Let me begin with the first part. The Cloward-Piven Strategy was developed by Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, two professors from City University of New York. The strategy involves overwhelming the welfare system to effect social change. The idea is to attract as many people as they can to apply for welfare, and subsequently overwhelm the provisions of the welfare program to societal collapses. The outcome would be to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the system with unattainable demands by the recipients of the welfare system. The idea behind is comes from none other than Saul Alinsky, who asks his believers to "make the enemy live up to their own book of rules" (welfare program). The left idea of using the rules set by law against the "system" to break it down. This sounds frightening compared to what is happening today. Mr. Obama wants more people to be eligible for welfare. Why would he want that? To help them out? Considering this strategy, I think not.

Who is Richard Andrew Cloward? Well he was a socialiologist and activist who taught at Columbia University School of Social Work. He was known for influencing social policy through grassroots efforts with the poor. He also wrote various books regarding social reform. He was also the founder of HUMAN SERVE (Human Service Employees Registration and Voters Education)group. This group was instrumental in getting National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter Act)of 1993 by Bill Clinton. Mr. Cloward and his wife were guests of Mr.Clinton for this ceremony.

Who is Frances Fox Piven? Frances is a professor of Sociology and Political Science at City University of New York. She, like Cloward, was very involved with the poor and their rights to vote and get involved with politics. She co-founded Human SERVE and helped develop the Motor Voter Act.

So, how did they get from professor's helping the poor to a strategy to overthrow capitalism and cause a revolt through militant activities such as taking over welfare offices? They enlisted a militant black activist, George Wiley. George Wiley hired foot soldiers to storm welfare offices demanding what the welfare system owed them. Apparently, not in a peaceful way.

George Wiley created the predecessor of ACORN: the National Welfare Reform Organization. Mr. Wiley was the mentor of Wade Rathke, the creator of ACORN, and was also part of The Shadow Party, which was founded by George Soros and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Shadow Party is a group of nonprofit companies and activists that promote liberal ideologies.

So? Relevance? George Wiley used "thuggish" methods to storm welfare offices in order to get as many benefits from the program as they could. So, from Cloward-Pevin to George Wiley to NWRO to Wade Rathke to ACORN to Mr. Obama's use of ACORN to help him get elected. By fraud? No, but by intimidation.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

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It would probably surprise you how many people think that socialism is dead and by relation communism is dead. Here are a few organizations that might surprise you:

Marxist.org
cpusa.org
Socialist Party of America
Socialist Labor Party of America
Socialistpart-usa.org
Vote-socialist.org
Groups.yahoo.com/groups/nsmamerica
Spmichigan.org

Only, like, 6 socialists? If each of these groups has ONE member, there are at least 8! Even our current president used to be a member of the New Party in Illinois (1). Although it is now defunct, the history of the New Party was described as socialist democratic (2).

The younger generation of today has either been misinformed or not informed about people like Mussolini, Hitler, and other ruthless rulers that have tried to take over countries, some succeeding but defeated in the end. The younger generations do not know or remember the atrocities committed toward innocent people. With our politically correct environment, innocent is relative to who you are (holocaust deniers).

Hundreds of United States soldiers died to keep these socialist leaders at bay, to keep the world safe. There are those who would say Hitler did a good thing or Hitler was misunderstood. Everyone is good, but it is their environment that caused them to do evil things. That debate has been around for a long time. In the end, our politically correct environment justifies all murder, including abortion.

People do not seem to remember the deaths that seen by their grandfathers/mothers or great-grandfathers/mothers were real people and died for a cause. There are arguments whether FDR did a good thing or bad thing by growing government. The war is what saved the country. The war made people come together and work together to save their world and their country. Working together in a bipartisan way is the answer to saving our country now.

So many people are uninformed or misinformed and cannot believe that socialism could actually happen. Now, there are so many reports about what companies have to do in order to take part in the bailout money. A lot of the requirements are giving the government power over the businesses (control of the means of production). There was also a story I read saying that newspapers are looking for a bailout. The government again would have requirements of what the newspapers do (state controlled media).

We are quickly sliding into a socialist country, beginning with Medicare and Social Security. One person said that as long as children have medical coverage, they wouldn’t care if the country is socialist. This is the uninformed or misinformed attitude that permeates our culture today.

We need to keep our eyes open and educate ourselves on socialism and communism. The political ideas are still alive and wanting to take over. The people during the Revolutionary War fought and died to break away from England. 200 plus years later, Europe is our ideal continent?

Some in the federal government do not represent us anymore. They represent their lobbyists and their friends. We, the people, their bosses, need to be represented, and representation should not include taking federal tax payer money and giving it to a particular state (pork) for a rail system. Why would I want my federal tax money to go to a rail system I won’t even use?

1. http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-file-4-obama-was-endorsed-by-far.html
2. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913

Enjoy.

The last two Presidents have made use of this tool and it works.

President Bush used it to get the debate on the first TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). Bailout over with and a vote cast before 'it was too late'. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said this 'must' get passed or the economy will face complete ruin. We simply cannot wait or it will be too late. After a quick recess for 2 days, they then voted and the TARP bill passed.

