(CNN) – If you're dissatisfied with the economy, or unemployed, Herman Cain thinks you should take a long, hard look in the mirror.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted Wednesday, the up-and-coming GOP 2012 contender and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza summed up his bewilderment about recent demonstrations on Wall Street.
"Don't blame Wall Street," Cain said. "Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."
The conservative radio talk show host described the protests as "planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration, though he admitted he didn't "have the facts to back this up."
Demonstrators have gathered to protest big banks during the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, but their grievances don't end with the economy. The protesters, mainly youth in their twenties, have addressed issues from police brutality to union busting, although they are also upset with the war in Afghanistan, the environment, and the state of the world in general.
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement has also drawn support from unions.
But for Cain, the demonstrations simply amount to "anti-capitalism."
Allowing the banks had a "big part" in the 2008 economic crisis, the candidate, who's known for his bombast and has been rising in national polls pointed out, "We're in 2011, okay?"
"When I was growing up I was blessed to have had parents. That didn't teach me to be jealous of anybody and didn't teach me to be jealous of somebody," Cain explained.
"It is not a person's fault because they succeeded. It is a person's fault if they failed. And so this is why I don't understand these demonstrations and what is it that they're looking for."
Cain spokesman JD Gordon declined to add a comment on the candidate's interview.
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Another brilliant insensitive remark by a clueless candidate. The Wall Street demonstrators are the Tea Party left branch. Same idea (frustration with our failed elite), but different way to express it.
Could Cain be more callous and out of touch? When you don't win the WH much less the GOP nomination, Cain, blame yourself!
Not having facts to back up assertions is kind of a GOP tradition isn't it? At least Cain admits it.
OMG, seriously???? So when my 64-year-old mother was laid off from a company that she'd worked at for 8 years, that's somehow HER fault?? Saying countless small businesses (and my friends) went under and had shut their doors because of their own misgivings is absolute absurdity!! They couldn't get bank loans, they couldn't get new business, they couldn't go on with no income thanks to the '08 economic failure, and for Cain to somehow BLAME them is by far the most idiotic thing I've heard yet. Obviously this guy is a Corporate giant who has NEVER undergone rough times and had to look for work. What an a–hole.
Cain's stance on those who are unemployed is simply ignorant.
Herm has a point... Wall Street didn't put those people there, OBAMA and his failed plans did!
Let me guess: he certainly understood the TP protests, right? He has no clue as to the level of frustration most people feel, and he obviously can't fathom the anger people feel at the business community that get bailouts while other people work hard and get nothing for their efforts except sound bites. I love how he says the protests on Wall Street were orchestrated by the same people who arranged the abilouts in the first place, namely, the government he now claims he wants to lead.
Arrogant idiot.
another go F yourself from the republican party, it baffles me how they can continue to alienate everyone but the rich and continue think they are going to win
Part of the unemployment problem is the geographic location of the would-be-worker. People, especially in rural areas, have deep roots in their home towns. It's not always easy for someone to pull up with family in tow & relocate. This may defy cold, hard economic data, but we are dealing with blood & flesh human beings.
And another GOP candidate shoots himself in the foot.
Another Repub using "class warfare" to spead their message. The current economic conditions can not be blamed on the unemployed like the GOP wants to do. Instead, they should be finding ways to get America back to work. Raising revenue to pay off our debt incurred by giving repeated tax cuts to the wealthy and to Big Business, er, sorry, Job Creators hasn't and isn't working. It has created the current economic mess we are now dealing with. Republican have obstructed every single effort put forth to RESTORE our economy, create jobs, or help the PEOPLE destroyed by Wall St banks. Republicans are bought and paid for by the very banks who brought down our nation, the very corporations who sent our jobs overseas..Republicans have betrayed the PEOPLE at every turn.
many of the big banks wont be around today if it wasnt for the taxpayers money that bailed them out. the CEO's are getting multi-million dollar salaries...i dont hear nor see the banks doing anything worth even a dollar for the taxpayer! instead they are raising fees left and right, and cutting jobs. i dont see them doing anything to help the common middleclass man. if the banks werent greedy, if the wall st wasnt greedy, perhaps the employment rates wont be high and public dissatisfaction would be low! But I guess that doesnt make sense! So, it must be the fault of taxpayers (those who still have jobs to pay taxes!) and the unemployed, that rich are getting rich at the expense of 95% of the US population.
Cain isnt dumb at all...he is just dumber than anyone and everyone who has/will vote(d) for him.
Don't blame Wall Street," Cain said. "Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."
Once again, we have a Republican basically sayng the unemployed are lazy and don't really want to work. A theme repeated by tom Delay and various other cirminals within the Greed Over People party.
So, why would an elected Republican work to "create jobs" for those they deem to be too lazy to want to work?
How does this make sense? The Rs say they are the ones who know how to put people back to owrk – the people they call too lazy to work!
how come such a larger percentage of the citizens in this country can't see the reality of this party?
Can ANY republican tell me why we should believe the Rs will work hard to put Americans back to work given they believe the unemployed won't take those jubs because they are lazy?
nope – didn't think so!
It's gonna be funny when it finally hits so many Rep-ublicans that they are not rich. And while they join their leadership in circling their little raggedy wagons around these bohemoth millionaires, I just have to laugh. Bo-ortz = just signed a $40 million contract... Limb-augh = $400 million contract... Ha-nnity $100+ million bucks... Of course they'll protest. But as soon as they hollar "class warfare", Billy in the double-wide, sets down his beer, and pumps his fist saying, "YEAH!!! THATS CLASS WAREFARE!" Funny...
Cain's idea for 9-9-9, came from selling a 9 inch pizza with 9 toppings for $9. It made him a millionaire, so it should work for our tax code. Oops, the facts are, it would send us into a great depression, which is what republicans want.
Well, that's an oversimplification. It took me 4 months out of grad school to get a garbage job and then 8 months to get a good one. I barely slept all through undergrad and grad school, plugging away at policy work at a top tier university with upper percentile test scores. After graduation and months of searching for jobs, fast food restaurants wouldn't even hire me. I eventually got a job as a waiter and, ironically, worked as an unpaid research assistant for a book on unemployment policy. For my average achieving friends, the story is much worse. Some have been underemployed for years now, scraping together contract work on programming projects. What Cain fails to mention is that the quality of supply does not generate demand. It can meet latent demand, but cannot generate demand alone. Without a decent job, many talented young adults are doomed to live with their parents, delay marriage or other significant relationships, and let their skills rust. There are many underachievers who may deserve a good smack by the invisible hand, but for those who put in their dues? They are beginning to look for the wizards behind the curtain.
This guy reminds me of Clarence Thomas.
Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!
And this guy leads the GOP field? Bring it on in 2012.
And now the latest "flavor of the month" has just sealed the deal on his candidacy, I'm sure all of the conservatives without a job did it to themselves, hell based on their mantra, there shouldn't be any unemployed conservatives, who shouldn't have gotten a house that was foreclosed, and didn't go bankrupt from debt.......do I have it right?
Basically, he's just proven to AMERICA that Obama's policies have nothing to do with the 9.1% unemployment, only the actual people who lost their jobs are at fault, go figure.
I'm glad Mr. Cain has clarified it all for America.............anyone who says they think Cain is a good choice probably supported Trump, Palin, Bachmann, and of course W........yeah, great judge of character their conservatives, looks like you have to force yourselves (have been forced to) pick between the architect of Robamacare and "the great mandater" send the illegals to college Perry..........hilarious!
For a guy who consistently says really stupid things, Cain outdid even his usual stellar stupidity. He obviously is unaware that income mobility is greater in "socialist" Europe than it is here. And trust me, blaming people who lost their jobs and income due to Wall Street's crimes is not a way to get votes from anyone by Wall Street criminals.
When we call you an Uncle Tom, don't blame us, blame yourself!
Would I be considered a racist if I said, "There is no place for this kind of stupidity and insensitivity from any candidate for president?"
It's nearly impossible to differentiate between GOP candidates and SNL characters.
Cain must be the dummest, most insensitive, out of touch human being I have had the irritation of listening to recently. the Republicans are full of the 'you slap me on my face and then threaten me if I cry'. Wall street and the Bush administration's mishandling of the economy has led to the present financial crisis we have in the world today. With comapanies unable to hire, what do you do with your diploma/certificate Mr. "look at yourself in the mirror". If I was as lazy as you blame me for, I would not even go to the university/college.
Tired of making $0.80 on the dollar to men, women? Take a long hard look in the mirror!
Tired of having disproportionately high unemployment rates, blacks? Take a long hard look in the mirror!
Cain is absolutely right! Tough love and reality are insensitive. Success is tough. If you want to be successful in whatever form or manner...don't search for sensitivity!
Sensitivity is for children and sissies!
Cain if you lose the nomination don't blame anyone but yourself. Cold and callous dumb A.
Companies are not hiring because they know they can run lean and mean and make more money. They have no interest in hiring if theya re making profits with fewer people. Cain should know this, but he refuses to take on Big Business because he's afraid he'd lose what little cred he has.
"Don't blame Wall Street," Cain said. "Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself." Wow
As a conservative this statement made me shocked I don’t blame bank because I never paid interest on my credit card I don’t allow bank to rip me off
But my house value went down like others do I have take blame for my current house value
I wish Cain win the nomination it will give Obama four more years
The simple fact that he doesn't understand the demonstrations is exactly why he would make a poor President.
And when you LOSE Mr. Cain – because you WILL blame YOURSELF.
Republicans REFUSE to lay the blame where the blame lies. IF W hadn't gone into his selfish war(s) the country wouldn't be in this mess and YES it is STILL Bush's fault. They don't want to hear the truth – and this is the TRUTH.
Then again what can you expect from someone named Cain?
I agree with Cain. Instead of people trying to pull themselves out of this mess, they find a way to blame others for their lack of success. Do we need to help others pull themselves up, yes. But the successfull cannot take fault for those that fail. Is greed out there, yep. Do we need regulations, yep. We just cannot point fingers anymore though. It's irresponsible. We really do need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves how we can help out country, not how we can take advantage of it.
When you have 100k in student loans, and a liberal arts degree, then you should blame yourself. Read some of the "I am the 99%" posts. Good gosh.
They needed parents to say "yes be a painter in your spare time. But get a degree that will pay the bills."
Some tea?
not corporate thugs, for greed to move out of America, an d sending men to WAR?????idiot...shut up...
So, American company A pulls up stakes here and moves production to China, Vietnam, etc. I loose my job here because of this. It's my fault? Duh... This guy is a bozo.
Wow....so if you get laid off because your job was ooutsource blame yourself...Hey Cain thank god we love Pizza here, and that can't be outsource. You are not getting my vote! bye.....gop/teabaggers...whatever you call yourselves...still the same crap!
