FDR is also famous for his [[New Deal]], a set of [[economic planning]] reforms that were meant to bring about the end of the [[Great Depression]], but instead prolonged it and caused American citizens to be burdened with unnecessary government programs for decades to come. [[Economic growth]] was negligible to non-existent, and what growth did occur was consumed by an every swelling bureaucratic government. | FDR is also famous for his [[New Deal]], a set of [[economic planning]] reforms that were meant to bring about the end of the [[Great Depression]], but instead prolonged it and caused American citizens to be burdened with unnecessary government programs for decades to come. [[Economic growth]] was negligible to non-existent, and what growth did occur was consumed by an every swelling bureaucratic government. |