would follow. >> if you could flood the american welfare system with risipients you could break the bank. >> stanly is a senior fellow . he has done extensive research on the acorn. >> that would force the federal government to have a guaranteed minimum income. it was a strategy to provoke socialism through a crisis of the welfare state system. they used to flood welfare offices with recipients that demand more welfare payments. >> the record in the entire field of welfare and human relation size one of colassal and complete failure. >> then governor ronald reagan of california felt that the welfare rights organizers were destroying the lives they claimed to be helping. >> they have tried to raise people by mass movements and big government approach has institutional poverty and until welfare becomes a way of life in the second or third generation of families. >> democratic bill clinton embraced reagan's view and ended welfare as we know it >> by 1970 he claim to see why it was a sinking ship and break the bank stratentliy was simply not work neither was wily's narrow focus on only

change would follow. >> i think there was a theory if i could just flood the american welfare system with welfare recipients, you could break the bank, so to speak. >> stanny kerts is a senior fellow at the ethics center and has done extensive research on the national welfare organization and on acorn. >> that would stories the federal government to create a guaranteed minimum income. so it really was a strategy to provoke socialism through a kind of crisis of the welfare state system. they used to flood welfare offices with recipients who would protest and demand more welfare payments. >> their record in the entire field of welfare in their entire field of human relations is one of colossal and almost complete failure. >> then governor ronald reagan of california felt that the welfare rights organizers were destroying the very lives they claimed to be helping. >> they have tried this raising of people by mass movements. their whole big government approach has institutionalized poverty, perpetuating its degradation until welfare becomes a way of life under the second and third genera