[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Also, the New Deal only kept our country afloat, if anything, and has done more
arm in the long run than it has good. It didn't "secretly" socialize anything. I hope FDR is burning in hell, to be honest with you, because I consider him one of the worst presidents we've ever had.[/QUOTE]
....oh dear god.....
Yeah, it did secretly socialize many of the largest businesses in the U.S.A. Maybe you don't know about it because it was 'secret.'
Let's see, the New Deal stated that corporations could count plant expansions and new equipment as operating expenses, which they could deduct from their new earnings before calculating income taxes. Which amounts to a subsidy to cover all new-equipment. They then said the same thing about advertising. In fact, through these tax deductions, it amounted to about 7 billion dollars(keep in mind this is the 30s) a year to subsidize advertising. So basically they took the risk out of free enterprise. They didn't socialize the people directly; they socialized the businesses.
They placed controls of every kind on banks; banks became about as regulated as the post office. Plus they guaranteed bank accounts to 5,000 dollars. They made a number of companies their 'prime contractors', and instead of taking control of them, they simply gave them orders - for example, to Chrysler for tanks. Congress passed rent controls, limited interest rates to 1.5%, and passed all sorts of other price controls. The New Deal drastically raised the minimum wage (in fact it may have instituted them for the first time, I'm not sure), and raised them so much that basically everyone was pretty well-to-do. Even the lowliest laborer. The New Deal also viciously negotiated constantly with businesses to limit profits (to prevent drastic overpricing). During the New Deal, businesses only averaged 10 percent or so.
Everything I just mentioned is socialism, man. And a lot of the things I mentioned are still in effect today, so you take them for granted as pure Capitalism.