Use the excerpt from Huey P. Long's "Share Our Wealth" speech, given on March 12, 1935, to answer the question. And they proceeded 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.
Huey Long criticizes the New Deal's regulations, specifically the National Recovery Administration (NRA), for burdening small businesses with excessive rules and laws. He highlights examples of individuals being sent to jail for minor violations, such as a peanut stand holder parching goobers or a pants presser charging slightly below the set price. Long suggests that the NRA's extensive rule book, consisting of over 900 codes and laws, was overly complex and confusing, requiring significant legal expertise for businesses to operate without risking imprisonment. This critique reflects Long's belief that the New Deal's policies were overly bureaucratic and detrimental to small business owners.
