Do you think that we need another "New Deal" president to give Americans back what was stolen from them?

In terms of public programs and services and more regulation of businesses? Why are we going back to the bad old days of robber barons, monopolies, union busting, lack of government oversight (when it comes to worker safety and protections against poisoning our water, food, and air), a quality education available only to those who are privleged enough to be able to afford it, a non-existent middle class, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

It seems so obvious--if people are hungry, they should be fed; if people are homeless, we should build homes for them; if people are sick, the best medical care should be available to them. A socialist society would take the immense wealth of the rich and use it to meet the basic needs of all society. The money wasted on weapons could be used to end poverty, homelessness, and all other forms of scarcity.

There鈥檚 no blueprint for what a socialist society will look like. That will be determined by the generations to come who are living in one. But it seems obvious that such a society would guarantee every person enough to eat and a sturdy roof over their heads. The education system would be made free--and reorganized so that every child鈥檚 ability is encouraged. Health care would be made free and accessible to all, as would all utilities like gas and electricity. Public transportation would also be made free--and more practical and efficient. All of these basic needs would become top priorities.

A socialist society would not only take away the existing wealth of the ruling class, but also its economic control over the world. The means of production--the factories, offices, mines, and so on--would be owned by all of society. Under the current system, important economic decisions are left to the chaos of the free market and to the blind competition of capitalists scrambling for profits. Under socialism, the majority of people would plan democratically what to do and how do it.

I think we do, but I don't see how we'll get one without another Great Depression. So in a way we a sort of screwed regardless of what happens.

I think what America really needs is a "New Deal Plus," where we go further than the FDR legacy ever did: establish single-payer health care, make unions stronger than they ever were in the 1940s and '50s, establish a de-facto minimum wage of more than $10/hour through a combination of literal min. wage increases and redistributive taxation, regulate the financial and insurance industry far more heavily to eliminate discrimination, predatory lending and income-inverse pricing. (Income-inverse pricing refers to cases where low-income people pay more out of pocket for a service than upper-income people, such as payday loans and certain insurance policies that are more expensive for people with bad credit)

In short, I would love to see the United States become more "socialistic" than it ever has been in the past.