This is what Worker Dignity looks like ... from the woman who forged FDR's New Deal

[kpete]

FRI JUN 17, 2011 AT 04:20 PM PDT
This is what Worker Dignity looks like ... from the woman who forged FDR's New Deal
byjamess

"Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/17/986304/-This-is-what-Worker-Dignity-looks-like--from-the-woman-who-forged-FDRs-New-Deal?via=siderecent

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President Obama quotes Frances Perkins during signing ceremony ...

That, above all, is the true purpose of our government. Not to guarantee our success, but to ensure that in America, all things are still possible for all people. Not to solve all our problems, but to ensure that we all have the chance to pursue our own version of happiness. To give our daughters the chance to achieve as greatly as the women who join us today. That’s the impact our government can have.
http://bestpossiblelife.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/president-obama-quotes-frances-perkins-during-signing-ceremony/

-- Frances Perkins (1882-1965) -- Heroes for a Better World

WHO was Frances Perkins?



"First woman to hold US cabinet position";

That of American Secretary of Labor, for Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What's more Ms. Perkins was the driving force, behind very much of FDR's New Deal ...

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MORE:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/perkins.cfm

[sabrina 1]

1. 'Conscience' that's what the country doesn't have anymore.

She was a wonderful woman! She had a president who was willing to listen to her ideas and to fight for them.