Anyone of at least average intelligence could have asked him 2-3 questions and destroyed his whole premise. If 2 people cultivate and harvest their garden, do their neighbors have the right to take a portion of the produce?
@copycat042 Corporations aren't two people. They're many, but at the same time a minority. And they don't, as a rule, even want the people they employee to reap any substantial benefits: proper healthcare, being one. A lot of huge companies don't even offer dental ensurance, and poor dental hygeine has been well proven to lead to heart disease.
Those people still have a right to own property. No matter how many of your fellows decide that they want property you have earned, through labor or trade, they still have no valid claim to that property. Additionally, no individual or group has a valid claim on the resources of others, regardless of whether the owners, or the would-be takers need those resources. This includes forcing one to donate resources to care for another unrelated individual.
@copycat042 Yes...continue w/ unfair taxes, or lack thereof, on the upperclass. Forget humanity! Forget the working poor that built this great American Empire!
@Aleksandr2002 Fairness has nothing to do with it. If you want JUSTICE, you must treat everyone equally, that means taxing (if you must tax) them at the same rate. So, I'll agree. No loopholes for "the rich" but EVERYONE pays the same percent of their income. As to your "forget humanity" argument. It is an appeal to emotion, not a rational argument. No individual or group has a valid claim on the life, liberty or property of another individual or group.
@copycat042 Yes, you are correct. I am appealing to an emotion...which is taught in any good civics class to be left out of a debate. But I guess I am preaching social welfare b/c I believe everyone isn't equal. And I know that isn't necessarily the fault of everyone in the upperclass, but they can obviously afford to bear a greater burden tax-wise.
By law (imminent domain), a US citizen now doesn't have the right to property in all cases.
Agreed, it is a sticky issue, made more so by exceptions and special cases such as the ones Long was pushing. The depression (and the current economic recession) was caused by rent-seekers.The way out the trouble is not more rent-seeking by different groups, which is what wealth-redistribution is. Instead of saying "you gave the corps money, you should give us money too", we should say "stop giving money away, and make the corps answerable directly to the consumer.
@copycat042 Not at all! And I actually w/ you on the corporate bail-outs.
That 'twit Bill Maher, excuse the language, supports the auto industry bail-out now under Pres. Obama --but he didn't under Pres. Bush. That's just one example of hypocrisy in the media (a whole other issue really...haha).
he is a socialist psychopath. if he wasn't assassinated in 1935, he would have beat FDR in 36, and would have destroyed every american principle, and we would collapse.
So I think we could, if we organize, use the power of the internet to find a necromancer and raise this man from the dead. He would win every election possible. We just need dark magics
For everyone who likes this, it is important to realize that he is describing socialism. If you are for what he is saying then you actually want a socialist government.
@nickjames46 who are you kidding? you are heaping the blame on the puppets, not the puppetmaster. the people are being ripped off, because we've sold our government to the highest bidder. but let's not throw out the baby w/ the bathwater!
The political speakers of the early part of the 20th century were pretty big on the theatrical gesticulating. Well, not much has changed since this speech, 85 percent of the wealth is still the hands of around 4 percent of the populace.
the concept of currency as an aspect of society is lost on you who lust for personal wealth and see your wealth as an appendage. let's say i as an individual seized half of the united states as my personal domain and none else were allowed to dwell on that land but me. wouldn't that be a sweet "libertarian" thing to do?
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holy shit rense, I was just studying about this dude, and you send me here xD, If this dude ran for president I think it would've been a good thing, but we must not forget this dude was corrupt as fuck, but theres different type of corrupt
The only mistake Huey Long ever made was hiring a Jewish security agent. We need another Huey Long! He knew to problem back then and would have been great for this country but they always murder the real Americans , (JFK) that can do something, not like these dumb asses in Congress today.
Jews killed him Just once when a politician is killed go to the synagogues and drag those Jewish bastards out and hang them, He would have beaten FDR and kept us out of war. Oh by the way FDR was Jewish and his wife was part negro.
