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This is the kind of answer you get from someone who has no idea what Cloward-Piven is, so they pop out the stock answer "Bush Did It" without regard as to how silly it is.
From the American Thinker on the Cloward-Piven Strategy:
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
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The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis
In an earlier post, I noted the liberal record of unmitigated legislative disasters, the latest of which is now being played out in the financial markets before our eyes. Before the 1994 Republican takeover, Democrats had sixty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress - with substantial majorities most of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?
Why?
One of two things must be true. Either the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly carry on anyway because they somehow benefit.
I submit to you they understand the consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent - the failure is deliberate. Don't laugh. This method not only has its proponents, it has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It describes their agenda, tactics, and long-term strategy.
The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
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Overwhelming the system to facilitate the takeover of it.
Top down-Bottom up.
Damn fine post. Damn fine reply.
Well worth getting more up-to-speed on.
Am I wrong to believe that there is a pretty solid, relatively easy-to-handle response to the Cloward-Piven plot?
Here is a little more reading to get up to 'speed'...(An op-ed), but makes you reflect one what's been happening...
As to a response? Easy. Inform others. Help to make them aware of the manipulation, get people involved. Vote those responsible or those perpetuating the scam out of office. Take back thier liberty.
In any case? Here is the Op-Ed:
CHANDLER: The Cloward-Piven strategy <Washingtom Times
In an example? New Yorkers that were alive at the time will remember this scenario...(I was very young but do rememkber the 'bail out' talked about in the news, albiet I didn't understand it nor could care less at the time):
A 1969 Housing and Property seminar, hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies, for example, treated Capitol Hill denizens to mind-stretching leftism. Bringing together speakers from big-city tenants councils, neighborhood legal services, FHA insurance, savings-and-loans entities, and the Shannon and Luchs Realty Company, the Institute for Policy Studies plinked the first domino that led to the current crisis.
At about the same time that the Institute for Policy Studies was holding the 1969 Housing and Property seminars, it was also conducting Experimental Education seminars in January-April 1969, for federal legislators and their aides that included Bill Ayers, an Obama confidant and Weatherman terrorist, as a guest speaker. According to the Senate Subcommittee on Investigation, 4,330 bombings occurred in the United States, about nine a day, from January 1969 to April 1970.
The socialist test case for using societys poor and disadvantaged people as sacrificial shock troops, in accordance with the Cloward-Piven strategy, was demonstrated in 1975, when new prospective welfare recipients flooded New York City with payment demands, bankrupting the government. As a consequence, New York state also teetered on the edge of financial collapse when the federal government stepped in with a bailout rescue.
There are more perspectives in the Op-Ed as it relates to Obama and the current housing crisis we find ourselves in and where it stemmed with Government intrusion into the banking system, and toxic mortages.
I think you'll find it interesting based upon what we know at this point.