Who is credited with inspiring a generation of americans in ways to serve their country. Would you believe Public Service means in todays america. Do believe young people are taking up the call to Public Service . Give us a call. If you are outside the u. S. , 202 5853883. You can also catch up with us on your favorite social media pages. Host a very good monday morning to you. 50 years ago today, john f. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National cemetery. His Public Service was best expressed in his 1961 inaugural address. [video clip] asked not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. [laughter] [applause] world,ow citizens of the ask not what america will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. [applause] arelly, whether you citizens of america or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you, with a good conscience our when history is the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth, gods work must truly be our own. Ont president kennedy january 20, 1961. That is the subject of the washingtonian piece. The shift in Public Service since jfks famous appeal is that len of the story. That he rallied an army of people to government service. Corps sent the nations youth to work in latin america, africa, and india. The peace corps took off immediately. The story goes on to note that today just a third of americans have a favorable opinion of the federal government. The lowest rating in 15 years. That is the lead story in this months washingtonian magazine. What does Public Service mean to you . Commentseady getting on our facebook page. I will read you a few of those. Public service means not being corrupted. We will be taking your facebook comments, twitter as well, and also our phone lines are open if you want to talk about the subject. We want to hear your thoughts on this topic for the next 40 minutes or so. We will start on the phones on our independent line. Jan from denver colorado. Caller good morning. I dont think that there is enough educational monday put into civics classes anymore money put into civics classes anymore. Its of annk opportunity to see what Public Service truly offers. A lot of people think Public Services on the government work. They dont realize they can go to other countries and other cultures and that there are a lot of opportunities. Host it is more of a pr effort . The government needs to promote these opportunities better . Youth is willing to take up those Public Service efforts . Caller i think they would if they knew that there were some in the interesting things they could do. When john as a child f. Kennedy was shot and it was. Uch a shock to the country we went straight into the vietnam war. All of the young men were going there. Trying to go into fields where they didnt have to go there. Theres a lot to be said for Public Service that never got cuts,nd with the funding government change from being something that people wanted to support and participate in. Host there has been some thoughts about having mandatory Public Service for kids after they graduate high school. Do you think Public Service should be mandatory . I think that opportunity should be mandatory. I think that maybe having people do ino classes like they college and show with the different occupations are. So that they know what kind of fields are open to them, not just college and university fields, but tech fields that are opening up. There were so much more out there than people realize that the government participates in. Host thanks for the call from denver. We are asking you this question of what Public Service means to you. Jan was talking about the pr efforts. That there should be more pr about opportunities in Public Service. Here is a story from the Houston Chronicle. This story points out some of the problems of where Public Service is in todays United States. That piece in the Houston Chronicle talking about the problems with Public Service in todays society. Is on our line for democrats. Tallahassee, florida. Caller can you hear me . Host go ahead. Caller i feel that it is for main entities that Public Service revolver on. Education, the economy, politics, religion. The four hidden dynasties. What has happened in this country and most people can spot that these dynasties have been infiltrated and are trying to be destroyed. They have never, ever been strong when you let people who came to be christians, born again christians, they penetrate these hidden dynasties and their main goal is to destroy them. Host ok. Ronnie from kentucky. Independent line. You are on the washington journal. Caller good morning. It is not like it used to be with the politicians. Say they work for the good of their own selves. It is too much politics in the government. It does not matter if it is a republican. The democrats will vote against it and vice versa. They dont seem to care about the good of the people. Even with the health care. They could get this worked out if the government, the members of the states, and the congress would work together. This should be worked out. A question. Ask you this idea of mandatory Public Service. Or do you stand on that . Caller i dont really know. I dont think anything should be mandatory. Everybody should have their own will to do whatever. But i do believe that our politicians are way overpaid for the service they do provide for the people. Harry reid and john boehner are the worst leaders i have ever seen in my days. And one is ablican democrat. You look