Economic Bill of Rights

Occupy: Resurrecting Rev. King's Final Dream

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Poor People?S Campaign, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, American Dream, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Frank Ogawa Plaza, Resurrection City, Reflecting Pool, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Occupy, Great Recession, Rev. Martin Luther King, Economic Bill of Rights, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Great Depression, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

What Rev. King preached and what many Occupiers seem to believe is that paramount in a republic is job creation, not wealth creation. The duty of government is not to ensure that the rich get richer but to establish equal opportunity.

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The Two-Percent Solution: Solving New York's Budget Crisis

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Bill of Rights, Andrew Cuomo, Budget Cuts, New Deal, Economy, Michael Bloomberg, The New York Times, Economic Bill of Rights, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, New York News
Alan Singer

You would think that, as educated New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg would read The New York Times. Apparently they don't

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FDR: The Second Bill of Rights

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Bill of Rights, State of Union, Fdr, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The shared miseries of the Great Depression and the shared sacrifices of the Great War led many Americans to embrace the idea that basic economic rights are essential to freedom. This should now be revisited.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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The Change We Need II: An Economic Bill of Rights

Sanjiv Gupta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill of Rights, Fdr, Democracy, Economic Bill of Rights, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Sanjiv Gupta

If there is a positive side to the economic crisis, it is this: We can no longer avoid confronting the limits imposed by the market on our freedoms and democracy.

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