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Ghost of Huey Long

(322 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 01:25 PM Jun 2012

'It is not the difficulty of the problem,it is that the rich people will not allow us to solve them'

When I think about how awful the economy looks, how the politicians sent all our jobs overseas, gave our tariff revenue to record profit making companies with no loyalty and blame the poor for the repercussions...I find hope knowing that all we have to do is some quick changes by some true public servants, and we can fix this mess just as fast as it started.

End 'free' trade, raise tax rate to levels of Eisenhower. Now who would be trying to prevent us from doing that?

When we allow our public airwaves to be taken over by corporate money, lies become the 'truth' in a manufactured reality where we think Americans are all stupid and voting for idiots. The media just creates this idea(because Koch pays them good money!) so that when they steal elections, we all believe some morons must have voted for the fascist pigs.

Huey Long 1934



"I contend, my friends, that we have no difficult problem to solve in America, and that is the view of nearly everyone with whom I have discussed the matter here in Washington and elsewhere throughout the United States—that we have no very difficult problem to solve.

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country—and by rich people I mean the super-rich—will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people
.


We have in America today more wealth, more goods, more food, more clothing, more houses than we have ever had. We have everything in abundance here.

We have the farm problem, my friends, because we have too much cotton, because we have too much wheat, and have too much corn, and too much potatoes.

We have a home loan problem, because we have too many houses, and yet nobody can buy them and live in them.

We have trouble, my friends, In the country, because we have too much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has ever been given to civilization, where it has been shown that we are incapable of distributing the actual things that are here, because the people have not money enough to supply themselves with them, and because the greed of a few men is such that they think it is necessary that they own everything, and their pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses, and in their possessing things they cannot use, and their children cannot use, but who bask in the splendor of sunlight and wealth, casting darkness and despair and impressing it on everyone else.


This man said more in 30 minutes than any of our politicians today can grasp in a lifetime
Huey Long's Share Our Wealth Speech
http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php
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'It is not the difficulty of the problem,it is that the rich people will not allow us to solve them' (Original Post) Ghost of Huey Long Jun 2012 OP
Proud to be the first to rec this post. Scuba Jun 2012 #1
k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth Jun 2012 #2
Oh, welcome to DU!!! Scuba Jun 2012 #3
K&R AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #4
Very good post. nt ladjf Jun 2012 #5
And what Huey taught them was that one can be elected talking like a progressive and that's all Egalitarian Thug Jun 2012 #6
Great post and welcome to DU!...n/t monmouth Jun 2012 #7
HUEY LONG - NOW MORE THAN EVER! n/t truedelphi Jun 2012 #8
Welcome to DU! shcrane71 Jun 2012 #9
More than the rich, we have a problem with people who do not believe in equality. Even in his day, freshwest Jun 2012 #10
excellent! xxqqqzme Jun 2012 #11
Agree! patrice Jun 2012 #20
Well said, but also consider sulphurdunn Jun 2012 #22
I just posted your comment along with Huey's speech on my FB page. Excellent! DebJ Jun 2012 #25
Recommended me b zola Jun 2012 #12
"Pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses" Dont call me Shirley Jun 2012 #13
Hurrah For The Kingfish, Sir! The Magistrate Jun 2012 #14
I know that Huey Long has been vilified as a demogogue for many years. maddiemom Jun 2012 #15
completely apropos of the Senate Banking Committee public felating of Jamie Dimon nashville_brook Jun 2012 #16
The Ghost of Huey Long should rattle some chains and visit some of the thugs at midnite. jtuck004 Jun 2012 #17
As Papantonio always says-"Obama needs to pull a Huey Long!" ErikJ Jun 2012 #18
K&R for Labor Solidarity! patrice Jun 2012 #19
Labor Solidarity will not be achieved as long as over 30% of UNION Members KatChatter Jun 2012 #23
I'm absolutely with you on this!!! Old labor family here, but I know what happened, patrice Jun 2012 #26
Let's be DU friends! patrice Jun 2012 #27
k/r End the Fed.... lib2DaBone Jun 2012 #21
Fantastic post! Thanks. n/t DebJ Jun 2012 #24
Hey 1%, keep your fucking "fish"!!! We're going to create OUR OWN "fishing poles"!!! patrice Jun 2012 #28
125 RECS!! Thanks everyone!!! Ghost of Huey Long Jun 2012 #29
Welcome to DU! PatSeg Jun 2012 #30
kick Ghost of Huey Long Jun 2012 #31
 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
6. And what Huey taught them was that one can be elected talking like a progressive and that's all
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 01:38 PM
Jun 2012

that matters.

