Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Wants to Adopt The Soviet Union Constitution

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. stood on the House floor and demanded that we adopt provisions of the now defunct Soviet Union Constitution.  He believes that all Americans have a right to housing, food, and education.  All of this is outlined in that Marxist doctrine that has proven to be a failure. 

The only thing that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. mentioned that was a fundamental right that was not outlined in the old U.S.S.R's Constitution were IPods and laptop computers.  I'm sure had they been invented at the time, Uncle Joe would have had mandated it.

Here are the some of the articles of rights of the old Soviet Union:


Article 40. Citizens of the USSR have the right to work (that is, to guaranteed employment and pay in accordance wit the quantity and quality of their work, and not below the state-established minimum), including the right to choose their trade or profession, type of job and work in accordance with their inclinations, abilities, training and education, with due account of the needs of society.




This right is ensured by the socialist economic system, steady growth of the productive forces, free vocational and professional training, improvement of skills, training in new trades or professions, and development of the systems of vocational guidance and job placement.


Article 41. Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure.


This right is ensured by the establishment of a working week not exceeding 41 hours, for workers and other employees, a shorter working day in a number of trades and industries, and shorter hours for night work; by the provision of paid annual holidays, weekly days of rest, extension of the network of cultural, educational, and health-building institutions, and the development on a mass scale of sport, physical culture, and camping and tourism; by the provision of neighborhood recreational facilities, and of other opportunities for rational use of free time.


The length of collective farmers' working and leisure time is established by their collective farms.


Article 42. Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection.


This right is ensured by free, qualified medical care provided by state health institutions; by extension of the network of therapeutic and health-building institutions; by the development and improvement of safety and hygiene in industry; by carrying out broad prophylactic measures; by measures to improve the environment; by special care for the health of the rising generation, including prohibition of child labour, excluding the work done by children as part of the school curriculum; and by developing research to prevent and reduce the incidence of disease and ensure citizens a long and active life.


Article 43. Citizens of the USSR have the right to maintenance in old age, in sickness, and in the event of complete or partial disability or loss of the breadwinner.


The right is guaranteed by social insurance of workers and other employees and collective farmers; by allowances for temporary disability; by the provision by the state or by collective farms of retirement pensions, disability pensions, and pensions for loss of the breadwinner; by providing employment for the partially disabled; by care for the elderly and the disabled; and by other forms of social security.


Article 44. Citizens of the USSR have the rights to housing.


This right is ensured by the development and upkeep of state and socially-owned housing; by assistance for co-operative and individual house building; by fair distribution, under public control, of the housing that becomes available through fulfilment of the programme of building well-appointed dwellings, and by low rents and low charges for utility services. Citizens of the USSR shall take good care of the housing allocated to them.


Article 45. Citizens of the USSR have the right to education.


This right is ensured by free provision of all forms of education, by the institution of universal, compulsory secondary education, and broad development of vocational, specialised secondary, and higher education, in which instruction is oriented toward practical activity and production; by the development of extramural, correspondence and evening courses, by the provision of state scholarships and grants and privileges for students; by the free issue of school textbooks; by the opportunity to attend a school where teaching is in the native language; and by the provision of facilities for self-education.

Source:  http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/77cons02.html