O'er the Land of the Free Stuff

When the Free Ride is Over

It may be a well worn question by now, but it deserves another look: If Barack Obama truly believed in American greatness, why would he proclaim a need in 2008 to "fundamentally transform" her? No person who is in love and at the alter professes a deep love for their spouse-to-be and in the next breath promises to fundamentally alter them. Yet no one questioned Obama when he figuratively did just that.

Just as a once-tenacious media now ignores the obvious signs that Obama is destroying the country. With his mentor Frank Marshall Davis's philosophy buried deep within his breast, Obama is pursuing the dreams not only of his "father", but those of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. What were those dreams?

In short, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" is the method of remaking America by collapsing the economic system and making it into one more like a Socialist state. This would be accomplished by weighting down the system through financially overloading it. In other words, the object is to get as many people as possible on public assistance until the demand cannot possibly be met. If anyone truly cannot see how this plan is currently being implemented, they have not eyes.

Apparently it hasn't happened fast enough for Obama, though. After ripping through over six trillion dollars faster than every president combined before him, America - miraculously -- is still standing. Yet, Obama is promising that he will continue to fund "green" energy companies going forward despite the fact that more than fifteen have failed after receiving billions of taxpayer dollars.

What's more, there are a record number of people on food stamps and other public assistance. For example, in the month of June of this year, more people filed for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) than found jobs.

That's not enough for Obama, though. There are now commercials being run on radio and television trying to increase the rolls of food stamp recipients. Forgive me folks, but the advertising costs a fortune as an added "bonus". Do we really need to be advertising food stamps? If people are really hungry, they will find out on their own how to get food.

Another piece of the puzzle just revealed is Obama's plans to allow private student loans to be discharged by borrowers through bankruptcy, a practice that was banned in the 2005 overhaul of bankruptcy law. Private student loans amount to $150 billion in debt. If borrowers begin discharging their loans, banks could fail. Will the government have to bail them out again? Perhaps Obama is counting on it.

Incredibly, President Obama made the claim in June that, "Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years." That was based on the years immediately preceding his inauguration. As we all know, it is Congress that approves all spending with the formality of the  signature of the president, and as such, the spending orgy began in 2007 with George W. Bush as president. However, it was after the Democrats took control of Congress. Interestingly, spending did go down slightly in 2011 and 2012, after Republicans regained the House of Representatives.

In 2009, Obama seized on the mantra of "never let a crisis go to waste" and began his "fundamental transformation" of America. Almost half of the population pays no effective federal income tax, yet nearly half is also on some form of public assistance. And he's far from done. Given another four years, even with a completed Republican Congress, and there is no telling how much damage Obama can do.

But it must be noted that at some point, someone will have to halt the flow of free stuff in America, and when that happens, the riots will begin. Are we already past the tipping point? That is hard to say. Perhaps if people begin finding gainful employment soon the pain will be lessened enough to prevent mass rage when the Government is once again reined in.

If not, then Obama, Cloward and Piven will have won, and we'll be living in a Post-American World after all.

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The Longest Mile For Cloward-Piven

Forty years ago, back in the 1960's, a pair of Columbia University professors, named Cloward and Piven, developed a strategy of "manufactured crisis" to incrementally move the United States toward a socialist society. The Cloward-Piven Strategy was simple. It reasoned that people would not willingly surrender their lives to ever-increasing government control, but would do so slowly and unwittingly if they were frightened enough.

Democrats - who have historically been the self-proclaimed "champions of the little guy" - enjoyed complete dominance of the legislative branch of the federal government for forty years. In those forty years, they complained about the plight of that same little guy, but never quite managed to deliver on its promises. It was part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy; keep the people hungry and wanting while promising that you would be their savior.

For far too long people believed it thanks to the brilliant rhetoric of the left, who somehow were able to manipulate the masses into blindness. So it became much easier to employ the professors' plan when the Earth began to warm up quite nicely, and boy, did people fall into line. Easily convinced that our way of life - while very enjoyable - was going to come to an ugly end unless we made draconian sacrifices, the creation of an entire sub-culture of self-flagellation was child's' play. Finally, the people were ready to be strictly controlled, mistakenly believing that such an existence was surely better than horribly dying at their own hands.

Enter Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who set the stage for what nearly sealed the deal on world dominance. A compliant media made the sale of this more palatable to the public, who thought that if Reuters and the AP were saying it, it must be true. The debate soon became extremely contentious between the true believers and the deniers, who were immediately cast as heretics and criminals. The perfect storm (pardon the pun) was nearly upon us. Then, something terrible happened.

First, people began to wipe the slumber from their eyes and started to realize that the ultimate culmination of the Democrats plot was an unmitigated disaster. Conservatives took to the streets for the first time in their lives, joined by Independents and even some disgruntled Democrats, to protest the rampant spending and power grabs by a new administration. With the finish line in sight, the wheels began to fall off of the socialist bus. Refusing to concede defeat, the driver limped along on the hubs. Then, the engine blew up.

The linchpin in the plan began to decay like August fruit left in the Sun for too long, which is an appropriate analogy, considering that the Sun is playing such a large role in the ultimate ruination of the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Having almost convinced the world that "the debate was over" on man-made global warming, the left thought that it was inevitable that they would take the checkered flag. Oops, sorry.

An ever-increasing number of scientists who at one time were on board the climate change bus - including some IPCC scientists - have come to their senses and have begun to set the record straight. Not only is the debate far from over, but the assumed victor has fallen way behind. (The link provides a wealth of information on the current state of AGW news).

It is always a shame when decades of hard work, dedication and perseverance go up in smoke. I'd like to say I have empathy for the players in the Cloward-Piven game, but I'm not sorry in the least that they are poised to fail in their diabolical scheme to rule over me and you. In fact, I'm giddy over their pending failure.

God bless America!

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