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Piven Reveals Her Friend Named Children After Welfare Director: ‘The State’ Has Become Their Father

Oct. 30, 2012 12:40pm Benny Johnson

Piven Recalls Friend Naming Children After Welfare Director

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Socialist CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven is glad that one of her close friends has named her children after her state welfare director and laughs off the notion of the state being their father.

Piven’s odd remarks were given at the The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in New York in April, where Piven was asked to address a large group of students on the history of welfare in America.

Piven began by recalling how the welfare system and their caseworkers were to provide for the recipients and their families.

“Some families had a lot of kids.” Piven notes “One of my good friends in the welfare rights movement, Janette Washington, had eight kids. I think she named the last three after the welfare director.”

Piven then laughs, “Remember feminists theorizing about how the state had become the father in the family? Well, Janette took it seriously.”

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calmandcents
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:53pm
Absolutely NO pardons for any who have committed crimes against America or Americans. It is time to gut out the rotten hateful apples.

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chkiaar
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:44pm
I just noticed…is the old hag even wearing a bra??? Gag!!

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- Southerner01
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:58pm
  The first bra’s were called tit-slings. In her case, the name is fitting.
  
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chkiaar
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:43pm
I’m glad she can find humor in this. I can understand having a Welfare System to assist while in dire straights, but to raise generation after generation within this system is deporable and dispicable.
Welfare needs a BIG revamping. No more Food Stamps or whatever, you’ll pick up you food from the welfare office, 10 lbs block of cheese, powdered milk…what, don’t like it…get off welfare. Housing, you’ll live in a barracks style housing with communal bathroom facilities and communal recreational facilities. Gone will be the 54″ TV and PlaySations…don’t like it, GET OFF WELFARE. And did I mention the monthly drug testing? Don’t like it, GET OFF WELFARE!! Oh, and you WILL work, even if it’s picking trash and cutting grass around the housing units. Don’t like it, GET OFF WELFARE!!

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:27pm
  imagine what a clean city Detroit would be if they made all the welfare slugs pick up the trash and scrub graffiti in exchange for their stamps.
  
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- Gigi42
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:56pm
  I agree whole-heartedly!
  
  So, why is this so hard to implement?
  
  Because recipients of these benefits are allowed to vote. The Founders warned of this danger.
  
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- oldduffer
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:08pm
  Then they’ll claim they hurt their backs and file for disability, and find one of the hand out handicap sticker Doctors to back them up. We’re just totally screwed.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:45pm
  Ok someone has to say it…”Janet Washington..eight kids..no father around…all on welfare”. Color? Anyone? Beuller? Rather than stopping this cycle of fatherless kids, the crime and the poverty..the creepy Piven jokes about it and works towards even more of it in our society.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:49pm
  Re: Avenger
  I’d also like to know how many of them grew up to be taxpayers and not leaches.
  
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sb36695
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:34pm
How sad for the children.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:28pm
Growing up just about all welfare Family’s around us had at least eight kids. Daddy always had the latest model Cadillac. Let’s see that was in the 70′s. Think this problem has became better or worst?

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:17pm
am i the only one who pictured a tapeworm reading this?

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mamapoo
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:17pm
Maxine could kick her butt!

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thibx
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:16pm
he probably was the father. these people must be from somewhere else. they are not human. maybe they belong to bigfoot or something.

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biohazard23
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:14pm
The Crypt Keeper has friends? Who knew?!

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- tweetybird
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:21pm
  @ biohazard23
  
  Crypt Keeper….LOL.
  
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DenisWTexas
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:12pm
Watch out for her! Soon, she will attack Frodo and try to take “The Precious” for herself, rather than see it destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom…

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sy212
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:00pm
This is how backwards this country has become. Where does this kind of ideology come from, people with no pride taking from others without compunction. Unbelievable. Shameful. Be strong, take some pride in yourself, Romeny/Ryan 2012, take our country back from these communists.

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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:59pm
“One of my good friends in the welfare rights movement,

I think she meant to say while having a movement.

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13th Imam
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:58pm
She reminds me of that Old Lady in the Playboy cartoons. Uchhhhh, Sorry,,,,,,,,, Barf

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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:58pm
test

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:57pm
Piven and the entire welfare state is a pustule on society,parasites draining the host and using the government as a hammer on the productive class. The welfare state is unconstitutional and immoral and the Cloward & Piven plan of destroying the country is being executed by this Marxist POS regime.

These collectivist pigs all make me want to vomit on them,they’re vile freaks rotting our society from within and their ranks have been increased by design by Barry and his Marxist regime.All the more reason to fire the Marxist mulatto heathen POS. Piven is a communist and should be deported to N.Korea where she can starve to death.

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- TimPatriot
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:51pm
  “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot
  exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will
  continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they
  can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
  candidates who promise the most benefits from the public
  treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
  collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed
  by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest
  civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about
  200 years.”
  
  — Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor 1787
  
  My conclusion—Romney’s #1 goal upon entering office should be to attempt to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. Without it, we are lost.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:14pm
  We already have a balanced budget propostition in the Constitution – it is called Article 1 Section 8. the 9th and 10th amendments…
  
  Repeal 16 and 17 and we will see swift results towards balancing the Fed as well as getting the Fed back within Constitutional boundaries
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:56pm
She is only the tip of the iceberg that is the behemoth of academia. The whole university system is polluted with these gas bags and welfare pigs.

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Cavallo
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:54pm
Honesty. [sarc] See Dads? We’re not needed.. if the dumb ho wasn’t smart enough to root out the parasite then why should we be held accountable. Wasn’t our decision after all. Daddy/Uncle Sam can take care of her and her brats. [/sarc]

What a sad world. Too bad the storm didn’t wash her back out to sea with the rest of the garbage and rotting diseased sea creatures.

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AJAYW
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:52pm
What a dog. She should wear a mask with a face like that — poor thing….

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jiggasparks
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:51pm
Maybe this was the welfare queen Reagan was talking about, not some black chick as the media and the left thinks he was talking about.

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StormRider
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:49pm
The old hag should stay away from the brown bag. Imbibing before speaking only amplifies Stupidity.

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AmericanStrega
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:49pm
As my paternal Grandmother always said: “Yeah, well, ya know.”

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FEMALL
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:48pm
…and Francis was named after The Talking Mule.

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NachtundNebel
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:46pm
Poor demented cretin. New York should be proud! (they probably are.)

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Bluefish49
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:46pm
Crazy old bat…

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mrunner
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:45pm
That is just messed up. The thought that she is a college professor is even more messed up. I could see that comment coming from a welfare queen who has relinquished all self respect to the state… but a college professor? That is just messed up.

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- IDConservative55
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Proof that having that piece of paper does not mean one learnt a thing. Tireds of these welfare queens that become baby factories just so they can increase the amount thay receive from welfare.
  
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