I liked Huey long . Huey was wise to the federal reserve gangsters//Roosevelt and central banker owners got rid of him as he would have denied him the presidency and their New World Order and all the shitty parasitic enslavement policies it foisted upon us. Roosevelt set up a dictatorship in the USA that has incrementally gotten more totalitarian as the years passed.
That's the thing about being the ruling class in a liberal framework, you can always count on a disgruntled member of your own folks to kill the people's hero. That way you can blame it on the individual, but we get the message.
"Actually, the concentration of capital is an inherent feature of capitalism. It is far easier to grow a large sum than it is to create one from nothing."
When a "large sum" is accumulated people seek to take it. The bigger it grows the greater the incentive to take it. Nobody wants to take away nothing.
The more wealth you got the more tempting it is to thieves and competitors. The more you got the harder you have to work to keep it.
Huey Long was a populist, and his ideas were brilliant for the time, but they wouldn't today. He was also a demogogue, and planned on eliminating the electoral college, so I'm glad FDR stayed there.
Study this man because this is the current playbook for the left i.e. Obama/Occupy everything crowd. The sad fact is, that if we really did re-distribute the wealth ( i.e. critical assets) then a lot of us would starve to death. Just look at Mao's little experiment which created the world's greatest famine.
@alnilam66 And see the most developed, least corrupt countries in the world? How does that refute socialism? (which obviously isn't what's practiced in Europe, but mixed economies)
Better yet. Head to a third-world country and see regulation-free capitalism at work as they struggle with life expectancies under 50, children born with scores of defects, and pyramid schemes so large that they cripple entire economies.
Huey Long was talking about WEALTH inequality, particularly controlling wealth, and NOT INCOME inequality. He advocated a tax on excessive stock ownership by any one person.
@cpklapper I liked your comment !! If I could give 100 gold stars , real gold, to you I would. You words hit right on the nose especially since one reads how insane many CEO,S of different US corporations are paid OR what they receive in compensation when they get fired. Stock ownership is often part of the picture when one reads about the CEO,s in the Bloomberg , Wall Street Journal websites.
This kind of socialism can never work. Each ethnic group competes with the others for living space and control. If all wealth is shared equaliy then that group with the highest birthrate will eventually take complete control of the society and begin employing the others as servents and slaves. This is already starting to happen in the USA.
The free market basics of society were destroyed which allowed a relatively small hand full of people accumulate the vast wealth of America. People like Rockefeller ran interference in the oil industry to take control of it and the banking corporations created vast amounts of loan credits that allowed the monopoly to be created.
The free market is one in which running interference is not allowed. The call for Huey Long to redistribute makes sense in order to re-establish a balance in society.
@foggymedia "The free market basics of society were destroyed which allowed a relatively small hand full of people accumulate the vast wealth of America."
Actually, the concentration of capital is an inherent feature of capitalism. It is far easier to grow a large sum than it is to create one from nothing.
@IUEC38 Actually, the concentration of capital is an inherent feature of capitalism. It is far easier to grow a large sum than it is to create one from nothing.
When a "large sum" is accumulated people seek to take it. The bigger it grows the greater the incentive to take it. Nobody wants to take away nothing.
@foggymedia The free market is one in which running interference is not allowed. The call for Huey Long to redistribute makes sense in order to re-establish a balance in society.
Except that "redistribution of wealth" causes disincentives to take risk. So you get a Soviet style gradual collapse.
Mr. Long's ideas were put to the test in the USSR, Communist China and even Nazi Germany. They failed abysmally.
@foggymedia ..then you'd like to go right back to the start and allow unrestrained greed to take a hold, and devolve into this situation we have now, where the more you have, the more you get. Ultimately, that leads to the formation of the ruling clique and we're back to this imbalance again. Since you're opposed to state interference it's hard to see how this could be prevented. Capitalism cannot cure the evils of capitalism, any more than syphillis can cure syphillis.
@London2272 A free market implies the rule of law and not a "free for all" market. All the American titans such as Carnegie, Andrew Melon,and Rockefeller used interference and sabotage tactics. The FDR, Taft, & other families smuggled opium into China, etc.
The rule of moral law has to be enforced for any civilized society. And the creation of huge new pools of money & credit liquidity by banks has to be stopped since that only allows for the economic hijacking & control of society by a few.
