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ACORN and the Cloward-Piven Strategy


Blogger James Simpson of AmericanThinker.com has devised an interesting flow chart that explains the Cloward-Piven Strategy subscribed to by ACORN and other leftist groups. The goal is to overwhelm the government with welfare claims which encourages dependency and bankrupts the government. This leads to social unrest and ultimately, an anti-capitalist revolution, according to David Horowitz and others.

Sound far-fetched? Read our profile of ACORN here and decide for yourself.

Here is the chart Simpson came up with:

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Matthew Vadum

The author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011), Vadum, former senior vice president at CRC, writes and speaks widely…
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