Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

We hear these same economic arguments all the time these days, to the point that these virtual and actual ideological skirmishes often take on an almost Ground Hog Day-ish repetitive cycle of nauseating repetition. The Political Right says "spend less," the Political Left says "tax more," so that, ultimately, many Americans are left feeling measurably unsure, if not completely confused, as to what the proper course of action should actually be for America as a nation, when in fact it's not so terribly difficult.

Over these past few weeks, we have also further witnessed a depressing number of moderate Republicans, as well as an equally impressive number of middling Liberals, essentially second-guessing their own positions throughout these economic debates.  Maybe not so much outwardly--but rather in a passing glimpse, a splinter of doubt in the the mind's eye or even a certain identifiable hesitance in their verbal tirades.  Both sides doubting what they have formerly held to be as sacrosanct and undeniable. Perhaps that doubt can be actively identified as where compromise begins taking form, or could this spate of heavily veiled penance also be where a correctable mistake begins to snowball into a ground-skipping comet of fiscal oblivion?

Put in another way, what if we as a Nation are looking in all the wrong places in order to find the true answers to the Nation's economic problems?  There is an old saying that goes something to the effect that "if everyone is thinking the same thing, then no one is actually thinking."  With some, it now appears that America has reached a sort of aggregated professional lunacy as to the true facts that may be in play.  As we have alluded to increasingly throughout this current President's term, there appears to be much, much, more to our economic morass than meets the proverbial eye.

A Bizarre Approach

When we realistically look at the performance of our Executive Branch up to this point, we see what could be termed as an ostensibly bizarre approach to all things economic and otherwise. When we should be doing one thing in reaction to some ever-present mushrooming dilemma, our leadership often takes an opposite tack that actually worsens a given situation rather than ameliorating it. Take for instance the subprime lending debacle that in large part placed our economy into this position in the first place. The Obama team's reaction was to vastly over-regulate the mortgage industry and even add staff  bank regulators to various bank branch offices in order to intensively micro-manage each and every loan.

So, at a time when our Nation's building industry, which is one of the major engines of America's economy, needed to be aided and fortified in every officious manner possible, the White House put forth draconian measures to essentially restrict and even hasten the down-fall of our residential builders, thereby also denying families needed housing...but then again, not exactly all families it would seem, as we are now given to understand.

Even after the sub-prime lending scandal came to be understood as the forge by which our economy was hammered into submission, the Obama Department of Justice recently began enforcing a bizarre impetus to actually punish banks which are not making enough sub-prime loans. According to an Investors Business Daily July 8th article, the US Attorney General is even now  launching a witch hunt in order to prosecute lenders who fail to originate loans to minorities with poor credit.

The penalties against the banking industry thus far have amounted to over $ 20 million in loan subsidies and set-asides by banks which have elected the cases to be settled out of court, rather than being branded with the dreaded racist label. An additional 60 banks are even now under investigation. One of the main themes at play in the underwriting of these loans? No job, no problem...and here we go again, but at the worst of all possible times.

In fact, the theme at play when we look at almost every problem that exists, speaks to an administration that seeks to take an existing problem, whatever it may be, twist it around and then needlessly complicate that same problem into an unsolvable nightmare of epic fail proportions. We could look at Obama's failure to drill and the blocking of oil leases and permits with regard to our often dour energy situation as evidence.

If we see the spectre of hyper-inflation staring us down, the administration establishes quantitative easing exercises, which, in effect, prints even more money, thereby lowering the dollar's value, while intensifying inflationary trends magnitudinally the world over. If we worry over the world's establishing a new reserve currency other than the US dollar, our treasury chief actually seconds and even approves of the notion-- sparking a go-ahead for the UN to seek the possible alternatives thereby dooming current efforts.

The Problem Exacerbated

America's deficit and debt problems, which are a direct result of over-spending by almost double what the nation is collecting in revenue, sparked a spending spree by the President and the Democrats to the tune of over $3.7 trillion dollars. Obama's answer when confronted by fiscal hawks? A paltry $ 2 to $ 4 trillion dollars over 10 years, which amounts to only $ 200 to $ 400 billion per year in unidentified spending cuts plus revenue increases of maybe $ 35 million per year--not even a pin-prick-- and therefore not even close to being a viable solution for the national debt problem.

A nation mired in debt and unemployment, within the worst and deepest recession in its history, with the best functioning medical system in the world?  How about Obamacare?  That should fix the non-problem, and even add over $ 120 billion per year in costs before the program is implemented, making our healthcare system become the latest super-problem while fettering the Civil Society even further.

