Talk:New Deal

Opening sentence

I changed:

The so-called New Deal was a socialist scheme during the Great Depression by Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

to:

The so-called New Deal was the name coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, for the socialistic program he conducted throughout the Great Depression.

I did this to reflect these things:

"New Deal" was Roosevelt's own name for the program.
"Democrat" is a noun, not an adjective.
Although the New Deal was socialistic in tendency, the economy of the United States was not a socialist economy during that period.
"Scheme" does not fit here. Scheme can mean "A method for making, doing, or accomplishing something: blueprint, design, game plan, idea, layout, plan, project, schema, strategy." The New Deal was a scheme before Roosevelt was elected, but since it was actually put into practice it became an actual program rather than a scheme. It can also mean "A secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end," but the New Deal was not secret, and the Supreme Court evidently did not judge it to be illegal, either.

Dpbsmith 14:06, 8 June 2007 (EDT)