@London2272 If you espouse collectivism even with the rule of moral law, that still wouldn't work because it's an inherently dysfunctional. A system of free enterprise, where people are able to provide a service of producing things for the welfare of other people in an open system of commerce is the natural and sane solution.
@London2272 sure, go back to the start but DONT allow unrestrained greed to take hold again. I know greed cannot be resisted but it can certainly be restrained. Humans are smart if they wanna be. We could devise any sort of system we like and enforce it, we are just fat lazy complacent twats that still have it too good to get mad.
@foggymedia There are no "free marke basics" that ever worked. Free market capitalism is a Ponzi scheme that ALWAYS exploits and pushes wealth up the pyramid. Americans are only feeling a pinch now because the American Empire is dwindling.
@foggymedia There are no "free marke basics" that ever worked. Free market capitalism is a Ponzi scheme that ALWAYS exploits and pushes wealth up the pyramid. Americans are only feeling a pinch now because the American Empire is dwindling.
@ERRATICCHEESE2 There Has NEVER been a FREE market in the US. It is the Government Regulation that enables BIG business to crush smaller competition.
@fixer1972 Government regulations increase because Free Markets dont work. Never have, never will. There is not even such a thing as "free markets". It's a nonsensical term. Capitalism breeds monopolies. Governments are then forced to get increasingly complex to enforce fairness, at which point monopolies take over government. What you need is a system which completely neuters power. Removes power/money from everyone.
Please explain how a coercive monopoly may be formed, and maintained in a free market. If the product is cheap, then the monopoly is not coercive. If the price is raised to a level which the consumer believes is excessive, it invites competition (in the form of a cheaper version of the same product or an alternative to that product) into the market. The only coercive monopolies that exist are government supported.
Redistribution... and who gets to decide who gets what and who doesn't. Barrack...uh...I mean Huey? Let's see Huey wants Rocky's and Mellon's money divided up according to his view of "fair" and Barrack wants Mr 250K 's money distributed as it suits his sense of fairness, next it'll be Mr 100k, then 50k, and then we've come full circle finding ourselves back in 1773. Then what? Some of you collectivist out there have an idea?
In a nation where one percent of the population controls half the wealth it might be time to consider that the rich are the problem. If you don't tax it you're playing with half the fiscal resources of your country, and stealing pennies from the poor to further engorge the rich who will repay your largesse by lobbying congress for even more $ (because you really never can have enough) and stashing it offshore b/c those people will work dirt cheap.
Huey Long was speaking about WEALTH inequality not income inequality. He would NOT have been in favor of the so-called "millionaire's tax" because it is an income tax and not a wealth tax. The "millionaire's tax" is a sinister charade which does not touch the wealthy -- who can easily show no income -- but attacks those who try to climb out of poverty and debt.
heil hitler!...
america has a long history of similar assholes...
644petko 4 days ago
Anyone of at least average intelligence could have asked him 2-3 questions and destroyed his whole premise. If 2 people cultivate and harvest their garden, do their neighbors have the right to take a portion of the produce?
copycat042 1 week ago 2
@copycat042 Corporations aren't two people. They're many, but at the same time a minority. And they don't, as a rule, even want the people they employee to reap any substantial benefits: proper healthcare, being one. A lot of huge companies don't even offer dental ensurance, and poor dental hygeine has been well proven to lead to heart disease.
Aleksandr2002 4 days ago
@Aleksandr2002
Those people still have a right to own property. No matter how many of your fellows decide that they want property you have earned, through labor or trade, they still have no valid claim to that property. Additionally, no individual or group has a valid claim on the resources of others, regardless of whether the owners, or the would-be takers need those resources. This includes forcing one to donate resources to care for another unrelated individual.
copycat042 4 days ago
@copycat042 Yes...continue w/ unfair taxes, or lack thereof, on the upperclass. Forget humanity! Forget the working poor that built this great American Empire!
