Use the excerpt from Huey P. Long's "Share Our Wealth" speech, given on March 12, 1935, to answer the question. And they proceed

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Use the excerpt from Huey P. Long's "Share Our Wealth" speech, given on March 12, 1935, to answer the question. And they proceed

ed with the NRA. Everything from a peanut stand to a power house had to have a separate book of rules and laws to regulate what they did. If a peanut stand started to parch a sack of goobers for sale, they had to be careful to go through the rule book. One slip and he went to jail. A little fellow who pressed a pair of pants went to jail because he charged 5 cents under the price set in the rule book. So they wrote their NRA rule book, codes, laws, etc. They got up over 900 of them. One would be as thick as an unabridged dictionary and as confusing as a study of the stars. It would take 40 lawyers to tell a shoe-shine stand how to operate and be certain he didn't go to jail. In 3–5 sentences, analyze Huey Long’s criticism of the New Deal. Cite specific details in the excerpt to support your analysis.

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svet-max [94.6K] · Answer 1 · 2022-04-17T15:55:33+03:00

Huey long is the major critic during the term of President Roosevelt when he advocated a series of polices under New Deal program and the purpose of this program was to combat depression.

Explanation:

Huey long was considered to be a major political threat to President Roosevelt and implementation of his policies.

Huey criticized that his policies simply taxed the rich and it had not done anything worth to the poor. Huey became governor of Louisiana and he intimidated many officials with his aggression and violence. With the help of his intimidation and threat, he succeeded in doing good to the people by laying roads and taking up the projects of huge factory constructions. Huey was also nick named to be the king fish and Roosevelt opined that he is a danger to America. Huey Long sought to violence to do good to the people.

He also allured the people of giving free education a personal home and a car as an election promise to the people which greatly attracted them. In this excerpt, Huey criticizes the National recovery administration(NRA) which is one of the prime policy of New deal programs advocated by Roosevelt to combat Economic depression. the terms of the NRA is so strict that people could not carry out a simple business of a shoe stand in America. This sis the major criticism raised by Huey long against Roosevelt' policies.