The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis [Obama's strategy for destroying the economy]

frontpage.americandaughter.com ^ | August 31, 2008 | Jim Simpson

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Liberals self-righteously wrap themselves in the mantle of public spirit. They ardently promote policies promising to deliver the poor and oppressed from their latest misery — policies which can only find solution in the halls of government. But no matter what issue one examines, over the last fifty plus years, the liberal prescription has almost always been a failure.

Why is this so? Why does virtually every liberal scheme result in ever-increasing public spending while conditions seem to get continually worse? There are a number of reasons:

1. The programs usually create adverse incentives. This is especially true in so-called “anti-poverty” programs. The beneficiaries find government subsidies a replacement for, rather than a supplement to, gainful employment and eventually become incapable of supporting themselves. This in turn creates a dependent culture with its attendant toxic behaviors which demand still more government “remedies.”
2. The programs create their own industry, complete with scads of “think tanks” and “experts” who survive on government research grants. These are the aptly named “Beltway Bandits.”
3. They create their own bureaucracies, whose managers conspire with interested members of Congress to continually increase program funding, regardless of merit.
4. Members of Congress secure votes and campaign donations by extorting them from beneficiaries of such programs, either through veiled threats — “vote for me or those mean Republicans will wipe out your benefits” — or promises of still more bennies.

In short, all develop a vested interest in the program’s survival. But if the result is always more and more government, of government, by government, and for government, with no solution in sight, then why do liberals always see government as the solution rather than the problem?

Similarly, liberals use government to promote legislation that imposes mandates on the private sector to provide further benefits for selected groups. But the results are even more disastrous. For example, weighing the laws or stacking the courts to favor unions may provide short term security or higher pay for unionized labor, but has ultimately resulted in the collapse of entire domestic industries.

Another example is health care. The Dems are always trying to impose backdoor socialized medicine with incremental legislation. Why do you suppose American healthcare is in such crisis? Answer: the government has already become too deeply involved. For example, many hospitals are closing their doors because they are overwhelmed with the burden of caring for indigent patients, illegal immigrants and vagrants who must, by law, be admitted like everyone else, despite the fact that they cannot pay for services. Read about it here — Destroying Our Health Care. The net result is reduced availability of care for everyone, exactly the opposite of what liberals claim to want.

To further complicate things, liberal jurists and lawyers have created new theories of liability that utilize the legal system as a means to further redistribute income. This too, has resulted in higher costs and prices in affected industries, higher insurance costs, or in some cases, complete elimination of products or services.

Liberals’ endless pursuit of “rights” for different groups also does little but create increasing divisions in our society. Liberal policy pits old against young, men against women, ethnic and racial groups against one another, even American citizens against illegal aliens, all in the name of “equality.” The only result is anger, tension and equal misery for all.

How does any of this improve our lot?

Finally, when companies relocate overseas to avoid the high cost of unionized labor and heavy domestic regulation, liberals sarcastically excoriate them for “outsourcing” America. Yet, when it comes to certain domestic industries, liberals in Congress suddenly become free marketers and choose to buy from overseas contractors rather than domestic suppliers. This happened most recently with a huge military contract being outrageously awarded to the heavily subsidized European consortium, AIRBUS, over America’s own Boeing. Since liberals claim to be so determined to “save the American worker,” what gives?

You have to take a step further back and ask some fundamental questions. Why is the liberal public policy record one of such unmitigated disaster? I mean, even the worst batter hits one occasionally. No one bats zero. No one that is, except liberals.

Prior to the Republican takeover in Congress in 1994, Democrats had over fifty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress with substantial majorities most of the time. With all the time and money in the world — trillions spent — they couldn’t fix a single thing, not one. Today’s liberal has the same complaints, and the same old tired solutions. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?

Why?

When things go bad all the time, despite the best efforts of all involved, I suggest to you something else is at work — something deeper, more malevolent.

I submit to you that it is not a mistake, the failure is deliberate!

There is a method to the madness, and the method even has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It was first elucidated in the 1960s by a pair of radical leftist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. …the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” 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.

[Part II of this article will explore those organizations created to implement the Cloward-Piven strategy and their ties to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.]

