Cloward-Piven Blueprint Continues to Unfold

The Washington Times gives three more reasons to believe that the Cloward-Piven strategy of ushering in communism by deliberately collapsing the economy under the burden of public spending is alive and well:

First came word that new jobless claims … jumped above half a million, a number so large that one economist said “it looks like the economy ran into a wall.” Second came a Congressional Budget Office estimate that this year’s federal deficit will be well above $1.3 trillion for a second straight year and remain above $1 trillion next year as well — causing as much debt in three years as government built up in the previous 219.

Third came the announcement by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) that [last Wednesday] was the 2010 “Cost of Government Day,” which is “the day on which the average American has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burdens imposed by government at the federal, state and local levels.” Just two years ago, Cost of Government Day fell an astonishing 34 days earlier. This year, the average American worked 231 days just to support government, which consumes 63.41 percent of national income.

That is to say, if we could get the government monkey off our backs, our standard of living would be close to three times as high.

It gets worse:

If anything, ATR underestimates the problem. Of those 231 days, 74 are taken up by regulatory costs. But that includes only the direct costs of new equipment and labor time required by government red tape. “Not counted are … hidden costs” (such as discouraging new business investment), according to ATR, that “may be as large as the direct compliance costs of regulation. Economists at Washington University in St. Louis, leaders in the study of regulation, estimated these costs to be over $1.5 trillion per year in 2009.”

However, as with FDR’s Great Depression, bad times for us are high times for our rulers:

Taxpayers foot the bill for an increasing number of government workers at outrageously growing wages. ATR reports that federal employment has increased by 230,000, or nearly 5 percent, in just the past year. USA Today reported Aug. 10 that federal pay and benefits per employee now average more than twice that of private workers: $123,049 compared to $61,051. Federal salaries outpaced inflation in the past decade by 33 percent.

Federal employees have the added benefit of not being expected to do anything productive.

Such government extravagance is unsustainable, and all this doesn’t even take into account the $115.8 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare, as calculated by Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute.

If we don’t get the keys to the liquor cabinet away from the liberal elite, they will drink our entire civilization into collapse, either because they are irresponsible, dissolute lowlifes, or because they are consciously evil lowlifes who grew up on the teachings of Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, et al. and out of hatred for the American way fully intend to bring about the catastrophe looming just over the horizon.

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On a tip from Oiao. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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