re: Why do so many people despise Huey P Long

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During an era of limited social mobility, I can understand why he felt the need to battle the elite.

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Like a lot of millennials and leftists today the concept of a welfare state sounds great on paper but reality shows that paper to be completely worthless. He instituted the welfare state we still have today and look at what it is has brought over the decades. A lot of number one categories but in the worst of measurements. I said this before we have tremendous natural resources and the mouth of the Mississippi river that can move goods to 40+ states and several Canadian provinces yet other states surpass us with ease. Texas has similar natural resources but not the mouth of the Mississippi and yet we are so far behind them it's a crying shame.

People that want to do better despise Long because he gave us this welfare state that we haven't been able to break out of. Here's a little fact that welfare state lovers don't know or can't grasp - Louisiana has a large Ferrari ownership and club members who even have their own forum on Ferrarichat.com yet we are loaded with trailer parks and no Ferrari dealerships. The aristocracy here gets loaded while the peasants get scraps.