Aleksandr2002 4 days ago
@Aleksandr2002 Fairness has nothing to do with it. If you want JUSTICE, you must treat everyone equally, that means taxing (if you must tax) them at the same rate. So, I'll agree. No loopholes for "the rich" but EVERYONE pays the same percent of their income. As to your "forget humanity" argument. It is an appeal to emotion, not a rational argument. No individual or group has a valid claim on the life, liberty or property of another individual or group.
copycat042 4 days ago
@copycat042 Yes, you are correct. I am appealing to an emotion...which is taught in any good civics class to be left out of a debate. But I guess I am preaching social welfare b/c I believe everyone isn't equal. And I know that isn't necessarily the fault of everyone in the upperclass, but they can obviously afford to bear a greater burden tax-wise.
By law (imminent domain), a US citizen now doesn't have the right to property in all cases.
This is a sticky issue, not black & white.
Aleksandr2002 4 days ago
@Aleksandr2002
Agreed, it is a sticky issue, made more so by exceptions and special cases such as the ones Long was pushing. The depression (and the current economic recession) was caused by rent-seekers.The way out the trouble is not more rent-seeking by different groups, which is what wealth-redistribution is. Instead of saying "you gave the corps money, you should give us money too", we should say "stop giving money away, and make the corps answerable directly to the consumer.
copycat042 3 days ago
@Aleksandr2002 i apologise if this post sounds rude, the character limit does not allow for the respect i would like to give. :)
copycat042 3 days ago
@copycat042 Not at all! And I actually w/ you on the corporate bail-outs.
That 'twit Bill Maher, excuse the language, supports the auto industry bail-out now under Pres. Obama --but he didn't under Pres. Bush. That's just one example of hypocrisy in the media (a whole other issue really...haha).
Aleksandr2002 3 days ago
@Aleksandr2002 I would use harsher language to describe Mr Maher, but I am sure there are women present. :P
copycat042 3 days ago
Where do I go to vote for this guy?
edszewczyk 2 weeks ago
Easy to see why FDR feared Huey.
Turcury 2 weeks ago
he is a socialist psychopath. if he wasn't assassinated in 1935, he would have beat FDR in 36, and would have destroyed every american principle, and we would collapse.
pbone771 3 weeks ago
@pbone771 he was not a socialist just a demagogue taking advantage of the widespread poverty during the great depression
icefrappe 2 weeks ago
@pbone771 you left out 'the sky is falling! the sky is falling!'
ho2cultcha 2 weeks ago
a lot of kindergarden talk here
maridejun 3 weeks ago
@maridejun well i'll take a kinder garden over a meaner garden anyday!
ho2cultcha 2 weeks ago
So I think we could, if we organize, use the power of the internet to find a necromancer and raise this man from the dead. He would win every election possible. We just need dark magics
FunkyBeufordP 1 month ago
Yup, I know what he's describing, and it sounds good to me. Huey P. Long 2012
OccupytheElection 1 month ago
did anyone else come here thinking he was the member of the inkspots?
MrGemod 1 month ago
He's a fascist.
THERepublic1971 1 month ago
@THERepublic1971 Oh you imbecile...
ProletarianTakeover 1 month ago
@ProletarianTakeover Wahahaha... Oh 7th grade history books. They only do so much.
THERepublic1971 1 month ago
For everyone who likes this, it is important to realize that he is describing socialism. If you are for what he is saying then you actually want a socialist government.
upsetDavid 1 month ago 2
@upsetDavid A socialist government would be a fine thing. Socialism isn't a dirty word you know, only in the lala land some people seem to inhabit.
szopheep 2 weeks ago
huey was exactly right for his time, today its govt which is ripping off the people
nickjames46 2 months ago
@nickjames46 who are you kidding? you are heaping the blame on the puppets, not the puppetmaster. the people are being ripped off, because we've sold our government to the highest bidder. but let's not throw out the baby w/ the bathwater!
ho2cultcha 2 weeks ago
It's nice to know the system is still broken.
MrSammo1 2 months ago
He reminds me of Spanky from Our Gang. Much respect!
Aleksandr2002 2 months ago
The political speakers of the early part of the 20th century were pretty big on the theatrical gesticulating. Well, not much has changed since this speech, 85 percent of the wealth is still the hands of around 4 percent of the populace.
London2272 2 months ago
I prefer porn !!
