Huey Long criticizes the New Deal by highlighting its excessive regulations, claiming that even small businesses like peanut stands face overwhelming rules that could lead to imprisonment for minor mistakes. He illustrates this with examples, such as a pants presser going to jail for charging a price deemed too low, suggesting that the sheer volume and complexity of regulations trap ordinary people rather than help them.
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 2 sentences, analyze Huey Long's criticism of the New Deal. Cite specific details in the except to support your analysis.
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Make this VERY VERY VERY simplified
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