The Real Herman Cain



So Herman Cain seems to be getting a lot of buzz lately, with Perry’s crash and burn, the Party’s refusing to acknowledge Ron Paul, and their lackluster feelings for Mitt Romney. Herman is certainly taking full advantage of his 15 minutes.

Once you start really looking at Herman Cain, he may start seeing some things that you don’t like. The first one being the 9-9-9 plan that he has promoted it as a bold and fresh approach to the tax system, but how fresh is it?

An interesting story was presented on the Huffington Post:

“But there's already a 999 plan out there, in a land called SimCity.
Long before Cain was running for president and getting attention for his 999 plan, the residents of SimCity 4 -- which was released in 2003 -- were living under a system where the default tax rate was 9 percent for commercial taxes, 9 percent for industrial taxes and 9 percent for residential taxes.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_1008952.html

Did he lift his bold and fresh new plan from an 8 year old video game?

What about Ron Paul busting Cain on his position to audit the fed and Cain’s claiming Paul was not accurate about his remarks.

“As recently as 2010, long after the Fed began engaging in the lending Cain says he now opposes, Cain belittled those calling for an audit.

"Some people say that we ought to audit the Fed. Here's what I do know. The Federal Reserve already has so many internal audits it's ridiculous. I don't know why people think we're gonna learn this great amount of information by auditing the Federal Reserve. I think a lot of people are calling for this audit of the Federal Reserve because they don't know enough about it. There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve to my knowledge," he said.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/ron-paul-herman-cain-fed-audit-gop-debate_n_1006228.html

We can not forget Cain’s ridiculous statement that no bill under a Herman Cain administration will be over 3 pages long.

Herman Cain thinks that an important piece of legislation should be shorter than a high school research paper.

And then Herman telling people if they do not have a job, if they are not rich, don’t blame Wall Street, blame yourselves. Any time you start off a statement with “I don’t have facts to back this up” you should probably shut up.

Herman Cain is so out there, so full of his self, so pro-corporate America, he may just be the guy the Republicans want as president.    

The Tea Party – an ignorant political force

So the Tea Party people have set their sights on the Occupiers. They are going after them, they want to discredit them. What happened to this party?

The Tea Party started their movement after the bailouts of Wall Street and the outrage that these corporate fat cats got away with stealing billions of dollars, possibly trillions. They were upset that not one person from Wall Street was arrested and held accountable for their actions. Sound familiar?

That’s what the Occupiers are saying. The Tea Party has completely shifted their focus from Wall Street. The grass roots movement in the party has been completely manipulated by special interests. The Tea Party is a joke now, seen as stupid people who booed a gay soldier who was fighting in Iraq and cheered the fact that Rick Perry sleeps just fine after executing 234 people.

The Occupiers are the movement the Tea Party wished they were. While the Occupiers are out marching and protesting, the Tea Party has become the darlings of Fox News and even had their own Presidential Debate. The fact missing on these nitwits is that most of them are part of that 99%. That the causes that the Occupiers are standing up for, are also your causes.

According to a politico article:

Tea partiers and their allies are looking to de-legitimize the protests circulating in the anti-Wall Street crowds, hunting for evidence of union ties, fringe rhetoric and bad behavior — ranging from news of arrests, to recordings of incendiary speeches, to tales of littering, drug use and debauchery.
They’re posting what they find online, like a photograph of a demonstrator apparently defecating on a cop car that has circulated widely, and are accusing the mainstream media of ignoring extremist elements.
Meanwhile, tea party groups are rallying their activist members by pointing to the new threat in pitches to raise money.

The tea party’s swift counteroffensive — which is remarkably similar to the left’s response to the fledgling conservative movement when it burst onto the scene in 2009 — suggests that the onetime rag-tag operation has matured and feels the need to protect its reputation as the nation’s leading grass-roots protest movement.
“The left is trying to create a counter force to the tea party, but it’s almost laughable that anyone is comparing the two, because they’re totally different,” said Sal Russo, chief strategist for the Tea Party Express.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65826.html#ixzz1afpTYE9K

So there is no doubt that the Tea Party has developed into a force, unfortunately, it’s an ignorant force.

More Bloomberg Craziness

You know the Occupy Wall Street movement is really hitting a nerve, from the media trying to portray them as criminals, losers, bums, job killers, terrorists, the rhetoric goes on and on.

Bloomberg characterized the protesters as a gathering of self-obsessed job killers seeking to “take jobs form the people working in the city” on his weekly radio broadcast.

Bloomberg also is claiming that the activists are trying to “get rid of” jobs in the finance sector, “which is a big part of our economy.”

“[W]e’re not going to have any money to pay our municipal employees or clean the parks or anything else,” Bloomberg said.

Representative Peter King stated:

“It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets,” said King on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Friday evening. “I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”

You can't have democracy taking place. They want to shut this deal down.