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The Complete Cloward-Piven Series

The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I — print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II — print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III — print copy
Hate Crimes Legislation — Back Door Censorship

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This article just predates the Obama presidency but it's a critical read for a better understanding of what is happening with the economy today. A lot of people don't believe Obama is INTENTIONALLY out to destroy it.

Also see (from David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org) ...

[The] CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS):

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522

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Cloward, Piven and the Fundamental Transformation of America

Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Glenn Beck

Meet Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven,
authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy

"I'm going to give you a hard concept to get your arms around: It's the concept that there are people in this country who want to intentionally collapse our economic system."-Glenn Beck

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582097,00.html

Cloward, Piven and the Fundamental Transformation of America

Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Glenn Beck

Meet Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven,
authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy

"I'm going to give you a hard concept to get your arms around: It's the concept that there are people in this country who want to intentionally collapse our economic system."-Glenn Beck

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582097,00.html

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"If you love me, you'll help me pass this bill"

[silverleaf]

“and if not, I will just issue it as an executive order”

[Lionheartusa1]

” IF YOU LOVE ME ,,, HELP ME DESTROY THIS COUNTRY “

[humblegunner]

Are you aware that you posted this same thread yesterday?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2780145/posts

[vanilla swirl]

Keep fer later

[SMARTY]

Everytime I see this photo I think of il Duce

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Yesterday was Sunday. Different group of freepers today. This is a piece that needs to be widely read.

[COUNTrecount]

Thanks for posting.

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You’re welcome.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good riddance to both.

[humblegunner]

Will you be posting it tomorrow as well?
Or this afternoon? Just curious.

[MrB]

We have to get past people’s

“oh don’t be ridiculous”

shield when planting the seed of truth about the fact that 0bama and the left are intentionally trying to destroy capitalism.

[dps.inspect]

It all starts with the big lie... "there is no God". God has designed all things and as such, all things have their God designed mode of function. It is the same for the human spirit, it is incomplete without its maker. Those who deny their maker deny reality. They try to create their own reality, they imagine vain things, they breathe their own lives into their vanities, they turn reality on its head...

"Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... John Lennon

There is a segment of society who live by these lyrics, they seek to make a world in their own image, and in so doing, they become the tyrants, the exact opposite of the fairy tail they imagine.

Reality is a strange thing though, it has this built in mechanism that rights itself, when enough reality based minds stand to defeat the apparatchiks of vanity.

[Bluebird Singing]

Thanks for posting this again, since I missed it yesterday. I am bookmarking this so I can send it to several others.

I found out yesterday that my long time Democrat cousin despises Obama and what he’s doing to the USA. I think a lot of people are seeing the light.

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Curious or just being a pain in the ass as usual?

[humblegunner]

Bit of both.

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[Iron Munro]

With all the information being generated on the Cloward-Piven Strategy and the clear reliance of Obama supporters on the strategy why is there almost no curiosity about the out-of-the-blue September Surprise in the fall of 2008?

Remember the one where George Bush got his 3 AM call by Paulson and Bernanke that they had to have approval to spend hundreds of billions of dollars or the Empire would crumble? And we weren't supposed to ask what they were doing with it?

That is the crisis that got Obama elected, that led to TARP, that led to Stimulus 1 and that led to the largest deficits and national debt we have ever seen.

How can anyone other than the most brainwashed Obamabot believe that wasn't a manufactured crisis to get Obama elected and to create huge slush funds to finance his wealth redistribution schemes?

Paulson, Bernanke and Obama should be in federal prison today.

2008 Market Crash Should be Investigated

On Thursday at about 11 o’clock in the morning the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened up its window to help. It pumped $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide; we were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic out there.”

The $550 Billion withdrawn in an hour or two that Rep. Kanjorski refers to in his statement has never been independently confirmed or refuted.

In mid-September, John McCain was ahead of Barack Obama in some polls by about 3 percent. By Oct. 10, the S&P 500 Index had lost 25% of its value from what it had been a month before. The crash was a major calamity for the McCain Campaign. And now, with Obama in the White House, it has become a calamity for us all.