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Did Obama's ACORN Deliberately Manufacture an Economic Crisis?

"What do you mean, 'Obama's Acorn', I can see the responses before they even come. Let's take a look at his own words and see if that characterization is accurate: "I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work." Barack Obama Speech to ACORN, November 2007. (So there you have it, Obama even taking credit for the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on American voters - the Motor Voter registration scam.)

Have you ever heard of the "Cloward-Pliven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis"? It was put forth in the May 2, 1966 issue of "The Nation" magazine by two radical Coulumbia University sociology professors, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven (C&P0.;

It is a strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The Coward-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.

Cloward and Piven were inspired by the radical socialist organizer Saul Alinsky, the very same man who founded the school at which Barack Obama learned his "community organizer" skills. In their "Nation" article, C&P; were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create: "By crisis we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstation and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.

C & P were also instrumental in the formation of the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) with black activist George Wiley. The vast expansion of New York City welfare came as the result of NWRO's tactics, and sent the city into bankruptcy in 1975. Rudy Giuliani cited Cloward and Piven by name as being responsible for "an effort at economic sabotage."

ACORN, originally started as the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, was an offshoot of NWRO, started by a Wiley subordinate, Wade Rathke in 1970. Shortly thereafter ACORN went national, changing its name to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. They have never discarded, to this date, the C&P; strategy of manufactured crisis, and directly contributed to the "subprime mortgage crisis" through their demands for "NINJA" loans to unqualified buyers under the pretext of "affordable housing." And the Democrats went along with it - rewriting regulations during the Clinton administration to essentially force lenders to make loans to the uncreditworthy.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, headed by democrat acolytes JIm Johnson and Franklin Raines, then bought and sold those subprime mortgages, bundling them with other, less risky mortgages, as a "financial product", thus infecting our entire financial structure. When George Bush (of all people) warned twice of the systemic danger that was building, in 2001 and 2002, and asked for more regulation of Fannie and Freddie, it was Democrats, specifically Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, and a NY representatvie named Meeks, who savaged those tesitfying in favor of regulation, accused them of being against "affordable housing," and denied there was a problem.

Before you reply that the Republicans could have regulated Fannie and Freddie anyway because they controlled both houses of congress, the Republicans never had a sufficient, filibuster-proof majority in the senate to push anything through that the Democrats disagreed with - Democratic senators, led by the esteemable Chris Dodd, also opposed regulating Fannie and Freddie.

So what do you think? Were Democratics just too stupid to heed the warnings of George Bush, or is this a crisis manufactured according to the Cloward-Piven strategy that we are now facing, one of which Rahm Emanuel has said "never let a good (manufactured?)crisis go to waste"?


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