[lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer?

[Sean Andrews]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 14:50, Chris Maisano <cgmaisano at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Back in the 60s, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox-Piven formulated a strategy for winning a guaranteed national income that sought to get everyone that was eligible for welfare on the rolls - see the Wikipedia page for how they thought it would work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy.
>

When I read this, I hadn't realized how central Cloward and Piven are
to the current set of right wingers--or to their conspiracy theories
about what has happened to 'merika.  But here's a little taste...

http://www.alternet.org/story/146164/how_a_77_year-old_visionary_author_became_the_target_of_a_far-ranging_right-wing_conspiracy_theory?page=1

The story at the link gives some background to where she fits into the
overall rhetorical delusions of the current movement (and in actual US
history) as well as describing a recent incident where an operative
disguised himself as a curious student and videotaped and interview
with her in hopes of getting some juicy, ACORN scandal type material.
Really despicable stuff.

s