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I'm black and I think Cain is one of the worst candidates we have in this presidential race. He is insensitive to other people, he's a racist, he's arrogant, out of touch, and worst of all he is an Uncle Tom sellout of the worst kind. He thinks bc he was a CEO of a Pizza chain that excludes him from the struggles of poor people and minorities. He actually thinks he is no longer black but an equal to whites bc he became wealthy. In his eyes you are poor, black, middle class, lower class, unemployed, disable, homeless, etc bc you choose to be. Success is the only measure of worthiness in his eyes. He thinks that all his flaws or shortcoming are dismissed based on the fact that he is successful and that puts him above other minorities,his own race, and poor people. I really dislike this guy.
Finally a comment that makes sense. I lost my job in 2008 and busted my ass to get a new one. I had one year that my wife, daughters, and I were up in the air but again I conquered my fear and not only got a new job, but my wife did too. It takes drive and passion, and not whining and feeling sorry for how some nameless recession took everything away from you. Go out and get it! All the losers here still don't understand that.
Amen to Cain. As long as there are help wanted signs out, or classified in the paper, it shows there are lazy people out there. I agree with many of you that the initial lay off may not be an individual's fault, but being out of work for 2 years, is just a plain failure on your part. You really do need to look in the mirror.
Hmmm.... apparently Cain forgot that these people whom he just insulted are the ones who will potentially vote for him. Cross another one off the list. Next flavor of the week?
Once again this black man seems to think that because he made it everyone else can make it. Once again Herman, you didn't make it alone; you had help. If you think for one second that it's every individual's fault for not being employed-shame on you!! Coupled along with you 'brainwashed' statements, and your thinking about giving states' more rights let's any half brain person know that you are a self centered individual. Stick with the pizza business; can a brotha get a9, 9, 9 deal.Half pepporoni, sausage etc.!
"Hey, I'm gonna get you too, another one bites the dust Ha" – Queen
Cain is polling high just like Bachmann did in Iowa..........and just like Bachmann, her mouth got her falling fast.......Mr. Cain, Thanks for coming, drive safe!
@Doug: I have to say, your comments generally reflect a new breed of ignorance in our country. It's a huge part of the problem. On the other hand I'm sure its fun to step away from Fox Noise for a few minutes to incite the smarter ones.
I told you he'd be announcing the end of his candiacy by the end of October.
And let's get the whole quote out there so we can see just how much conspiracy-style Teatroll crazy is involved:
"“I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated, to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration,” Cain said. “Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks — if you don’t have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!”"
He even opens with a statement admitting that he has no facts to back himself up and that he's just fabricating fantasyland fairytales...wild, flailing accusations designed to anger and instill fear and resentment. There's no talking sense with people like that...NONE...they will ride their delusions straight into their daydreams and nightmares and rationalize all contrary information away.
I guessing all those young losers hanging out at time square so they can avoid the employment office are texting away on this article aren't they? Get a bath, cut your hair, get a job, and stop blaming other people! If you want everything to be free, go to North Korea, where it is!
BTW, Cain and his ilk wouldn't know what "sweat equity" is if it dripped into their etouffee. He probably enjoyed 7 or 8 figure salaries while managers working 60-70 hour weeks to run his crappy pizza parlors took home just barely enough to make ends meet...and probably not even that.
Herman Cain is a cool dude. A true breath of fresh air and a guy that actually has ANSWERS to America's problems.
CNN asked the question today on TV and online if a black man can win The GOP nomination. The answer is a resounding yes and I'm white as a snowflake saying that.. A bad President is a bad President regardless of race, and we have a bad President now. I care about good policy not the candidate's ethnicity.
Boy, he lost MY vote with that statement! When our income dropped over 20% last year, when home sales tanked, when unemployment went through the roof that was MY fault? I'm not a whiner – I went out and got a 2nd part time job that took me more than 9 months to get so my kids can have what they need, but when large companies close their doors because of the "2008 economic downturn" and hundreds of people in a rural, midwest community lose their jobs as a result, how can you blame them for the lack of available jobs to replace that! Do we blame the citizens of Detroit, for example, because the automobile industry tanked? Yutz.
Per Herman Cain, it's the unemployed, not corporate greed & wall street, that graded the real estate credit swap defaults AAA; Per Herman Cain it's the unemployed, not corporate greed & wall street, that took bail out money and gave themselves bonuses; Per Herman Cain, it's the unemployed not corporate greed & wall street banks, that raised zero risk, government backed and insured, student loan interest rates to 8.75%; Per Herman Cain, it's the unemployed, not corporate greed & wall street that raise credit card interest to usury rates to 29%. Cain is an embarrassment.
@Wow – you're as out of touch as Cain. I'm glad you and your wife found new jobs. Are they as good as the ones you lost? Are you being paid just as much or more? I'm asking because I'm curious. My husband was an out of work teacher with a Master's Degree. Living in a Republican state, of course education budgets were slashed and there are 300-400 applicants for every teaching position available. You think it's HIS fault that he's not one of 300 chosen for a job? You think it's the failure of every out-of-work teacher who is more than qualified? My husband is working now at a call center making $10/hr, wasting his education and talent, and hoping his company doesn't go through another round of layoffs. Would you blame him for that too? Cain is an idiot, and so are you if you think every out of work or under-worked person deserves to be so based on their own misgivings.
So yeah...too late for sweat equity, Cain...the only blame we're placing on ourselves now is that we didn't cry out for blood sooner.
Herman Cain just became my choice for President. Too often, Americans expect their handout, i.e. Unemployment benefits for 99 weeks! That's nuts. That should be reduced to 52 weeks MAX. We don't polish/enhance our skills in any way, except maybe our drinking skills. We're a global economy and have to compete with outsourcing jobs because people with better skills are willing to take them at less wages. Americans should want to fight back. Whose fault is it, theirs? Maybe their upbringing too, especially since it was a time of wealth and low unemployment for the most part.
Herman Cain 2012
Truth be told, Herman Cain probably only got the position he was in bc of affirmative action. Back in the days when he was entering the job force companies had to hire one or two blacks and he probably happened to the one, and over the years they give him little prmotions bc he was the token black guy and eventually after 30 years or so you get to move up, but if not for AA he probably would have never been hired and he would be singing a different tune these days. So its good to remember where you come from and how you got there and maybe you could give back and open a door for others like you instead of just patting yourself on the back for your accomplishements.
"Get a bath, cut your hair, get a job, and stop blaming other people!"
You forgot "get off my lawn!!!"
"and I'm white as a snowflake saying that"
Pro tip: saying crap like that immediately discredits your entire post no matter what you said.
A mostly white crowd of young people...and they are pointing out whats wrong with America?..Go look in the mirror. I guess they expect working people to pick up the tab and support them while they play in the streets. Fact is..they arent the 99% they think they are. They are the 1 % lazy rich white kids mainly. There was more people at 1 NFL game last Sunday then all of the protestors combined..lol
So he denies that the republican party has a history of not working for black people. He tells all jobless people that its their fault they are not employed. He refuses to address the fact that his 999 plan will unfairly tax the poor. Whats next? This guy is extremely out of touch. And Im personally offended that he claims black people have been "brain washed" into voting democrat. I as a black male look at every candidate before I vote for them and I chose the candidate that would best benefit me, and most importantly, best benefit the country. Mr. Cain I believe you are the most dangerous politician out there. You hide behind "straight talk" and "business experience" and it seems if your only agenda is to make it easier for big business to make more money.
Alrightie...more great advice from the candidate from the "I've got mine, screw you" party. It's clowns like cain that have the rest of the world shaking their heads.
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God Bless – someone finally telling it the way it is! Refreshing from a politician, he's telling you plain and simply put, that the government isn't going to solve all your problems and that you need to take ownership of your problems
He needs to look in the mirror...and see what he has and who helped him get there...... then look at the people around him...how did they get the way they are....money...school grants....scholarships...INHERITANCE!
People need people to grow not criticize unless you are in their shoes...same on him!
Just another out of touch Republican fatcat. Blame the victim huh?
My God these people are pathetic and yet dangerous--
"Greg wrote:
"Herman Cain is a cool dude. A true breath of fresh air and a guy that actually has ANSWERS to America's problems."
So...FU is an answer to America's unemployment issues? Wow. I want MY country back.
Sure all those people who had jobs off shored by corporations were the ones who FORCED the poor little corporations to offshore those jobs to 2nd and 3rd world countries.
Just by wanting a living wage, benefits and housing versus 3rd world pay, a local witch doctor, and cooking over a cow dung fueled fire in a grass hut, all of the unemployed and underemployed caused corporations to move jobs offshore in order for corporate boards to be able to continue raise executive compensation.
Yeah ,right.
So how many people with college degrees are working in the retail outlets, Mr. Cain. My guess is not many. Maybe you should hire some of those folks even though you know when something better comes along – help tide them and their families over a bit. What a jerk.
Wow! Simply, wow! So, the Republicans crash the economy- lose millions of jobs, do nothing to create jobs or help the middle class. On top of it all Cain says its our fault if we don't have a job or we aren't rich. Unbelieveable! They are sooooo out of touch!
The GOP/TP- economic terrorists gunning for you!
So I should tell people whose jobs were outsourced for cheap slave labor in China/India/Mexico/etc. that it's all THEIR fault that the corporations outsourced their jobs? Can you please explain that one to me – and them?
In case he hasn't noticed that the over 9% (and higher) of unemployed include voting Republicans too.
Luckily, he won't be getting the GOP nomination.
Per Holly's comments: illegals also run the anchor baby scam by claiming full child tax credits for citizen children under one taxpayer number and working under another number. This way the full IRS child tax credits always roll in since the parents never show any income. The illegals also do this to easily qualify their children for welfare and food stamps since the parent never shows income.
I like straight talk and I think most Americans do. Herman Cain is absolutely correct here. This is what we like to hear, not the pandering garbage that the government's job is to make sure every US citizen is happy and comfortable.
First @ Doug... Can you tell me what engineers like myself should have done to prevent our jobs being sent overseas? Because when I became an engineer in the 90's it was a solid career move. Doug, you are an idiot who I hope gets to experience some hard times soon, becasue I'll tell ya brother, unless you are a millionare you are not bulletproof in this day and age. As for Mr. Cain, he's a fool, and people like him got us into this mess in the first place. If you want to get out of it, stop listening to the lies of supply side economics and realize that if you let a few people have too much, than a lot of people have too littel. It's simple, and if you don't get it, or have some lame argument why it's good to have a class of super rich people, You are an idiot just like Cain and Doug.
We have 99% of the votes.
"...he admitted he didn't "have the facts to back this up."
At least the guy is honest about it, which is pretty weird for a Republican presidential candidate in an attack on the President.
One word comes to mind.... IDIOT. Where does the GOP get these clowns from?
