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The increase in welfare rolls since Obama took office is undeniable.
In the almost 4 years of an Obama Administration, spending on federal welfare programs has increased by a whopping 41%. In 2012, the Federal government will spend $668 Billion and State spending on welfare programs amounts to an additional $284 Billion; that brings total amount spent in 2012 on welfare programs to an unprecedented $952 Billion!
On July 12, 2012 the Obama Administration unilaterally and illegally overturned the welfare reform law of 1996. Prior to 1996, the welfare policies of the 1960's created generations of families able to languish on the tax payers dime and receive a government subsistence. These policies never required recipients to gain the skills necessary to remove themselves from the welfare rolls and rise from poverty to the middle class. The 1996 law required that States have at least half of adult welfare recipients participate in qualified work activities (i.e.; have a job) or enrolled in job education and training programs. The 1996 law signed by President Clinton helped to move 4.7 Million Americans from government dependency to self-sufficiency and resulted in an overall decline in federal welfare caseload by 54%. By fiat, Obama removed the "workfare" requirements, will now issue waivers to States, and effectively remove the federal work requirements. Hypocritically, on July 25, 2012 in front of the National Urban League in New Orleans, Obama stated, "America says we will give you opportunity, but you've got the earn your success."
The Obama Administration plans for a permanent increase in annual means-tested welfare spending from 4.5% to 6% of GDP. This increased spending on welfare will continue after the current recession ends and result in extraordinary wealth redistribution and a permanent expansion of welfare programs. It is projected that the combined Federal and State spending will hit $1.56 Trillion per year by 2022. Overall, Obama plans to spend $12.7 Trillion on welfare programs over the 10 years.
So what is the Cloward-Piven strategy? The Cloward-Piven strategy is a political strategy that calls for overloading the public welfare system in order to create a crisis that would lead government to replace current welfare programs and policies with a national system of guaranteed annual income without any work requirements. Cloward-Piven exploits the gaps between welfare law and practice to increase the number of welfare recipients by informing low-income people of their "right to welfare assistance" and encourage them and extended families to apply for benefits with the purpose and intent to overload and overburden the federal government into effectively creating a permanent underclass that subsists on a government existence funded by tax payers.
So, given the Obama's position and policies toward welfare, the increase in welfare rolls, failure to reduce the unemployment rate, failure to reduce the federal deficit, and federal over reach and regulation of business; it has become apparent to many people that Obama is systematically implementing the Cloward-Piven strategy in his drive to fundamentally transform America into a Social Democracy.
In the almost 4 years of an Obama Administration, spending on federal welfare programs has increased by a whopping 41%. In 2012, the Federal government will spend $668 Billion and State spending on welfare programs amounts to an additional $284 Billion; that brings total amount spent in 2012 on welfare programs to an unprecedented $952 Billion!
On July 12, 2012 the Obama Administration unilaterally and illegally overturned the welfare reform law of 1996. Prior to 1996, the welfare policies of the 1960's created generations of families able to languish on the tax payers dime and receive a government subsistence. These policies never required recipients to gain the skills necessary to remove themselves from the welfare rolls and rise from poverty to the middle class. The 1996 law required that States have at least half of adult welfare recipients participate in qualified work activities (i.e.; have a job) or enrolled in job education and training programs. The 1996 law signed by President Clinton helped to move 4.7 Million Americans from government dependency to self-sufficiency and resulted in an overall decline in federal welfare caseload by 54%. By fiat, Obama removed the "workfare" requirements, will now issue waivers to States, and effectively remove the federal work requirements. Hypocritically, on July 25, 2012 in front of the National Urban League in New Orleans, Obama stated, "America says we will give you opportunity, but you've got the earn your success."
The Obama Administration plans for a permanent increase in annual means-tested welfare spending from 4.5% to 6% of GDP. This increased spending on welfare will continue after the current recession ends and result in extraordinary wealth redistribution and a permanent expansion of welfare programs. It is projected that the combined Federal and State spending will hit $1.56 Trillion per year by 2022. Overall, Obama plans to spend $12.7 Trillion on welfare programs over the 10 years.
So what is the Cloward-Piven strategy? The Cloward-Piven strategy is a political strategy that calls for overloading the public welfare system in order to create a crisis that would lead government to replace current welfare programs and policies with a national system of guaranteed annual income without any work requirements. Cloward-Piven exploits the gaps between welfare law and practice to increase the number of welfare recipients by informing low-income people of their "right to welfare assistance" and encourage them and extended families to apply for benefits with the purpose and intent to overload and overburden the federal government into effectively creating a permanent underclass that subsists on a government existence funded by tax payers.
So, given the Obama's position and policies toward welfare, the increase in welfare rolls, failure to reduce the unemployment rate, failure to reduce the federal deficit, and federal over reach and regulation of business; it has become apparent to many people that Obama is systematically implementing the Cloward-Piven strategy in his drive to fundamentally transform America into a Social Democracy.
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