MREGGGOD1 3 months ago
Fucking brilliant....Bonnie vid!
YAHWEHtoHELL 3 months ago 2
the concept of currency as an aspect of society is lost on you who lust for personal wealth and see your wealth as an appendage. let's say i as an individual seized half of the united states as my personal domain and none else were allowed to dwell on that land but me. wouldn't that be a sweet "libertarian" thing to do?
sord1989 3 months ago
@snaredrum110 Go beat a drum, you clearly aren't smart enough to handle this discussion.
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sexysingle11 3 months ago
Obama much?
HiSkoolFutbol46 3 months ago
I can see where Brian Hugh Warner gets his stage moves from.
CuffDeep 3 months ago
He spoke the truth and fought for the people and was murdered for doing it!
GREGLOVESJENNA 3 months ago
Wasn't he assassinated?
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We have Been Here Before: Huey Long, Share the Wealth 1934
vastell 3 months ago
holy shit rense, I was just studying about this dude, and you send me here xD, If this dude ran for president I think it would've been a good thing, but we must not forget this dude was corrupt as fuck, but theres different type of corrupt
cvunit 3 months ago
he is pissed.
realhelathylifestyle 3 months ago
He died September 9, 1935 so how can this be him on December 11, 1935 as stated at the start of the video?
a1anjamac 3 months ago
@a1anjamac december 1934 not '35
xBADASSARCEUSx 3 months ago
The only mistake Huey Long ever made was hiring a Jewish security agent. We need another Huey Long! He knew to problem back then and would have been great for this country but they always murder the real Americans , (JFK) that can do something, not like these dumb asses in Congress today.
stophypocrisy 3 months ago
Jews killed him Just once when a politician is killed go to the synagogues and drag those Jewish bastards out and hang them, He would have beaten FDR and kept us out of war. Oh by the way FDR was Jewish and his wife was part negro.
tubeyou9878 3 months ago
I liked Huey long . Huey was wise to the federal reserve gangsters//Roosevelt and central banker owners got rid of him as he would have denied him the presidency and their New World Order and all the shitty parasitic enslavement policies it foisted upon us. Roosevelt set up a dictatorship in the USA that has incrementally gotten more totalitarian as the years passed.
finefilth 3 months ago
That's the thing about being the ruling class in a liberal framework, you can always count on a disgruntled member of your own folks to kill the people's hero. That way you can blame it on the individual, but we get the message.
Bradylama 3 months ago
@Bradylama goondolences
Ghosafizzle 3 months ago
@Ghosafizzle history repeats itself repeats itself
Bradylama 3 months ago
He sounds like a fucking drunkard.
michalgreenalien 3 months ago
"Actually, the concentration of capital is an inherent feature of capitalism. It is far easier to grow a large sum than it is to create one from nothing."
When a "large sum" is accumulated people seek to take it. The bigger it grows the greater the incentive to take it. Nobody wants to take away nothing.
The more wealth you got the more tempting it is to thieves and competitors. The more you got the harder you have to work to keep it.
It's a counter example to your claim is all.
GeneHeim1 4 months ago
Huey Long was a populist, and his ideas were brilliant for the time, but they wouldn't today. He was also a demogogue, and planned on eliminating the electoral college, so I'm glad FDR stayed there.
DonTheCritic 4 months ago
How was this made in December 1935 when he was assassinated in September?
Wonka275 4 months ago
"Tell that man to bring back some of that grub he can't eat"
OsamabinLadenisGAY 4 months ago
Study this man because this is the current playbook for the left i.e. Obama/Occupy everything crowd. The sad fact is, that if we really did re-distribute the wealth ( i.e. critical assets) then a lot of us would starve to death. Just look at Mao's little experiment which created the world's greatest famine.
planetcave 4 months ago
socialism never worked back then and it will never work now. need an example? travel to europe
alnilam66 4 months ago
@alnilam66 And see the most developed, least corrupt countries in the world? How does that refute socialism? (which obviously isn't what's practiced in Europe, but mixed economies)
Better yet. Head to a third-world country and see regulation-free capitalism at work as they struggle with life expectancies under 50, children born with scores of defects, and pyramid schemes so large that they cripple entire economies.
