FDR's Second Economic Bill of Rights

[Fire Walk With Me]

I've posted this before but the timing is right:

The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then President of the United States, during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt's argument was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to declare an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee:

Employment, with a living wage,
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies,
Housing,
Medical care,
Education, and,
Social security

Roosevelt stated that having these rights would guarantee American security, and that America's place in the world depended upon how far these and similar rights had been carried into practice. Later in the 1970s, Czech jurist Karel Vasak would categorize these as the ‘second generation’ rights in his theory of three generations of human rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

[abelenkpe]

1. K & R

O how I wish we had a new FDR...

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Kick

[slipslidingaway]

3. knr nt

[DirkGently]

4. Be a good meme for OWS.

[PETRUS]

5. always good to remind ourselves

[Coexist]

6. the timing is perfect!

thank you.

[moondust]

7. Ahh, the common weal.

How quaint.

:sarcasm:

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. One more kick.