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Nobody Remembers Huey Long

Nobody Remembers

Rupert Murdoch was on FOX today, and the discussion was about Scotland’s independence, and somehow the subject got around to why people all over the world were upset: He basically said that the rich are getting much richer, and the poor are getting poorer.

Things never seem to change do they? The elites of the world have always controlled the money, but now, the little people in EVERY country, are just about fed up with how they have mucked it all up.Huey Long radio

As long as the little guy’s life got better, he could have cared less about how rich the Duponts, or the Rockefeller’s, or even Rupert Murdoch got. But, since the great crash of 2008, the people of the world have watched the rich elites get richer, while everyone else had to make do with much less than before.

The masses are NOT happy, and Scotland is just the tip of the iceberg.

So, I thought it would be a good time to remember a senator named Huey Long. Huey was a democratic Senator from Louisiana in 1935, (during the first depression) and here are a few things he said on a radio address given in January, 1935. You will be reminded of how little the democratic party has changed:

“We ran Mr. Roosevelt for the presidency of the Unites States because he promised to us by word of mouth and in writing:

  1. That the size of the big man’s fortune would be reduced so as to give the masses at the bottom enough to wipe out all poverty: and
  2. That the hours of labor would be reduced that all would share in the work to be done and in consuming the abundance mankind produced.

What these promises meant was:”Share our wealth.”

When I saw him spending all his time of ease and recreation with the business partners of Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr, with such men as the Astors, etc, maybe I ought to have had better sense than to have believed he would ever break down their big fortunes to give enough to them masses to end poverty. Millions of people were fooled at the same time.

Huey was very upset that Roosevelt didn’t deliver his promises. So he decided to start the Share Our Wealth Society in every state, in hopes to out both parties and put himself in as President.Huey Long book

He goes on:

  1. The Fortunes of the multimillionaires and billionaires shall be reduced so that no one person shall own more than a few million dollars to the person.
  2. We propose to limit the amount any one man can earn in one year or inherit to $1 million to the person.
  3. With that money we will provide a home and the comforts of home, with such common conveniences as radio and automobile for every family in America, free of debt.
  4. We guarantee food and clothing and employment for everyone who should work by shortening the hours of work to thirty hours per week, and to eleven months per year.
  5. .All education would be free. Even college. Why have the right to a college education depend upon whether the father or mother is so well to do as to send a boy or girl to college.
  6. A pension to everyone over 60.
  7. Forgive everybody’s debt.

The few own everything, the masses own nothing.

I imagine Huey would be very popular with Obama if he were alive today, and Harry Reid would have serious competition.

What happened to Huey? At the height of his power, Huey was shot by an assassin.Huey Long death

Of course, Huey’s ideas are nothing new. He was popular in his day. According to Wikipedia, he did a lot of good things for Louisiana for the short time he was there. Many of Huey’s wildest dreams of wealth redistribution have actually been put in place by the democratic party.

And if he were alive today, he would be saying the very same things, and I’m sure would have just as big a following as he did in 1935.

Getting back to Rupert Murdoch and Scotland—Nobody has quite figured out how to stop the rich elites from grabbing all the power and wealth, while millions of other people lead lives of “quiet desperation.” We don’t need to take the money from the rich, we just need the rich to stop stacking the deck in their favor.

Figure THAT out, and you’d have a whole new world.

 

September 18, 2014 - Posted by | democrats, economy, Uncategorized | , , ,

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  1. And the Scottish rich? All those fat-cat Scots who live in England and rule, like the last PM, Gordon Broon, who since he was given the boot has continued to recieve his pay as an MP but doesn’t even bother to go to the House to take his role. Never even votes in absentia. Do you think they give a fig for the crofter in his wind-blown hut, gathering his coak around him and putting a hot coal in his sporran? And all his Scottish pals who are very happy indeed to be subsidised by all the English who actually get on and work while the Scots moan and complain and take the English money.

    If one could even do it, and strip the rich of their wealth – most of which is tied up in factories that employ all those ‘poor’ folk, and ships which employ even more and bring them goodies from afar, made by even poorer people – what would the poor get? Last time I checked (admittedly a year ago) the entire asset base and income streams of the top 1% when dispersed amongst the rest would give everyone about $4-400 each (depending on the definition of asset and income and on whether the rich Arabs and Chinese kick in their share). Of course, the poor would no longer have a job.

    Then of course there is the defining of the 1%. I take it we are talking about the world and not just looking at the rich and poor in the west. To be in the top 1% in the world’s income one has to earn $US34,000 pa.

    The Scots will stay in the British United Kingdom, which, if I recall my history, started when the Scottish King took over the English throne. He wanted a hand-out and the Scots have been taking it for centuries. They can bite the hand that feeds but they ain’t Muslims yet and will not cut it off.

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