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What is Long referring to when he talks about this land
flowing with milk and honey"?
Read from Huey Long's speech to the US Senate.
There is nothing wrong with the United States. We have
more food than we can eat. We have more clothes and
things out of which to make clothes than we can wear. We
have more houses and lands than the whole 120 million
can use if they all had good homes. So what is the
trouble? Nothing except that a handful of men have
everything and the balance of the people have nothing if
their debts were paid. There should be every man a king
in this land flowing with milk and honey instead of the
lords of finance at the top and slaves and peasants at the
bottom.
-Huey Long,
February 5, 1934
O a nation where most of the wealth is controlled by
only a few people
O a Louisiana that has a large agricultural yield and
food for all
O an America where there is more than enough for
everyone
O a simpler time when everyone's needs were met
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