@ Don...lots of minorities there. Don't know what race you are, but you're either racist, or a self-hating white person clearly.
Herman Cain is exactly right.
I agree with Cain that it is 2011, and we get to move on.
However, you Republican keep want us to dial back to those days by pushing those corporation friendly policy. Wait, I am sorry, Wall Street has not really changed a lot since 2008
@Ricky Jerrel "So he denies that the republican party has a history of not working for black people." Are you talking about the Republican party that was the abolishonist party, the one that created the Emancipation Proclamation, the one that created the 14th amendment, the one that forced Southern schools to integrate, or the one that had members lynched by the KKK (Democrat party) for aiding blacks in voting?
When You lose the nomination Cain;..."Don't blame the liberal media"..."Don't blame the other candidates"..."Don't
blame the Democrats"....Blame that FOOL in the mirror!
Cain must be expressing the GOP?Tea Party brand of compassionate conservatism.
So, I guess Obama should just get on tv and tell small business owners who are always whining about something, Too bad you tried and you failed, don't look for any help here. Why do repubs hate poor or working people. 999 would increase taxes on the poor and repubs are fine with that, but if you want to remove loopholes and put taxes back to old rates for companies then repubs say now is not the time raise taxes on ANYONE, but Caine introduces an increase on the poor and they say yeah lets do it. Ryans wants to cut SS and Medicare and they say yeah, how is that?
"the government isn't going to solve all your problems and that you need to take ownership of your problems"
Will he and people like him be singing the same tune when they're lined up for the proverbial guillotines because we finally took ownership of our problems instead of waiting for the gov't to do it on our behalf?
He and people like him ARE the problem.
Bad move, Cain has now given up on the argument that government is to blame. If I'm personally at blame for not having enough money or or not having a job then it most certainly can't be the fault of the government. Of course he'd talk out of both sides of his mouth if you pointed this logical contradiction out. So Mr. Cain I'm confused – is it my fault or the government's?
In a way he's saying the truth. If American are open to working hard, taking any jobs, we would not face the economic problems. People in China and India are willing to do any jobs.. we are not...
Our CEO was making $26,000 a week - that was my annual salary. They laid me off to save money. Cain should go back to pizza.
Just another GOP puppet. You'd think in this economic environment they would have an ounce of common sense.Keep talking...
To you people who agree with Idiot Cain... Why is it that you think peopel are lazy and don't want to work? I'lll give you the answer, it's because YOU are lazy, YOU are the ones who don't want to work, YOU YOU YOU. You degenerates must realize that the bulk of the people who don't have jobs would very much like one. I don't understand how you can be that stupid.
This guy is the real deal. Love it. Go Herman!
With the backing of unions, I think politicians will start taking the movement seriously. These guys have been fighting big business for a long time and have connections.
POLL: Does support from unions and organized labor lend credibility to the Occupy Wall St. movement?
Vote: http://www.wepolls.com/p/3459064
yes and when all his corporate wall street buddies failed, they looked to the people to bail them out. Hypocrates all of them
as a GRANDSON of a chauffer, and a SON of a small business owner who "creates jobs" and went to a historically black college............Mr. Cain is an idiot!
His only purpose is for conservatives to prove that they aren't racist by supporting him. I was driving the other day and saw a vehicle with a Cain sticker......he looked at me with amazement on why i was laughing so profusly at him........hopefully he read what Cain just said and finally understands!
Cain's logic is cancer, dying, hate, war, sickness, poverty,injustice is your fault too.
Cain... didn't you slay Abel and become synonymous with the word hate?
There you go again Mr. Godfather Pizza! What a tool. This guy is suppose to be a threat against Obama next year? Very Laughable. What don't you get him and Michael Steele to form the GOP ticket next year. LOL!
Cain is insensitive but his real agenda is his 9-9-9 plan. No one is talking about this. It essentially trades low 9% corporate taxes and 9% income tax on the rich for a 9% income and 9% (+ state sales tax) on everyone else. What would this do to someone making $40,000 a year or less? Nothing about it is being asked.
So many here asserting that unemployment is a handout. An unemployment check is based on your income earned. Earned. It is not a hand out but an insurance that you paid into should you get "unemployed!"
He is telling the truth. I am part of the 99% that they refer to that they are speaking for. Well, they are not speaking for me, that is for sure. I make about 60k a year, I am Republican so please get the notion out of your head that the rich and wealthy are all Republicans. I am not rich and I am not wealthy but I absolutely believe in capitalism. Socialism has never worked, look at Russia or Greece. I believe that you are where you are based on the choices you make. If you don't have a job or are uneducated or whatever else, that is your fault, not Wall Street. Cain has actually run a business. The decision to bail out the "big banks" was a smart business decision! So far taxpayers have made over $10 BILLION and expected to be closer to $20 BILLION when all is paid back. The banks have paid back! The outstanding loans are from GM!!! Go protest in Detroit. Last time i checked, GM is a car company not a big bank or Wall Street. If you want to make more money then go out and do it and quit complaining.
Herman Cain isn't afraid to tell it like it is.
All these smelly hippy college students whining about student loan debt? LOL! Who allowed themselves to get into debt?
We have devolved into a nation of complete losers, exemplified by the uber loser these losers put into the White House.
Are you kidding me?!?!? Not everyone has things handed to them. It's no fun being unemployed or UNDERPAID!!!!!!! Some work multiple jobs, I chose to be poor because I want to protect my child. I do not trust many but this guy is just a jackster.
Peace
He was a CEO of a major corp., I wonder how many millions of $ he made a year and how much his nice bonuses were? I don't think he has a clue in his head about what the real people in this country deal with every day. He's just like so many professional politicians, all he knows is how to put others (Palin today) to try to raise himself up. Hard to get out of that stuff!
Obama's secret weapon for re-election: a live mic in front of a Republican candidate's mouth.
Some people are out of work due to the bad economy and that is due to poor ideas coming out of the WH. I'm just curious how the protesters who are supposed to be jobless and broke can afford to hang out in NYC all day long.
Herman Cain needs to blame the guilty for me not having my job! The Banks, Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac are corrupt businesses. I worked in the Bank construction business. He is ignorant.....The truth is 17% of construction jobs are held by Illegals. That's another reason I am sitting at home. An Illegal Has my construction Job? Want to create jobs for AMERICANS? Send the illegals home and tell them they cannot CUT in line...I want them here....but, legally like the rest. I am not Joe the Plumber, I am James The Blue collar worker for American Rights.
I keep waiting for the real class warfare to break out. It is not going to be words, it's going to be violence. Who do you think is going to be met with peasants hold pitchforks at the gates of their exclusive communities? The Herman Cains of the world. I shudder to think what will happen in the next couple of months and more and more people get more and more desperate. We've already made plans with friends to hole up on our farm, well armed and ready...
Sure, if you're 56 years old and just got laid off from a job that took you 20 years to get and that paid you near six-figure income, while the guy who ran your company to the ground with his decisions got a $25 million severance pay, it's your fault that no one wants to hire you and that your ego won't allow you to be a Walmart greeter just so you can afford to supplement your medical care.
Cain,
Next year, when you don't become the president of the United States, blame yourself. It is not because Republicans are not going to nominate a black politician for president, even though there is not a sliver of difference between you and the Tea Party in regard to policy positions, you don't have the baggage of Romney (he is Mormon and his Massachusetts health care plan is the model for Obama's health care plan), and you are a much better speaker and most likely a better campaigner than Romney.
I like Cain but I think he is wrong here. It is one thing to say people who are lazy and have no ambition have only themselves to blame for having no job. In this economy a lot of people, hard working people, have lost their jobs due to no fault of their own and I find this comment disturbing.
After reading 999 , I will never look at a Pizza the same !
Nor will I ever understand the arrogance of some people .Humility is a virtue Mr Cain lost on his quest !
Thats enough from Cain. How about a little Media focus on Jon Huntsman? Or is he too sane to generate crazy-talk sound bites?
Wow, this guy is crazy. I understand the concept of picking yourself by your boot straps, but this is way out of touch with reality. So, he worked hard and became a millionaire. Good for him. But his viewpoints on the middle class and the jobless situation is way out of touch. So many people want to work, but they can't even find jobs, because they are all shipped overseas now. I also love it when these guys say they create jobs: minimum wage jobs that is.
The truth hurts, does't it? He is right in this basic statement. It is the same one used by our parents, get out and get a job, any job. It is easier to get a better job when you have one. I will not hire someone that has been unemployed for two years. No initiative, no job here. I have hired someone that had to work at Walmart just to have a job, I was impressed that he stooped so low as to feed his family. Now he makes $75K with paid medical and paid vacation.
This man is totally clueless! Let's blame the unemployed. It's their fault that greedy corporations layoff people just so they can increase their profits!
I am shocked! Another bizarre and asine statement by Herman Cain. If I follow his logic, then the tea party protesters should look at themselves for the political nightmare they have created by voting and supporting people like Herman Cain!
I really wish people would get educated on a subject before making a comment. Mot of you obviously have know clue of what is really happening. I think you all just get on a bandwagon like the rest of the uneducated protestors and dont' even know what you are talking about. God please help our country that we have so many easily influenced people to believe crap. By the way, the banks loaned the money, but I don't know if I have heard a story about being tied up with a gun to your head to buy the mortgages. Cains remarks are about taking responsibility for your life. Teh collapse happend because people defaulted on loans that they were VERY aware they could not afford. The people selling the loans were street level people like you and me, not WALL STREET executives. You signed on the dotted line with no diress and you probably signed for your biggest asset with a kid that worked 2 monthst ago at Taco Bell telling you how the loan works. I have truly seen this many times. Start taking responsibility. Cains message is for all of us to step up and quit blaming others for our own unhappiness. Look at yourself in the mirror is right.
Mr Cain don't knock the protests ok? It gives people like me something to do all day long besides work.
Trenee'
Our CEO was making $26,000 a week – that was my annual salary. They laid me off to save money. Cain should go back to pizza.
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It's unfortunate that you were laid off, Trenee, but in this tough economy those are choices that need to be made sometimes. You do understand that what the CEO is paid is related more to what your CEO does rather than what you used to do, right? The only real connection is that the money comes from the same place. In most cases, the right person for CEO can be worth an order of magnitude more money to a company than what they are paid. Even at $1.3 million a year this CEO can be bringing the company many more times that because of what he or she is able to accomplish.
I do not understand why you feel this is justification to dislike Herman Cain. CEO's are not evil people. In general they are very productive and valuable people.
Shouldn't we all hate the poor? They wear the worst clothes and drive the worst cars. I hear some of them clean their own homes – if you call those shacks homes... Mr. Cain is certainly a good Republican and top soldier in the class war against the unwashed masses!
Tell it like it is Mr. Cain. But Obama's liberal lazy's are like Obama. They have to blame other for their own failures in life.
