Kommentar von Gerhard am 5. August 2011 um 9:04am

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.”[2] 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 all our citizens.

For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/address_text.html

 

 

Kommentar von Gerhard am 5. August 2011 um 9:23am

 

 

Kommentar von Gerhard am 17. Januar 2014 um 8:57am

Echt???

Da haben sie einen eigenen Report gebraucht???

700 Experten haben sie dafür befragen müssen???

Jetzt??? 

Aha ....

Und .... was passiert jetzt aus dieser ach so überraschenden Erkenntnis heraus???

Kommentar von Gerhard am 27. April 2014 um 8:06am

Die angesprochene Rück-Umverteilung von oben nach unten:

Kommentar von Gerhard am 27. April 2014 um 8:11am

Zitat: "Jetzt muss man nur handeln auch ..." (P. Rösler):

Kommentar von Gerhard am 8. Juli 2014 um 5:17pm

TTIP - ein großer Schritt vorwärts .... zum Kollaps:

Kommentar von Gerhard am 25. Januar 2015 um 11:01am

Martha Nussbaum: Gerechtigkeit braucht Liebe

Emotionen sind im politischen Diskurs allgegenwärtig. Dennoch appellieren wir an die Vernunft, wenn wir andere überzeugen wollen. Zu Unrecht, sagt die Philosophin Martha Nussbaum; ohne Mitgefühl sei Gerechtigkeit nicht zu haben und die Politik letztlich verloren. Ein Gespräch von Barbara Bleisch.

Kommentar von Gerhard am 27. Februar 2015 um 9:12am

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