The cloward-piven strategy

[P@triot]

Obama’s goal is not to “save” the U.S. economy, it is to transform the economy from capitalism to Nanny State socialism, the system that has bankrupted Europe. His ambition is not to save you or me. It is to save his favored voting groups—big business, the poor, the unions—those who are willingly dependent on big government. To curry their favor Obama needs to keep the entitlements and bailouts coming. So he needs gigantic new sources of revenue—that is, taxes. That’s what Obama has to do in this second term: find ways to tax us to death to pay the bills for Obama’s hugely expanded government.

Obama is not interested in debt reduction. Quite the opposite, his plan is to increase the debt... both to reward and bribe his voters and to destroy capitalism. The exploding debt creates a fiscal emergency—a debt crisis. It’s only during times of fear and panic, under the guise of a national emergency, that wealth redistribution and confiscation get passed. Don’t believe me? Obama promised to cut the deficit in half.2 Instead, he increased the debt by 50 percent.3 Coincidence? This strategy to overwhelm the system with crisis and debt is a well-planned, conscious, purposeful strategy by Obama. Does that sound like a crazy conspiracy theory to you? It’s actually something Obama learned in college. I should know. I was Obama’s classmate at Columbia University in the class of’83.

The strategy Obama is implementing today was originally devised by two Columbia University professors, the husband-and-wife team of Richard Cloward and Frances Piven. Anyone who majored in political science at Columbia University in the years we were both there would have been exposed to this Cloward-Piven plan. It was discussed in class, among students outside class, and at political meetings. It was literally impossible to avoid. It was part of the Columbia political science experience. The students I met were all proud that it was two Columbia professors who had created this plan.

The Cloward-Piven plan is brutal in its simplicity: to kill capitalism by overwhelming the U.S. economic system with debt and dependency.4 And look around! It’s happening just as they, and Obama, planned.

Excerpt From: Wayne Allyn Root. “The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide.” Regnery Publishing, 2013-03-26. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ultimate-obama-survival-guide/id601965000?mt=11

 

[Clementine]

Oh yea, the liberal playbook is nothing more than a compilation of the Cloward-Piven strategy and Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

Obama never said he wanted to fix the country's problems. He said he wants to fundamentally transform the country. Those who just wait for their EBT cards to be refilled each month or anticipate the next big freebie don't possess the intelligence to distinguish between a transformation and a restoration and they likely don't care.

Some, like the communist and socialist groups across the country, are cheering this on. They know the bullshit the people are being told and they defend it because they want Obama to transform the country. They know people would reject it if the administration were honest about it's intentions. They know they must lie in order to keep people from rising up against this. They have been doing this transformation, a little at a time, for years and all under the ruse that it's for the greater good. Dissenters are called anything from racist to greedy and painted as extremists who don't care about people. The rule is that all who oppose must be ridiculed to discourage others from joining them and speaking out. It's effective, unfortunately.

It's all in the plan. Every single thing Obama has said and done is straight from the play book. Many, and I believe it is more than half, would be dead set against this transformation. Others are either communists who dream of American capitalism being destroyed or complete idiots who never learned about history and are clueless about how these transformations always end.

 

[whitehall]

The thing of it is when the media becomes an arm of the revolution we are in deep doo-doo even in the freest Nation in the world. The truth becomes harder to find and the video game generation becomes zombies of the state. Obama told us that he would "wean America off fossil fuel' but there is no substitute for fossil fuel and while energy costs skyrocket the cost of everything goes up and small businesses fail. The Mid East is in turmoil and there is absolutely no leadership offered by the president who has become a caricature jetting to friendly fund raisers.

 

[P@triot]

Then there’s the deficit, and the national debt. Remember when Obama promised that healthcare reform was going to “bend the cost curve” downward?(19) Of course in reality, Obamacare won’t save money. It isn’t even “deficit neutral”—it’s going to add more than a trillion dollars in deficit spending in the next decade. That’s on top of Obamacare’s half a trillion dollars in new taxes.(20) And Obamacare is just one example of the runaway deficit spending that is causing our national debt to skyrocket under Obama. He has put the debt on a course to double.(21) Why would Obama want to double our debt? He needs the debt to explode in order to create a crisis, giving him an excuse to raise yet more taxes. Higher taxes give Obama more revenues to redistribute to his voters, while also making the baseline for government spending bigger forever.

