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Dunrobin:
--- Quote from: Robbie883 on December 05, 2004, 09:33:08 AM ---Who the hell is Huey Long?
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Oh, the quality of "modern" education! ::)
"Huey Long was Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930. A nominal Democrat, Huey Long was a radical populist, of a sort we are unfamiliar with in our day. As Governor, he sponsored many reforms that endeared him to the rural poor. An ardent enemy of corporate interests, he championed the "little man" against the rich and privileged. A farm boy from the piney woods of North Louisiana, he was colorful, charismatic, controversial, and always just skating on the edge. He gave himself the nickname "Kingfish" because, he said, "I'm a small fish here in Washington. But I'm the Kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana."
"Huey Long was the determined enemy of Wall Street, bankers and big business and he was also a determined enemy of the Roosevelt administration because he saw it as too beholden to these powerful forces.
"Huey Long did not suffer from excessive modesty. A high-school dropout who taught himself law and got a law degree in only one year of study, Long was confident he would become President of the United States in 1936. So confident was he that he wrote a book entitled My First Days in the White House in which he named his cabinet (including President Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy and President Hoover as Secretary of Commerce) and in which he conducted long imaginary conversations with FDR and Hoover designed to humiliate them and show their subservience to the boy from the piney woods of Louisiana.
"The Kingfish wanted the government to confiscate the wealth of the nation's rich and privileged. He called his program Share Our Wealth. It called upon the federal government to guarantee every family in the nation an annual income of $5,000, so they could have the necessities of life, including a home, a job, a radio and an automobile. He also proposed limiting private fortunes to $50 million, legacies to $5 million, and annual incomes to $1 million. Everyone over age 60 would receive an old-age pension. His slogan was 'Every Man A King.'"
http://www.ssa.gov/history/hlong1.html
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Robbie883:
Gee, him writing a book about imiganary conversations with presidents make it seem like he was sort of crazy lol.
Dunrobin:
--- Quote from: Robbie883 on December 05, 2004, 10:11:31 AM ---Gee, him writing a book about imiganary conversations with presidents make it seem like he was sort of crazy lol.
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Well, all politicians are dangerously unbalanced, if you ask me. [nuts] That's why they should be outlawed.
Pilsner Panther:
--- Quote from: Dunrobin on December 05, 2004, 10:26:18 AM ---
--- Quote from: Robbie883 on December 05, 2004, 10:11:31 AM ---Gee, him writing a book about imiganary conversations with presidents make it seem like he was sort of crazy lol.
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Well, all politicians are dangerously unbalanced, if you ask me. [nuts] That's why they should be outlawed.
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Speaking of which, just by coincidence I met this guy the other day, when he was here in San Francisco for a speech and a book-signing. I don't follow national politics closely enough so that I knew much about him, other than that he's a Congressman. Actually a former Congressman, at this point—
http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Barr/barr1.html
You know, someone whose name you see in the papers a lot without paying much attention to it.
Quite a character, now isn't he? Outlaw politicians, Rob? This jerk-off would outlaw us if he could— just for thinking for ourselves— so turnabout is fair play.
I should mention, he's not very impressive in person; short (about 5'7'), and considerably older than he looks in his publicity photos. Hell of a nice dresser, though; his suit must have cost $700 at least, and you should have seen the gold wristwatch he had on!
I would have shown him mine, but the plastic crystal is scratched and one of Mickey's hands is broken...
:P
Genius In the Lamp:
--- Quote ---"But I'm the Kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana."
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Oh ... Amos & Andy!
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