"God invited us all to come and eat and drink all we wanted. He smiled on our land and we grew crops of plenty to eat and wear. . . . [But then] Rockefeller, Morgan, and their crowd stepped up and took enough for 120,000,000 people and left only enough for 5,000,000 for all the other 125,000,000 to eat. And so the millions must go hungry and without those good things God gave us unless we call on them to put some of it back."—Huey Long radio broadcast, 1934 In this broadcast, Long opposes the New Deal because he believes that the solution to poverty is a. to return to the days of Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan. b. to create a more powerful federal government. c. to redistribute income that has become concentrated in the hands of the wealthy. d. to allow riches to "trickle down" from the wealthy to the poor.

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