Hello Black Walnut, welcome to the end of your week.
That's right. As he admits, "he doesn't understand". He's oblivious to the problems of the common man, and that's why I would never vote for him or anyone like him.
Tell the banks to start loaning again so they can become wealthy on their own through entrepreneurship!
Why are my supportive comments to Cain being deleted? Is this just a commentary site for everyone against Cain?
He is exactly right, no wonder the moocher class comes out in force to act outraged.
This is kind of frightening, how in the world do we have a politician running for president who doesn't understand the impact banks had on the recession and housing market collapse. Does Cain know what a mortgage CDO is? This actually says quite abit about his understanding of economics and finance, kind worrisome.
Cain is not out of touch – he's on point. We live in America – a place where we are fortunate enough to have the freedom to do something about our situation if we lose our jobs. The answer is quite simple – instead of crying about Wall Street, and saying 'there are no jobs' – we can do something amazing, we can create one for ourselves. You don't have to go out and get a shop and sell goods, or anything crazy, but everybody...and I mean EVERYBODY, is skilled in something. Whether that's as a laborer, or being able to create a value added process and sell it – you can go out and make something for yourself. When the Company lays you off and you lose your job, it's because the Company can operate without you. Why should they pay for something they don't need? What he's saying is go make yourself valuable, educate yourselves (which you can do for free), go start a business – get up off your crying butts that fail to take responsibility for anything in your lives and MAKE SOMETHING OF YOURSELF.
Wait wait wait wait...I thought the Republican rallying cry was to blame Obama?? Now we're supposed to blame ourselves?? I'm confused...oh no wonder I'm confused I'm listening to someone who has no clue what they are talking about!!
The frustration come from american corporations having more rights than american citizens. Corporations get to earn their cash in the US, set their headquarters in some fiscal haven, move their production facilities to cheap labor countries and use the cash they are saving to have a disproportional influence in our democracy.
the people who like this kind of talk are always the ones that are gainfully employed and not really worried about losing their jobs. And just WHAT percent of the country is that? I do have a job a good one and I am thankful for that and no I am NOT rich so I guess that's my fault as well. Herman Cain is out of touch with the average American but that palys real well in this current Republican party.
Cain haven't you heard the old adage "it takes money to make money". If banks don't loan money to entrepreneurs anymore, how do you succeed in today world? If you don't have collateral banks don't loan and somehow we are failures!
I don't think that people are jealous. People just want a slightly more level playing field. Cain, like many rich people, doesn't understand how huge a part luck can play in getting rich, The fact is, most people in this country in the top 1% (for example, Mitt Romney) are there because their family had money and/or connections that gave them opportunities that most of us can only dream about. That's not sour grapes, that's just life. Now Hermann Cain may not have had those advantages, and he may have worked hard, So what? So do millions of others. But for whatever reason, usually beyond their control, they just don't happen to be at the exact right place when a big opportunity develops. Or they're just not ruthless enough to pursue wealth at all costs (talk to former Godfather Pizza employees if you want some insight into how Mr. Cain built his wealth).
What a fantastic sound bite. For everybody.
Cain is bewildered because he is completely out of touch with the plight of American working people. Not presidential material at all, we have had all the ivory tower guys we can afford.
Straight out of Wikipedia: "Aiming to cut costs, Cain over a 14-month period reduced the company from 911 stores down to 420. As a result of his efforts, Godfather's Pizza finally became profitable."
On second thought maybe that's not a bad idea... if he wants to improve the economy, why doesn't he reduce the least profitable states right out of the Union.
I see where he is coming from. People need to take responsibility and adapt. However, I do think the corporate structure is not sustainable the way it is. The payscale needs to flatten accross organizations. More money needs to be distributed to shareholders. Less emphasis should be placed on growth and more on cash flow (dividends). 10 years ago, I decided not to buy stocks but rather invest in rental properties. I don't regret this decision one bit. The corporate structure is broken in this country and the small time investor has zero influence. Wealth is concentrating at the top, and it will probably continue to accelerate. I also think social unrest will increase as well.
He is so typical of the Republican Insensitive Clod that could care less about people !
you can not really believe that the ego-centric middle aged teen promoting class war is really leading this country anywhere
where is the hope change thing at? and to what point? crisis for re-election? please let that tenn go home PLEASE so we can get back to work- TOGETHER- as a strong country TOGETHER – United we win- divided we FAIL
Gee Herb... It wonderful to hear that you made it all on your own without any help from anyone else. All your own drive and ambition. Probably never stepped on anyone else to get to where you are, either... Now why don't you just tell us how you expect to get elected President without relying on anyone else... Gonna vote yourself in?
I'll take the blame for not being rich. But as for being unemployed? NO! Too many jobs left this country. Too many people not willing to hire. I will NOT take the blame for being unemployed!!!!
What a disgusting comment. I would be money that Mr. Cain would be the first to tell you that professional athletes with multi-million dollar contracts are grossly overpaid.
In context of the quote, the term "Rich" is arbitrary. What is Herman Cain's definition?
I guess everyone can be millionaires and billionaires.
Socializing losses and privatizing gains is neither the definition of success nor capitalism, but it is the definition of kleptocracy. And if you can't admit that, then you are just another proponent of the current system, Mr. Cain.
Short of Cain himself and a few members of his Godfathers pizza executive team all of his staff worked for wages that didn't allow them to break out of poverty, and clearly didn't provide the families with opportunity to provide their children with an education. Cains business model was minimum wage and maximum profits.
Wow lotta whining here. If you stop being offended and think it through you'll realize he's right. All these people "waiting for the government to create jobs for them" need to go out and create a job for themselves.
Think you can purchase a house, car, insurance, electricity etc while cutting grass and trimming bushes? Get real Cain!
Cain is right....as long as you believe you are responsible for your own outcome in life. The US Government provides a secure Nation through the Military, our Rule of Law protects us from our own citizens who are lazy and would steal from you merely to get by...this safe, secure environment provides a safe secure environment, within which, you may choose to create your own opportunity by educating yourself, getting an apprenticeship (could be a minimum wage job at which you learn a skill, then work your way up the promotion system), or open your own business. You can choose success or failure in this environment. Craig Knapp Age 50
Can someone please get this egomaniacal dinosaur OFF the national stage? He's an embarrassment to sober people everywhere. His delusions of adequacy cause his mouth to run, but his brain to stall.
With MILLIONS out of work, and not enough jobs or money to go around – with good people everywhere out of work because their bank failed, or the boss failed, or the economy went into the toilet – His answer is THIS? That they're just lazy? Grrrr...
What gang of disgusting crooks the conservatives are. Always blame the victim of their crimes.
Who in the world can be so imbecile as to vote for something like that ?
"described the protests as "planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration"??? Don't you think the protests are rather pointedly putting up a glaring spotlight on them? We hired Obama to clean up corporate greed but it's just been more of the same so far.
Here is my question....If the Republican party thinks the Government is so evil, why do they want to run it so bad? Doesn't that just make them part of the big bad evil?
The problem with Cain's argument (it is your fault if you fail) is that there is 1) simply too much pure luck involved, and 2) your economic future is largely determined by the affluence of the family you are born into. The more difficult the environment becomes, the greater the influence that these two things have on prosperity. It is not as simple as, if you just work hard you will be prosperous.
Cain is 64- so when he was growing up in 50s and 60s, there were many people risking their lives in the civil rights movement, which laid the foundation for him to have success. Prior to the civil rights movement, the only job he could get in the pizza industry, was as a bus boy, and he would be called a "boy" well in to manhood. The nearly pathological selfishness of some people on the right is just flat scary. As my Grandpa used to say, "Some folks are born on third base, and think they hit a triple" – People need to have access and opportunity before they can apply hard work to achieve success. I have no doubt that Mr. Cain is a hard working guy and very worthy of the success he has achieved in business. There are plenty of hard working people who are SHUT OUT of the system, much as members of the African American community were before civil rights. So much wealth, power, and access has shifted a tiny minority at the top. I'm sure college was a lot more accessible and affordable in the 60s when Mr. Cain went to school. That access, that affordability, was something that was FOUGHT FOR by people committed to making life better for future generations.
What if I don't have a job and I *am* rich? As a "job creator" I get to pay taxes on my "capital gains" at half the rate that those suckers who have to work for me for a living, making more money for me!, have to pay on the paltry amount they earn as wages (note to self: must cut wages so workers can be taxed less)! Isn't life sweet! I can't imagine why anyone would object to this wonderful arrangement!
If this does not cause voters to ensure Cain's defeat, they deserve Cain's inhumanity. Good thing about a democracy is that you get exactly what you deserve. USA certainly deserves people like Cain, Palin, Bachman, Perry, Obama, Pelosi, ... as "leaders"!!!
He's probaly correct but nobody wants to hear that, he should have kept his mouth shut.
Sounds like a true Republican. That must be a tan he's sporting because he sounds like an old white guy these days. And I'm sure Godfather Pizza under his reign paid 100,000.00 a year to all of it's employees so they could attain the wealth he is talking about.
He has done well for himself but its the meek that will inherit the earth.
Well Cain and the Baby Boomers are the problem. They sold the young for self. Well most of the kids were not born when the baby boomers started selling your America to China and India. Well the middleclass in China is happy.
WOW!
It is refreshing to finally see a member of the GOP come right out and say they hate poor people. No trying to dismantle programs that help them, just state up front you do not deserve help.
Guess this white boy has been brainwashed too!
Sorry, Cain, but you cannot be President to just the rich and successful.
I don't know but about him being callous, although I do know many people on welfare and they are very happy. They do not want to work, they want to sit home and get their checks in the mail, food stamps, etc. There are many people who do not want to work but want be supported, it has become a way of life for many. I thought it was just supposed to be a helping hand. These are the people who vote democrat because they don't want to lose their benefits.
so when i was laid off because of the economic downturn in sacramento; that was MY fault?
wow. if he's elected then our country deserves to go down the tubes.
Don't have a job because the CEOs outsourced all the jobs overseas? the factories went to robots instead of people? because the rich bankers crashed the economy with their mind-boggling greed? tough cookies according to this rich idiot. granted, there are some folks holding out for the perfect job, but not many. most unemployed will take anything that will feed their families. why doesn't mr. 'let them eat cake' pressure his fellow big businessmen to start hiring? oh, can't do that, that would improve the economy and make Obama look good. can't have that. crushing poverty and double-digit unemployment? that's ok, just don't do anything to make Obama look good. this, folks, is TREASON!!!!!!!! purposely hurting the country to regain political power? what else would a sane person call it??????????
Personally i will not work. Why Should I So you can later give my job to some other country for less money
And if i break my back for you what are you going to do for me. Let me tell ya somthin i have noticed in the Workplace.
