Cain: No Hard Work, No Success

Hard work is not a guarantee of success. If it was, there would be a lot more rich people.

“If you’re not rich, don’t blame the rich—get out there and work for it. You have to earn it.”

Herman Cain addressed the Occupy Wall Street protestors today, chiding them that if they would work harder, they wouldn’t be part of what they call “the 99%.” The protestors would all be successful.

Cain told the AP during a book signing event Wednesday that the Wall Street protesters are “un-American.” He also stated demonstrators should stop protests against Wall Street bankers or brokers because they’re the ones who create the jobs.

In his address to Occupy Wall Street today, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain says the Occupy Wall Street protesters are un-American and anti-capitalism.

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 a person’s fault if they succeeded, it is a person’s fault if they failed.

Cain used the anti-capitalist refrain earlier this week in describing the Occupy Wall Street movement that hard work means success. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cain suggested that the protests were staged. He again implied demonstrators don’t work hard enough and their struggle to survive are consequences of their own actions, not Wall Street malpractice.

A professional CEO his whole life, Cain told the protesters their rhetoric stinks of some socialist mumbo jumbo.

Mitt Romney also had his say about the protests: I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare, said Romney to any audience of 50 in response to protests about high unemployment, home foreclosures, and the 2008 corporate bailouts

Cain and Romney demonstrate through their comments their perception of democracy is flawed. The Occupy Wall Street protests demonstrates not everyone:

• wants a dog-eat-dog democracy;
• wants to devastate the planet by living a wealthy, over-consuming lifestyle.
• thinks money brings happiness.
• thinks money is the ultimate measure of success.

Woodstock CT Café counters with what all Occupy America protestors already know:

If one chooses to become a teacher, a tradesman, a town Selectman, a college Professor, a farmer, an aspiring author or artist, and many other choices for a procession, you probably won’t get rich (there are always exceptions). Becoming rich should not be one’s preeminent goal in life. Becoming rich and becoming a success are not synonymous. If “rich” is synonymous with “success”, then we are teaching the wrong subjects in our schools.

Not everyone thinks the poor deserve their lot in life.

Robin M. at Care2 writes There are currently about 15 million unemployed in the country. Surely all of them aren’t somehow flawed, they can’t all be to blame.

According to the New York General Assembly (Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet), occupiers are fighting for things that Cain obviously is unwilling or unable to comprehend. The protestors are making a statement: that the virtues of compassion and cooperation, not cutthroat competition, will bring about a better society and a healthier planet.

As the late 19^th early 20^th Henry Salt, British writer and campaigner for social justice, wrote in his Creed of Kinship (1935), The basis of any real morality must be the sense of Kinship betweeen all living beings.

May the Occupations flourish!

Mad Mike’s America thanks the New York Post, the New York General Assembly, Woodstockctcafe, care2.com, the National Journal, and The Gothamist.

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