Herman Cain. Image from http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2011/07/herman-cain-im-so-sorry-muslims-for.html
Conservatives have made the claim that unemployed Americans only have themselves to blame for not having jobs, and now Herman Cain is joining the fray. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cain claimed that Occupy Wall Street is a distraction to help President Obama and said that the unemployed only have themselves to blame for being jobless and not rich.
CAIN: 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. Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded, it is someone’s fault if they failed.
Here’s the video:
Cain is ignoring the fact that the unemployed did not become unemployed all by themselves. Millions of Americans are out of work because of mass layoffs by corporations that send the jobs to workers overseas. The big banks are also to blame. Because of their irresponsibility, an economic recession occurred that wiped out a lot of jobs as well. New job openings are also scarce, with one new opening for every 4.32 people unemployed. As for not being richer, people wouldn’t be complaining about money so much if Wall Street hadn’t stole it all in the first place. And then there’s the Republican Party to which Mr. Cain affiliates himself. Republicans have made it their mission to destroy the American jobs and defend corporations and the wealthy to the point to where they are now waging war against the poor on a daily basis in an effort to make the rich even richer. If Mr. Cain’s political party would stop catering to the top 1% in this country, and actually created jobs like they promised to do, the unemployed would no longer be unemployed.
Quote CAIN “I don’t have facts to back this up,but…”is a wonderful lead-in to a pile of steaming, stinking, fact-free stupidity.
Well done Mr Cain. Anyone who is umemployed is so because they failed, not because the financial sector in the Western world has been conspicuously successful in destroying huge parts of the productive economy.
Nah, you’re a failure, suck it up!