tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post506561095039992078..comments2024-03-27T19:38:49.490-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Cataloging Signs of the ApocalypseSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-55545777977581652912012-12-12T08:25:52.696-05:002012-12-12T08:25:52.696-05:00The real problem with Cloward-Piven is that the en...The real problem with Cloward-Piven is that the end game of the strategy has no hope of success.<br /><br />BASIC economics tells us this.<br /><br />Then again, the strategy was designed by a pair of poly-sci/sociology majors who probably cant do basic math, let alone understand bedrock economic principals such as supply, demand, price, and economic incentive.<br /><br />But thats not even the greatest folly of Cloward-Piven. America has always been, at its core, a dream. A place where no matter your outward status...you had the ability to work hard to change it. Take that promise away, and you destroy the contract that holds many people to this nation. It would pitch the nation into chaos. Millions would become outlaws overnight as they actually tried to make a profit.<br /><br />Those people would be ripe for revolution.<br /><br />They wont wipe out poverty, as that is economically impossible. They will simply start a revolution and destroy the country.taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095443665875468817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-5981283695473171032012-12-11T23:03:32.848-05:002012-12-11T23:03:32.848-05:00Mid 80s lived in the ghetto for a couple of years....Mid 80s lived in the ghetto for a couple of years.<br />Incredible - the mindset of so many there. Example - our downstairs neighbor - white, early 20s - was third generation welfare birthing 4th gen - from 2 different "fathers". She was in the 3rd year of a taxpayer sponsored job training program that should have taken 6 months tops. This program was a requirement to <br />continue receiving welfare.<br /><br />Although she would drive across town for cheap cigs, to address her own health issues wouldn't walk two blocks to the "free" clinic, or take the "free" bus. <br /><br />From what i saw, she was typical - no interest in bettering her situation if motivation or effort was required. Sad.<br /><br /><br />itorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com