COMMENTARY | Herman Cain may have shot himself in the foot if he’d hoped to have a serious shot at the GOP presidential nomination — at least with the average American, who can tell you that most of the unemployed are not out of a job because of their own doing.
ABC News reports Cain told the Wall Street Journal that people who are out of a job should not blame Wall Street or the big banks, but blame themselves instead. He also went as far as saying that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are just trying to distract from failed Obama policies.
Funny, I seem to recall that the Wall Street bailouts, funded by American taxpayers, took place in 2008, prior to President Obama moving into the White House. Why do Republicans seem to always forget this?
Americans who have lost jobs to corporations that moved them overseas, Americans who did not spend recklessly were all asked to pay for the irresponsibility of big banks, and now they are also responsible for the job losses that happened because of the economic recession?
While many Americans went hungry, these same big banks paid themselves millions, no, billions, in salaries and bonuses while accepting government bailouts.
Cain must be a complete fool if he is so out of touch that he doesn’t remember any of this; or perhaps he just doesn’t care. The majority of the GOP seems to care only about one thing, and that is laying the blame on our current administration.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the demonstrations “dangerous,” and “class warfare,” according to
I believe what would really be dangerous is doing nothing at all. Should Americans sit back and watch politicians and carnivorous corporations destroy our country? It’s about time someone took a stand against them and those who stand for only one thing — greed. These politicians care little about the average person in our nation.
A deputy fire chief who was with his department for 24 years lost his job due to city budget cuts. A man who worked as an information technology professional for over 25 years had his job sent to Argentina; with so many computer-related jobs sent overseas, he has gone back to school at the age of 50 to retrain in a completely different field.
Are these the type of people who are to “blame” for their lost jobs? I think not, Mr. Cain. If you want to lay the blame on someone, you might take a look in the mirror. The fault lies in the greedy, selfish individuals who accept millions while many Americans become poorer, hungrier, and without needed medical care every day.