Posted on 10/02/2009 6:14:47 PM PDT by khnyny
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder Wade Rathke wants to use the Internet to overthrow the capitalist system.
He said so in his new book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families, in which he serves up some community organizing war stories, and offers his thoughts on the future of organizing. Rathke’s currently on a cross-country book tour.
Rathke, a pioneer of the so-called welfare rights movement that aims to get Americans on welfare, 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. He writes:
“[I]t 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.”
Rathke acknowledges his support for the Cloward-Piven Strategy, an approach to radical social and political change 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.]
The strategy helped to bankrupt New York City in 1975. Years later, the Big Apple’s mayor, Rudy Giuliani, denounced the academic activists by name. “This wasn’t an accident,” Giuliani argued in a 1997 speech. “It wasn’t an atmospheric thing, it wasn’t supernatural. This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare.”
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
we have state welfare departments so why are we giving millions to agencies like acorn....all these issues are for states and charities.
Sounds like they’re wanting to take down America by overwhelming our financial system through welfare and lord knows what else.
Sometimes I view this country as a dog on a leash. The dog can go so far, but then the leash gets pulled. Not entirely a bad thing as long as the entity holding the leash is beneficent.
One very telling statement by Rathke at the end of the interview.
He said something about being lucky to have poor people to push the agenda.
I watched the program and I was infuriated by the fact that people in Congress knew all along what Acorn was about and did nothing.
I saw Dan Rather on Cavuto yesterday, struggling to say he knows what he had on Bush is correct. Where was the media, before the election of Obama, to do some background checking like Dan Rather and many other news organizations did on Bush.
Good Lord, we are in so much trouble.
I had to leave to pick up my daughter before getting to see all of this. Is it scheduled to run again?
Sounds like you grew up about the same time I did. If someone had to accept government help back then it was something to be very embarrassed about, almost shameful. Something people would only whisper about. It was considered so demeaning to be on welfare, to not stand on your own two feet. When did it become okay and acceptable to live on the dole? How can we get back to where people people are ashamed to not take care of themselves? I think a big part of this is the breakup of the traditional family, which was another one of the communist party USA’s goal’s. Lots of women with children not being taken care of by their fathers, so that creates a large group of people who are forced on the dole, which as more and more go on it becomes more accepted, not such a social stigma.
That’s a very insightful comment, imho.
I knew a young lady a long time ago that I worked with, and she told me a story of how she had a son and got welfare for herself and her son, but had to deny that the child’s father was in her life, etc. They had to hide their relationship. She was quite forthright in her story and she herself was an intelligent, attractive African American young lady with loads of potential. She let me know what the system was and how she had to navigate that system.
Exactly. He is a slimy snake, and arrogant, just like this administration....
Yeah...and Rathke says he doesn’t think he’s ever met Obama....uh huh....they keep separated for OBVIOUS reasons....Rathke is a commie thru and thru, and I’m sure a good friend of Ayers, too.
This is the best (most devastating) thing I’ve seen about ACORN to date.
I hope they broadcast this over and over.
I agree. I can’t believe Rathke was stupid enough to do this interview on Fox. I’m trying to understand his thought process, but I can’t quite get there...
He's another hypocrite twisted commie who denounces capitalism while profiting from it. What a sick SOB.
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