FDR Second Bill of Rights Speech Footage

This is FDR's proposed second Bill of Rights that was filmed after he delivered his State of the Union Address via radio on January 11, 1944.

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[JHarmon10]

I don't know how so many people in this country forgot where we have been & what kind of leaders we had. FDR is a hero to me and should be to everyone who calls themselves an American

[fenyxrynning]

Wonders what America would be like had he lived to give us these rights. Wonders why other countries have these rights while the "leader of the free world" does not. Hope my children have the chances we don't.

[saney2k]

I wonder who will provide these rights. So many of these are economic "rights". They require money. Who will make that money? Where will it come from? And what or who defines "decent" or "adequate"? Is a tube TV adequate or is a flat screen required? This Bill of Rights is a recipe for the suicide of a country.

[CaptainRidley]

Made perfect sense to me. WWII was coming to an end. His thinking was the same as that of the UK. If we have so much money and ability to kill surely we can help eachother.

[diaurus84]

Mr. FDR did so many good things for us (Europeans)... This speach meant for us that social democracy wasn't marxism or stalinism, but only common sense... probably Americans hate common sense... maybe, as an Italian, i'm poorer then you are (or less rich), but I'm not afraid to get sick, I'm not scared about pay for my children's education, i'm not afraid of starvation... Americans, you always speak of freedom, but remember this: a scary man can't be a free man... FDR knew that, honor to him!

[sovereignliberty]

A criminal and a traitor.....Privileges are not rights.....The Bill of Rights is based on the Natural Rights of man.....to assert that artificial privileges created by the govt. are rights, is false. The American Republic is a Limited Govt., not a socialist democracy...

[TulaiMr]

Sounds like Marxism to me. Shame on him. He wins a war against the National Socialists (Nazi Party) and the totalitarian Japanese and then he trots out this socialist garbage. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME! How could he says such stuff after fighting a war against this kind of enslavement of the taxpayer. Totalitarianism must be opposed.

[TheREALOnTheRISE342]

A poll was passed saying that a majority of young people 18-29 now support socialism over captialism , we are learning , you can call it what you like but if it's right, it's right , this is what jesus would of wanted not an economy run on greed and cruelty gone are the days of of radical leftist communist and hard -line conservative captialism soon , we will have an America that fdr was talking about the conservatives days are numbered

[marcellisrobinson]

Glenn Beck, Hannitty and Rush Limbaugh never graduated from college. Their followers aren't too big on reading and have little in the way of critical thinking skills, much like their heroes George Bush and Ronald Reagan.

Yet they all see fit to demonize a great figure from our country's history: FDR. To all blue collar white people who allow themselves to be suckered in by right wing rhetoric, I say shame on you for being so lazy as to believe what you hear on Fox News.

[Robotbetterfly]

@avionicwonder17 quiet down boy ya fukkin clown

[garrywarne1]

@fenyxrynning There would have been no cold war, the Soviets wouldn't have enough to disagree with!

[avionicwonder17]

FDR: a hater of the constitution, a hater of the American people. How would he advocate for the "prosperity and security" of the American people? By buying their constitutional rights out for a price, promising "economic stability." Eh, the people would do anything for that. It was the Great Depression. His speech is as smooth as butter, almost convincing. Nonetheless, he was a socialist. Keep guys like this OUT of office. They'll try to make us like Europe, FAILURES, big time.