Is The "Cloward-Piven" Strategy Being Used To Bankrupt The USA?

If it weren't such a serious calamity of public opinion, I would be laughing hysterically.

For all the amazingly wool-pulled gullible folks yakking about the "Cloward-Piven" strategy: BS. Cloward-Piven is about overloading the welfare system. The strategy that has actually been used is interest rate default swaps sold to cities and counties by deregulated casino banks, depression of wages over 35 years by trade deals that export jobs, union-busting, manipulation of the media, removal of taxation of the wealthy, failure to spend on infrastructure, massive military spending greater than the next 14 or more countries combined, and rigged elections, violation of and erosion of civil rights first via the expensive and utterly failed drug war, then through the even more expensive and horrendously failing wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, and "terror." The welfare system is mostly window dressing. Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid aren't part of it because they are funded directly by taxes on workers' wages and have their own budgets and trust funds completely separate from - and raided by - the federal government's income tax-derived budget. There are three separate taxes on every paycheck stub you get, not counting State and local taxes. The federal budget is the source of foodstamps and housing assistance, which are percentage-wise comparable to a couple of people pissing in your swimming pool. The "welfare system" these days is a good third about dumpsters, curbs, and maybe for the lucky, tents. So the above isn't total horseshit, but it is completely mis-directed horseshit.

Dan