Is it true that much of New Deal Programs (welfare, social security, etc.) have not fared well?

[Requiem]

I've heard this new deal type systems have not done so good and probably need to be entirely re modified. Well, we know social security will diminish soon. But what about the other inefficient programs? (welfare, etc., I don't know all of them)
And from Acadec, I learned it was WW2 that made the USA and world economy to recover from the Depression. Another reason why FDR's programs did not work well.

[zealouscarpenter706]

They fared very well putting the greatest country on the face of the earth near bankruptcy

[Skirmoggh]

Look at all the New Deal programs today and they are all losers. They are broke and people are paying in and not getting the benefits. The New Deal is one reason why we are in the mess we are in. Social Programs can not fix economic problems. They make it worse. In order to have social programs you must raise taxes. Naturally raising taxes causes the price of goods and services to increase. After that comes inflation. Inflation causes the value of your dollar to drop. The New Deal was a terrible, terrible thing...WWII was one of the main reason how we got out of the Depression because manufacturers were creating thousands and thousands of jobs for the war effort. Basically free markets and low taxes got us out of the Depression....Not the New Deal. In school they teach the New Deal because the liberal school systems want to create kids with a socialistic mindset. Not the true causes and effects of actual economics...

[Idahoser]

What you subsidize, you get more of; what you tax, you get less of. Welfare programs subsize laziness; they are funded with taxes on those who produce. It's called Robbing Peter to Pay Paul- and who does this can count on the support of Paul.

In this fable, Paul is the career welfare recipient and Peter is the "Middle Class" if that exists. I have a job and pay taxes, but I don't have a card to remind me what class I'm supposed to be. I know I don't want to pay more when I see what they do with the money.

[first l]

Yeah, FDR is for some reason considered this awe-inspiring hero by getting us through the worst economic times in history, however, there was a depression in 1920 that no one really talks about because that's just it, it lasted 1 year (the 1920 depression). The reason for it's shortness was simply government didn't raise taxes, kept tariffs off and increased government spending for those who were "really struggling" like the soldiers coming home from WW1. In 1929, Hoover passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff which absolutely plunged us deep down into a huge depression but no fear, FDR is here. FDR ran on fiscally conservative principles and absolutely minimal government bickering in private enterprise; whoops, fell for that one. FDR created so many policies that historians call them alphabet soup. Simply put these programs that he established continually made it worse by feeding more taxes in the government (taking money away from business owners and hard working Americans) and into things like SS which paid out 1000 times more money to the first who retired than she put in altogether, whoops, that's not supposed to happen. Actually, Americans loved FDR so much that they introduced a term limits on presidents in the late 1940's. Now, SS and medicaid and medicare and the rest of these "entitlements" will cost nearly 60 trillion dollars in just 85 more years. Reform is not the answer, scrap them and be done with it, it obviously doesn't work.