Tokopol 4 months ago 5
this asshole is barack obama's hero. he got his ass shot
alnilam66 4 months ago
He looks a little drunk...
goten4290 5 months ago
reads like FDR, looks like Hitler, sounds like Tom Waits
chowfun18 5 months ago
That is a true fascist - and that is a good thing -, exactly the kind of people the media loves to make lies about.
MyraiTrunks 5 months ago
People like Long destroyed America.
knightschwartz 5 months ago
Huey Long was talking about WEALTH inequality, particularly controlling wealth, and NOT INCOME inequality. He advocated a tax on excessive stock ownership by any one person.
cpklapper 5 months ago
@cpklapper I liked your comment !! If I could give 100 gold stars , real gold, to you I would. You words hit right on the nose especially since one reads how insane many CEO,S of different US corporations are paid OR what they receive in compensation when they get fired. Stock ownership is often part of the picture when one reads about the CEO,s in the Bloomberg , Wall Street Journal websites.
64Albere 5 months ago 2
This kind of socialism can never work. Each ethnic group competes with the others for living space and control. If all wealth is shared equaliy then that group with the highest birthrate will eventually take complete control of the society and begin employing the others as servents and slaves. This is already starting to happen in the USA.
Avalon400 6 months ago
@Avalon400 really?..is this based on stats or is it sth your local Koch whore told you?
rathindra984 3 months ago
The free market basics of society were destroyed which allowed a relatively small hand full of people accumulate the vast wealth of America. People like Rockefeller ran interference in the oil industry to take control of it and the banking corporations created vast amounts of loan credits that allowed the monopoly to be created.
The free market is one in which running interference is not allowed. The call for Huey Long to redistribute makes sense in order to re-establish a balance in society.
foggymedia 6 months ago 17
@foggymedia "The free market basics of society were destroyed which allowed a relatively small hand full of people accumulate the vast wealth of America."
Actually, the concentration of capital is an inherent feature of capitalism. It is far easier to grow a large sum than it is to create one from nothing.
IUEC38 4 months ago 2
@IUEC38 Actually, the concentration of capital is an inherent feature of capitalism. It is far easier to grow a large sum than it is to create one from nothing.
When a "large sum" is accumulated people seek to take it. The bigger it grows the greater the incentive to take it. Nobody wants to take away nothing.
GeneHeim1 4 months ago
@GeneHeim1 Your non-sequiter has me completely lost. I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
IUEC38 4 months ago
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@foggymedia The free market is one in which running interference is not allowed. The call for Huey Long to redistribute makes sense in order to re-establish a balance in society.
Except that "redistribution of wealth" causes disincentives to take risk. So you get a Soviet style gradual collapse.
Mr. Long's ideas were put to the test in the USSR, Communist China and even Nazi Germany. They failed abysmally.
GeneHeim1 4 months ago
@foggymedia ..then you'd like to go right back to the start and allow unrestrained greed to take a hold, and devolve into this situation we have now, where the more you have, the more you get. Ultimately, that leads to the formation of the ruling clique and we're back to this imbalance again. Since you're opposed to state interference it's hard to see how this could be prevented. Capitalism cannot cure the evils of capitalism, any more than syphillis can cure syphillis.
London2272 2 months ago 11
@London2272 A free market implies the rule of law and not a "free for all" market. All the American titans such as Carnegie, Andrew Melon,and Rockefeller used interference and sabotage tactics. The FDR, Taft, & other families smuggled opium into China, etc.
The rule of moral law has to be enforced for any civilized society. And the creation of huge new pools of money & credit liquidity by banks has to be stopped since that only allows for the economic hijacking & control of society by a few.
foggymedia 2 months ago
@foggymedia So how do you propose to enforce it, unless you have a democratically elected state machinery to enforce it?