President Obama (President Elect, at the time) said on many occasions that 'this is the worst economy since the great depression' and 'something must be done now', just like the President before him. Now that he is the President, this continues as he goes back on the campaign trail selling his 'Economic Stimulus Package' to the masses. Once again in both Indiana (a town devastated by the loss of the RV industry, yet he fails to state which party was the main cause of that) and Florida, we hear President Obama talking down the economy and instilling fear into the masses that if this bill is not passed we could face economic ruin.

Nancy Pelosi again adds to the fray by stating that every month this bill does not pass 500 million Americans will face unemployment. The fact there are only about 300 million Americans on the planet doesn't seem to bother her, though. The key here is that since Timothy Geithner announced his TARP II, the stock market has dropped almost 300 points. Since Obama (who stated before the election that he would not use 'the politics of old') became the President, the market has done little to correct itself.

As strange as it may seem, the markets are reacting to what the President and government are saying. I'm not saying its the main reason, but they are being affected. If you hear the leader of the free world state how bad the economy is and that if government doesn't take action soon it will 'be the end', how would you feel?

My guess is that you are scared for the future. My guess is that you are holding off doing anything with your money. My guess is you are cutting back, saving money, and riding out the storm.

Now, what if the President stopped saying it was 'SOOOOO' bad, and laid off of the doomsday predictions? What if Obama stopped saying 'government is the only one who can solve this crisis' and started being more positive?

I know so many are saying that, if he did that, he would just be covering up the truth and lying. I can completely understand that, and we don't want a liar for a President, but being so doom and gloom, I believe, is actually keeping the markets down and keeping people scared. What if Obama said it was bad, as bad as it is, but then said we as Americans can get through this. Do not be beaten into submission by what the media says. Do not hide under the bed and wait, we need to get out there, and build on this economy. I know you're scared, and I know you're uncertain, but if we just sit back and do nothing it will get worse.

If you weren't so scared and uncertain, what would you be doing? I personally believe that if people weren't so scared, that they would be out spending in the shops and the economy would be on the up. But with Obama and Pelosi both stating 'this is terrible, its the worst economy since the great depression, we need to spend $1 trillion to fix it, and only government can do it. All I see are scared faces waiting for government to fix it. Truth be told, government caused this and will make it worse with spending their way out of it.

Government is not the 'only one' who can fix this. Look back into history around the time of the Great Depression.Why, in other countries, is it called 'the depression', when in the US its called the 'Great Depression'?

One answer: GOVERNMENT!!

The government programs put forth to 'save the economy' actually prolonged the recession into a long depression. What do we all see at the end of the 'great' depression? World War II. Come forward in time to President Carter. As he was leaving office and Ronald Reagan was entering office, the US was in a deep recession. We've all heard about the high interest rates, gas lines, and unemployment, etc. How did the US get out of that? Ronald Reagan cut taxes, plain and simple. (well obviously he did more, but this is the main factor in growth). Due to this revenues to the government were increased, new jobs were created, and American businesses had more money in 'their' pockets to put back into the economy.

So looking back over history, government spending has prolonged a recession (into a Great Depression), yet tax cuts have helped grow the economy and recover.

As the government votes on the now approximately $800 billion 'stimulus' package, Americans can expect to see about $13 a week extra in their paychecks. Then, come January 2010, this will drop to $8 a week if you make under $75,000 a year. The majority of this $800 billion is not geared towards 'stimulus', but toward more spending what can anyone do with $13 a week?

If government cut your taxes as well as taxes on business....what could you do with more of your own money each month?
Spend more? Invest more? Expand your business more?

What's the difference here? Obama is stating tax cuts won't work and 'only' government can resolve the crisis. This is flat out, and the fear within his statements is making us more reliant on government, making us hold onto our money so the market cannot recover, and furthering the policies hidden with the $800 billion bill (Government controlled health care is one of them, but that is another topic).

In the last few days, it was reported that spending was up 1% and the housing market has picked up. Be very careful how this is interpreted. So far, nothing has been 'done' by Obama and his administration to aid the economy. So, if the market is indeed correcting, then it is a natural correction. We will, of course, hear people say that this is due to government, but be careful.

Do not listen to the fear being broadcast to us by those in Washington. Evaluate your own circumstances, spend and save based on your own thoughts and feelings, and America will recover without government take over.

You are who you are, do not be a part of 'the masses'.

I, for one, will not be participating in this recession.
Everyone else is free to decide, but I'm sitting this one out.

The Arrogance of Power - FEAR! - Tony Leach

Sources of Interest
Reagan Economics - 'Reaganonics'
Fiscal Policy

Not everyone knows history as in-depth as others. Some only get an inkling of our past and those some rely on what's termed “common knowledge” for conversation. Tidbits like the stock market crash created the Depression or that Hoover was a free marketer. When asked to explain how they know this, they defer to the higher ups who taught them or told them. The ever-dwindling knowledge of history leads to our current predicament: the passing of the “stimulus” package.