at the way that they do do not care about the people. They are a bunch of hypocrites. There is many more things going on now that we dont know about. Gilbert so, kentucky. The subject on the 50th anniversary of the burial of john f. Kennedy. That is that the consecration at the Arlington Cemetery cemetery. In his recollection of that event, he says whatever you do, be the best that you can be. That was his interview with the Washington Post. Note, we will be replying that burial on our cspan networks. We are replying the nbc coverage. F the funeral at 8 30 tonight you can look for information about that on our website. What Public Service means to our viewers. We will go to robert from california on our line for independents. The thing about this Public Service i have been studying this stuff is that in the private sector you can get pensions. In the Public Sector, you cant. These people are servants. They are not employees. The only employees obama has are his cabinet members, because he hired them. Everybody else in the senate and representatives were voted in by the people. They are servants. We are u. S. Citizens. We are not americans. Americans are all latins. If you are an american, you speak spanish. If you speak english in the United States, you are a u. S. Citizen. That is my comment. The anniversary of president kennedy was 50 years ago he was assassinated on a friday. It was celebrated 50 years later on a friday. That is called the anniversary date. The date is the anniversary. They would have to be the day and the date this time. Host ok. Keith from delmar, california. Republican line. Caller i have a slightly different take on what kennedys famous line meant. What yourid ask not country can do for you, but what you can do for your country i view that as an x rotation to be a maker and not a taker. A lot of people who claim to be Public Servants, especially in where we are famously enron by the sea with our ridiculous pension prague problem, they are leeches on the productive members of society. I think what people want to do andecide to be net makers contribute to society, rather than take from society. Host how do you go about changing the situation in America Today . Paul. vote for rand host ok. John wrightson on twitter tes in on twitter sun had a piece by a publisher and former Baltimore County executive talking about the jfk generation. The torch may have been passed to his generation, but he clearly passed it to the next. The author goes on to note that many of marylands famous Public Officials including nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and members of the senate the subject we are talking about with our viewers this morning kathy is up next from hollywood, florida on our independent line. Caller good morning. Old. 4 years psychology major, Political Science minor. I think the Public Service means starting at the bottom. Getting involved in [indiscernible] that is where it starts. I think jfk [indiscernible] i dont think we should [indiscernible] to really be passionate about it. Host thanks for the call. Next on theas up independent line. Caller good morning. That opinion about Public Service now is limited by financiallehold that big banks and big corporations have on our government and i dont think people on either the left or the right are happy with our government because of that. You think that . How would you solve the problem . Caller i dont think there is any solution except a coming on all acrossople the political spectrum ideaizing around the basic of popular sovereignty. I think jfk was headed in the of working toward government being of more benefit to the 99 then the 1 . I think like all of our president s, especially our latest president , have been tossured by advisers maintain a profitable status quo , a status quo that is profitable for a few. In his James W Douglas the unspeakable makes a pretty good case that if jfk was headed in the direction ,f greater popular sovereignty that may be a primary reason why he was assassinated. This kilgore, texas morning. We have also asked some of our callers about the idea of mandatory Public Service for young people. Some proposals that have been put out there. Writes inghtson we will take your comments on facebook and twitter. Our phone lines remain open. I want to touch on some of the headlines around the country. Most of those headlines deal with that irani and Iranian Nuclear deal. He reset front page of the new york times. Here is the front page of the new york times. Shows secretary of state john kerry at a london airport on sunday after he reached an interim accord with iran. It raises many questions for the Obama Administration. Declared thenyahu deal a historic mistake. There is a picture of him alongside secretary of state john kerry in that piece. You can see their. One other headline on the subject Irans Nuclear deal faces uphill battle. Highlights the deal. Some of the highlights of the deal. Halts commitment to enrichment of uranium above 5 . That is the chart in todays Washington Times highlighting some of the aspects of the deal. The debate is played out in the editorial pages today. Iran breakthrough deserves a chance the headline of that piece. Diplomacy is a joy has enjoyed few breakthroughs. The world must give this one a chance. The Financial Times there. This opinion piece from the Washington Times. The surrender of iranian sanctions. In the wall street journal, Irans Nuclear triumph. It notes that the best that can be said of this