For decades to come (long after Obama is gone), taxes will need to be increased just to pay the exploding interest on the debt. This is how you hook people on dependency. This is how you enslave future generations. This is how you win the debate, decide the conversation, and explode “the size of government—all in one.

As a bonus, it’s also how Obama starves his political opposition. Democrats call the GOP “the party of the rich.”(22) Why do you think every tax increase is aimed at “the rich”? It’s part of the plan. Where will “the rich” and the business owners get the money to contribute to Republican candidates and conservative causes, if they’re taxed to death? The answer is, they won’t. Brilliant.”

Excerpt From: Wayne Allyn Root. “The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide.” Regnery Publishing, 2013-03-26. iBooks.
This material may be protected by copyright.

Check out this book on the iBookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ultimate-obama-survival-guide/id601965000?mt=11

 

[TemplarKormac]

Thomas Sowell owned Piven in 1980, we'll need someone like him to defeat it again.

 

[AquaAthena]

Thomas Sowell owned Piven in 1980, we'll need someone like him to defeat it again.

The great educated thinker, Thomas Sowell, challenges Francis Piven, a socialist.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26QxO49Ycx0]Thomas Sowell Dismantles Egalitarianism (Frances Fox Piven Edition) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[TemplarKormac]

Thomas Sowell owned Piven in 1980, we'll need someone like him to defeat it again.

The great educated thinker, Thomas Sowell, challenges Francis Piven, a socialist.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26QxO49Ycx0]Thomas Sowell Dismantles Egalitarianism (Frances Fox Piven Edition) - YouTube[/ame]

I could watch that video over and over and over again. Never ever have I seen such pure and utter destruction of an argument before in my live. Ever.

 

[Katzndogz]

Thomas Sowell is a conservative black man. That means he is to be savaged.

 

[American_Jihad]

I think certain factors in this country want to hurt/change the lives of religious, white, conservatives, law abiding citizens regardless what it does to the country. Rip it down and start over, that's their motto. I think/hope they might have a big surprise coming...

Is The Cloward-Piven Strategy Being Used To Destroy America?
Thursday, 03 July 2014
Brandon Smith

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At Columbia University, sociologist professors Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven introduced a political strategy in 1966 in an article entitled 'The Weight Of The Poor: A Strategy To End Poverty'. This article outlined a plan that they believed would eventually lead to the total transmutation of America into a full-fledged centralized welfare state (in other words, a collectivist enclave). The spearpoint of the Cloward-Piven strategy involved nothing less than economic sabotage against the U.S.

Theoretically, according to the doctrine, a condition of overwhelming tension and strain could be engineered through the overloading of American welfare rolls, thereby smothering the entitlement program structure at the state and local level. The implosion of welfare benefits would facilitate a massive spike in poverty and desperation, creating a financial crisis that would lead to an even greater cycle of demand for a fully socialized system. This desperation would then “force” the federal government to concentrate all welfare programs under one roof, nationalize and enforce a socialist ideology, and ultimately, compact an immense level of power into the hands of a select few.

Cloward and Piven claimed that this could be accomplished at a grassroots level through community activism, and, that it would facilitate a more compassionate federal authority, however, there are numerous problems with these assertions.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy has nothing to do with grassroots activism, and accomplishes nothing tangible for the downtrodden poverty class. In fact, I would dare to say that Cloward and Piven as well as most social engineers are well aware that the concept ultimately only serves to give even more dominance to the establishment and pilfer even more freedom from the masses.

