FDR's Second Bill of Rights

[Just_Vote_Dem]

Imagine if this had happened, the lives it would have saved...

"In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being. "

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/address_text.html

[Joinfortmill]

1. FDR, quite the dude.

[Ray Bruns]

2. Where's the amendment saying I can own my own tank as long as it's main

armament is less than 105mm?

[electric_blue68]

3. I often bring this up when appropriate. Learned it from Thom Hartman back in...

the Air 🧡 America days.🤞

[Hiawatha Pete]

4. K&R

[Wounded Bear]

5. K & R...nt

[Javaman]

6. Right up there is FDR's four freedoms....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms

Four Freedoms

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:

Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
Roosevelt delivered his speech 11 months before the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that caused the United States to declare war on Japan, December 8, 1941. The State of the Union speech before Congress was largely about the national security of the United States and the threat to other democracies from world war. In the speech, he made a break with the long-held tradition of United States non-interventionism. He outlined the U.S. role in helping allies already engaged in warfare, especially Great Britain and China.

In that context, he summarized the values of democracy behind the bipartisan consensus on international involvement that existed at the time. A famous quote from the speech prefaces those values: "As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone." In the second half of the speech, he lists the benefits of democracy, which include economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care". The first two freedoms, of speech and religion, are protected by the First Amendment in the United States Constitution. His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional Constitutional values protected by the U.S. Bill of Rights. Roosevelt endorsed a broader human right to economic security and anticipated what would become known decades later as the "human security" paradigm in studies of economic development. He also included the "freedom from fear" against national aggression and took it to the new United Nations he was setting up.

Historical context

[c-rational]

7. Sounds like the Four Freedoms speech. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from,

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Want, and Freedom from Worry.

[world wide wally]

8. And Republicans see these basic ideals as "entitlements"

Apparently they are not happy unless someone is made to suffer needlessly.

[Prairie_Seagull]

9. The flip side of those times is of course these times where-

wealth is allowed to control basically whatever it wishes. FDR raised taxes to levels that today would be unacceptable even in theory. You want big money to continue ruling , Keep doing what we are doing.

We have been aiming at the targets we can hit. The bullseye for us however is off limits. Hard to compete in a match where the high value targets are owned by the very wealthy.

Now there is a happy thought, I'd rather sit in the glow of FDR

[crickets]

10. K&R for visibility.