a good, quality education, sufficient for the needs of our modern society; an education that is ongoing if needed or desired.
This will of course require the reestablishment of an actual progressive tax system, not the abomination that has shifted twenty percent of the nation's wealth to the top one percent of the population since 1981, as well as seen the majority of our manufacturing base shipped out of the country.
All of the other Western Democracies have adopted such guarantees, realizing, as FDR did, that you cannot guarantee the retention of basic political rights in our modern era without guaranteeing basic social and economic rights.
If I seem to be stuck on FDR and his Second Bill of Rights, allow me to explain that I, like Franklin Roosevelt, love this nation and its people too much to allow it to be laid low by the "economic royalists" of Wall Street, and the other daimyos of monopoly.
Besides, I keep catching this black Scottish Terrier, sitting expectantly, out of the corner of my eye, who's not there when I turn my head. I have no desire to upset the ghost of Fala, FDR's dog, if that is who it is. Scotties are very protective of their masters.
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