by madmanscottmon Oct 7, 2011
A pair of Republican presidential candidates had some harsh words for the protesters who’ve been hectoring Wall Street for the past three weeks: Cut out the “class warfare” and “blame yourself” for being poor and jobless.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said the demonstrators are coming across as “anti-capitalism.” The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza said the Occupy Wall Street protesters are trying to distract the country from President Obama’s “failed policies.”
“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!” Cain said. “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.”
At a campaign stop in Florida Tuesday, Mitt Romney said the demonstrations were “dangerous” and “class warfare.”
When ABC’s Emily Friedman asked Romney today about the protests, the GOP front-runner declined to elaborate on his previous comments, saying “I’m just trying to get myself to occupy the White House.”
Published on Oct 7, 2011 by CBS
At the Value Voters Summit on Friday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.)said he is “increasingly concerned” by “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations which began in New York and spread to other major cities.
Oct 5, 2011 by Current
Sen. Bernie Sanders takes issue with Mitt Romney’s definition of class warfare, saying, “Class warfare is being waged in America today – the problem is, the wrong side is winning.” Sanders continues, “In America now you have the most unequal distribution of income and wealth of any major country on Earth, with the top 400 wealthiest people owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans
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