President Roosevelt proposed the right to a 'decent living' in 1944 and it's just what America needs today

The second Bill of Rights proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 during his State of the Union address is something that present-day America really needs. The Bill of Rights proposed on January 11, 1944, was recently shared by u/alecb on Reddit and many people thought that it was a really useful proposal.

The bill stated, "Every American is entitled to: The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation." It went on, "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." It also included the right to a decent home for every family. "The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health," it stated.

The president also included "The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment." The last right proposed by the bill reads, "The right to a good education." Many people took to the comments section to appreciate the former president as well as to applaud the well-rounded bill. At the same time, others wondered exactly where the country went wrong after proposing a bill like this such a long time ago.

u/circleofnerds wrote, "You can blame The People. We have sat back and watched this happen for decades. The state of our nation didn’t get this way overnight. We put the Eisenhowers, Nixons, Reagans and Trumps in office, but We do nothing to get them out. The People only have themselves to blame for this mess." u/internet_thugg commented, "This wasn’t just some willy-nilly directive proposed by FDR. There was an awful lot of policy to back up this second bill of rights, just google it. There are plenty of good YouTube videos describing exactly how this would’ve been implemented had Republicans not taken back Congress and flipped the direction the country was going in." u/CivisSuburbanius remarked, "The New Deal created jobs directly by sponsoring infrastructure and other public works. Paid for in part by raising taxes on the top .01%, but also adding billions of dollars to the national debt."

u/Church_of_Cheri shared, "FDR had one main goal for his fourth term in office, to pass universal health care. Something he had tried to do before but put it off in order to push other policies through and he died without accomplishing it. Now we’re reliving the 1920s, running straight towards another Great Depression, we need to start building now so these policies and socialist democratic politicians are ready for 2028, or more likely 2032, to take over the presidency. It’s going to need groundwork, winning at local and state levels everywhere, starting the revolution where you live first."