My dear friends, isn’t it time we
paid the price to know your history, and to teach our history to others? History sets one of the
parameters of critical thinking. By controlling the “parameters” our critical
thinking skills are limited. Example: The ball is red, period. That is what
Common Core wants to do with our children. They do not want our children, or
grand children, or you to every say, “who said the ball is red, and who said
red is red, and who said that is a ball, and who said the ball is round?” I
hope you get the picture!That is an article for another day.
Today I would like to talk about the current strategy that is driving today’s overloading
of our systems and the philosophy and strategy behind it.
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty".
Cloward and Piven "proposed to
create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between
welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and
replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish
this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance,
encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already
overburdened bureaucracy."
In papers published in 1971 and 1977 Cloward and Piven were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in the liberal magazine The Nation entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".
The two stated that many Americans
who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare
enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the
state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government,
particularly the Democratic Party. There would also be side consequences of
this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the
plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare
system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party-then splintered
by pluralistic interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority
constituencies by implementing a national "solution" to poverty); and
relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens
of public welfare (through a national "solution" to poverty).
Cloward and Piven's article is
focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the
presidency and both houses of the United States Congress, to take federal
action to help the poor. They stated that full enrollment of those eligible for
welfare "would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and
fiscal disruption in local and state governments" that would: "deepen
existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the
remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing
minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a
national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal
solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and
racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas."
They further wrote:
“The ultimate objective of this
strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be
questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic
mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national
programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.”
Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews,
Cloward and Piven argued that mass unrest in the United States, especially
between 1964 and 1969, did lead to a massive expansion of welfare rolls, though
not to the guaranteed-income program that they had hoped for.[8] Political
scientist Robert Albritton disagreed, writing in 1979 that the data did not
support this thesis; he offered an alternative explanation for the rise in
welfare caseloads.
In his 2006 book Winning the Race, political commentator John McWhorter attributed the rise in the welfare state after the 1960s to the Cloward–Piven strategy, but wrote about it negatively, stating that the strategy "created generations of black people for whom working for a living is an abstraction".
According to historian Robert E. Weir
in 2007: "Although the strategy helped to boost recipient numbers between
1966 and 1975, the revolution its proponents envisioned never transpired. But
my friends it is today.
Some commentators have blamed the Cloward–Piven strategy for the near-bankruptcy of New York City in 1975
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck referred to the Cloward-Piven Strategy often on his Fox News television show, Glenn Beck, during its run from 2009 to 2011, reiterating his opinion that it had helped to inspire President Barack Obama's economic policy. On February 18, 2010, for example, Beck said: "You’ve got total destruction of wealth coming ... It’s the final phase of the Cloward-Piven strategy, which is collapse the system."
Richard Kim, writing in 2010 in The
Nation (in which the original essay appeared), called such assertions "a
reactionary paranoid fantasy ...", but he also pointed out: "The lefts gut reaction upon hearing of it--to laugh it off as a Scooby-Doo comic
mystery--does nothing to blunt its appeal or limit its impact." The Nation
later stated that Beck blames the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" for
"the financial crisis of 2008, health-care reform, Obama's election and
massive voter fraud" and has resulted in the posting of much violent and threatening
rhetoric by users on Beck's web site, including death threats against Frances
Fox Piven. For her part, Piven vigorously continues to defend the original
idea, calling its conservative interpretation "lunatic".
“Who said the ball is red, and who said
red is red, and who said that is a ball, and who said the ball is round”
Please share this history with whomever will listen. We may just be the last generation of critical thinkers. Ask your children “why” often, very often. Above all do your research...
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AMERICA WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!!!
Obama is anti-american! His action record speaks for itself:
He is pro muslim
He wants to bring this country to its knees, and he is succeeding.
Look at all he has done during his presidency.
1. Fired all top generals
2. Reduced the military
3. ++ Contrary to advice from experts, he withdrew from Iraq and Afghanistan paving the way for ISIS.
4. Apologized for America
5. Turned against Israel
6. Created Racial problems, not seen since the 60's.
7. *** Releasing all terrorists from gitmo
8. Traded terrorists for a trader
9. Won't call. Terrorism "Islamic Terrorism"
10. Seen more then once not saluting marines entering or exiting Marine One or Air Force One.
11. Blowing up empty buildings or a pick up truck here and there instead of giving ISIS hell, like our military is more then capable of doing.
12. Fires the defense secretaries when they disagree with him.
13. Refuses to close the border, again against expert advice (and the Will of The American People may I add).
14. Obama care, free college, both meant to bankrupt everyone.
15. Instrumental in turning AMERICA against cops..creating a possible chaotic lawless society in America. (so that he can pronounce Marshall Law, and become Dictator in Chief may I add).
16. No representative in Paris this past weekend, because it was geared toward being anti Islamic Terrorism (which he refuses to utter those words -hahahaha!! ).
Now let's examine his past:
1. His pastor and mentor, as he described him is Pastor Jeremiah Wright, as anti-american as they come.
2. His old pal, Bill Ayers , anti-american and home grown terrorist.
3. Key advisor - Al Sharpton
4. Hippie pot smoker.
5. Foreign aid student from Indonesia.
6. Not a qualified American to even become President.
7. Card carrying member of The Brotherhood.
8. Parents were both members of the Communist party.
9. Never held a 'real'job.
10. Doesn't have a valid legal Social Security number.
11. Lied on Mortgage Application papers.
12. His 'Change' platform is bringing downward Change to America and the World.
Source/References:
Obama’s Cloward-Piven Weapon of Mass Destruction
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
