Cloward-Piven Strategy

Been watching Glenn Beck, notably the show about Acorn and the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Check it out here:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967

Cloward-Piven is based on an article two radical left sociologists published in The Nation in 1966, suggesting that the most effective way to do away with capitalism is to overwhelm the system with demands for entitlements, busting the economy and forcing a redistribution of wealth. Rudy Giuliani believed it was this strategy deliberately implemented, that was responsible for throwing New York City into bankruptcy (or near-bankruptcy) a few years back. David Horowitz also is aware of all of this. It's not a lunatic conspiracy. Well, yes it is; what I mean is, it really does exist.

To me, this sounds like Barack Obama's blueprint for America.

The prez has noted that the US is out of money now, and that the current level of debt is unsustainable. And he continues to propose mind-bogglingly expensive social programs. Entitlement programs that will surely drive the nation only more irretrievably into debt.

Am I missing something here? I mean, if socialized medicine is bankrupting the economy now, how is this situation going to get any better by adding a couple hundred million more people onto the subscriber rolls?

Cap-and-trade is designed primarily to ensure that the US economy cannot recover. It has no other useful purpose and will have no other perceivable impact.

Anyway, Cloward-Piven spawned many followers, including Acorn, the amorphous conglomeration of left-wing "activists-for-hire," for want of a better word. Apparently Acorn is sort of an umbrella for a couple hundred other activist groups. And they don't function as overtly political organizations advocating one point of view or another, but work almost as contractors for the federal government and other organizations. They do things like voter registration drives, petition campaigns, community organizing, and apparently they're currently being recruited to take the 2010 Census. And to hop on a bus and terrorize AIG executives at their homes in Connecticut.

Who paid for that? You know, George Soros is one of the big-money donors behind all this. What the hell is his problem? Not enough democracy in America? This man should be in jail.

Don't know if anyone but Acorn's organizer, or board, or parent organization -- or whoever runs this octopus -- really knows how extensive this organization's reach is, but they do get federal money. And they will probably get at least $1 billion (with a b) from the Stimulus package. Your tax dollars at work.

This is like some "B" movie from the 1960s, where you rob a bank (attack capitalists) to fund the bombing of a draft board office.

So the lunatics really are running the asylum. No surprise there. Who needs al-Qaeda? Just hire Acorn. They're already inside the borders.

Change the subject a bit....

Watched Obama's speech in Cairo the other day, where he likened the displaced Palestinians to the six million Jews Hitler gassed, and implied that women in the US have much in common with muslim women who are stoned in the streets for talking to men-who-are-not-their-husbands.

He was trying to establish common bonds with "The Muslim World." I doubt it worked very well.

You know, people resort to violence when:

1.) They can't get a fair hearing;
2.) They don't have a convincing argument.

What is the case of nations like Iran, do you suppose? Their Prez Abracadabrajab actually was allowed to speak at the U.N. a couple years ago, and launched into an anti-US, anti-Israel diatribe and, if I recall correctly, promised even in that forum that he was working actively to kill all the Jews in Israel.

The U.N. gave him a fair hearing, so it must be the other thing.

How do you imagine he'll respond to Obama's sweetness and light? (Incoming!)

Abracadabrajab is right now involved in an election campaign in Iran, and apparently his opponent, who is more moderate, blasted the hell out of him in a televised debate. So maybe Iranians will reject this nutjob on their own.

To me, Abracadabrajab looks like an extra from the stage production of Oliver, a street-thief working with Fagan, but that's just me.

Anyway, I've been busy and I'm tired, so that's it for now.