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re: What's your opinion on Huey Long?
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:14 pm to Brosef Stalin
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:14 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Put this state on the path to being the shithole it is today
Didn't he improve transportation around the state? building bridges, improved roads, etc? He did do a few good things.
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Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:18 pm to OweO
He did a lot of good things.
But he also wanted to dismantle big oil and spread the wealth of the upperclass.
We all know how well that goes over in this state
But he also wanted to dismantle big oil and spread the wealth of the upperclass.
We all know how well that goes over in this state
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:19 pm to Bison
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He was a good kind of corrupt. He did some damn good things for this state
I hate people like you with the fire of a thousand suns. Low expectation having motherfrickers like you are why assholes keep getting elected and don't ever do jail time in this state.
At least Huey did it right and got himself killed for it. All these other crooked politicians refuse to live up to their full potential.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:20 pm to Parmen
Louisiana is the most socialist red state in the US. Try to cut a government handout or end a government program in the state and see what happens. Louisiana may vote Republican, but it sure as hell isn't because of their policy to cut spending, lower taxes, reduce welfare, etc.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:24 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Book / Documentary called Dirty Deeds. Worth a read. Plenty of articls related to the investigation online too.
Huey P Long, his family and friends have made $100s of millions on shady oil royalties. I think his family and friends ancestors still collect.
Huey P Long, his family and friends have made $100s of millions on shady oil royalties. I think his family and friends ancestors still collect.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:25 pm to TigerstuckinMS
It was the great depression. Don't hold Long as a design of what is needed today.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:29 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
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What's your opinion on Huey Long?
It's a pretty great bridge.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:45 pm to fightin tigers
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It was the great depression. Don't hold Long as a design of what is needed today.
Yeah, and don't lionize that piece of shite for what he did then. All the idiots who say "but look at all he did for the state" are too fricking stupid to realize how much more he could have done with the resources he took away from the state when he was robbing it blind.
All politicians of his ilk need to find themselves up against a wall staring down the business end of a rifle.
This post was edited on 2/21/18 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:46 pm to lsu13lsu
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I think his family and friends ancestors still collect.
They do...its called State Lease 340.
Here's an article on it:
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The lease, called State Lease 340, was for 500,000 acres off the coast of south central Louisiana. The terms stipulated that the state would get 12.5 percent of the royalties and Burton would receive the rest. WVUE notes that nowadays the state usually takes 20 to 25 percent in royalties.
Burton paid $75,000 for the lease and gave part of it to the Texas Company, now Texaco, who in turn paid him $95,000 for the lease, allowing Burton to turn a $20,000 profit.
The already fishy deal began to smell worse when Burton began to give more of his interest in the lease to the Win or Lose Corporation, owned in part by the governor at the time.
In the first 20 years, Win or Lose made over $38 million in inflation-adjusted dollars. In total, the corporation made around $811 million in today’s dollars.
LINK
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:48 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Turned his back on Port Allen...
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:51 pm to fightin tigers
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A savior as a man of his time. His policies today are not needed, but then they certainly were.
He did more than skim off the top and was to the point of criminal.
Dead on. Sadly, we are heading in the same direction towards Oligarchy, which existed in Long's time, which will allow a similar populist to return to power.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:52 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
John Bel Edwards with better hair, a redneck accent, and a bigger line of dumbass-duping bullshite.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:56 pm to canyon
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friend of the working man
I'm pretty sure he was very ruthless in his tactics: like starving opponents' families and rigging lawmakers' voting machines. That's the shite that's true. The rumors of murder and other violence make him much worse.
He was a bad person.
This post was edited on 2/21/18 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 2/21/18 at 3:01 pm to OweO
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quote:
Put this state on the path to being the shithole it is today
Didn't he improve transportation around the state? building bridges, improved roads, etc? He did do a few good things.
It seems more like the political infrastructure he created laid a foundation that could and would be obviously abused and then perpetuated massive corruption and retarded the state's growth.
He was skilled enough (while still being incredibly corrupt) that he could accomplish a lot while setting up this political infrastructure, but everyone else after him was not and utilized what he built to keep the state poor and under-developed.
It's a mistake that governments, companies, and other organizations have been making for a long time, and it can be terrible in the long-term. Key man-based organizations tend to shite the bed quickly without that man.
Daley Sr. in Chicago and Robert Moses in New York are other good examples, but Louisiana has always had a Caribbean flair to its people and politics, and Long actually reminds me of a tamer version of Papa Doc Duvalier.
This post was edited on 2/21/18 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 2/21/18 at 3:29 pm to danilo
I am distantly related to him. With that said his positives were the free school books and his love for LSU. Every other aspect of his life was communist and strong arming the legislature and people.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 3:33 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
His bridge is useful
Posted on 2/21/18 at 3:34 pm to The Midnight Rider
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He did a lot of good things.
But he also wanted to dismantle big oil and spread the wealth of the upperclass.
We all know how well that goes over in this state
There was no question he was a socialist.. But I am just saying he did have SOME positive impacts on the state... But I guess. What he did.. Would have eventually happened under another governor..
Posted on 2/21/18 at 3:37 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
One shining night in New York.
I know the guy who owns this. He keeps it in his guest bathroom, of course.
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The medal commemorates a social function held at the Sands Point Country Club, on Long Island, New York. Long was preparing to run for president against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 and had been building his campaign on the slogans “Share the Wealth” and “Every man a king, but no one wears a crown”. Long’s rhetoric made him many enemies among the country club set, so his presence at Sands Point was probably not appreciated. As was his habit, Long drank heavily that evening and, when nature called, he went to the men’s room, only the discover that every facility was occupied. The story goes that he relived himself on the shoes and pants leg of the man standing next to him. That man, who has never been identified, took some umbrage and proceeded to punch Long in the face, giving him a black eye that was featured in the anti-Long press for some time. The owner of Colliers Magazine was so pleased with the incident that he began to raise funds to recognize Long’s assailant with a gold medal. The assailant never came forward to claim his medal, so Colliers gave the medal to the American Numismatic Society. In addition to the gold medal, Medallic Art Company struck a few in silver and a larger number in bronze. The galvano pattern of the medal hung in the public men’s room of the Medallic Art Company’s plant for many years.
I know the guy who owns this. He keeps it in his guest bathroom, of course.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:27 pm to TheFonz
quote:My great grandfather named one of his sons after him.
I wonder if my great-grandfathers ever voted for him?
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