Screw The Tea Party It Is Too Late For That Second Bill of Rights
In your face Tea Party. I want action from Obama and we need him now more than ever. Before he’s overthrown I need him to impose a Second Bill of Rights. It’s time to expand the Bill of Rights with a second Bill of Rights. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed this Second Bill of Rights during his State of the Union Address in 1944:
- A job with a living wage
- Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
- A home
- Medical care
- Education
- Recreation
Since the capitalist system has severely damaged our country in its pursuit of short term profit, and since wealth creation has been cordoned off to the middle class, and since this is no longer the land of opportunity but the land of the victims of capitalism, we should impose a second bill of rights upon our corporate masters.
I am an American Peasant, and it has been made unmistakably clear to me that I am not allowed to participate in the American dream of accumulating wealth through hard work. If fact the wealth I did accumulate over decades of being the good worker was stolen from me by Wall Street hucksters, big banks, and corporate monopolies.
If my place in the New American middle class is to work harder than ever to cling to support an ever decreasing standard of living, while the fruits of my labor are rewarded to the 1% of the elite who own 95% of the country’s wealth already, then I demand the imposition of a Second Bill of Rights.
The rights proposed by Roosevelt are missing one critical item. The right to food and clothing. It wouldn’t surprise me if these commodities got to be beyond the budget of everyday people and they are already for a lot of us.
I differ from the Tea Party movement on this point: I already lost a lot of my liberty but not due to a government takeover. I lost it to capitalist excesses and worker suppression. We workers gave up a lot of our dignity on the Reagan and conservative belief that unregulated capitalism would create unprecedented wealth that would trickle down and lead us all to a time of abundant prosperity.
It didn’t work. Our situation didn’t improve it went backwards. It turns out capitalists don’t share either power or money with workers. Now that they have accumulated all this wealth with the help of the Reagan and Bush tax cuts, they own the country, and we can never get it back again.
But I’m a realist. I can see what happened and how this is going to play out. The middle class is finished. What we can do is demand certain basic rights. An expanded lists of rights that protect the basic dignity of us peasants. We better do it fast before it’s too late.
Screw the Tea Party it’s already too late for that. It’s time for Americans to draw a line in the sand and make it clear to Wall Street that we will not allow them to push us down any lower than we’ve already fallen.