London2272 2 weeks ago
@London2272 If you espouse collectivism even with the rule of moral law, that still wouldn't work because it's an inherently dysfunctional. A system of free enterprise, where people are able to provide a service of producing things for the welfare of other people in an open system of commerce is the natural and sane solution.
foggymedia 2 months ago
Stating opinion as fact here, aren't you. Many believe collectivism is natural, and extreme individualism is dysfunctional.
szopheep 2 weeks ago
@London2272 sure, go back to the start but DONT allow unrestrained greed to take hold again. I know greed cannot be resisted but it can certainly be restrained. Humans are smart if they wanna be. We could devise any sort of system we like and enforce it, we are just fat lazy complacent twats that still have it too good to get mad.
emceesick1 2 weeks ago
@foggymedia There are no "free marke basics" that ever worked. Free market capitalism is a Ponzi scheme that ALWAYS exploits and pushes wealth up the pyramid. Americans are only feeling a pinch now because the American Empire is dwindling.
ERRATICCHEESE2 2 weeks ago
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@foggymedia There are no "free marke basics" that ever worked. Free market capitalism is a Ponzi scheme that ALWAYS exploits and pushes wealth up the pyramid. Americans are only feeling a pinch now because the American Empire is dwindling.
ERRATICCHEESE2 2 weeks ago
@ERRATICCHEESE2 There Has NEVER been a FREE market in the US. It is the Government Regulation that enables BIG business to crush smaller competition.
fixer1972 2 weeks ago
@fixer1972 Government regulations increase because Free Markets dont work. Never have, never will. There is not even such a thing as "free markets". It's a nonsensical term. Capitalism breeds monopolies. Governments are then forced to get increasingly complex to enforce fairness, at which point monopolies take over government. What you need is a system which completely neuters power. Removes power/money from everyone.
ERRATICCHEESE2 2 weeks ago
@ERRATICCHEESE2
Please explain how a coercive monopoly may be formed, and maintained in a free market. If the product is cheap, then the monopoly is not coercive. If the price is raised to a level which the consumer believes is excessive, it invites competition (in the form of a cheaper version of the same product or an alternative to that product) into the market. The only coercive monopolies that exist are government supported.
copycat042 4 days ago
commie
shotsky94 7 months ago
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evacheri100 6 months ago
I see that Huey crawled out from the grave and gave this speech three months after he was shot to death...
acountis 7 months ago 2
Redistribution... and who gets to decide who gets what and who doesn't. Barrack...uh...I mean Huey? Let's see Huey wants Rocky's and Mellon's money divided up according to his view of "fair" and Barrack wants Mr 250K 's money distributed as it suits his sense of fairness, next it'll be Mr 100k, then 50k, and then we've come full circle finding ourselves back in 1773. Then what? Some of you collectivist out there have an idea?
gedoug 7 months ago
@gedoug I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. Please try again.
ElonsTDiddy 6 months ago
In a nation where one percent of the population controls half the wealth it might be time to consider that the rich are the problem. If you don't tax it you're playing with half the fiscal resources of your country, and stealing pennies from the poor to further engorge the rich who will repay your largesse by lobbying congress for even more $ (because you really never can have enough) and stashing it offshore b/c those people will work dirt cheap.
MaudsPas 8 months ago 3
what a babbling genius...
stillbelievin891 9 months ago 24
@stillbelievin891 he looks like he was down syndrome
hallnoats4ever 7 months ago
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what a babbling idiot...
fortisKID 9 months ago
Huey Long was speaking about WEALTH inequality not income inequality. He would NOT have been in favor of the so-called "millionaire's tax" because it is an income tax and not a wealth tax. The "millionaire's tax" is a sinister charade which does not touch the wealthy -- who can easily show no income -- but attacks those who try to climb out of poverty and debt.
cpklapper 9 months ago
Covetousness.
oilhammer04 11 months ago
@oilhammer04 Fairness! u hater!
0Shane13 10 months ago
I would say that it is much more important that it was, as opposed to when.
norfids 1 year ago
What? it can't be December 1935. He was assasinated in september 1935
MrKitos5 1 year ago
@MrKitos5 hello you know he was not assasinated he was accidentally killed by one of his his bodyguards
WeAreLions013 11 months ago
@WeAreLions013 Forgive me my ignorance, but still, it was in september 1935
MrKitos5 11 months ago
@MrKitos5 This speech was from 1934. It's a typo.
mitovmeio 10 months ago 4