The more work i do for you the less you appreciate and the more you will try and take advantage of the fact That I
Put food on your Plate By the taxes I have paid and the sweat i have shed so you can point a finger and pay a man
or woman next to nothing to do a job you yourself are unwilling to do and to robita you are correct we as
Americans Have come to expect somthing for nothin amd then when you do work for it you get paid next to nothing
because your hard work is paying for your bosses million dollar home jet cars a waste.
This is our fault becuase until we wage war on the greedy wealthy you the person who works hard and sweats
the most will continually be taken advantage of
"though he admitted he didn't "have the facts to back this up."
My parents raised me and taught me that is called a lie, and is bearing false witness against thy neighbor.
We need to do more than just protest on Wall Street..we need to stop buying as many of their products as we can. Unfortunately, due to concentration of power by large multi-nationals, it's difficult but certainly not impossible. Buy local and American made products only.
It's not hard to see through a guy who is in the pocket of the people on Wall Street now is it?
Then why does he keep blaming the President for the state of the economy? According to Mr. Cain, couldn't anybody who wanted a job just go and get one? Seems like Obama's out of the equation entirely.
This is just extremely offensive.
I'm no prude, but this saying holds true through the ages:
"24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Matthew 19:23-24"
A study found Republican men to be the happiest in the US – explained by the fact that they have no conscience or feel any responsibility toward their fellow man!
I'm a lifelong moderate Democrat, early 60s, and I have to agree that many people do need to look in the mirror for an answer of why they are unemployed. Many lack the education to compete in today's job market, many simply do not have a good presence or appearance for looking for a job, many are too incompetent and/or irresponsible to hold a job, and too many say if they can't make $20/hour they're not taking a job. I know several people, mostly younger, who are content to collect unemployment and are making absolutely no attempt to find employment. I do have great compassion and sympathy for the honest, hard-working people who have lost their jobs–and there are many–but absolutely no sympathy for those in the categories above.
Absolute megalomaniac with no desire to empathize with the population's majority. I do not need an ignorant, egotistical lecture from one successful man on the sufferting of my entire family. If he gets elected, he may put the economy back on track- but ON THE SAME OLD TRACK is not what the millenials are about. We need ethical economy, distributive justice and corporate funds out of government so we can elect someone that won't fund a new bubble for the next 2008. This is 2011, ok?! And we are still not over the devastation a few men caused the globe with their greed and cold blooded investments due to a lack of oversite. This man will not only lose my vote, but has become my worst nightmare.
So, I retired from the Army last March after 21 years of service. I applied for jobs daily for 10 months before I got a Part Time job. And this is my fault somehow. Get a reality check buddy. I didn't qualify for unemployment because my ex-wife gets half of my retirement by law and another 600 a month in child support. Left me with the house knowing I was unemployed, so of course foreclosure was imminent. Car got repossed. Do not qualify for food stamps because my retirement is in my name even though the majority of it goes to my ex. So, my grocery shopping is limited to the local food bank. Again! Get a grip dude!
LOL...he is DONE!!! I often wonder where is all that good Christian compassion the GOP is always touting? He don't get it, that folks are protesting because most of Wall Street is what cause the problem due to GREED!!!
This man would make a WONDERFUL President.
Why are we still playing the blame game? Aside from a few unscrupulous individuals or bad investments, most of our failures are our own.
Too all jailed criminals who committed crimes in 2008, just invoke the "Cain defense". Just explain to your jailer that your crimes were sooo 2008, and to just get over it. Then close with the zinger and just remind them that whatever you may have done it was ultimately the fault of the victim. No harm, no foul right? Genius Mr Cain!
Yes. Because human nature changed suddenly two years ago. Or was it because the massive mortgage fraud bubble burst and person wealth in the U.S. lost $11 Trillion in about 1 year? Cain, you are a child with child-like beliefs.
Mr. Cain is simplistic in his views, I cannot believe he gets any airtime.
I've put in over 100 job applications.
I've sent out even more resumes.
It's a job to look for a job, and most of us do that over 40 hours a week.
Proof that the GOP is a group of aliens with absolutely no idea how we live on planet earth.
[Quote] "When I was growing up I was blessed to have had parents. That didn't teach me to be jealous of anybody and didn't teach me to be jealous of somebody," Cain explained.
Errrr .... could you explain that once more Mr Cain ? Having parents taught you what ??
Now come on, Mr. Cain. How can you possibly say that? All you have to do is listen to Obama and you will know the reason we don't have any jobs is because of President Bush. Oh,but wait. If you listen to the media, you will know that there are tons of jobs out there and the economy is hunky dory.
Your job was shipped off shore because the owner can make more money on a cheaper product, blame yourself.
Illegal aliens doing the job that you used to do? Blame yourself, work for the illegal immigrant money, live in a hovel...
What;s the matter with you people?
Start a business, just get a loan from the bank! Can't get a loan? Blame yourself.
If you can be a Republican after this, you have no heart (OR BRAIN).
is this why I can not get a line of credit for a thankfully successful startup company I just started back in March????? Ah now I know. it is my fault. what should I do Mr. Cain???? fire myself???? I can not since it is my own company so what should I do???? please save me from myself.
What else would we expect from a multimillionaire executive?
Yeah, vet in texas, why can't Cain supporters be as open minded as you? And tolerant of people who don't think the same way they do? Sheesh. Let's all go laugh profusely at them for their beliefs!
Hey Herm, nice job of relating to the middle class Americans that the GOP and big business have been screwing for the past 10 years. You can't blame us for these economic traitorous CEOs who have been sending American jobs overseas just so they can get their bonuses.
But you're right, it is our fault for electing these greedy conservatives into office.
Wow...and he is polling #2 on the Republican side?
Why any American would vote for any Republican is completely beyond me.
And this guy is getting any support at all? Does Cain think it's possible that America can be a country populated with 300 million millionaires???
This guy is from outer space and so is the whole Republican party!!
first there party paved the way for corperations to ship manufacturing jobs overseas-and he says look in the mirror
Cain got one thing right when he said, "I don't understand ..." He should have kept it at that.
Wall Street is the 21st century Mafia...
A weapon for the Obama Admins 2012 Election against Cain (if he is the nominee)..... Check....
This man is delusional, and I hope he doesn't think those who are not rich, the poor or unemployed would vote for him with comments like this.
Seriously, I've had it with this clown. If apparently making lousy pizza for people who don't know any better, then I would love to run Cain out of business and see how he likes it. Of course it's everybody else's fault, but he refuses to acknowledge the fact that the world is so tilted to people of his ilk it's not even funny.
I love this man. If the protestors love socialism so much they can go to southern europe with all the other lazies who blame society or "the man" instead of coming up with actual solutions that will work in the real world (small hint – Greece's socialism and Keynesian economics don't work).
If these people actually came up with a specific plan (which they won't) it would probably resemble some other liberal agenda from the past that most unbiased economists would say will hurt the economy even more. So call me crazy but until an actual proposal come from this all I see is whining.
Wow – hire a new political advisor because the one advising you just dropped the ball. Maybe there is hope for the job market after all.
Again, President Obama will win in 2012 because the alternative are weak...
Cain hit the nail on the head again. Of course, we should have programs in place to help those that can't help themselves. But, if you are an able-bodied american who doesn't have a job...........blame yourself.
I'm unemployed because I'm lazy. got it. Four months of frantically searching for jobs (and my best prospects are with the State of California, weirdly), but I'm lazy.
The real class war is being waged by those so out of touch with reality that they actually believe this stuff.
I m asking for real job I have two jobs I m working myself to death I m working everday double shifts on weekends and 12 hours day for the rest of week at the other job and yes Im a US citizen. To make ends meet.
Both sides are wrong! Its macro-economics.The baby boomers are beginning to retire in droves, and instead of spending like they've done the last 20 years, they're retiring, cutting costs, and drawing from their equities. Less demand for goods means companies cut costs and people, thus creating the unemployed. The worst part about it all, is that its all cyclical (less spending–> Less profits–> high unemployement–> even less spendin–> so on... and so on... When times were good, people should have planned ahead and set contingencies. Its a lot harder when times are bad to go back to school or gain a new skill set. Everytime someone wins, someone else loses b/c there's finite resources and capital...
GeeWhiz....I wish I had said that.
Cain is absolutely right! You bunch of Whiners & Takers need to get up off you lazy butts, take a job.......any job, & get a taste of SELF PRIDE! I, nor other successful people, nor our Government OWE you NOTTA! You pinky kids on Wall Street, get a life!
I agree with Cain. Instead of people trying to pull themselves out of this mess, they find a way to blame others for their lack of success. Do we need to help others pull themselves up, yes. But the successfull cannot take fault for those that fail. Is greed out there, yep. Do we need regulations, yep. We just cannot point fingers anymore though. It's irresponsible. We really do need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves how we can help out country, not how we can take advantage of it.
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So the selfish GOP think 99% of Americans are failures. Yes, we can and will point fingers at the greedy Wall St. fat cats and bankers. How are we supposed to "help our country out" when we can't even get a job anymore. Cain is talking out the side of his rear as usual. He has no shot at the nomination anyway. Cain will be joining Sarah Palin as a sideline cheerleader soon and he'll have no one to blame but his idiotic self.
The Cain candidacy ended today with that interview.
He just called the voters he needs to win "lazy" and possibly "stupid."
Yes, those voters would be stupid to vote for him.
The lack of compassion expressed by some posters here, such as Sara Bean, just baffles me. Why do you folks hate poor people and the victims of capitalism so much? On what warped planet were you raised>
How to NOT get yourself elected in one sentence.
Herman Cain-"If you don't have a job and your not rich,Blame Yourself."
Hey,Mr.Cain-I guess everyone that worked for you at Godfather's Pizza GOT RICH.
NOT.
Mr. Cain has made his ideas and beliefs known. They many not be mine or yours but they are the points he wishes to have before the electorate. Of course the recession is the cause of lay-offs and lack of jobs. Many people did not ask to be jobless and they deserve our support to help them stay afloat.
As is always the case there are members of protest groups who really do not hold the same ideas and beliefs. They cast themselves as part of the group and can cause problems for both sides. If Mr. Cais knows that people are on the fringes making trouble he needs to identify them.
Is Cain really that out of touch that he knows nobody that's has been laid off and been unable to find work? Apparently so.
Nice. He might as well bow out of the election right now. I believe he just cut his throat.
With a sentiment designed to have his useful idiot base pis/sing themselves, Herman Cain shows us what a boorish imbecile he really is. You made it on your own, Herman? Nothing about taxpayer funded student loans for college? Nothing about taxpayer-subsidized colleges themselves? Nothing about the roads funded by the taxpayers you used to get to school? Nothing about the public education system that trained your hires to be something other than uneducated louts? These guys just don't get how much they owe the system they loathe.
he would be the new compassionate republican. what a self absorbed fool
I guess what Cain sees is a bunch of people that want jobs–or just the money– that working and productive behavior provide, using their time and effort to throw a huge tantrum–instead of doing anything substantial to improve their own lives or the lives of others--so I think he is right on the mark about these protesters!!!!
