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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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:53pmAbsolutely 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:44pmI just noticed…is the old hag even wearing a bra??? Gag!!
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Southerner01
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:58pmThe first bra’s were called tit-slings. In her case, the name is fitting.
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chkiaar
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:43pmI’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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 2:27pmimagine 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 2:56pmI 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 3:08pmThen 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 3:45pmOk 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 11:49pmRe: Avenger
I’d also like to know how many of them grew up to be taxpayers and not leaches.
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sb36695
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:34pmHow sad for the children.
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MrKnowItAll
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:28pmGrowing 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:17pmam i the only one who pictured a tapeworm reading this?
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mamapoo
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:17pmMaxine could kick her ****!
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thibx
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:16pmhe 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:14pmThe Crypt Keeper has friends? Who knew?!
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tweetybird
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:21pm@ biohazard23
Crypt Keeper….LOL.
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DenisWTexas
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:12pmWatch 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:00pmThis 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
Oct. 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:58pmShe reminds me of that Old Lady in the Playboy cartoons. Uchhhhh, Sorry,,,,,,,,, Barf
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:58pmtest
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progressiveslayer
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:57pmPiven 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
Oct. 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 9:14pmWe 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:56pmShe 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:54pmHonesty. [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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:52pmWhat a dog. She should wear a mask with a face like that — poor thing….
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jiggasparks
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:51pmMaybe 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:49pmThe old hag should stay away from the brown bag. Imbibing before speaking only amplifies Stupidity.
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AmericanStrega
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:49pmAs my paternal Grandmother always said: “Yeah, well, ya know.”
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FEMALL
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:48pm…and Francis was named after The Talking Mule.
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NachtundNebel
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:46pmPoor demented cretin. New York should be proud! (they probably are.)
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Bluefish49
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:46pmCrazy old bat…
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mrunner
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:45pmThat 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
Oct. 30, 2012 at 12:59pmProof 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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