Reno Hayek Symposium

My friend Ron Tomsic emailed an interesting take on what’s behind our Democratic rulers rush to control every element of our lives. Hint: “Never let a crisis go to waste.”…Rahm Emmanuel.

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, lifelong members of the Democratic Socialists of America who taught sociology at Columbia University in New York, published an article in May of 1966 in The Nation entitled “The Weight of the Poor.” That outlined their plan for using grassroots organizations to stress the system making excessive demands on government to correct the lack of welfare distribution and indeed the redistribution of wealth.”They argued that full enrollment of those eligible for welfare “would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments” that would “deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the white working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas.”^[2] They wrote “the ultimate objective of this strategy (is) to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income… (via) the outright redistribution of income.” (Source: Wikipedia) In other words, where no crisis exists, create one, cause disruption, get redistribution–AND VOTES, AND THEREFORE CONTROL, IN THE PROCESS!

They were the genesis or organizations like ACORN. You know “community organizations” staffed by “community organizers.” (Anything sound familiar?) They are the local groups, funded by your tax dollars and duped-umbrella charities, that you can go to for advice on tax fraud, human trafficking for prostitution, or voter fraud.

The goal is not “health care” or “environmental protection” or “stimulus” or “financial reform” it is CONTROL. Control means power and power means money. They are not concerned with Constitutional limits. They have “czars” who will establish rules and regulations.  (Sound a bit Russian or maybe Communist?)

The American Thinker published an article by Nancy Copock, Cloward/Pliven Strategy of Economic Recovery in February of 2009 which gives a take on Obama’s philosophical upbringing and associations. This follows up on the James Simpson article in American Thinker of September 2008, Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis, which notes that many of the politicians who caused, or help cause, the crisis, will do so again. Barney Frank, Maxine Waters and Chris Dodd fit this bill exactly with their “rolling the dice” for more subprime loans from Fannie and Freddie. History indeed repeats itself!

Beware of the ruling classes, who seek only to rule!

Tom Motherway