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Video Shows ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Plotting America's Downfall
American Spectator ^ | 7.29.09 @ 8:23PM | By Matthew Vadum

Posted on 07/29/2009 7:29:30 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Rathke is a pioneer of the so-called welfare rights movement that aims to get Americans on welfare. He devotes an entire chapter of his book to what he calls "The 'Maximum Eligible Participation' Solution." It is a strategy for orchestrated crisis that savvy leftist groups across America are likely to embrace.

Rathke confirms ... that he is pursuing this strategy that calls for all Americans eligible for welfare payments to pursue every penny the law "entitles" them to. He urges people to "make sure that other people in the community" are actually getting their due from the government.

The Maximum Eligible Participation Solution is just the old Cloward-Piven Strategy in new clothes. The strategy aimed at radical social and political change was articulated by Marxist university professors Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in a 1966 Nation article, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." The two academics called for "a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls" in an effort to overwhelm the system. [Italics in original.]

Rathke writes in his book, "it is hard to believe that we cannot assemble the troops to mount a campaign for maximum eligible participation that harvests the opportunities and dollars already available if we could achieve full utilization of existing programs."

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acorn; agenda; bho44; clowardpivenstrategy; communism; rathke; rico; tas; welfare
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1 posted on 07/29/2009 7:29:30 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I dream of the day when Rathke and his ilk face the wrath of an America made aware.


2 posted on 07/29/2009 7:32:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

this is obmanation’s thoughts exactly.... this is what he also studied.... and believes....


3 posted on 07/29/2009 7:33:11 PM PDT by bareford101 (the obamanation is a COUNTERFEIT with a COUNTERFEIT birth cert. & 39 different ss cards)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Let’s all quit working, and demand welfare benefits; quickest way to put the government out of business.

They couldn’t afford the double whammy of no income, and increased outflow.


4 posted on 07/29/2009 7:33:48 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

He also founded SEIU - the illegal alien union which is really the same org as ACORN.


5 posted on 07/29/2009 7:34:47 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero!)
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To: cripplecreek

I dream of the day it pays me more to go on welfare than to go to work


6 posted on 07/29/2009 7:37:42 PM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

So, waht is the end game here? What does he stand to gain by this? What an evil moron. Another of Odumbo’s friends.


7 posted on 07/29/2009 7:38:07 PM PDT by PLKIng
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To: bamahead

“Rathke confirms ... that he is pursuing this strategy that calls for all Americans eligible for welfare payments to pursue every penny the law “entitles” them to. He urges people to “make sure that other people in the community” are actually getting their due from the government.”

Ping!


8 posted on 07/29/2009 7:38:25 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Let’s all quit working, and demand welfare benefits; quickest way to put the government out of business.

Unfortunately that's part of their plan. Cloward Piven, cause the system to collapse under its own weight.
9 posted on 07/29/2009 7:38:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Rathke must have never read Ayn Rand....


10 posted on 07/29/2009 7:39:14 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Ping!


11 posted on 07/29/2009 7:40:36 PM PDT by basil
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To: musicman

BFLR


12 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:32 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“The two academics called for “a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls” in an effort to overwhelm the system.”

This backs up my theory that the Rats use illegal immigration as another tool to overwhelm and break the healthcare system so the public will let them take it over. Malpratice lawyers using ridiulous tort law are other tools.


13 posted on 07/29/2009 7:43:15 PM PDT by RatRipper (I HATE tax & spend politicians)
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It’s not enough the Left has been stacking one side of the see-saw for decades, but now with Obama in the WH, and control of both houses, they’re effectively moving the fulcrum. When the whole thing tips...it leaves conservatives stuck in the air.


14 posted on 07/29/2009 7:47:31 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Rathke must have never read Ayn Rand....

He read it but was too stoned to understand it.

15 posted on 07/29/2009 7:48:46 PM PDT by fullchroma (I want my country back.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Self ping


16 posted on 07/29/2009 7:54:17 PM PDT by newheart ("It will keep the government out of your health care decisions..." Barack Obama, July 23, 2009)
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17 posted on 07/29/2009 8:13:43 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited

Where is embezzler Rathke now? One of Obummer’s czars perhaps?


18 posted on 07/29/2009 8:16:10 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman

Make sure you go to amazon.com and rate his book 0. There are already praising reviews. “Citizen Wealth”


19 posted on 07/29/2009 8:20:04 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Thank you Mr. Robinson (toodamtall1@yahoo.com))
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To: Ev Reeman

The embezzler was his brother. But IIRC Wade was kicked out of ACORN in conjunction with the embezzlement. Sort of kicked out, that is. Now he organizes for some offshoot of ACORN (there are > 300 of them). The one he’s at specializes in organizing workers overseas. Naturally, he’s the lead organizer.


20 posted on 07/29/2009 8:29:40 PM PDT by freespirited
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