Einherjar86
Active Member
So, there's this new claim floating around predominantly conservative online sources that says the recent actions in light of our debt crisis resemble something suggested in the 60s called the "Cloward-Piven Strategy." Anyone else heard of this?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/cloward-piven_paradise_now.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/15/the-cloward-piven-strategy/
For those who'd like it shorthand:
"The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926-2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of 'a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty'."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/cloward-piven_paradise_now.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/15/the-cloward-piven-strategy/
For those who'd like it shorthand:
"The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926-2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of 'a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty'."