HEALTH REFORM BY CLOWARD AND PIVEN

The Cypress Times ^ | 5/24/10 | Richard Amerling, MD

[Patriot1259]

Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were Columbia University sociologists who founded, in 1966, the National Welfare Reform Organization, a “parent organization” of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). They advocated what became known as the “Cloward-Piven strategy,” which “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.” This is an instructive prism through which to view the recent health care legislation.

[albie]

Are Clown and Pricken still alive?

[US Navy Vet]

Glenn Back has this subject covered in deep depth.

[gundog]

She is...he died in 2001. Google to find out which is which...as you could have Googled this question.

[chopperman]

Were they still teaching at Columbia when Obama went through there? He behaves like he has been implementing everything they taught.

[April Lexington]

What if the voters just elect politicians who are radically inclined to de-fund and eliminate these programs and then round up Cloward, Pivens and their buddies? Revolution is a two way street, Mr. Cloward. I suggest he re-read A Tale of Two Cities...

[April Lexington]

There are a number of Old European Universities that no longer exist because they were destroyed during revolution and social upheaval. If the poop hits the fan, Columbia may be in trouble...