On January 11, 1944, FDR, in his State of the Union speech offered a second bill of rights, and economic bill of rights.

The DINO Obama and Clintonites, in tandem with the GOP, want to cripple and ultimately destroy FDR's Social Security legacy (Clinton and his Rubinites had already destroyed FDR's financial industry regulation legacies like Glass-Steagall, a destruction that helped cause this 21st century's Great Depression.  They would probably also be trying to destroy an Economic Bill of Rights, if it existed.

We desperately need a real Democratic leader with true FDR Democratic principles like the following:

Harvey J. Kaye writes at New Deal 2.0: : "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his annual message to Congress on the State of the Union. In that speech, he reaffirmed his determination to pursue the Four Freedoms — “Freedom of Speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, Freedom from fear” — both in the United States and abroad. He also articulated those freedoms anew, especially freedom from want and fear, in the form of an Economic Bill of Rights for all Americans. Roosevelt knew full well that Congress, dominated by a conservative coalition of Republicans and Dixie Democrats, would never endorse it. And yet, based on polls commissioned by his administration, he had good reason to believe that most of his fellow citizens would support it.

"The president then looked ahead. Hoping to be heard on every front, he told Congress and the nation that, “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.” And in favor of that, he proposed the recognition and adoption of a Second Bill of Rights.

"He said: “ 'This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights… 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.' " But, he continued: “ '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.' " And evoking Jefferson and Lincoln, Roosevelt contended that, “ 'In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident,' and, '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.' " This Second Bill of Rights included, he proffered:

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.

"In sum, he stated, “ '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.' ”

This is the antithesis of the corporatist beliefs of DINO President Obama and his White House full of Wall Streeters or as Robert Scheer titles them in his article: "Perps in the White House" and as Simon Johnson homes in on in his piece, "The Bill Daley Problem."

Given this country's massive unemployment crisis, a 21st century Great Depression, shamefully and morally repugnant increasing economic injustice with the rich getting richer while the rest of us struggle, all enabled by a corporatist government of DINOs continuing GOP Reaganite and Bushite policies, we the people are certainly in need of another FDR, a true Democrat.  We sure don't have it now.