Agreed, you cannot blame wall street for all your problems, but his remarks are fairly callous. Some people, through no fault of their own, got handed a rough hand. Is Wall Street, or the successful, to blame for their problems, not really. People are just looking for a chance. Do I agree with the protests. No, because the issues are all over the place.
Cain needs a reality check.
The guy's eaten too much of his own bad pizza.
Wow, I have a sister who lost her job in Oregon two years ago and hasn't been able to find another one.
She applies for any possible job and almost lives at the unemployment office. She's 54 and has to compete
with much younger people. She wants desperately to work. Mr. Cain's views are just not realistic. There
are millions just like my sister who want to have the income and dignity of a job. Mr. Cain is totally out of
touch with the average American.
For the past two years, Herman Cain has written a weekly column for WorldNetDaily, a website that is the online hub for people who believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Wow , this guy will do anything to sell bad Pizza !
What he said is true to an extent. It is to sweeping of a statement. There are a lot of lazy whiners who are jealous of the result of others hard work and they spout their hate and frustration on these forums. On the other hand, there are hard-working people who fall on hard times and do need some help. They usually end up picking themselves up by the bootstraps and become self-suffient again.
If this is the best that the repos can do then i fell sorry for them . Everyone complained about President Obamas lack of experience. Come on now this guy has no political experience at all. This is the repos chance to show they support the black population. I think we are smarter than that. unfortunatly this is the view of most repos out of work it must be your own fault. Hard hearted bunch of folks.Unless it is them thats out of work then it is the presidents fault.
As usual, the conservative mindset on full display – "I have had different experiences in my life, had different struggles to overcome, and I did....so of course everybody on the planet ought to have the same outcome as me even though those experiences and struggles are different for everybody."
The republican moral justification for selfishness. If you are unemployed, it is your own fault so I don't have to help you. Right. We have real unemployment of 16% today because people woke up at the end of 2008 and decided they no longer wanted to put out the effort to work. How many of these hypocrites were born on third base and thought they hit a triple?
Is this guy an idiot? Why would you say that about something so many people believe in when you are running for President? I really hope the Republicans find someone better than this to run...
Mr. Cain's message is about taking personal responsibility for your situation. He is promoting a good work ethic, and the apparently lost ideal of self-sufficiency. I have been watching Mr. Cain for a while.. but after hearing this... I know who I am voting for in the election.
Cain 2012.
Cain proves only one thing, the class of idiocy is color blind
It's sad when a presidential candidate thinks being rich is what life is all about. When I was growing up I was always taught third world countries were filled with corruption but as the years have gone by I now realize the USA is by far the most corrupt country on the planet (politicians, bailouts, etc.)
Has it become Cain's policy to continually insult the voting populace? He's getting right up there with the "let them eat cake" crowd now. Historically, this doesn't end well sir.
God help the 98 percent of the people who actually want jobs that don't exist if this clown gets elected . It would be nice of just one of these self serving fools [current politicians] had the balls[no offense Hillary] to say U.S.A. has peaked and the best days are not ahead. Then, just maybe , we could start figuring out how to make the necessary adjustments. But no , Its going to take some dramatic disaster before any real work can start i guess .
Hey Hermie is the Bernie Mac of politics, except Bernie Mac was a brilliant comedian and told awesome jokes and Hermie Cain is just downright frightening if what he says isn't a joke!!
Cain is crazy but his comment is typical Republican ignorance. They govern by 'anecdote'. If YOU get off YOUR ass then YOU will get a job. They don't understand basic math. Let's assume that all unemployed people suddenly became the most ambitious people to ever walk the face of the earth. There is still only 1 job opening for every 4 people looking!!! Where do those other jobs come from, magic? So if all job applicants were PERFECT for the job opening, companies would have NO CHOICE but to add to their staff even though they wouldn't have any work to do. You just can't fix stupid, that's all I can say.
Cain for President.
While I agree that you won't be successful without hard work, isn't it the rule of the universe that not everyone can be successful? Some people start at the "line"...some in front and some behind. If we all were doctors or lawyers....wouldn't that be a form of socialism?
What would be news, would be if this tool didn't say something that indicates he is completely and totally out of touch with what it's like to work for a living. I suppose that some of the thousands he laid off when he took the helm at Godfathers, have only their lazy selves to blame. What a moron.
The presumption in Cain's statement is that "all things being equal" – which we know they are not. I'm not talking simply about race, etc. – I'm talking about genetics, opportunity, fortune/fate, etc. All things are not equal. If you inherited good genes, had parents who didn't abuse drugs before/during conception, who didn't abuse you physically/mentally/sexually, had decent teachers, had sufficient nutrition to keep your mind alert and body healthy, had the good fortune to not get any diseases, etc. – then you had a good chance of making it. Far too often, those who have let their egos lead their thinking so they convince themselves that all they have is because of nothing but their own effort...
Mr. Cain's is talking about taking personal responsibility. He is promoting a good work ethic, and the apparently lost ideal of self-sufficiency. After hearing this... I know who I am voting for in the election.
Cain 2012.
Right Cain. So why are you griping about the 9%+ unemployment rate. They love to bash Obama and his policies for not creating jobs but when people complain there are no jobs they blame the people themselves. This is the classic case of blaming the victim of the crime.
Protesting capitalism or success of others is wrong. Protesting corruption which for the most part seems to go on without punishment (of the responsible individuals or groups) is CORRECT. Liberals may be successfully attaching themselves to this movement but the arguments do not totally belong to them. I am not owned by either political party but, lean right. As a person who defines himself this way, I think it's truthful even for a republican to admit that some of what goes on with bankers, investors, wall street, and the government (in ref to corruption, stealing money) is wrong and there is not a place in America for those types of people, except the places on the other side of the bars.
I agree that many unemployed will need to take more personal responsibility in the future. The government could not logistically provide everyone with jobs, even if we were in good economic times. The only way for most people to get jobs will be on their own personal initiative.
That said, what the WS protests and the current anti-rich sentiment in this country is about is the systematic disenfranchisement of the middle and lower class by the top few percentage points. Corporations have been doing it for years by sending jobs over seas or cutting employees to drive short term profits at the expense of long term stability. Wall Street has been doing it aggressively for the past 10 years with the credit and housing bubbles and busts. The worst part is that all of it has been legal and encouraged by a government that is effectively owned by said corporations and financial systems through unregulated election spending and lobbying. These people have committed the grandest larcenies the world has ever seen, yet get giant cash bonuses for their troubles. It's these perverse incentives that have caused so many people to lose their jobs. So I ask you, Cain, why would people who have been robbed of their employment, their savings, their retirements, their educations, and their healthcare ever have the willpower to start over from square one (or more likely, square negative cost-of-a-mortgage) when the conditions for the same things to happen again have not been fixed? Capitalism isn't dead, but people like Cain sure make people wish it was.
CLUELESS..... another case of the ultra-rich being clueless to problems of the working poor and shrinking middle class
How does Cain expect to appeal to the masses with this genius statement? I have always understood why wealthy people and those with rigid religious/social views vote republican, but I have never been able to figure out why middle class and poor people or those who consider themselves socially progressive continue to throw their support behind candidates whose political views are clearly tied to the Republican Party platform which is F the poor, F minorities, F women, F children, F education, jobs, health, and common decency. Perhaps if Cain were more of a human being and less a Wall Street hack, he might have some clue as to what the average American has been going through over the last several years. That's not to say that politicians of other parties are not equally out of touch, but Good Lord–to suggest that those who have been out of work have only themselves to blame is just Fing cruel.
The conservative radio talk show host described the protests as "planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration, though he admitted he didn't "have the facts to back this up."
Facts, those pesky little facts. Typical Repub ... play on people's fears and hatred, stir the pot, don't offer anything except tried-and-failed policies ... What a loser! (And I think his pizza sucks!)
Cain: If you don't have a job or any money. It's your fault. Not wallstreet, not the banks. Your fault. And Obama's fault.
Well , there goes the chances of another republican imbecile.
Cain, the tool the GOP is using because they do not have the guts continually degrade our current president who is african/american so lets use our african/ americanas a tool that can do the attempt to degrade thae present Democratic AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT. PS Mr Cain how many times did you use free programs to get jobs or advance or get ahead because your color and not your skill .How much affirmative action was used to get you to where you are/were?
Dear Mr. Cain, What do you say to the person who was one of 8600 people in Arizona who applied for the 1000 job openings at McDonalds (only 720 were hired)? Are they all losers – or is it that there are so few lower-skill jobs left and so many potential employees that the numbers just can't ever come together?
Not just lower-skill jobs; all the manufacturing that's been outsourced/shipped overseas, taking along with them middle management, accounting, HR, customer service reps, etc., etc., etc. When these factories closed, all the companies that supplied them and did business with them suffered, too – and many of them had to lay folks off.
How do you respond – intelligently – to this Cain? HOW?!?
Why should any one be surprised? Cain is a Republican. All he is saying is what his whole party thinks. Any Republican who thinks other wise should seriously consider moving to the left.
He was "blessed" to have parents when growing up? So the kids that don't, are they like cursed or does God just like them less? This redefines stupid.
This guy has watched Morgan Freeman's "Lean on Me" one too many times. He stole the line from it
"If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."
How many unemployed vets you said that to lately, Hermie?
"If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."
How many single mothers who would spend every dime earned on day care have you said that to lately, Hermie?
"If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."
How many recent college graduates with advanced degrees have you said that to lately, Hermie?
Well, here is the question. If you don't have a way to get a job and have no capital to create your own company, then how does someone get a job. Has Cain notice that few companies are not hiring people? Many of the jobs out there are minimun wage and have no path to wealth. If people had enough money and understand to put money in the stock market, then they could have a chance to make it big. The problem is that no one gives out those gobs of money to do that. I would hope that Cain would understand that.
If you've never understood conservatism in all your life, Cain provides the CLASSIC DEFINITION: "When I was growing up..."
That is a basis of conservatism. Similar to "If it were me", which in most cases, it is not. The conservative projects his or her life philosophy onto others as if it should be an accepted rule or practice. Notice I didn't use caps. That's because I was describing the term conservative not a party. It could be anyone...arrogant enough to believe that they are standard for everyone else. A must to understand this and you can see it coming at YOU.
what is his problem.
Godfather's Pizza eh? I always thought of the "godfather" as the head of a criminal enterprise, I guess that make him a capitalist but what we need is "enlightened capitalism" not Ayn Rand's selfish, greedy, take what ever you can get.
