Aaron Klein interviews infamous author of Cloward-Piven Strategy.
In divining the origins of President Obama’s fiscal policies, some critics have gone so far as to accuse the president of implementing the infamous so-called Cloward-Piven Strategy.
The plan, first proposed in 1966, calls for a flood of Americans to obtain public welfare with the intention of precipitating an economic crisis that hastens the fall of capitalism and replaces it with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”
Now for the first time, the co-author and namesake of the strategy, Dr. Frances Fox Piven, spoke in a radio interview Sunday about the contention Obama is motivated by her radical blueprint, claims which were popularized by former Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Piven is professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She was interviewed on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990.
Her strategy was co-authored by late Columbia University professor and activist Richard Cloward as an article in “The Nation” on May 2, 1966, entitled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.”
Klein asked Piven about the societal changes that have taken place under Obama and whether they were a reflection, deliberately or not, of the professor’s socio-political ideology.
“The concept of overloading the U.S. economy,” said Klein. “Do you believe, right now with the debt ceiling reset now at $18 trillion … do you believe that Obama, intentionally or not, is overloading the U.S. economy?”
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