Sunstein: Obama Wants 'Second Bill of Rights' (modeled after 1944 FDR State of the Union speech)

Big Government ^ | 28 Jan 2013 | by Breitbart News

[drewh]

Former Obama administration regulatory czar Cass Sunstein has published an op-ed: that the president wants a "second Bill of Rights" alongside the existing one.

Sunstein located the source of Obama's inspiration in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 State of the Union address, rather than the South African constitution--though the American academics whose writings inspired South Africa's ambitious Bill of Rights could well have taken Roosevelt's proposals as their foundation.

Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights--not a list of constitutional amendments, but policy goals--was as follows:

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 implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Your Justice Story quote] "....and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."

Wow, did someone pile into a time machine and run back there to brief him about Dear Leader?

[4Liberty]

SORRY CASS, TAKING OTHER PEOPLE’S THINGS BY FORCE FOR YOUR NEEDS IS A VIOLATION OF RIGHTS — IT ISN’T A “BRAND NEW” RIGHT.

GOOD GRIEF - WHAT NEXT.

WILL THIS COERCIVE, UNSUSTAINABLE, IMMORAL, ECONOMY-DESTROYING, RAINBOWS-&-UNICORNS STATE-PLANNING NONSENSE EVER END ?

[Terry Mross]

I can’t disagree with the following:

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;

Comcast is one.

[loveliberty2]

Thanks, but Justice Story, like our wise Founders, had studied history and unlike our constitutionally-illiterate citizenry, he didn't need to be "briefed about" the possibility of some future arrogant and ambitious pretender misleading "the People" into yielding up their liberty. History is full of such examples!

[lu shissler]

Cap Sustein is a full-fledged communist and member of the party by his own admission.

[lu shissler]

Cap Sustein is a full-fledged communist and member of the party by his own admission.