This, even while health insurance carriers are now required to pony up their cash reserves to the point of questionable profitability, therefore pushing up consumer health insurance costs even more, and making insurance  less affordable than ever for business in general--which accomplishes the exact opposite of the stated goal. Want people to buy new cars and solidify the automotive industry? Very well then, create a program that needlessly destroys many of the old ones--at extensive cost to each taxpayer--while creating a used vehicle vacuum for those who cannot afford new vehicles and lining the pockets of the Worker's Party Unions at the same time.

Taken as a whole, a large preponderance of nearly all of the White House's decisions, along with the Democrats formerly in charge, can be laid at the door of extreme epic failure and, in fact, would be an exercise in long-form child's play to illustrate and quantify essentially every move by Obama and the Democratic Legislators--and even some few Republicans--as being the nexus of America's problems rather than those who are actively seeking America's solutions.

So, what exactly is up with all of this? Further, why is it that no one can seem to see that there appears to be much more than your typical liberal ideological politics at play? Our answer would be that Obama's radical Saul Alinsky background, along with a radically vaunted Cloward-Piven strategy having been executed,  has now become almost undeniable within its symmetry to Obama's legislative agenda. I know, I know, its almost impossible to believe that a sitting President would seek to transform the nation into something other-worldly altogether, but with all of the evidence that we have, in addition to Obama's undeniable hesitance to curb America's spending and even take more from the nations citizens, at some point we simply must consider the unthinkable.  So what exactly is the Cloward-Piven strategy, and what are the similarities to Obama's overall agenda?

The Cloward-Piven Strategy

In July of 2010, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report in which the CBO outlined precisely what is happening with regard to the US budget and deficits.  In the report, the CBO stated that while some deficits after a recession are healthy, persistent deficits will crowd out both growth and investment in the private sector as savings and investments will migrate towards the "more reliable" purchase of government debt rather than towards investment into manufacturers, computers and other more productive capital investments. This essentially results in a "crowding-out" of private investment, which leads to lower output and lower incomes than would otherwise occur.

As the fiscal crisis worsens from this self-damaging loop, higher interest rates payable by the government as a direct result of the increasing debt would occur, which would necessitate an even further crowding-out of private investment. If a fiscal or international crisis were to occur during this loop of decline, the government would essentially find itself in a position to where foreign investors would eventually shutdown their continuing purchase of public debt, thereby ultimately causing the entire US financial system to fail. In other words, the US could be one major crisis away from going into complete and total international default.

When we take the above CBO account, apply the ongoing rancorous debate with regard to our debt, and then bring in the strategium as formulated by the Cloward-Piven strategy, we can begin to see exactly both the where's and the why's as to America's current spending disposition. The Cloward-Piven strategy seeks to overthrow capitalism by virtue of overwhelming the system with impossible demands and government handouts, which then pushes society into crisis and then ultimate economic collapse. During the entire debt crisis, the one thing which has been evident from day one is the intransigence by Obama and the Democrats with regard to engaging any active plan to both lower the debt and reduce spending in a meaningful way.

Admiring Lucifer's Formula

This unfortunate paradigm of ultimate poverty has been evident from day one when we look at Obama's actual record with regard to both spending and the national debt. Rep. Paul Ryan, in a recent attempt to set the record straight, indicates Obama's major positions throughout his presidency, which tends to dovetail quite ingeniously with the overall plan of Cloward-Piven debt default.

As you read through the following explanations, remember not to confuse the total debt of approximately $14.5 trillion, to the public debt of what is now almost $ 10 trillion, which while largely similar, represents two different overall categories of  US debt levels:

During Obama's inaugural address in January of 2009, the President made it clear that those who managed the nation's finances would be held to account and that he would restore the trust between the public and their government. At the time of President's speech, the public debt stood at $6.31 trillion dollars.

Obama, in his early years in Chicago, was trained as a community organizer and steeped within the teachings of Communist radical Saul Alinsky, who described a keen appreciation of Lucifer and his skills in organizing and winning a kingdom all his own by railing against the establishment. It was here, also, that Obama established ties with certain power players of the Left and eventually submerged himself in both politics and the church of Black Liberation Theology. In early 1966, during the upheaval of society and the Vietnam war, Francis Fox Piven, also a Democratic Socialist, co-authored the Cloward-Piven strategy of bringing down American society.

Richard Cloward

By April of 2009, Obama and Congress passed what would be the last of any government budgets and called for a $ 2 trillion dollar increase in the debt ceiling, while also increasing discretionary spending.  At this point, only three months later, the public debt climbed to $6.85 trillion dollars, an increase of over $ 540 billion dollars.

In 2008 Piven circulated and signed a petition in which she endorsed Barack Obama for President. Richard Cloward, the husband of Piven, was a founder of the Mobilization of Youth and was also an avowed Socialist who co-authored the Cloward-Piven strategy. Cloward pioneered the strategy of deliberately attempting to expand welfare rolls to the point of breaking the government, pushing state services to the point of collapse, and bringing about societal revolution and the fall of capitalism.

