If you have ever doubted the Cloward and Piven strategy – the intentional process of spending the government into bankruptcy for the purposes of collapsing the system so they can rebuild it in the image they desire – if you have ever doubted that this is what the Left is trying to do, I bring you this story:
Austerity? Austerity? OK, just for grins and giggles, let’s check the meaning of that word – in case the people from the HufPo have gotten lost in the Princess Diaries again:
Definition of AUSTERITY
1: the quality or state of being austere
2a : an austere act, manner, or attitude b : an ascetic practice
3: enforced or extreme economy
Now, ask yourself: in what world is spending $1 TRILLION+ more in the next 10 years than we are spending now “austerity?” It might help if you actually look at the root word here:
Definition of AUSTERE
1a : stern and cold in appearance or manner b : somber, grave
2: morally strict : ascetic
3: markedly simple or unadorned
4: giving little or no scope for pleasure
5: of a wine : having the flavor of acid or tannin predominant over fruit flavors usually indicating a capacity for aging
There’s the real issue: someone in the government is actually saying we need to stop spending money of “pleasure.” So, being responsible (i.e. moral) and not indulging ourselves is “austerity.
Now, for the average person who opposes “austerity,” this is about their personal greed and self-interest, mostly based on survival. But the people who are writing this story, for Cloward and Piven – who developed this plan – there is no need for concerns over survival: these people feed at the trough of the public tax dollars. Their needs are assured. So what motivates these people? Simple – they are looking to satisfy their personal greed for power. But how do they seize power in a system that empowers the individual through the free market? They need to collapse it, and how better to collapse it than to spend it into the ground? And how better to ensure that this spending continues than to tell the greedy individual who is worried about day-to-day survival that the government is being “mean” by trying to be responsible?
Only in the world of utopian pipe-dreams can an increase in spending of more than $1 TRILLION dollars be considered “austerity,” but I guess that’s exactly where the bat-crap crazy Left lives.
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a system that empowers the individual through the free market?
p.s
The free-market empowers only individuals with private property and the amount of power they hold corresponds to the amount of private property they hold.
Karl,
The free market allows you to acquire MORE property — based on your willingness to work and ability to use that property efficiently.
B.S. The more people produce, the more supply there will be, reducing the price of the product of the people who produce more.
Also man is a slave to material conditions, a man can dream about acquiring property, work extra hours at mcdonalds, save all the money he can, but if he has a sickness, a family member to care for, a car transmission that quits working; he has just lost all his savings from his meager wage. If he has no emergency he still won’t have access to the same amount of capital the bourgeoisie do. Compare that to the bourgeoisie who get access to capital, have established business connections and have funds to pay for an emergency. Attaining capital isn’t a question of, “if I wish it, work for it, it can be.” It is a question of “if I am at the right place at the right time and know the right people and work for it, it will be.”
Karl,
THERE’S your problem: you want to make life “perfect.”
NEWS FLASH! Life is not perfect — DEAL WITH IT (without making me pay for the way YOU think things should be).
Karl, you’re a tyrant who wants to be seen as a saint/martyr. As long as you continue to think this way, you’ll never be either.
You should have told that to Jefferson.
“British colonial rule is not perfect, just DEAL WITH IT.”
The “deal with it” response is laughably bad. Please keep debates on subject.
You say you can acquire property through hard work and ability to use that property properly. I refuted this with the case of low wage workers in the class system that exists.
What is your rebuttal? Besides DEAL WITH IT.
Karl,
OK, I will now show you for the fool you are.
I am on a deserted island with a FedEx box and a deflated volley ball I named Wilson. I make a tool to cut down bamboo to make a hut (I just MADE property with my labor). I make another tool to help me grow food. I made MORE property, and that property is ALL MINE!
I grow food (more property). Then I salvage materials I find washed up on the beach and use some logs to make a raft to get off the island. I get off the island on MY raft.
Now you get stranded on the same island. You “claim” MY tools I left behind as yours. You “claim” MY hut, and MY garden. The you sit around telling the birds how the Capitalist who left these things deserved to lose them because he stole them from your labor.
This is a VERY real and plausible scenario that CLEARLY demonstrates which of the two of us uses our labor better — and which is just crying that he wants what belongs to other people.
Why does the right-wing always have to use hypotheticals that never happen? Your hypothetical lacks: economic classes, workers, a market economy, even means to communicate with the outside world. It is funny how you claim your hypothetical is “very real and plausible.” Stop shifting the goal post and tell me why workers shouldn’t have the goal of taking over the means of production to using them to meet the needs of the workers rather than to make profit for the bourgeoisie. Or lets be extra greedy and use the means of production to make PROFITS for the workers. Since Hayekians believe profit motive is the greatest incentive and produces the best results.
“Why does the right-wing always have to use hypotheticals that never happen?”
You really ARE “bat-crap-crazy.” Hypothetical that will never happen? You mean, like, Communism! Karl, my example CAN happen: yours cannot — and you have the nerve to try to reverse this? Sorry, buddy, but the RNL already knows how to apply the 180 degree rule. This sort of BS won’t work here — it only works on the intellectually weak mind.
YOUR the one who refuses to deal with reality. The workers already have their needs met — they get paid. If they do not spend their pay properly — like on a smart phone rather than healthcare plan, etc — that is NOT the employer’s fault or problem. All it does is demonstrate I am correct when I say you just want to justify theft and confirm that your ideas will never work, can never work — because they refuse to acknowledge human nature.
As for ‘profits’ being evil. That is why your “workers’ utopian” experiments have always failed — you do not see the necessary function profits play. All you see is money YOU want to spend on YOU!
Karl, you are a threat to all mankind.
So if i feed and clothe my slaves, they should be happy and not cause any commotion. Socialism isn’t so much a struggle in the name of material goods, it is a struggle for power. The working class has very little power now. That is what the socialist movement wants to change. The workers need power, they are the true base of power in this world. You are quite detached from reality if you think the current system gives the workers the amount of work they put in. You are even more detached if you think the bourgeoisie aren’t parasites.
You haven’t refuted workers control over the means of production yet.
Karl, mein leibling, I’ve decided to initiate a fundraiser: “The one-way trip to North Korea for Karl” fundraiser. Please keep a memoir of your experience……if you can leave.