and here's FDR proposing that
we amend the Constitution to the United States to expand our definition
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certain economic proves from
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securities Oscar abused for our
first or restore
free okay so number one is saying we want to we want to establish these
rights and we also want to make sure that nobody can discriminate against you
in your exercise up them what are those rights
franklin roosevelt among these authorized to a useful
and United drama right to reminded with pool 3
now having the right to a job that earns
enough to actually raise a family could be played out one or two ways
or both number one you can talk about the minimum wage but number two what
capitalism has failed
or what a stupid public policy like free trade agreements have failed
us and there's no good jobs to be had
what if what if
are you know the republicans continue to allow mcdonnell's in Walmart what not to
game the system and pay people so little that they qualify for welfare
esta fully remainder job well if it's enshrined as a REIT
the Walmart would be able to do that mcdonnell's wouldn't be able to do that
and when there are people who are unemployed rather than saying that
employment and unemployment check which john bainer cut off a year and a half
ago are you thirteen months ago
incentive putting people on unemployment you put them on a government job you can
give them
a decent job that actually pays well so the government becomes the employer of
last resort when capitalism fails that's the first
next from raise
sign hand which we view him as
these
now keep in mind when franklin roosevelt said there's about a third of the
american economy was agricultural
say he was talking a helluva lot of people whenever there are more farmers
and they were machinists
or or even people working in car factories
but that's sad I think that we need to return to something like that we
we have we have industrialized agriculture
and it is causing massive suffering among our
are food animals which includes those that that
secrete milk in laying eggs massive suffering
its harming the public health we're doing it with the this whole antibiotic
thing in a way that is
causing antibiotic resistance which is going to be the next
major epidemic that we will have no no way to deal with here in the united say
already is
antibiotic-resistant bacteria as a result a factory farm
we're destroying our soil we have
it this started in the eighties when reagan straight Eunos stop in force in
Sherman Act in and allowed these giant industrial
agricultural combines a star by now farms I grew up in Michigan I regret to
the south in Lansing Michigan
just I mean literally arm a half a mile from me with the farmland began
and I friends I went to school with kids were farmers and they are on their own
land
this was in the fifties and sixties by the late eighties
I I pretty much everybody I knew who had been a farmer
now had a at their farm had been bought by what are the big
Ag companies and if they continue to farm that land they did so as employees
are that big company
or as contractors to that the company
let's break those back up let's go back to agricultural practices which were
actually more productive
not as profitable for Monsanto or dow not as profitable for the
big egg billionaires but more productive for you and me
so that was number two number three years
right every businessman ma
small for spirit freedom
I am firm on from Tommy
my mom is I wrong
as she you have any right
if you're running a business not to get squashed like a bug
by a monopoly like Microsoft for Comcast herbal rise and whatever it may be
you have a lights to not have a monopoly in your face if we put this into the
Constitution
reagan couldn't say oh yeah we're gonna love his monopolies take over every
every industry in the United States we're gonna let you know
all the radio and TV stations in the country be owned by two or three to
he couldn't do it because you're right to have competition you're listening to
the Thom Hartmann program call 202
536 2370 such as that you have a right to have competition you have a right to
be
the competition more these rights right Apple's
back to
this conversation that we were having in the united states in the nineteen
forties with franklin roosevelt
that everybody knew we were having a conversation about
and then you know we sort of stopped talking about
coming in world war two happen ya and then the harry truman who was
it is OK president but he was in the brightest bulb on the tree
and then the Republicans took the house and the Senate for two years
1946 47 47 48 the election 46
and screwed everything up from taft-hartley on down they they did is
such a terrible job that the republicans never
didn't begin take house representatives for forty years
Americans figured out what the republicans were all about
we never got back to the conversation which is what should be a right what
should be a pro version as
in the United States and those things should be rights they should be absolute
rights which means
that we the people will make sure that they get accomplished if capitalism
fails to do so
there at the %uh the the these the spokes the Institute to
quote roosevelt the spokesman for power and pray
village right the shoals for the Koch brothers
and the other
right-wing billionaires in this country they will tell you that the purpose
%uh our country is to have an economy in the purpose the economy is so some
people can get rich
I would say not true I would say the purpose of an economy is to do what's
best for the country
and some people getting rich is a side effect other
sonya we've talked about having our right to a job which means the
government becomes the employer of last resort
even mind you have a right to your your child has a right to an education
now yes the republicans are trying to chop away at that you know about rise in
schools and charter schools and private schools nothing else but still it's a
law that you have
your child has a right to a free public education quality education
so if they are saying you should have a right
not just to a job but to a job that pays enough you should have a
right to what what else to recover to do have
a successful farming enterprise or is to be a small
a small business person to run a farm and you should have the right to run
a business without it being Minot without without a been destroyed by fat
cats by the novelist's
is what's next remember families who want peace
home right two-handed medical
and the opportunity to achieve drive
hell house in
and health care should be rights with millions people he knows his
living on the streets we also have millions empty homes
and housing units think we could get these two things together
and healthcare every other developed country in the world says that health
care is a basic human right
for their citizens except the United States in the United States health care
is an opportunity for people like
rick Scott to get to get rich now granted rick Scott did it
in part with fraud to his company was convicted of the largest Medicare fraud
in history the United States
and he went on to use as millions to get himself elected as governor of Florida
I E you know you can fool some other people all the time apparently
on but thats you know with our consensus now is that health care is so the people
can get rich whether it's an individual star surgeon
or whether it's a big health care company hears years here's what's up
next
right for promise economic already
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there you go the the and we
use started down that road with social security we took a large step forward
long after FDR was dead when lyndon johnson 1964 65
introduced medicare and Medicaid
but now the republicans a try to roll those back to
and finally
arrived 3
right which is you know
arguably the weave added
but let's in shrine these things in law
there's nothing radical about in these things in fact according to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights
everything that FDR just said
is a right available to every person in the world
now the problem is the UN doesn't have any enforcement power
if they did if they could change our laws
but is a time for us to have a
this conversation about you know why do we allow big banks
to exist is there some public purpose that is served by them
and if there isn't let's stop allowing it for example