Arab countries and all those refugees who went to Israel were given citizenship and absorbed into the economy and culture.
Communications were quite primitive and out of desperation many jobless men would just walk the main road to the next community in hopes of finding work there.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
