ABSTRACT
This chapter describes social democracy, which is a small step compared to the revolution, with its big government, high taxes, and vast social welfare system just does not seem suited to the United States. In the 1930s, the New Deal reconstructed the American government to promote full employment and social well-being in the people's hour of need. This became the earliest foundation of a new US social democracy. Barack Obama ran his 2008 campaign on the promise of solving the economic crisis with green job creation. More public spending for education, jobs, infrastructure, Social Security and Medicare, public transit, affordable housing, and job training is popular because it the only way for millions of people to survive. Corporate welfare supports the richest Americans, corporations, and the military rather than the poor and working classes. The United States is already a welfare state. But it dishes out corporate welfare to the biggest businesses and military welfare to the Pentagon.
