1932: Huey Long, “The Kingfish," Elected to Senate

It's becoming more difficult to tell the criminals from the white-collar professionals -- the crime from the corporate kingpins -- and it seems, for the rich, those lines have blurred to nonexistance. I came across this quote from Kingfish hi'sself, and felt like runnin' it...


"Giv’em a yacht! Giv’em a Palace! Send ‘em to Reno and give them a new wife when they want it, if that’s what they want. [Laughter] But when they’ve got everything on God’s loving earth that they can eat and they can wear and they can live in, and all that their children can live in and wear and eat, and all of their children’s children can use, then we’ve got to call Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mellon and Mr. Rockefeller back and say, come back here, put that stuff back on this table here that you took away from here that you don’t need. Leave something else for the American people to consume.”

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