Well...guess who wouldn't get my vote if he were the only person on the ticket. I really fail to see how a successful 14 year career that showed no sign of letting up was there one day and simply gone the next as "being my fault". What a loser! I am afraid "Mr. Cain" that you are out of touch and the most insensitive candidate I have seen yet. And to think I actually had hope for you!
Well, Cain just knocked himself off my list.
This man is crazy, I don't know anyone who hates or is jealous of success. I do know a lot of people who are hurting because of the greed and corruption by people such as himself. Most republicans I hear talking at work say a lot of things like this, people are stupid for not going to school so they should suffer, people should die if they can't afford health insurance. It's a cold and callous way to view humanity.
Why don't all of these protestors go and protest at the white house? They wanted Obamas hope and change they got It!!
Get a life! And by the way do something with your life besides whining! Go Herman Cain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being fired is often one's fault, but being layed off? Mr. Cain must not personally know any one who has been layed off. I know several and it certainly wasn't their fault their company either folded or decided they could do with less employees. The recession was caused by greedy lenders, not lazy people.
Wow, talk about hammering a nail into your own political coffin!
If you voted for obama and you are out of a job then blame yourself or you may blame obama for it is under his administration you've become unemployed. With a republican president the rich will indeed get richer but you to can become rich for you will be gainfully employed. So will you make the same mistake a second time around? Why not say 'its obamas job or my job'. He needs to lose his job if you are going to get a job.
It's amazing what winning a couple of straw polls does to these clowns. cain thinks that he can now say every single dumb thought that crosses his mind.
I wonder if he reads newspapers or he knows that Africa is not a country, or that there is a South and North Korea and that the North are NOT our allies, or does he pray away the gay too?
Let them eat cake.
He's trying to reframe the protesters' argument. There is a huge diffrence between being rich and being successful. Building on his point that we must not blame the rich for being successful and at the same the poor have only themselves to blame for their failure is a circular reasoning at best. The central theme of the protesters' demands is that wall street abandon greedy practices that end up costing all of us. He's excusing the banks as if the misery they created came with an expiration date on it. If only only politicians like him were allergic to the truth wall street could have taken a clue and develop an ounce of honesty
Cain go back to making pizzas. Although it's unlikely I would buy a God Father's pizza.
As far as pizza chain restaurants go, Godfathers makes a good pie. : )
He has lost sight of what 98% of American's are faced with, the jobs have left the country... out sourcing is real, and how its the workers fault is beyond me. I recently got back into the work force and realize that I do have to work twice as hard to get half as much... but, to think that most folks don't want to work... and suggest they are completely responsible for the current situation they find themselves is only because he is VERY disconnected from main street. He is not the man to take the highest office of the land, he doesn't even know what's up with the core of what Americans are going through. I wonder what it feels like to live on top of a hill and look down at the rest of us...
Hope he realizes if the divide gets to big, that folks will find their way up that hill... and Jack (Cain) will come tumbling down...
Another one of those 'self-made' men who actually believe they did it on their own and any one can do it if they just work hard enough. Next, he'll write a book, like Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and tell everyone if only they had invested in CMOs. Somebody make a lunch appointment with this guy and Eliz Warren, so she can remind him about the society, community, systemic, and family input in his success, as well as luck, greed, and personality.
Ten people doing exactly what Herman did throughout his life, would end up in ten different results.
The last number I can find for job to applicant ratio is 5 applicants for every available job. The man is clearly insane.
Cain continues to prove he is totally unworthy of ANY public office.
I have a job. I work very hard at it, and I love what I do. I'm not rich, though, but I could care less. I pay for my modest lifestyle, and count my self successful. Get over it, Cain.
Plenty of blame to go around here. Wall Street, companies moving jobs overseas, our governments for not adopting FAIR trade (instead of free trade), and yes Cain is partially right. People who don't want to work or get educated share in the blame too.
He will never the nomination anyway. Repubs like Mitch McConnell and others will never allow a black man to run as a Repubican
So after Bachmann, then Perry self-destructed their candidacies with stupid remarks, Cain seems to be next following suit. Good job. At this rate, all Romney has to do to secure the nomination is just stay shut (Whoops! Corporations are people too my friend!) too late.
Cain said yesterday on The View that he speaks for all groups of people. Ugh, sorry, let me correct you, Mr. Cain. You do not speak for the African American, gays, or women. And you have even gone as far as saying that a person who is not rich or does not have a job, should blame themselves. You are an absolute MORON and so out of TOUCH. I would rather have the USA go totally broke than have you as our President. You only speak to the RICH, RELIGIOUS, WHITE MALE establishment.
Great timing Herm.
Herman failed miserably as a board member of Aquila, Inc. Herman was a board member of Aquila for 16 years (1992-2008). Herman was chairman of the compensation committee until 2003. He has not posted his association with Aquila on his campaign website like all of his other business accomplishments. There is a very good reason for that. In one year the company's stock tanked, about 200 million dollars evaporated from the employee retirement fund nearly wiping it out and 30 million dollars in bonuses were given to the top five executives of the company. As the chairman of the compensation committe Herman ok'd the bonuses. Aquila had ventured into energy trading and speculation like Enron. So you know the rest of the story. Herman, the other board members and top executives were sued by the employees for failing in their fiduciary duty. There are several articles on line that give all the details. Type in Herman Cain Aquila and start reading.
Personally. I grew up poor as did my husband. We are successful because we worked hard and knew the benefit of education paying our own way. I am tired of the americans who are always the victim. These people are not entitled to have what we who have worked hard, lost jobs and recovered because we decided not to take advantage of unemployment and get back to work as soon as possible. This is a country of victims and whiners. You live in a country of opportunity. It may take more initiative but the opportunity is out there none the less. Women have many in home business opportunities. Stop looking at what I have and earn it yourself. You just have to become creative and do whatever it takes.
Cain is absolutely right. In america, all you need is opportunity to succeed. If Cain or I can make it in America, then every citizen in this country can make it. Get a small or simple job first. Work hard toward to the job you love. If you are unemployed, you first or next job is to look for your next job all day everyday. There are no easy way out to the top. Those who suceeded like Mr. Cain, they were poor once, struggled, and overcome many obstacles. They never gave up on the american dream by working hard to reach that dream. Yeah, Mr. Cain is right.
►TRENDING: Cain: Not rich? No job? Blame yourself◄
Live in a GHETTO – can’t get out – Blame yourself!!
Lost your job – No one’s hiring – Who do you thank?!!
When money is low – Nowhere to go – Rob a bank!
Poverty is real – Children will die – Blame the mom?
Daddy struggles on – House is gone – Still more qualms!!
So if you’re not rich – Don’t have a job – Who do you blame?
Not yourself – Not your family – just the corporate insane!!
Corporations will rather see America DIE then create jobs!! They so-call HATE President Obama so much, they will allow every bridge to fall and every American struggle in order to TRY and make Obama a one-term president!! Their goal is to get a Republican in office so they will continue to have tax breaks – and maybe NO TAXES – and ALL of their regulations will be reversed. And Cain is a fool for thinking otherwise!!!!
Cain is the same tool the RIGHT used when Michael Steele was head of the RNC. Yes, they welcomed him for one reason only – for a face – he was praised – then once he spoke his OWN mind and veered away from the some of the RIGHT’s beliefs, they kicked him to the curb!!! Cain is next!!
Obama/Biden 2012
You want a job? : Stop sending jobs to India and China Let's make it here and consume it here Yes we can!!
I have had an employment ad for a job posted for two weeks now on a major employment site. The pay is very good, middle class wage for a good job with good benefits. To date I have received 4 applications. Very surprised, I asked some friends only to find this is not unusual at the companies they work for. Cain is right. From what I am seeing there are many complaining and spouting off, but few that really want to work.
This guy is great! He tells it like it is. Of course all the losers don't want to hear the problem is THEM because of course they are victims of the greedy, or the "rich" or "the man". These leeches are an embarrassment to our society. Suck it up, get a job, start working on getting your life in order and on the right track. It is NOT government's job to do it for you. And it is not MY job to PAY for you while you sit around, whine, complain and suck up my tax dollars.
Does Mr. Cain actually live in the United States? A man who came from simple roots and strived to be better.
Mr. Cain, it's not the same America any more.
Cain "doesn't have the facts" to back up his statements, much like Kyl's remarks on the floor "[weren't] meant to be factual statements.
That about sums up the entire rhetoric of the Republican party at this point.
No job? Not rich?
Then evidently you didn't get bailed out by TARP money granted to the U.S. by Congress while Bush was in office.
Sorry Cain, you will NEVER be POTUS. You are vaguely qualified and oddly bitter.
Mr. Cain is big oaf.
It's not enough to be rich, and productive, one also needs class. I am surprised, for all his wealth Cain might have bought some class.
He are some rich and successful people, Mr. Cain - Steve Jobs (who just passed away), Warren Buffet, Bill Gates... and they have class.
While at this, Mr. Cain needs to seriously go back and read Econ 101.
Every economy has what economists call 'voluntary unemployment'. It makes up very tiny percent of the unemployment. The rest is made of demand/supply of labor, capital investments, market demands, innovations , and a host of other factors, and NOT one of these has to do with 'laziness'.
Spoken like a true CEO. Park your rear end in a big chair in a cushy office and tell everyone they're not working hard enough while you cut their pay and benefits eventually laying them off to move more jobs overseas in search of free labor. Take your candidacy and shove it. Go back to hassling kids who work at pizza parlors. We're not buying it.
Anyone that believes that WS isn't to blame for our current economic situation, needs to take a seat in the Hall of Morons!
I was all for the supporting you Mr. Cain. I really like you're 999 plan. I am participating in Occupy Humboldt State University and we are standing in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. I take offense at you're uninformed assumptions about this people's revolution. You lost my vote and I have lost my faith in the Republicans.
I am pretty sure making assumptions about motivation with no facts to back up that assumption is not the best way for a leader to act. It gets one into all kinds of problems. Maybe Mr. Cain should take a few minutes to check facts before making statements that don't make much sense. If he thinks people don't want to work, maybe he should visit with people who wait in the long lines just for the possibility of applying for a job. Many have done this numerous times, and still no luck. As far as being rich goes, many people who skrimped and saved all of their lives saw nearly every penny they had for retirement lost because of banks treating their savings as if it were the bank's for gambling in high stakes poker games.
Can you say "Dead Man Walking." He just lost the election.
Wow so this insensitive clod is going to save and fix the economy? I am souring on this group of GOP candidates. Barack is not doing great, but he is not insensitive.
There goes his chance.
"Allowing the banks had a "big part" in the 2008 economic crisis, the candidate, who's known for his bombast and has been rising in national polls pointed out, "We're in 2011, okay?"
"When I was growing up I was blessed to have had parents. That didn't teach me to be jealous of anybody and didn't teach me to be jealous of somebody," Cain explained.
"It is not a person's fault because they succeeded. It is a person's fault if they failed. And so this is why I don't understand these demonstrations and what is it that they're looking for."
