Boy, you nailed it, FDR was a bigger disaster than Jimmy Carter. Too bad the idiot got elected 4 times.
Even FDR meant for it to be temporary and warned of dependance on goverment
When discussing FDR, you need to put everything in the perspective of the 1930's.
When we had 25% unemployment, we had Communists actually being taken seriously (for maybe the only time ever), a rising political star in the Conservative Southland was a man who was advocating nationally mandated salary limits
We could have done alot worse than FDR, and the fact is, we were lucky that any vestige of capitalism remained post-depression
FDR's programs were bad, they did increase the size of government, but, they may have very well saved the American system from what could have been a much worse situation.
It is worth remembering that Congress did something right after the FDR experience - and instituted term limits for the presidency. It is too bad the voters in the states didn't insist that there be term limits for congressmen as well.