If this country elects Obama and we have in play a super majority democrat government. Kiss the US constitution and capitalism goodbye for a long time.
Rosevelt was wrong then and it is wrong now. Trillions later on the new deal and we are told all the time we need to give more. The only way to achieve this utopia is for everyone to be equally poor.
President Roosevelt's proposed second Bill of Rights included:
• 'The right to a useful, remunerative job in industries, shops, farms, or mines.'
• 'The right to earn enough to provide adequate food, clothing, and recreation.'
• 'The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return that will provide a decent living.'
• 'The right of every businessman to trade with freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies.'
• '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 protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment.'
• 'The right to a good education.'
October 28th, 2008, 04:36 PM
Sock Puppet
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Originally Posted by LHardy
President Roosevelt's proposed second Bill of Rights included:
• 'The right to a useful, remunerative job in industries, shops, farms, or mines.'
• 'The right to earn enough to provide adequate food, clothing, and recreation.'
• 'The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return that will provide a decent living.'
• 'The right of every businessman to trade with freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies.'
• '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 protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment.'
• 'The right to a good education.'
10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.[5]
October 28th, 2008, 06:22 PM
The Stig
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Originally Posted by LHardy
If this country elects Obama and we have in play a super majority democrat government. Kiss the US constitution and capitalism goodbye for a long time.
Yeah, we're screwed, but we're screwed already...the previous eight years of republican administration have already exacted a severe toll on the Constitution...
October 28th, 2008, 07:53 PM
LHardy
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Originally Posted by The Stig
Yeah, we're screwed, but we're screwed already...the previous eight years of republican administration have already exacted a severe toll on the Constitution...
So would your suggestion be to trash it all together by installing Obama and a Dem. super majority?
