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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.
America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: "THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS"
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“The Economic Bill of Rights”
Excerpt from President Roosevelt's January 11, 1944 message to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Union
"It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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.
America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.
Source: The Public Papers & Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Samuel Rosenman, ed.), Vol XIII (NY: Harper, 1950), 40-42
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Roosevelt's words convey as much meaning as they did when first uttered,
and they are as timely today as they were then.
Maybe because FDR gave people hope. And he did give people somethings to hope for in the New Deal legislation. At least a Democrat will do something for the little guy. Ask yourself, what has a Republican ever done for you? Nothing, nada, zilch. Its the party of the rich, told to me by my great grandfather who was born in 1870 and it's true to this day.
Maybe because FDR gave people hope. And he did give people somethings to hope for in the New Deal legislation. At least a Democrat will do something for the little guy. Ask yourself, what has a Republican ever done for you? Nothing, nada, zilch. Its the party of the rich, told to me by my great grandfather who was born in 1870 and it's true to this day.
Maybe because FDR gave people hope. And he did give people somethings to hope for in the New Deal legislation. At least a Democrat will do something for the little guy. Ask yourself, what has a Republican ever done for you? Nothing, nada, zilch. Its the party of the rich, told to me by my great grandfather who was born in 1870 and it's true to this day.
How is 20% unemployment helpful to the "little guy"?
All we need is ACA and living wage.
Yup, passing a GOP plan for health reform, WAYYY overdue, exactly like Romneycare, a PROVEN SUCCESS, is COMMUNISM! The dupes are just off the wall brainwashed haters. Change the channel.Keeping the victiims of the Pub cronyism/corruption DEPRESSION from ruin and homelessness is MARXISM. Stfu, morons. LOL!
Romney's ACTUAL plan- Cut taxes on rich, destroy Medicare/aid, Health Reform, raise pentagon spending, cut regs on Wall St, worry about debt in 2035...BRILLIANT
Your stats on FDR is all BS. Had UE at 16% in 1939. Thanks for the crony/corruption Pub World Depressions. Thank god the Dems got in fast this time!
you parrots are all alike.
Liberals are the laziest fucks on the planet and that's why every society that they get control of turns into a fucking hellhole
Liberals are the laziest fucks on the planet and that's why every society that they get control of turns into a fucking hellhole
Whereas your heroes create utopias like Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan, circa 1940.
All we need is ACA and living wage.
Yup, passing a GOP plan for health reform, WAYYY overdue, exactly like Romneycare, a PROVEN SUCCESS, is COMMUNISM! The dupes are just off the wall brainwashed haters. Change the channel.Keeping the victiims of the Pub cronyism/corruption DEPRESSION from ruin and homelessness is MARXISM. Stfu, morons. LOL!
Romney's ACTUAL plan- Cut taxes on rich, destroy Medicare/aid, Health Reform, raise pentagon spending, cut regs on Wall St, worry about debt in 2035...BRILLIANT
Your stats on FDR is all BS. Had UE at 16% in 1939. Thanks for the crony/corruption Pub World Depressions. Thank god the Dems got in fast this time!
Jesus the ACA again.
Answer the damn question ....How much higher will prices go before it becomes affordable.
The anti FDR crowd doesn't know US history from UVB rays. Ever been to Key West? Thank FDR, that and other PORTS were part of the WPA, derided by the D students* (in US history). Tens of thousands of acres cleaned, some cleared, and waterways created. That one man could do so much for this nation is difficult to grasp. But he did, when we were on the verge of collapse, he brought us back; while the appeasers wanted to beg Hitler for mercy, and economic aid, he remained firm in the defense of liberty.
*I understand why some term Bush II's C- grades at Yale, "gentleman's Cs". They got Ds & Fs in US history, and think a C is GOOD grade.
All we need is ACA and living wage.
Yup, passing a GOP plan for health reform, WAYYY overdue, exactly like Romneycare, a PROVEN SUCCESS, is COMMUNISM! The dupes are just off the wall brainwashed haters. Change the channel.Keeping the victiims of the Pub cronyism/corruption DEPRESSION from ruin and homelessness is MARXISM. Stfu, morons. LOL!
Romney's ACTUAL plan- Cut taxes on rich, destroy Medicare/aid, Health Reform, raise pentagon spending, cut regs on Wall St, worry about debt in 2035...BRILLIANT
Your stats on FDR is all BS. Had UE at 16% in 1939. Thanks for the crony/corruption Pub World Depressions. Thank god the Dems got in fast this time!
Jesus the ACA again.
Answer the damn question ....How much higher will prices go before it becomes affordable.
It's just like Romneycare, where prices have come down relative to the rest,now at 2% rise annually vs 15%. Dumbass brainwashed chump.
FDR remains one of the finest this nation has ever had,
FDR... Good wartime president, other than that, sucked ass.
What did he do during the war that any other person in the office wouldn't have?
Maybe because FDR gave people hope. And he did give people somethings to hope for in the New Deal legislation. At least a Democrat will do something for the little guy. Ask yourself, what has a Republican ever done for you? Nothing, nada, zilch. Its the party of the rich, told to me by my great grandfather who was born in 1870 and it's true to this day.