Cloward-Piven is not limited to the destabilization of state and local welfare programs. It can easily be used against federal level entitlements, and in reality, is much more effective against an entity with the proven tendency towards exponential debt spending. Though the federal government may be able to borrow fiat dollars through the Federal Reserve to prolong welfare rolls while the states cannot, a more volatile threat arises when debt monetization begins to wear down the purchasing power of the currency. Weakened purchasing power results in reduced consumer activity, less industrial growth, less GDP, and obviously, more poverty. The dollar has lost approximately 75% of its purchasing power since 1972, and 98% after the founding ot the Federal Reserve in 1913, and after 50 years of the so-called “War on Poverty”, nearly one third of the American population now repeatedly slips under the official poverty line.

In the past decade alone, the number of people dependent on food stamps and EBT for their survival in the U.S. has doubled from 25 million people to nearly 50 million people. Those who receive some kind of payment from the government, including those on social security, disability, and veterans benefits, are approximately 100 million. Americans on social security do not consider themselves welfare recipients because they paid into the system, however, the point remains that if the federal money tap shuts down due to overwhelming participation, the checks will stop whether you paid into the system or not.

In the end, it is the Federal Government itself that is most vulnerable to the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and I believe the goal is to set fire to ALL social structures in the U.S., then assimilate them into a new globalist system.

The tactic of overwhelming the welfare structure REQUIRES the complicity of the government itself. A grassroots activist movement cannot and will never compel federal and state governments to expand welfare initiatives if they do not wish to. If welfare programs are not expanded beyond their capacity to be maintained, they cannot be overwhelmed. Therefore, government must cooperate with the Cloward-Piven Strategy by generating more and more welfare programs to be exploited. That is to say, the elitists who control our government, regardless of their claimed political party, must WANT to arrange circumstances to allow for Cloward-Piven to be successful.

Another key component of Cloward-Piven is the existence of an immense number of poverty stricken people. Without a significant portion of the population under the poverty level, there is no mass of people to use as a weapon. Again, grassroots activists would be hard pressed to actually create the kind of poverty levels they would need for exploitation. But wait! Government, along with the aid or direction of central bankers, is able to create any level of poverty it wishes at any time by simply pretending to bungle everything it does. Once again, Cloward-Piven (much like Saul Alinsky's repertoire of propaganda scams) is far more useful to the power elite than it is to the common citizen. As former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, famously said:

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before...”

In light of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which is at its very core a method to artificially induce crisis, the otherwise insane policy actions of the Obama Administration and preceding puppet presidents now become perfectly logical. Obama, after all, has been a long time proponent of the methods of Saul Alinsky, the left wing gatekeeper equivalent to Neo-Con godfather Leo Strauss. Cloward and Piven were also both avid followers of Alinsky, who promoted lies, misdirection, subversion, and abandonment of conscience in order to win social power at any cost (special note – Alinsky also dedicated his book 'Rules For Radicals' to Lucifer...yeah, to the friggin' devil).

Under Obama's watch alone, our real national debt including unfunded liabilities and entitlements has risen to nearly $200 trillion. Our “official” national debt has gone from $10 trillion to $17 trillion in the short time Obama has been in office. Real unemployment including U-6 measurements stands at around 20% of all Americans. Personal wealth and savings have plummeted. Wages remain in stasis while prices on necessary goods continue to rise.

In my articles 'The Socialization Of America Is Economically Impossible' and 'Obamacare: Is It A Divide-And-Conquer Distraction?', I examined much evidence suggesting that Obamacare was actually designed to fail, and that the bumbling of the Obama White House when dealing with the program was purely deliberate. When coupled with Obama's handling of the current illegal immigration conflict, I would say that the Cloward-Piven Strategy is in full force.

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The tactic can only decrease wealth security by making all citizens equally destitute. As we have seen in numerous socialist and communist experiments over the past century, economic harmonization never creates wealth or prosperity, it only siphons wealth from one area and redistributes it to others, evaporating much of it as it is squeezed through the grinding gears of the establishment machine. Socialism, in its very essence, elevates government to the role of all-pervasive parent, and casts the citizenry down into the role of dependent sniveling infant. Even in its most righteous form, Cloward-Piven seeks to make infants of us all, whether we like it or not.

Is The Cloward-Piven Strategy Being Used To Destroy America?

The progressive liberal socialist commies will tell you it's B/S, but google Cloward-Piven Strategy and learn...