Dems: WHERE'S OUR HUEY P. LONG?: Palast:

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BUSH STRAFES NEW ORLEANS
WHERE IS OUR HUEY LONG?
by Greg Palast

Friday, September 2, 2005
".....In 1927, a Republican President had his
photo taken as the Mississippi rolled over New Orleans. Calvin Coolidge,
"a little fat man with a notebook in his hand," promised to rebuild
the state. He didn't. Instead, he left to play golf with Ken Lay or the Ken
Lay railroad baron equivalent of his day.

In 1927, the Democratic Party had died and was awaiting burial. As depression
approached, the coma-Dems, like Franklin Roosevelt, called for balancing the
budget.

Then, as the waters rose, one politician finally said, roughly, "Screw
this! They're lying! The President's lying! The rich fat cats that are
drowning you will do it again and again and again. They lead you into
imperialist wars for profit, they take away your schools and your hope and when
you complain, they blame Blacks and Jews and immigrants. Then they push your
kids under. I say, Kick'm in the ass and take your rightful share!"

Huey Long laid out a plan: a progressive income tax, real money for education,
public works to rebuild Louisiana and America, an end to wars for empire, and an
end to financial oligarchy. The waters receded, the anger did not, and Huey
"Kingfish" Long was elected Governor of Louisiana in 1928.

At the time, Louisiana schools were free, but not the textbooks. Governor Long
taxed Big Oil to pay for the books. Rockefeller's oil companies refused pay the
textbook tax, so Long ordered the National Guard to seize Standard Oil's fields
in the Delta....."