Columnist Burt Prelutsky: Those of you who only know the names of Richard Cloward (1926-2001) and his wife, Frances Fox Piven, born in 1932 but still alive, from Glenn Beck might not know that their claim to fame was an article written in 1966, titled The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty, that appeared in The Nation. ... Basically, the plan they proposed called for overloading the U.S. welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that they believed would inevitably lead to replacing it with a guaranteed annual income. As they saw it, the bonus is that it would shore up support for the Democratic Party. ... To see the strategy at work before your very eyes, you need only look to the southern border, where every day hundreds of illegal aliens, many of them children, are throwing themselves on the mercy of our welfare system. The Patriot Post (patriotpost.us/subscribe/ )
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:12:54 +0000
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