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Greetings, you're listening to Podcast number 145 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Hark, great to have you on board.

Today, we'll conclude our discussion about FDR's second bill of rights, which deals with economic rights.

The focus is on how FDR's concept has taken root worldwide.

As you'll see, much to the dismay in horror of right-wingers.

You'll also hear a quick blast debunking the right-wing's cry that there's a crisis facing the social security system.

Let's get right into it.

Your sources today include, and it's a long list, the New York Times, Americanrederick.com, the website of the United Nations, the book The Second Bill of Rights by Casar Sunstein, the Miami-Herald, The Times of London, the BBC, Time Magazine, the British newspaper of the Guardian, oxfam.orgfoxnews.com, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Post.

You'll never guess who approvingly played a clip of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first fireside chat.

Keith Olberman? No. Rachel Maddow, Tom Harmon? No.

You can only imagine my surprise when none other than Sean Hannity himself played a bit of FDR's March 12, 1933, addressed to the American people.

Hannity liked FDR's optimistic encouraging tone, and said in his blog post that Obama should take a page out of FDR's playbook.

Okay, I thought fine, Sean, but there are a couple of other pages in FDR's playbook you need to pay attention to, which provides a perfect segue to finish up our discussion of FDR's four freedoms and Second Bill of Rights speeches.

Let me give you a brief recap of what FDR said to the world on those two occasions.

Last time I played extended excerpts today, I'll play you edited shorter versions to hear the more extensive clips, check out that podcast 143.

In his 1941 four-freedom speech, FDR said there are essential human freedoms every person in the world is entitled to.

They include freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from fear, fear of attack by other nations.

It's the freedom that Roosevelt listed as third that we're concerned with here today.

The third is freedom from want, which translated into world term means economic understandings, which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants everywhere in the world.

What does freedom from want entail?

FDR gave more details a few years later in his 1944 State of the Union speech.

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