Ashcroft: America wants assurance economic downturn doesn’t repeat

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke to Missouri business leaders at the Associated Industries of Missouri Show Me Leadership event Wednesday at the Double Tree Hotel. Photo by Stephen Brooks.

By Ben Yarnell

Thursday, January 13, 2011

With words of encouragement and warning alike, former Attorney General John Ashcroft addressed members of the Associated Industries of Missouri (AIM) and state legislators on the importance of business for the young legislature.

In his keynote address at the Doubletree Hotel in Jefferson City on Wednesday afternoon during AIM’s SHOW ME Leadership event, Ashcroft called upon the legislators and AIM members to work together this year, citing the words of Thomas Payne to describe the potential that comes with a new session at the Capitol.

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“We have it within our power to make the world over again,” Ashcroft said. “If the American people have, at any time, registered a more profound idea that they want their circumstance, their environment, their communities made over again than this last November, I don’t know when it was. Certainly not in my lifetime.”

Among the topics that Ashcroft touched on in his address, the uncertain state of the economy was prominent.

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gofish 2 years, 4 months ago

Apparently no one ever told him about Pearl Harbor and WWII. Nor does he remember the Civil Rights Protests, Riots, Vietman, Gas Wars, or the Recession under Jimmy Carter, nor the Recession of the 80's under Reagan. Has dementia set in John? Seems you either don't know or have forgotten what you learned in H.S. American History.

TheRickster 2 years, 4 months ago

Graceful,,what gofish is talking about is the past situations that were as or more important that the newly elected bunch. Ashcoft seems to think it is an "us" and "them" United States. That is how we got into this mess in the first place.Pointing fingers doesn't help in any situation. One problem I see is words coming from folks like Ascroft, Palin, and any others that have never had to really earn a living. Proffesional polititions, speakers and book writers that have cash in hand and want more. They truly have no cares at all about the middle class. As long as they make a buck and stay away from taxing them. They are the "ones" that create jobs. I don't see it. He thinks the Republicans have all the answers for this troubling time, all the while forgetting the facts. All parties have contributed in this mess.

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