Post by davidsf on Apr 14, 2019 9:40:40 GMT -8
I had not heard of this until,today, so I looked it up.
According to This article from Wikipedia, Cloward and Pliven were Social Work professors at Columbia who, in 1966, wrote an article trying to force the democrats (who controlled both houses and the White House) into overloading the public welfare system so it would collapse and be replaced with a “guaranteed income” for all, and, thus, eradicate poverty.
From the article:
Is it possible this is what we’re starting to see around us?
According to This article from Wikipedia, Cloward and Pliven were Social Work professors at Columbia who, in 1966, wrote an article trying to force the democrats (who controlled both houses and the White House) into overloading the public welfare system so it would collapse and be replaced with a “guaranteed income” for all, and, thus, eradicate poverty.
From the article:
Cloward and Piven's article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of the United States Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They stated 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 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."
Is it possible this is what we’re starting to see around us?
