The Second Bill of Rights
ECONOMIC SABOTAGE Part 1
Obama's Economic Sabotage Part 1-Of-2 01-05-10
ECONOMIC SABOTAGE Part 2
Obama's Economic Sabotage Part 2-Of-2 01-05-10
WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING?
THE CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY:- LEARN WHAT THIS IS!
Their plan is to overburden our welfare state which will result in an economic collapse. After the collapse, then that is when they will fundamentally transform America, just like Obama promised to do during the campaign.
So now that the jig is up, what are we going to do about it? Just knowing that the jig is up is not enough, action must be taken, or the jig will come true, they will transform us.
I have a plan. You can either get your guns and kill everyone of them, or, as an alternative, you can vote. But even more importantly than you voting, is getting others to vote, getting conservatives like you to vote. In my State we are divided politically. The left half of my State is liberal, while the right side is very conservative. We have a liberal Senator up for election in 2010. What we need to do is to get every single conservative in the right half of the State to vote for the conservative. We need to pound the pavement. We need to take action.
We must not tire of the fight, we must keep it up. I personally know that it is hard to do, especially when you are busy working, sometimes even two jobs. But fight on we must, for if we do not, then who will, and if no one will, then all will be lost in time, and there will only by us to blame.
jbranstetter04
Cloward-Piven Strategy
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, 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.
Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.
In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.
The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces for major economic reform at the national level."
Their article called for "cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy." Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of "a federal program of income redistribution," in the form of a guaranteed living income for all -- working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.