deal is that it slows for a few weeks irans rapid progress to a nuclear breakout, but the price is that it sets a standard that will allow iran to become a Nuclear Capable regime that starts just stops just short of creating a bomb. It goes on to urge members of congress to act. Mr. Obama seems determined to press ahead with the deal regardless of legacy details or damage. The topic is going to be the subject of our next guest on the washington journal. We will spend 45 minutes on that subject. We have another 20 minutes to talk about this issue of Public Service and what it means to you. Callers are waiting on our lines. Gary is from sterling, virginia. Republican, line. Caller good morning. Thank you for letting me tell you what i think Public Service is. Thank i would like to everybody who called the white house and told them to utilize the flare gas that they burn off thate wellheads because was put in the energy bill and the president signed it so now they are utilizing that flare gas. The second thing i would like to say is that i would like everybody to call the white house and tell them to utilize, ouryze, and prioritize transportation infrastructure with satellite Computer Technology so that they quit using these traffic improvements as political plums. Host is this your idea of Public Service . To get in contact with your elected officials and urge them to act a certain way . Caller yes sir. Host this idea of mandatory Public Service. Or two, whether it is the peace corps or military. What is your take . Caller i dont know. I think it would be a good idea. Fake it till you make it. That seems to, you know, that is the only way you can do it. There is nothing wrong with that. Host david frum monticello, georgia. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I have a different take on Public Service. I was recently elected to a City Council Post here in november. Itan run on this because would look like i was buying votes. Is that we have a salary that comes to the Council Members. The take him is around 320 per month. Freean is to create a ticket raffle or lottery type thing where i can pull a resident out of a hat and a business out of a hat every month. 100, one to the resident, want to the business giving back to the community in hopes that will spire more people to come to the meetings when we get more commentary from the citizenry, get more ideas floating around. The more people you have talking, the more progressive ideas you will have and some will take old. Take hold. And hopefully some other Council Members will want to join in on this thing to inspire and get more help for the citizens. My ultimate plan is once again passed the mandatory things that , have to do with the state which would cost me some fuel ,ecause we are in a rural city once a get past that, we have a local food bank and i would like to be able to give another hundred dollars every month to that food bank. About payi ask you for elected officials and your thought for that . Graduatingpeople are college and theyre looking to join the workforce and they see the amount of money they can make in the air versus the publicsector. Do you think that is limiting that types of people who will join Public Service and Public Service jobs . Caller it probably is limiting. There has to be some kind of salary because of the age and the era we live in. You get paid for what you do. Fromeetings are anywhere ao hours to five hours, once month, and we might have workshops. Ic salary on an easy month no called meetings or workshops you can actually make 200 per hour. That is ridiculous for what were doing. If you break it down by our, it sane for people to jump into the publicsector. Host using members of congress should be paid by the hour . Caller he would get a lot more done. Lot moreuld get a done. There would not be such a lengthy holidays and recesses. They would make sure theyre getting the salary they used to and they might actually get something done. You some of the numbers out there in terms of the amount of people going into Public Service these days. Here is a poll from this past summer from usa today. That poll found that americans samuel from fresno, california. Our line for independents. Is a familyink it needing to get together and spend more time together and do more things for the community. You have to reach out to your family and help each other and help other people. You have to do more for your fellow man. That is what the whole bible preaches anyway. That is what we are put on this earth for. Host thank you for the call. Linda is in texas on our line for democrats. Were asking our viewers, what does Public Service me to you . Caller i think you missed an important subheading on the first article you read. The way publicth service is viewed in kennedys time it was looked up to. Now it is taunted. It is looked at negatively. I think the underlying cause is that we have a contract with the government that says that we give our taxes and we give our time and service in the military in exchange for our rights being protected and benefits from our government. When we dont see those things happening, we take on a lack of credibility from the government. Think you should separate out the hirelings in the federal government, from those who are being elected in the federal government. They have different goals. See something coming back from your government, not just something going into the government. It starts on a local scale. On the federal scale, one of the th