FDR's Forgotten Freedoms - Democratic Underground

proud2BlibKansan

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Sun Oct-04-09 10:53 AM
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FDR's Forgotten Freedoms

Knowing full well what his fellow citizens aspired to achieve, FDR sustained the prospect of a social-democratic United States. In January 1941 he proclaimed the Four Freedoms—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear—and charged a generation with renewed purpose and promise. And three years later—with polls showing that both Democrats and Republicans wanted to expand Social Security to cover old-age pensions for all, job insurance, student aid, and public works—he elaborated upon freedom from want and fear in his annual message to Congress by advancing the idea of an Economic or Second Bill of Rights to “assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.” These rights included: “The right to a useful and remunerative job… The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation… The right of every family to a decent home… The right to adequate medical care… The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment… The right to a good education.”

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-in-the-news/fdrs-forgotten-freedoms

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Davis_X_Machina

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Sun Oct-04-09 10:59 AM
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1. Not *completely* forgotten...from 2002

Cass Sunstein's The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It

Sunstein, incidentally, is frequently attacked as one of Obama's corporatist sellout appointments.

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bvar22

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Sun Oct-04-09 12:53 PM
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2. FDR would be ashamed of today's Democratic Party.

LBJ and JFK too.

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