America needs a new New Deal

I absolutely agree. We are failing the people of this country. I believe that is a job that Barack Obama can with the help of advisors successfully take on.

the Apollo Aliance is saying the same thing and doing something. create green jobs and infrastructure. you can look it up.

I love Franklin Roosevelt, but I don't think now is the time for the government to become the biggest business in America.

In all seriousness, the old deal (trickle down idiocy) is a wretched legacy of aristocracy.

Bring me a NEW DEAL.

Funny that the man who saved us from the free market abuse that lead to the Depression is also the man that famously said "the only thing to fear was fear itself".
Now we have a failing government that's crushed us with rampant unrestrained free market policies and uses fear as a weapon to scare us into voting against freedom, democracy, charity, morality and our own best interests in every way.
But maybe Obama can be the next FDR?
I say let's vote for him and find out!

I think that for far too long we have been told that government can't do anything good for the people. If you tell a lie long enough, people believe it. Socialized systems can work well. The best example is our library system.

An investment in green infrastructure would create so many jobs, the market would boom. We have already subsidized technology projects in the past successfully, like computers, the aviation industry, the automobile industry, and so on. Why not invest now when we need money and jobs flowing into they system?

Is Wallstreet welfare really the answer?

It is time for a new deal...the republicans have made FDR's new deal the number one thing that for decades they have tried to dismantle my hope is that the next administration takes a serious look at the past to find our way in the future. Can Obama be our next FDR... I hope so.

yea, libraries succeed because theres no money in it, so the only people who actually get involved in them are interested in the books, just like if we had national universal healthcare, there would be less people in it for the money that try to make it more financially efficient and more that want to help people.
the nhs in the UK is a prime example, doctors live comfortably and are rewarded for healthier patients and there are no big pharmaceutical and insurance companies that are in it for profit.
although the nhs is losing money at this time, its better than our inefficient backwards system.

Agreed. It's time for The New Deal 2.0. A new New Deal for the 21st century.

You DO know how to define "trickle down" don't you? 10 for me- one for you. 100 for me-10% for you,1000 for me 1% for you. When the cash flow that's supposed to flow to you is diverted further upstream, all you get is the "dirty trick-les" Dennis Kucinnich made it perfectly clear to all of us who were paying attention recently.The Neo Cons of Reagan/Bush, Bush/Who?,Bush/Cheny who are recommending McSame/Saracuda to finish us off.The
Neo Cons have been a collossal vacuum cleaner sucking up all the money from the middle class and diverting it to the obscenely wealthy who got that way by the Piracy R US attitude: "why pay for anything you want if you can steal it instead" Bush may appear stupid but under that disguise he and his Fascist family(who have been involved in Bank fraud before)are UNAMERICAN evil crooks.Their UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES are the
worst internal evil this Country has ever seen in all its
History. I have solid grounds and a justicible cause to
prosecute Bush myself for the torts arising out of his Criminal Libel and TVed Aggravated Harassment that he inflicted on me during the Spring of 05 and since.For that and his unlawful oppression of my 4th Amendment rights for 7 years now is my complaint against him which I will be forwarding to H.R.Reps.Cucinnich/McDermott. I will respectfuly demand to testify against Bush so that he & his minions Luny & Cummings can be criminaly prosecuted anyway. We can't allow the U.S. Presidency to be a toilet for the Neo Cons.

The New Deal was pure socialism.

People keep saying "I hope Obama is the next FDR"

FDR IMPRISONED 110,000 AMERICAN CITIZENS STRICTLY BECAUSE THEY WERE OF JAPANESE DECENT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5NzZspG6VQ&feature=related

Try "confiscating" Americans gold and silver nowadays...

Ride on!

You guys are idiots if you think a new deal is what we need. Too much gov't is why we are so screwed anyway- and you want more. i don't know if you realize this but it wasn't the New Deal that save America; World War 2 Did. So that's we need. A war.

Barack Obama resembles no other president more closely than FDR. He's entering office in a very trying time, and people are going to have to take a big risk with him and enter the unknown, just like with FDR.

THIS IS WHAT DENNIS KUCINICH AND RALPH NADER HAVE BEEN SAYING SINCE 2000!!!

But nobody listens until it's too late.

This is what FDR said a week after he stepped into office: "We had a bad banking situation. Some of our bankers had shown themselves either incompetent or dishonest in the handling of people's funds. They had used the money entrusted to them in speculations and unwise loans . . . It was the government's job to straighten out this situation and do it as quickly as possible."

Some things never change.

FDR recognized that tossing your hands in the air and letting the robber barons rule the country as they saw fit was an idiotic idea that inevitably leads to a series of catastrophic economic booms and busts.

Intelligent, responsible government oversight is critical to the prosperity of this country.

Obama understands this.

McCain wants to go back to just shrugging his shoulders and letting the robber barons (Enron, Worldcom, Haliburton, Blackwater, AIG) do whatever the hell they please.

McCain shoulder shrugging idea didn't work so great in 1929 and its not so great in 2008 either.

I read some on this thread claiming that FDR's reforms were evil.

Look at everything that is great abot this country....and how much of it is because of a corporation?

Libraries?

National Parks?

Our highway system?

Clean water?

Safe medicine?

Wage and labor laws?

None of these things ever came about because the robber barons, er, I mean "honest businessmen" wanted them to happen. It happened in spite of their objections.

We need big government with big regulations... big regulations which work in the people's favor and not the favor of big business. I can only hope that Obama will bring the right kind of administration to straighten this country out and put it back on the path of being for the people and by the people. (not just the rich people either).

This country has had rotten leadership for the past eight years and not so good leadership before that, America needs to be great again and lead the world again. We need a complete change or a new deal. We need jobs, we need affordable insurance and energy, we need a leader with a vision and I sure hope Obama has that vision because McCane sure dosen't. America needs to become America again, America needs to undo alot of damage done by Bush and Co. as well as undo the laws he passed.

When will people realize that for the past 60 years, the Democrats have represented keeping the status quo whlie the Republicans represent making things more fascist?

We get two options-- stay with our current level of facism, or go further.

Vote third party. It's the only vote worth a darn.

I agree completely. I've been saying this for months!

Meanwhile, McCain thinks trickle-down economics will do the trick.

Only if everyone paid attention to history, they'd know better and know that a "New Deal" is desperately needed to heal this nation at this tramatic time.

Socialism is not the answer. Never in the history of man has socialism (and its ugly sister communism) actually helped an economy or the people who live within that economic structure. The Soviet Union was a basket case as is North Korea and Cuba. Sanctions are adding to this but by no measure the full reason for what has happened here. China was an economic basketcase until it started implementing market (unfortunately not political) reforms over the last 20 years.

If we look at the old social welfare nations of Europe we see countries with double digit unemployment and an aging populations that are causing incredible strains on the existing workforce that sees most of its money taken away to pay for the aging population.

How about cutting government and eliminating programs to the amount of 700 billion Everyone here wants socialism.What happen to new ideas instead of retreading a communistic program from almost eighty years ago

The New Deal was the first step towards socialism...

Do you see now how this works folks...?

They are creating these problems so that we will go clamoring to them for their solution...

Economic recession= Government gets to buy up banks...

War in Iraq= Government gets to colonize

Has anyone even read the Constitution lately?