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The Cloward-Piven Trigger

November 18th, 2009

Today, I am flying the Union Jack, a flag I fly when Liberty is Threatened. We need to look closer at current events and its relationship to this strategy. (This is a heads up!)

American Thinker: Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up. (Read it all here).

Cloward-Piven

Cloward and Piven

The 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. The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:

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.

Manufacturing the Crisis: Make people dependent upon something, then take it away … causing the crisis.

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.”

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.”

They create their own bureaucracies, whose managers conspire with interested members of Congress to continually increase program funding, regardless of merit.

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.

NOT!

We have already seen it happen! The Financial Crisis we just experienced was a good “lesson” that the Cloward-Piven strategy is uppermost in the planning of this administration. Look into what “caused” the crisis, and you won’t find George Bush playing with the money … somebody else was (see Community ReInvestment Act) … and the timing was perfect. Although the “crisis” was manufactured back in Carter’s time and perfected under Clinton, the “trigger” was pulled as Obama approached the Oval Office. Obama then became the “solution” to the crisis.

Later, in office, the the were able to use the “crisis severity” of the economic “meltdown” (their word not mine) and immediately (and I mean within days/weeks) take over the banking and auto industries. But as they “benevolently” stepped in to “save” the banking and automotive industry … they gained control of them. So much control that today the government can set the pay for a banking executive and determine that only “green” cars will be produced in the future … again to “save the planet.” It starts with a crisis … MANUFACTURED … then the pull the trigger and act to save us from the very crisis they created. This is the methodology of the Cloward-Piven strategy. And it is being implemented as you read this blog. They would have us believe all this is an accident … but it is part of a well-planned takeover of Capitalism by Socialism.

Coined by Paul Romer (Stamford) and repeated by Eric Holder and others:

“A Crisis is a terrible thing to waste”

Hillary Clinton: “Never waste a good crisis,” Clinton told a hearing at the European Parliament. “And when it comes to the economic crisis, don’t waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.” … “This is a propitious time … we can actually begin to demonstrate our willingness to confront this. We are making up the best we can for lost time,” she added.

The Bottom Line

There are TWO noises you will hear as the trigger is pulled … (“click and click“)

1. THERE IS A CRISIS … There is a “Health Care Crisis” … really? There’s a Swine Flu Crisis … really? There’s a possible gun crisis (Ft Hood) … really? If this economy continues to run into the ground, there will be a crisis … and when people take to the streets in anger … the trigger will be pulled … the government will “step in” to protect us. confiscating our guns and our protest posters to make sure we don’t hurt anyone. And we will be left “safely” in the hands of socialism and subservient to the state. But first, we need a (manufactured) crisis.

2. WE MUST HASTEN TO FIX IT … Any time you see something must be fixed “immediately” … beware! This is in an attempt to get the dumb masses to panic on emotion rather than logic. “We must pass the health care bill immediately” …and thank God we didn’t … we read it, we dissected it, and we found it to be a disaster having little to do with health care and a great deal to do with the government trying to take over one sixth of the economy.

Townhall.com Cartoon by Lisa Benson

The [NEXT] Jobs Crisis: Look at the next crisis that is being presented to you. This is the “jobs” crisis.” The government already took away the jobs by initializing fake stimulus packages that did not create, but destroyed jobs … rather than cutting taxes so businesses would hire more people! Now Obama is about to have a “Job’s Summit” … to solve the problem. This government, by purposely NOT following what is historically successful for such a crises, has caused a 10.2% unemployment rate, (a manufactured a crisis, since it could have been avoided) and now they are proposing to “save us” from it

Just look at who is stating that any “next ciris” is real, who is transmitting the signal and who has to gain. And if you are the willing victim of this purported crisis, then the Cloward-Piven trigger is about to be pulled.

From AP: BEIJING — President Barack Obama [WHO] says creating jobs isn’t the goal of a coming White House forum on jobs and economic growth. The president told NBC News [WHO] on Wednesday that the purpose of the Dec. 3 summit is to figure out how to encourage hiring by businesses still reluctant to do so.

The U.S. unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent last month, the highest in decades. Before departing on his trip through Asia, Obama said the high jobless rate is one of the biggest challenges for an economy that has begun to show signs of recovery. Obama told NBC that the forum will give him and other administration officials a chance to talk to CEOs, small-business owners and other experts to find out what’s going on. [Geez, they don't have a clue!]

The Jobs Summit, now isn’t. This will not be a “jobs summit” as was first proposed, now it becomes a summit “to figure out how to encourage hiring by businesses still reluctant to do so.” Does this sound just slightly ominous to you? Want to watch some “Chicago politics” up close? Get a ring-side seat for this one and you’ll get your chance. You are going to see businesses forced to hire people. And YOU will pay their salaries! (Example: Give businesses a $3000 a year one time tax break for hiring a person that would cost a business $10,000 in training to hire.) And when business do not follow the plan (for valid “Business 101″ reasons), the government will find a way to punish them. All this so this administration can shift the blame of unemployment from their failed policies to the businesses who refuse to comply with the [soon to be proposed] government mandates. Watch and and you’ll see how it works.

THE STRATEGY OF CLOWARD-PIVEN

Manufacture a crisis

Put guidelines in place to make people safe from the crisis

Pull away the safety features and allow it to fail (“click”)

Chaos results and the Government must step in to “solve” the problem (“click”)

(“BANG”)

Capitalism dies, Socialism takes over … its not an accident … its a PLAN!