Once you're in, you're in for life as long as you play ball with the people that decide.
K&R

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
10. More than the rich, we have a problem with people who do not believe in equality. Even in his day,
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 02:19 PM
Jun 2012

Last edited Sat Jun 16, 2012, 12:34 PM - Edit history (2)

Despite his populist rhetoric, there was not the joining together of the different racial and ethnic groups to make an overwhelming majority. That was an era of lynchings and cross burnings, too. It does not negate one thing he said, but apparently many of the 'poor' bought into that to feel 'above' their fellows.

The American people repeatedly buy the LIE that their current income, property, culture, jobs, families, politics, religion or eduation sets them above their fellows. It is our willingness to have our egos stroked that has been our downfall throughout history. It is our responsibility to break this barrier, not the rich, who pay the media to divert us from what they are doing to divide us.

In that way, we hold more blame than they. We refuse to unite unless we have someone to hold to blame; we are to blame. We are not children, we are not helpless. We have minds to tell us how the world is to decide daily what we want and love. The rich cannot control who or what we love.

We are divided with the propaganda of the rich, but they too, are afflicted by this LIE that they are different from the rest. They do not seek their own self-interest with any less vigor than the poor. Those born rich, may become poor and it sustains their fear. Those born poor, may become rich and that hope sustains those who support the rich.

Life is a series of events from birth to death in which we are all vulnerable to the circumstances we are placed into from no choice of our own. Those who vote to protect the interests of the rich, or to scale down their wealth to share it, is beyond those factors I named above.

We ALL realize things can change within any one person's lifetime. Those who follow the GOP believe that they will become rich if the rich get so much money they can toss some at them in passing. Or they become rich by playing the same game.

Democrats believe everyone can get rich at the same time, or get by. Getting rich doesn't come from equality, but just getting by does, and many people have left the Democrats for that reason. They are afraid for their security, and willing to destroy the Commons to get theirs now, not wait for a world they do not trust to treat them fairly to help them when their time of need comes.

This is the conversation Obama is seeking to have with the nation. Which way do we want to go?

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
22. Well said, but also consider
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 09:16 AM
Jun 2012

that no government would long endure by appeal to the better angels of men's natures alone. The looting of the national wealth by a small fraction of the population is killing and corrupting us, like it always does when too much wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. It must be stopped and reversed by whatever means necessary, regardless of the fear, avarice and prejudices that are used to divide and control us.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
13. "Pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses"
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 04:14 PM
Jun 2012

This is a screaming sign that these who seek to own the world are psychopaths.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
15. I know that Huey Long has been vilified as a demogogue for many years.
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 08:16 PM
Jun 2012

It's fascinating to wonder how a politician with his guts and regard for the common man would be received today. That was such a long time ago and different era. He'd be dismissed as a Socialist nut today, but we need a modernized incarnation badly.

nashville_brook

(20,958 posts)
16. completely apropos of the Senate Banking Committee public felating of Jamie Dimon
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 08:17 PM
Jun 2012

...and that's just the latest outrage.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
17. The Ghost of Huey Long should rattle some chains and visit some of the thugs at midnite.
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 09:37 PM
Jun 2012

And a couple of the Democrats while you're at it.

Boehner could lose his tan, but we would have a much brighter future.
 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
18. As Papantonio always says-"Obama needs to pull a Huey Long!"
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 11:12 PM
Jun 2012

Papantonio of the Ring Of Fire radio show. Every Saturday. And frequent guest host of Ed Schultz.

 

KatChatter

(194 posts)
23. Labor Solidarity will not be achieved as long as over 30% of UNION Members
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 09:27 AM
Jun 2012

vote against themselves and labor unions refuse to support their union brothers and sisters.

Case in point if the union teachers strike in an area, ALL union members need to strike in solidarity, cops, firemen, painters, teamsters, etc…..

patrice

(47,992 posts)
26. I'm absolutely with you on this!!! Old labor family here, but I know what happened,
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:50 AM
Jun 2012

partly because I remember, amongst other things, being REALLY puzzled by why/how the McGovern campaign didn't at least do a little better than it did.

- & -

I am reading this:

http://books.google.com/books/about/Stayin_Alive.html?id=h9acQrZmpmAC

And when I finish reading it, I will flip it over and read it again.

 

lib2DaBone

(8,124 posts)
21. k/r End the Fed....
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 05:05 AM
Jun 2012

Why do we "rent" money from world gangsters when we could print it and produce it ourselves?

patrice

(47,992 posts)
28. Hey 1%, keep your fucking "fish"!!! We're going to create OUR OWN "fishing poles"!!!
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:57 AM
Jun 2012

Yyyyyeeeeeeee!!! HHHhhaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

 

Ghost of Huey Long

(322 posts)
31. kick
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 01:37 PM
Jun 2012

because I am infuriated that a Dem lawmaker said the American people are getting dumber.

I bet a third grader could solve our problems better than Congress!

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