From the 1980 series, 'Free to choose'; Thomas Sowell debates Piven, on equality

-Posted by D.C. Worth, for Barbay (France/US)

-Video: Thomas Sowell's early views about, Welfare: [must view]
Sowell's debates the dynamics of welfare with Pennsylvania Secretary of Welfare, Helen O'Banion (1980)

-Milton Friedman gives his brilliant assessment of equality in the context of inherited wealth... Thomas Sowell heatedly debates Frances Fox Piven, of 'Cloward-Piven Strategy' fame, on equality of opportunity versus equality of results... [full]

-About the Cloward-Piven Strategy: #
"First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse." [read]

More is known now, from the last few decades...
Government's inept construction of "planned economies" brings poverty & misery... But the American people will face tyranny & death, when robbed of Liberty and Freedom... Thomas Sowell is a hidden gem of intellectuality and reason.... We will see more of him in the months to come...