Quick Fact: Beck again falsely claims FDR, Sunstein were "pushing" to amend Constitution with "Second Bill of Rights"

Glenn Beck is a multi-millionaire who owes his soul to his corporate masters. It sounds great to recommend taking care of yourself and doing it all for yourself. He can send his children to private school, he can afford ANY medical care they might need. He can equip his house to survive the worst storm or struggle without loosing power. He can equip a pantry to survive a war. He spouts this stuff to people about freedom and how FDR wanted to take their freedom from them, but he never has to make the sacrifice himself. Many of his listeners couldn't afford to do without the Federal money that is given for their sewage systems and roads. And they would squeal like stuck pigs if there was no regulation of product safety. Would you really want to go to a pharmacy and get pills that didn't contain the drugs you paid for? And what about police and fire protection. He can afford to pay for body guards and he can just move to another overpriced property. The freedom to be cold, wet, sick, and alone is no freedom at all.

The problem with this is that Thomas Jefferson would be appalled by what our government has become.

“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

Does Glenn Beck ever tell the truth?

There goes professor Beck again teaching the masses, masses of sheep. All of his sheep follow as any good sheep does. It's amazing to me how many there are.

Have you all not heard the speech where FDR calls for a second bill of rights? Not only did he call for one he specifically outlined what those rights were.

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.

As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; 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;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.