Posted on 07/07/2012 8:09:48 AM PDT by John Semmens
Saying he was concerned that Spain and Greece might sop up all the gravy, newly elected President Francois Hollande embarked upon a series of measures that he promised will put this country at the head of the line for the next round of bailouts. The measures include higher taxes on everyone who has money over-and-above what they need, an immediate boost in the minimum wage, and a ban on laying off redundant workers.
Why should we Frenchmen struggle to improve our economic output under current conditions? Hollande asked. If we do, we'll be expected to help rescue those who don't. We would earn the obligation to work for the gains of someone else. It is better that someone else bear the burden of working for our gain.
Hollande boasted that the measures he is enacting sound good to the average voter. Everyone imagines that only others will be targeted for tax increases, that decreeing higher wages is an unmitigated benefit, and that forbidding lay-offs guarantees job security. Few will comprehend that these measures ensure our decline. Nearly all can be relied upon to demand relief when the disaster hits. None will blame me. It's an ingenious plan.
The French President discounted the possibility that his machinations could fail. Look, the cost of liberating France from Nazi domination was far higher, Hollande maintained. And others bore the vast majority of that cost. In comparison, the price for saving us from our financial improvidence will seem very reasonable.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/114542-2012-07-06-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-july-8-2012.htm
This is this. Unfreaking believable.
“Le pantalon rouge c’est la France!”
The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
[Obama's strategy for destroying the economy]
frontpage.americandaughter.com
| August 31, 2008 | Jim Simpson
Liberals self-righteously wrap themselves in the mantle of public spirit. They ardently promote policies promising to deliver the poor and oppressed from their latest misery policies which can only find solution in the halls of government. But no matter what issue one examines, over the last fifty plus years, the liberal prescription has almost always been a failure.
Why is this so? Why does virtually every liberal scheme result in ever-increasing public spending while conditions seem to get continually worse? There are a number of reasons:
In short, all develop a vested interest in the programs survival. But if the result is always more and more government, of government, by government, and for government, with no solution in sight, then why do liberals always see government as the solution rather than the problem?
Similarly, liberals use government to promote legislation that imposes mandates on the private sector to provide further benefits for selected groups. But the results are even more disastrous. For example, weighing the laws or stacking the courts to favor unions may provide short term security or higher pay for unionized labor, but has ultimately resulted in the collapse of entire domestic industries.
Another example is health care. The Dems are always trying to impose backdoor socialized medicine with incremental legislation. Why do you suppose American healthcare is in such crisis? Answer: the government has already become too deeply involved. For example, many hospitals are closing their doors because they are overwhelmed with the burden of caring for indigent patients, illegal immigrants and vagrants who must, by law, be admitted like everyone else, despite the fact that they cannot pay for services. Read about it here Destroying Our Health Care. The net result is reduced availability of care for everyone, exactly the opposite of what liberals claim to want.
To further complicate things, liberal jurists and lawyers have created new theories of liability that utilize the legal system as a means to further redistribute income. This too, has resulted in higher costs and prices in affected industries, higher insurance costs, or in some cases, complete elimination of products or services.
Liberals endless pursuit of rights for different groups also does little but create increasing divisions in our society. Liberal policy pits old against young, men against women, ethnic and racial groups against one another, even American citizens against illegal aliens, all in the name of equality. The only result is anger, tension and equal misery for all.
How does any of this improve our lot?
Finally, when companies relocate overseas to avoid the high cost of unionized labor and heavy domestic regulation, liberals sarcastically excoriate them for outsourcing America. Yet, when it comes to certain domestic industries, liberals in Congress suddenly become free marketers and choose to buy from overseas contractors rather than domestic suppliers. This happened most recently with a huge military contract being outrageously awarded to the heavily subsidized European consortium, AIRBUS, over Americas own Boeing. Since liberals claim to be so determined to save the American worker, what gives?
You have to take a step further back and ask some fundamental questions. Why is the liberal public policy record one of such unmitigated disaster? I mean, even the worst batter hits one occasionally. No one bats zero. No one that is, except liberals.
Prior to the Republican takeover in Congress in 1994, Democrats had over fifty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress with substantial majorities most of the time. With all the time and money in the world trillions spent they couldnt fix a single thing, not one. Todays liberal has the same complaints, and the same old tired solutions. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?
Why?
When things go bad all the time, despite the best efforts of all involved, I suggest to you something else is at work something deeper, more malevolent.
I submit to you that it is not a mistake, the failure is deliberate!
There is a method to the madness, and the method even has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It was first elucidated in the 1960s by a pair of radical leftist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven:
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis . the Cloward-Piven Strategy seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
[Part II of this article will explore those organizations created to implement the Cloward-Piven strategy and their ties to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.]
The Complete Cloward-Piven Series
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III print copy
Hate Crimes Legislation Back Door Censorship
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Also see (from David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org) ...
THE CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS):
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Glenn Beck
Meet Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven,
authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy
"I'm going to give you a hard concept to get your arms around: It's the concept that there are people in this country who want to intentionally collapse our economic system."-Glenn Beck
this is no satire. THIS IS REAL
John, your creativity is very high. Unfortunately, this one is too close to reality.
I’ve always said that muslim Obama’s objective is to take down western man by taking out the hub, America. Fact of the matter is all the western economies are suffering due to Obama.
John, your creativity is very high. Unfortunately, this one is too close to reality.
I’ve always said that muslim Obama’s objective is to take down western man by taking out the hub, America. Fact of the matter is all the western economies are suffering due to Obama.
Unbelievable. What an evil little man
If “we” had not liberated the French, the Russians probably would have. In which case France, and all of Europe outside of Great Britain, would today be living under the yoke of Russia.
proof- no matter how bad things are they could always be worse.
this is where rats get their ideas
The difference between Liberals and Socialists, be they liberal Democrats or liberal Republicans,is that Liberals will lie to you and tell you what they think you want to hear, while Socialists, will tell you the truth. When a liberal says he won’t raise taxes or will repeal certain laws, he is lying. When a socialist says he will do outrageous things and people dismiss it as political posturing, they error. The Socialist is a true believer in their wicked nonsense and they will do even the most improbable of things in the face of every known reason or prohibition.
Hey! I want a bailout, too!!!
Here’s what sad: even BEFORE these proposed “reforms” Based on labor market statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Americans aged 15-64, on a per-person basis, work 50% more than the French. Comparisons between Americans and Germans or Italians are similar. http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/prescott/wsj/WSJ_10-21-04_Why_Do_Americans_Work_More_than_Europeans.pdf
Thus, the socialists are predictably shrinking the size of France’s economic pie through misguided policies that quite clearly are going to make it that much more difficult to sustain their welfare state. The trainwreck at the end of this process is not likely to be pretty.
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