Critics of FDR
Huey Long--The Kingfish of Louisiana
Father Charles Coughlin--Catholic priest and anti-Semite out of Detroit
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 8:04 AM
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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8 Comments:
I would have to agree with Long. The distribution of wealth is very uneven. The rich shouldn't have so many luxuries when so many people are helpless and starving.
6:49 PM
I checked out Huey Long and he seemed like a preacher. Very much for the people. The quote you talked about in class, "How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat"? He attackes Rockafeller and seemed like a powerful guy.
8:00 PM
huey p long has a lot of charisma...i was actually interested listening to his speech....if he was not assasinated i bet the united states might have been different, maybe we would have been communist??? who knows but Long's points about the rich are dead on right...Coughlin speech was rather boring
8:20 PM
Im sure Huey P had good intentions, but he goes about it completely the wrong way. Creating income caps would have hurt capitalism and would have made things even worse than they were already. Who did he think the job creators were? Who were the people going to work for if there was no incentive for the "evil" rich people to make a profit past 5,000,000 or whatever it was? The rich people create the food on the table and take a share of it.
8:48 PM
Great comments everyone. However, I found the last part of John Lee's comment rather boring.
8:57 PM
although distribution of wealth is uneven, the rich shouldn't be "penalized" just because they have more money. They have the same rights as the poor and have the same goal as the poor - getting richer. It is up to the wealthy how much they give back to the communtiy and help out the helpless and starving people. They are not required to do it. They just have the option and it is their choice to be a "hero" or a "scrooge".
hmm i sound a bit cold there...well i do hope the rich give back but i just don't think we can make them to do so...sad:(
11:30 PM
I thought it was so funny how Coughlin sounded like a preacher giving his speech... I agree with both Long and Coughlin, on dofferent points. I agree (like most people that's commented) that wealth is not evenly distributed, and that the poor should be helped by the government in certain ways. But for as long as history has been recorded, there was always a class order- There is no way businesses can progress without it!
And America is all about progress...
3:03 PM
I like the way Father Coughlin spoke. His speech was full of passion and hes sounded like he knew what he was talking about. I dont understand why he would bash on the WPA so much. So what if the workers were getting little money. At least they were getting some money to help them out economically. WPA gave jobs to people. The government was not just sitting there doing nothing. The government was trying to help get the people out of the depression. They cant do it in one day.
8:32 PM
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