The Cloward-Piven Method:
Professors CLoward and Piven stated that if you enroll everybody eligible for welfare and force government to make good on their promises of welfare for the poor, the crisis created would collapse the economy.
Named after their first proponents, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, and brought into light in
1966, this method intents to force government to live up to their accepted responsibility, by making individuals who otherwise would not request a handout or welfare, all of a sudden, start demanding everything they are “entitled” to.
Published in “The Nation” and under the title “The weight of the Poor: A strategy to end Poverty” it enticed many to see if it would do what it claimed.
On September 27, 1970 Richard Cloward told the New York Times that “the poor can only advance when the rest of society is afraid of them”, that government uses welfare to control the poor, and that by making all that would qualify for welfare demand every bit they were “entitled to”, the ensuing chaos would destroy the system creating riots on the street, and only then, the rest of society “would accept their demands”. This really doesn’t make any sense unless your purpose is not to help the poor, but to destroy capitalism.
This theory of anarchy is based on Saul Alinsky’s method where he said: “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules… when pressed to honor every word of every law and statute…human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to live up to its rule book can then be used to discredit it all together, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.”
These two pseudo social scientist proposed a massive drive to recruit as close as possible to every one entitle to welfare. They called for organizers to use protests, and demonstrations in order to incite violence. They also suggested to use the media, who knowing no better, would air out the plight of the poor eliciting sympathy from uninformed and unsuspecting citizens. The local governments would have to request assistance from the Federal Government.
This manufactured crisis would force change in government procedures, and would destabilize the economy.
What they do not seem to understand, or understand but couldn’t care less, is that the ensuing violence affect the innocent worker who gets up in the morning to go to work and feed his or her family. By destroying facilities, businesses are forced to close, creating unemployment, and terror on the streets.
Cloward hired “George Wiley to lead their movement”. It is said that by 1969, the National Welfare rights Organization created by Wiley had an estimated membership of 22,500 families paying their dues and 523 groups nationwide. So, again, the poor was used by the sneaky ones. 22,500 families paying their dues produced a sizable amount of money at the time, so, by exploiting the ignorant, the leeches became rich. And they have the gall to complaint against capitalism. At least, for the most part, capitalist engage in honest work.
These socialist masterminds for the most part just reap the benefits of fooling the poor.
Because of their strategy, the city of New York was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1975.
In 1996, President Clinton enacted the “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act” to the dismay of those who make their money of organizing people to claim entitlements.
Today, the State of California is in dire need and about to go bankrupt because of the influx of illegal aliens and their emphasis in welfare programs. The nanny state has no inclination to hold citizen’s feet to the fire. So, unless someone wakes up and smells the coffee and realize that the only way to fix their woes is to balance their budget by cutting welfare programs, cracking down on gangs, specially MS 13, the Bloods, and the Creeps, and stop being a refuge to illegal immigrants, they will go under.
Rudy Giuliani exposed these creeps in 1997 when he reformed the welfare system in New York. He clearly realized that it was no accident that his State was bankrupt, and the evidence was their own writings. It seems that they wised up, since they haven’t tip their hand again, but the enemis of our Nation use this underhanded technique without mercy.
Acorn constantly overloads the voting system with fraudulent voting drive campaigns. They register dead people, children, illegals, felonious convicts, and even cartoon characters (they register Mickey Mouse in Florida). The reason is simple, to allow their candidates to be elected. They have been successful beyond their wildest dreams.
Now, their proponents are trying to overload the Health Care system of the United States with 45, 000,000 new patients.
When confronted by Joe Wilson about the veracity of the President’s statement that illegal immigrants would not be covered, days later he said that they wouldn’t, but that they needed to find a way to do it, or fix their citizenship status. They keep saying that this huge white elephant of entitlement program is budget neutral and it would not cost a dime, but the Congressional Budget Office estimates it would cost over $800,000,000,000.00 dollars. When they said that you could keep your own individual plans, they wanted to add a clause fining those who would not join the plan. Bottom line, this messy Health Care business is nothing more than the New Left politicians trying to destroy the American Capitalist system, and for the most part, some who claim to e conservative, are either blind or too dumb to realize that they are being lead by the nose.
The education system is also targeted with the Cloward-Piven system. Don’t belief me? Are not illegal aliens offer in state tuition fees to attend college? Does your son or daughter who is an American citizen gets cheaper in State tuition fees if he or she decides to go to a school in a different state? The answer is NOT NO, BUT HECK NOOOO!
And how about the job market? Another way to weaken the economy of our Nation is by flooding the job market with cheap labor. The influx of cheap labor tears the balance between supply and demand, so now American workers have to charge less for their services. This situation encourages resentment against illegal immigrants and encourages racial discrimination. The liberal’s favorite phrase when talking about illegals getting jobs here is that those are jobs that Americans would not do.
Ralph Emmanuel, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, is a proponent of this method. So is the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. That is not a surprise, since her college thesis was about the Alinsky Method, and Cloward and Piven based their method on Alinsky strategies.
It seems that Cloward-Piven’s strategy is alive and well.
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