Huey Long Quotes
Share the Wealth
It became a slogan and rallying cry for Long and his followers.
Huey P. Long, 1893-1935, Louisiana Governor, U.S. Senator (Democrat, LA), Name of his program to redistribute income in the United States, Quoted on PBS, Ken Burns’ Huey P. Long, August 21, 2006
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Martin was explaining the position of Pope John Paul II.
If I had the power I would steal all your royal wealth and give it to Christ’s brothers and sisters.
Her monasteries were organized into male and female sections with monks and nuns respectively—a complete gender reversal of control of religious institutions of the Catholic Church where until modern times females were subservient to males. Remarkably, Brigid controlled both as there was no abbot. She heard confessions, ordained clergy, and may have even celebrated mass. Her first biographer claimed that she had been consecrated a bishop. Bishops were occasionally elected by the people. Brigid was one of the first political advocates of redistribution of wealth.
She improved the economy considerably but was stuck in a socialized economic ideology that inhibited major private sector growth, without which it is impossible to eliminate poverty and with which excessive greed can also produce poverty.
He was referring to the success of the Clinton Administration.
For almost a century this is an attack that conservative Republicans had made on Democrats. Yet the two greatest period of poverty, the Great Depression and the Great Recession occurred in Republican Administrations and recovery began under Democratic Presidents. The two great targets accused of wanting to spread the wealth around were Presidents Clinton and Obama In each case, the country was more affluent after 4 years of spreading the wealth, there were more jobs and average incomes were up—well better than when they took office from Republicans. There are two great theories of how wealth and prosperity is created. Conservatives argue that government should give money (or reduce tax burdens) and resources to the wealthy and they will invest it to create jobs and everyone will prosper. Liberals argue that the government should invest (spend money) in programs that strengthen the middle class and give them money or (reduce their tax burdens) and consumer spending which accounts for 70 percent of the economy will increase and the rich owners of the corporations will also make more money. Clearly both of these approaches seem to have worked at different times in American history; however, both of them have been failures at other times. (The George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter Administrations for example.) However, that is the political economic issue which must be decided by each American generation.
The working and middle class wages and other income had been static for over 20 years while the wealthy had theirs increase several fold. The “rising tide” only lifted the largest boats.
Huey Pierce Long Jr., byname "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed not radical enough. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.