Frances Fox Piven

In February of 2010, the President's budget had already doubled the debt, and virtually every economic spending record had been shattered. The total public debt had risen by over $ 1 trillion dollars in only 10 months to $ 7.85 trillion dollars.

The fundamentals of the Cloward-Piven strategy were aimed towards totally revising the existing set of standards to address the poverty system. The strategy was hinged upon breaking the bank and entirely remaking society into a wholly redistributionalist system. The ultimate goal would totally wipe-out poverty and set up a minimum income level for each citizen, in effect, establishing a guaranteed annual income regardless of work actually done, nevermind what it did to everyone else.

Leftist Instability Puzzle Takes Form

By July of 2010, the President had passed Obamacare and the financial regulatory overhaul among a number of other measures, which also included a decision to forego an acutal budget.  These measures combined pushed the public debt up by nearly$ 1 trillion dollars in only five months, to a record $ 8.69 trillion dollars.

During Obama's early term, the specter of Left-wing Capitalist billionaire George Soros kept appearing in conjunction with the office of the Presidency. In late 2008, Soros described the need for a US stimulus of around $ 800 billion dollars in which the US would fund a gigantic  effort in order to financially anchor state government union workers and government employees during the economic meltdown. Soros also funded the re-election of Obama with ties that actually extended back to 2004. Soros believed that American power and wealth was one of the few remaining impediments to a world globalist government and despised Israel, from whence his birth-rite was derived.

In February of 2011, the President issued a fiscal 2011 budget, which called for another doubling of the debt in five years, and a total spending level of $ 47 trillion dollars in 10 years. Obama has never never made an attempt within the budget of controlling spending. By this time the debt increased by another $ 760 billion dollars to a public debt level of over $9.45 trillion

The authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy's main goal was to focus on and infiltrate the Democratic Party with Leftists who would subscribe to and seek to legislate the principles of the Cloward-Piven strategy, thereby totally disrupting the fabric of the Democratic Party. Both Cloward and Piven knew that the Republican party would virtually always rail against any form of major redistribution. They also indicated a need to establish class warfare between Whites, the wealthy, working class ethnics, and the middle class  against the ghetto class and the extreme poor, thereby setting up a paradigm of inner-city revolts and chaos within American society. Even now, we have seen flash riots erupt from inner-cities all over the US, these are not mere happenstance nor are they accidental. These flash riots are directly related to left wing attempts at destabilizing society.

By April of 2011, the CBO, ratings agencies, even foreign governments had weighed in to warn both Obama and America that US spending had surged dangerously out of control. By this time, Obama began to also comically weigh in, castigating Congress and the opposing party for being unable to reach  sane levels of spending and come to an agreement. The public debt had reached $ 9.67 trillion dollars. However, the massively slowing increases in spending can be directly attributed to the newly elected Republican House measures to both limit and control spending. An increase of only slightly over $ 200 billion dollars.

The connection between Globalists, Liberal elites and academia, and the Democratic Party has become starkly evident over just these past three years. Combining these developments with the economic surge of the Chinese communists and their iron-fisted control over two billion people leaves us to wonder what other links are involved? Que the European Union and its increased control over its member nations during the global financial crisis who are establishing austerity measures on member nations as well as unprecedented super-sovereign control. As this report was being written the Euro has destabilized once again, prompting some member nations to even consider dissolving their membership in the European Union in order to avoid further austerity measures.

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Efforting Epic Fail

As of this writing, July of 2011, Obama has indicated "reams of papers and printouts on his desk" and yet has failed to introduce any enumerated spending plan to reduce the debt and deficits. At this point in the nations spending history, the public debt has risen to over $ 9.75 trillion dollars.

In the latter part of 2010, and just prior to the 2010 election shellacking , Obama stated this: " Belief in Capitalism is blind faith,this philosophy of letting people fend for themselves has failed" ~President Barack Obama, October 2010

We are on the verge of a global transformation; all we need is the one major crisis and the world will accept the New World order.~David Rockefeller, United Nations Business Council,1994

So have we met and been transformed by that major crisis, and has the New World Order become a reality? Or is it that this next crisis will be centered on the US and its national debt default?  We have all seen the extraordinary efforts by virtually every member of  every world Government, including the United States, in their extreme efforts to bailout the super-wealthy banks of the world during the financial crisis, but are you familiar with this quote which has been denounced and yet persists?

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
~David Rockefeller, at a 1991 Bilderberger meeting

As the most telling counterpoint which could have been hoped for in connection with completely validating this article, on July 18th 2011, the Obama Administration issued a statement which threatened to veto any House measure at increasing the debt level by over $ 2 trillion dollars and cutting and capping spending , while in effect balancing the budget, calling the bill an "empty political statement."

Indeed....