Thom Hartmann: Time for a Second Bill of Rights...

[thomhartmann]

What if I told you that Wal-Mart - America’s largest retailer - hires fewer people for jobs than Harvard accepts new students? While that may sound crazy - it's true - and it's a sign of America's growing jobs crisis. So - what can be done to put Americans back to work?

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[rwsanders]

1. TIME? TIME? TIME???? How about long overdue...

Hot button for me. Our founding fathers set a group of principles in place and expected us to continue to strive for those principles as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and enacted by the Constitution. I don't believe they expected those documents to be nit-picked by a bunch of anal-retentive lawyers debating the punctuation. The meaning is clear if you step back and can see the forest instead of staring at the veins in a leaf.
Seeing that we weren't quite getting the idea, FDR ennunciated again quite clearly the intent of good government when he gave the 4 freedoms speech and from those principles planned for a second bill of rights. I still can't understand how that idea was lost except that there were forces in the party that forced him to accept Truman as VP and for whatever good and bad may have been Truman (can't say I know enough about him) the idea was lost.
Not that I hope for a bunch of parrots running for President on the Democratic side, but I'd love to see a primary debate where the candidates if asked the same question that the repugs were "who was your favorite president?" At least the majority would proudly say... "FDR, FDR, FDR".

[rumdude]

2. RT

Might as well be Fox News...

[axollot]

3. Familiarize yourself with Thom Hartmann's work

His show is syndicated on RT. Not produced by RT. He is one of the smartest men out there on these issues.

[classof56]

4. Absolutely he is!

Thanks for your post.