Faking history for political gain is not a left-wing or right-wing trait. Politicians of all stripes, colors and animal symbolism tweak or outright massacre history to get their agenda made into law. In today's case, its been the Democrats and the left who have fudged history so badly that it is a complete one-eighty of reality. To get a $800 billion dollar “stimulus” package past a skeptical public, one has to make that public believe that government spending in a time of recession works and that free market solutions will only lead to more misery. The Dems and the left link today's problem with the Great Depression, a free market President Bush with free market President Hoover (in reality, both believed in harnessing the government for economic ends) and the prosperity of the late 1940s with the stimulus package's spending (the 1940s had war spending, the Dems want social spending). On their faces, these comparisons are false because the “common knowledge” history they are based on are false.

For example, today's credit crisis was a gradual downturn that began with the decline in the national housing market. That downturn was accentuated by the government mandated practice (Community Reinvestment Act) of lending to high-risk, minority borrowers looking to get a home. In turn, those high risk borrowers were given interest rates and/or mortgage plans in accordance with there bad/lack of credit. Adjustable rate mortgages and interest-only loans dominated the housing market and those mortgages were then turned into securities by the banks and traded (an idea, while free market in principle, is just stupid). When the high risk borrowers turned out to be exactly what their credit score said they were the market slumped. Those defaulted loans made those traded securities worthless, and the banks that hedged their books on those securities went down as well. For the most part, the Great Depression began as a unusually hard recession, but was amplified. Not by greed. Not by capitalism. In fact, it was government. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act leveed heavy costs on imports. In retaliation, the world did the same. World trade died, money dried up and the global economy shrunk. Not because of free flow of capital, but of government restriction of it.

Contrast this history with the “common knowledge” pontificated by our dear Congressional Democrats and the media. Speaker of the House Pelosi attacks Wall Street and invokes the myth capitalism broke America. Congressman Barney Frank, the man behind the financial regulation committee, calls Wall Street bonuses bribes when, as Congress's financial honcho, he should know that Wall Street firms pay their employees through a meritocracy, with yearly bonuses taking place of commissions. Even President Obama railed on the country's financial core for its immorality and blamed free markets at the same time his nominations for Health and Human Services and Treasury have major glitches in their tax payments. All this sounds a little bit populist and little less historic.

One can't be blamed for thinking the Democrats are trying to take advantage of our state-amplified downturn to light a populist fire. The “stimulus” package has more to do with expanding government, the biggest cause of our current position and a Democratic baby, than with economic growth. When there is more money going towards broken entitlement programs than small business tax cuts; when there is more money going to Washington renovation than to corporate tax cuts (our corporate taxes are one of the highest in the world), there is certainly something very rotten in Denmark.

There will come a time in American history when a radical shift is needed. During the Cold War, it came under the name of Ronald Reagan, confrontation and offensive liberty. With our concerns more focused on ourselves than our external Islamist enemy, we need to have a radical shift in perspective again. We can no longer hold ourselves up with a dollar losing its value due to our debt. We can no longer live on promises of paying back the future generations. We can no longer try to keep ourselves afloat on half-baked pseudo-economic theories (I'm looking at you, Keynesians!) that promise to keep us exactly where we are with little consequence.

To live through adversity, you must lose something.

To escape the fire, you must get burned.

To be able to prosper economically, you must first scrape the dead ideas and dead industry from your nation and then fuel growth with free-flowing capital. You can't do that by bailing out California's irresponsible legislature or rolling back every reasonable welfare reform made by Newt's Republicans.

The only way this “stimulus” and its base idea gain traction is by someone or something taking advantage of a lack of education and using it for their political ends. This is exactly what the Democrats have done with the public school system's failure to educate its wards in accurate history. I learned what I have from using my own to feet to take me to the local library or to the book store so I could buy books recommended by actual economists (check out Amy Shales) and actual historians, not by failed comedians-turned-mouthpieces. I used my common sense and an open mind to revise my world view. I did not cry like a baby when the “common knowledge” perceptions drilled into me by mothering teachers and politicians were challenged.

I, like any self-respecting independent human being, learned.

All it takes is the idea that politicians and pundits are wrong.

I don't think that's a concept that's hard to understand.

Posted from the Glenn Beck website.
We Surround Them - Article Page

Do you watch the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it?

Do you believe that your voice isn’t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore?

Do you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach…as if you’re completely alone?

If so, then you’ve fallen for the Wizard of Oz lie. While the voices you hear in the distance may sound intimidating, as if they surround us from all sides—the reality is very different. Once you pull the curtain away you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don’t surround us at all.

We surround them.

So, how do we show America what’s really behind the curtain? Below are nine simple principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. I urge you to read the instructions at the end for how to help make your voice heard.

12 Values
Honesty
Reverence
Hope
Thrift
Humility
Charity
Sincerity
Moderation
Hard Work
Courage
Personal Responsibility
Friendship

The Nine Principles

1. America is good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

You Are Not Alone

If you agree with at least seven of those principles, then you are not alone. Please send a digital version of your picture to: wesurroundthem@foxnews.com and then stay tuned to the radio and television shows over the coming weeks to see how we intend to pull back the curtain.

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