Cain spokesman JD Gordon declined to add a comment on the candidate's interview."
Yeah, I'd decline to comment too if I'd just listened to that gibberish and realized I was fronting the mentally ill.
Cain, being a CEO, seems to see the world through the eyes of a CEO. Personally, there are very few CEOs who live in the real world once they become CEOs. Lots of limos, expensive meals, expensive vacations, exclusive rich friends, housekeepers, cooks, etc. Do these folks really understand average people and what they go through?
Cmon "Wow" You know full well that the party of Lincoln aint even CLOSE to the republican party of today. You know that. You are just, as most republicans are want to do, talking clean out of your rear. As for the rest of you blame the victim "too bad for you" crowd (a mentality that is simply baffling to me) we know who did this, we know EXACTLY who is to blame. Wall Street. Wall Street flushed our economy down the toilet, ran crying to washington, were handed an unprecedented, no strings attached, tax payer funded, 700 billion dollar bailout, and proceeded to go right back into the SAME EXACT PRACTICES that got us in this mess in the first place. They have done NOTHING to help the country that so generously helped them. They have been making a killing while the rest of us have been suffering. These are the facts. They are the reason we are in this mess, and we are only asking that they be held accountable, and that the scales, that are so rediculously out of balance, be righted again.
Mr. Cain shouldn't group everyone who doesn't have a job together. I know many guys who try really hard everyday for a job. They are all hard workers many have worked for me before.
Hey Cain....100 million people want good jobs....you got a 100 million jobs?
Oh we can blame the banks Mr. Cain and the manipulators as well. You rich guys and gals don't like it well too damn bad. We didn't like that fact that the TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS got a bail out and don't tell me it was the poor and middle class who put us in this position. There is class warfare going on in this country and it was brought on by the Greedy 1% and their bottom line. You want to run the government in your favor... well expect a backlash, you want to cut spending in this country but increase spending over seas on two wars...then expect backlash. You want to move jobs overseas for cheaper labor...then expect backlash. I say bring on the demonstrations and we need an AMERICAN SPRING in this country to take it back from the Elite's in Washington D.C and Wall Street. I hope ANONYMOUS does indeed erase Wall Street form the internet on Oct. 10th. I for one will be cheering for it.
Oh I'm sorry, because we failed at not padding your pockets over the last 20 years and because you made it easier for us to be crooks, its our fault?
You politicians are all alike: ignorant and greedy.
What a truly terrible thing to say. Talk about out of touch.
Anti-Capitalism was bailing out the banks rather than letting them fail. But don't let the facts get in your way.
This is great news......more fuel for the Occupy Wall Street gang.
Cain for President!!! He's 100% right on target. Nobody takes responsibility for themselves anymore. Its always someone else's fault. Republican's tend to be wealthier because they aren't quitters. They set a goal and work a plan to attain it. If you are a democrat who is truly looking for a better life, seek the advice of a wealthy Republican and work that plan until you hit your goals. You won't be disappointed. To start, read 2 books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Wealthy Barber.
Cain's America is a financial dictatorship, where he casts the judgements.
herman cains campaign implodes booya , ron paul 2012
The Duchess of Alba would doubtless agree, but unlike Cain she has Noblesse Oblige!
Did Herman Cain just say let them eat cake?
I LOVE how people think it is soooooo simple. I mean how didn't I see that, if i want more money than I need to work harder. I mean working 40+ hours a week outside in the Texas heat couldn't be considered hard work or anything. I would LOVE to see this guy do what I do, i guarantee he would jump on the first jet out of there.
So frustrating to hear people who are doing well make these remarks. They think because they were able to do it, so must everyone else. They say these things with no regard to the thousands (most likely millions) who lost their jobs to some corporation who laid people off simply because they could make a bigger profit if they did. Whats worse is say something like; "if you want it than you have to work harder", not thinking about the 50 year old who worked hard all his life just to make ends meet then gets laid off because the CEO of the company wasn't satisfied with $20 million a year, they needed $25 million.
Hearing harsh thoughts like this with no empathy for fellow human being makes me want to cry. This man sickens me.
A fool - and his delusional ambitions of gaining the nomination in a party of bigoted thinkers who would never support his candidacy in the very small chance he would even get the nomination - are soon parted.
did he just say let them eat cake
Hmmm...Cain is correct but you have to want to see it. You have to have confidence in yourself and you have to stop seeing yourself as an employee and instead see your self as a business whose main objective is to sell your services to another. Do what any good business does and you should find life a bit less controlled by others. If you start with what Cain said and accept it, you start to tap into the power that rside inside you...you start to gain controll. That will be too much for most people becasue others want us dependent upon them. Too bad...they probaby mean well.
Cain is right on here. I still won't vote for him but he is right on this.
Saying the banks took taxpayer dollars and blaming them is ridiculous. They never would have been in trouble in the first place if you people had paid your mortgage payments.
Nobody gives a hoot about these protests. They don't even know what they want from Wall St. It will be cold soon and everyone will go home and this will all be forgotten. Good riddance.
so is herman cain really trying to say that the economic disaster we are facing is somehow our fault?? he obviously doesn't get it at all and he wants to run for president....GOOD LUCK!!!!
This shows how ignorant and arrogant Cain is. Most Republicans are poor and working class, and there are millions of those same Republicans who are not rich but unemployed.
Is he saying the same Republicans (poor, unemployed and broke) are to blame themselves? Well, if those said Republicans vote for him; they would certainly be stupid.
People!!! Please come to your senses and realize that the Republicans DO NOT have your best interest at heart. Cain is saying that all of you people who lost jobs due to companies closing, jobs being shipped overseas, or just plain corporate greed; its YOUR FAULT that you don't have a job. Think about the twisted Republican logic. When people protest the golden calf Wall Street its the people's fault that they're unemployed but when the Republicans want to drum up votes its OBAMA's fault that people are still unemployed. This guy is simply talking out of both sides of his face and don't think for a second that a guy who thinks its a bunch of lazy people's fault that they're not working is going to do anything to create jobs.. unemployment has hit everyone; Democrat and Republican alike and for this rich guy to sit back and say its all the people's fault shows you where his priorities lie. Wall street is already in his pocket and he's not going to do or say anything against them.
Herman Caine and Sarah Palin have the same exact chance of being president.
Cain's life is the perfect counter argument to all the crybabies.
A black man who grew up dirt-poor in the south managed to earn a bachelor's in mathematics, a master's in computer science, serve in the Navy and then successfully turned around a corporation. Then, to top it off, he beat stage IV cancer. He's a walking success story and managed it when the odds were stacked higher against him than any of these Wall St. protesters.
Truth hurts. Good on Cain for telling it like it is.
Wow. I was kinda souring on voting for Obama again, but I think I kinda have to now.
Your 15 minutes of fame is up, with that lame statement. If everyone could be rich we wouldn't be having this problem.
Hermann, I like your 9-9-9 plan, but you need to read up on how Wall Street caused the mortgage bubble, whose crash caused the recession. But thank you for letting me know where you stand on this. I was curious, and now I know. Obama's looking better the more Republican candidates ridicule bank reform.
I have no hard feeling toward Mr Cain, but to make such a statement to the American people is way out of line and he needs to apolgize to the American people and step out of the race because he has shown his true colors and his contempt for the lower/middle class people within our society. Yes,some have chosen to suck off the Goverment and not look for a job but the other 99 9/tenth was force into their present conditions and plus, where in the hell are the JOBS that his party promise in November 2010 to deliver to American people. Oh! in reference to BR comment you right the people in China are willing to work any type of job but there is a problem, these people only received any where between $1.00-$25.00 a month so you see it would not work in this Country not even at Wal-Mart.
Boycott his pizza joint. If he goes bankrupt and looses everything, he can look in the mirror and blame his self for his nasty remarks.
Hey I just tried to send some Godfather Pizzas to the Wall Street Protesters to show support but Godfathers went out of business here due to poor management. Go figure.
so it's my fault my the economy trashed, it's my fault that lehman went under, and AIG and all the others triggered a melt down? I guess you could say that it really is my fault that I trusted bankers, hedge fund managers and so forth that they would police themselves. Just like I trusted Bush's administration to watch them. If they are going to bail them out (TARP) they should have been watching them too. Well Mr Cain just lost my vote completely!!!!
Herman Cain, Truly i have herd it all now. This is a man who talks out the side of his neck. and it is very sad that he beleives the words he speaks. But now i understand. if you feed a dog a peace of meat he will follow you home. or to the slughter house. not knowing that he will soon be a product to help a lawn grow richer and greener. sorry the views of black people are not shared with him. i guess that is what a lot of people talk about when black people get ahead and or on top there color changes. Oh the watermelon man. He really needs to take a deep look into the mirror. He just may find out what his true COLOR REALLY IS. HERMAN CAIN NOT FOR PRESIDENT.
Ego displaces intellegence
Cain, it's time ALL of you politicians understood something. You are the problem, we, the 99% that you seem to hate and degrade, those you think you can tell how they must live, WE are the answer/ The elections are ours. We run the polls, we handles the voting places, and WE are tired of your insults. We will vote you all out. Remember the WIGS? See any WIGS around? How abut the Federalists who started the country with the REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRATIC party? You are outmoded and segmented. You lie to us. You cheat us, and face it, you only like us because WE make you rich. Not anymore, you don't own us and we now own your future. Take back our Government is our creed, not the tea party that lied and claimed they were NOT republican, yet are in the republican debates. It's OUR America, not YOUR America. we are one, you are done is our motto.
I'm beginng to think that the "tea" in the tea party is short for " to end America "
Cain doesn't utilize any form of "logic." I can't figure out just who he thinks he is. I doubt he will admit to being an imbecile, at least not until the election's over and his photo-ops are over.
Cain is part of the problem. He was a CEO. They are a very insidious bunch. They all know each other. They all know how much each other makes, so they demand that they make as much or or more. They all sit on each others boards so award each other as much as they ask for. They are the aristocracy of the 20th and 21st century. Any one who works for a living is, well, the hired help. They are "excessive labor costs." From the CEO point of view, labor costs too much in the US. Costs are to be reduced for the benefit of shareholder value, return on investment, quarterly returns. All of those calculations determine what is most important, bonus and stock option calculations for the CEO and his/her senior management team. Everything else is expendable. This is "The Market." We must all bow down, and thank "The Market" for what it bestows on our Senior Management Team as they make business decisions. Too bad you lost your job. It's your fault. God Save The Market and The Republican Party!
Sorry, my point (in case it wasn't obvious) is that I no longer have as much money as I use to in my retirement account due to the economy.. But it is obviously it was my fault that I invested and trusted people to not scheme/scam the public. Guess we all should have put our hard earn money in a mattress... it's the public's fault the economy trashed.