Get a Job

Herman Cain, a tea-party favorite, and the CEO & Founder of
Godfather’s Pizza, was asked about the Occupy Wallstreet street
theater/protests. He said, in part:

“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,”

Taken from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/10/05/2011-10-05_herman_cain_to_occupy_wall_street_protesters_if_youre_not_rich_blame_yourself.html#ixzz1a7Vp3Cdm

Normally, I would not find the comment noteworthy. It is hardly
controversial. Americans do not regard failure as a passkey to the moral
high-ground from which the losers self righteously condemn the
successful for the sin of success.

But more than one Catholic commentator whose brilliance I admire have
excoriated the statement, and Cain, and conservatives for admiring it.
One of them said conservatives were handing the election to Obama; the
other likened Capitalism to allowing the rich to shoot the poor in the
head.

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