Comment Re:We'd need something like the Green New Deal (Score 2) 308
For good reason, the FDR new deal has overextended the US so far, it is about to kill the US during the first major crisis in a century. The majority of the US budget currently goes to FDR's New Deal and associated government expansion. The US is spending more of its budget than any other country on social safety nets and healthcare, more than the next 14 countries combined.
Citation needed. In absolute dollars perhaps. As a share of GDP? I doubt it. Unless you are counting all healthcare spending as "US spending more of its budget", in which case you are crossing the streams of government and private sector spending, which kind of undercuts the point about it being FDR's new deal.