From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:57:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: new fortune.
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new fortune.
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diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
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--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -39987,3 +39987,63 @@ Not negation, beyond hope and fear,
 Without ground or root—such is the fruition.
   - from "The Life of Marpa the Translator", translated by Chögyam Trungpa
     and the Nalanda Translation Committee, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+FDR's Economic Bill of Rights
+
+    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."[3]  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 all our
+citizens.
+    For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in
+the world.
+  -- Excerpt from President Roosevelt's January 11, 1944 message to the
+     Congress of the United States on the State of the Union