The truth about the assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki and Samir Khan

The assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki and Samir Khan should bother Americans. There has been no evidence brought forward to prove these men were involved in any crime, any terrorist plot, Al Awlaki’s actual position inside Al Qaeda is questionable, and Khan had no known position within Al Qaeda.

Anwar Al Awlaki, was he vocal against the United States? Yes, he was. Was he probably happy with the successes that terrorist groups had in their struggle against us? Yes, he probably was. Was he a bad man? Yes, he probably was. But that doesn’t mean his death was legal or correct. Do we want the government deciding which American citizens are bad people and then ordering their assassination?

There is nothing to indicate this man was anything more than a man using the internet to get his message or opinion out. Now the larger question is; did we take this man and make a martyr out of him?

This is just a case of where the US can claim a victory killing one of the few recognizable names left in Al Qaeda. They are not even mentioning Samir Khan’s name. Why aren’t they taking a victory lap on his killing? The US has linked Al Awlaki to the Fort Hood shooting (a charge Al Awlaki denied) and the underwear bomber, where is the evidence? Can we trust anything the government puts forth as evidence without getting to see it ourselves? The last time we did we ended up with tens of thousands of soldiers in Iraq. Where was Saddam’s yellow cake, his nuclear weapon, his weapons of mass destruction, his link to 9/11? Lies!

The media wants to forget him but we should not, Samir Khan was also killed, 25 year-old North Carolinian who just last year started a English-language jihadist magazine titled ”Inspire.”

The media has decided not to talk about this, what’s new? But the US killed two American citizens, not one. No charges against either man. A grand jury had been convened for Khan, but no charges levied. There is no evidence that Samir Khan was even on the capture or kill list.

The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA have all been looking at Al Awlaki for years, and they never put forth a single formal charge against this man.

Where are the charges? Where is the evidence against these men?

Here is where Americans should be concerned. Since 9/11, the government has now seen fit to give itself the power to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, to lock American citizens up indefinitely without charge, and now assassinate American citizens without formal charges being put forth or due process.

Those are not the actions of a democracy but of a dictatorship.

Steve Jobs

The co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs has passed away. It was no secret that he was in a battle with cancer. As we look at the world eroding away under greed and corruption, the world needs men like Steve Jobs, men of vision and innovation.

Steve Jobs founded Apple; he created the iPod, iPhone, and iPad which revolutionized telecommunications. Steve Jobs also founded Pixar entertainment which has made some of the most well reviewed and hit movies of the past 15 years including Finding Nemo, the Toy Story franchise, and Monsters Inc.

The passing of Steve Jobs is a huge blow to the entire world. We need more men like him.

He will go down as one of the greatest innovators in our country’s history. He belongs right there with the likes of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Milton Hersey, and Walt Disney.

They don’t want to televise the revolution.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement heads into its third week, the police has cracked down heavily, arresting hundred of protestors (over 700 so far). The NYPD has pepper strayed and used excessive force on protesters and you have to go on the Internet and Youtube to see it in its entirety. The network news doesn't want any part of covering this the way they should.

Let me send a direct message to the meatheads in blue out there beating up protesters, you are middle class dumb ass. The bankers are foreclosing on your homes, they are busting your unions, they are stealing from your pension, they are robbing from your kid's future, and these protesters are speaking up for you. Stop with pepper stray and bully tactics. You drones in blue suits are doing the bidding of the people who hate your guts. These protesters are heroes.

The movement is gaining momentum and protests are shifting to Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle. New demonstrations and protests are popping all over the country. Where is the national news? This is important stuff, we get endless streams of Arab Summer and protests over in the Middle East but they barely want to address what is going on right here.

I hope these protesters continue this, I hope more join the cause. We have a revolution going on but they dam sure do not want to televise it.

And where is Obama? Can he take a minute from raising his billion dollars for reelection to pretend like he is leading this country?

Bloomberg has had enough.

According to the Wall Street Journal, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the specter of shutting down a two-week long demonstration on Wall Street, telling protesters who are speaking out against greed and corruption that the banks deserve support.

Of course these banks that have destroyed the world's economy and has brought our country to the brink of disaster, they deserve our support. If you are one of the people who hadn't even missed a payment but had your house foreclosed on due to robo-signers, the bankers deserve your support. If you are a college graduate who can't even get a job at Arbys but you are 100k in debt, the bankers deserve your support. If you are a teacher who lost your pension due to these scams, get over it, the bankers deserve your support.

We just don't do enough for the bankers; they shouldn't have to face protest and scrutiny for robbing this country of trillions of dollars. That is so unfair to them.

Asked directly on his weekly radio show Friday whether he will allow the protesters to stay indefinitely, Bloomberg replied, “We’ll see.”

The cops have been out there pepper spraying, beating, and arresting these peaceful protesters while bankers who have pulled off the biggest heist in history are just living it up. To date, after all the evidence of fraud and corruption, not one of these scumbag bankers have been arrested.

We should all support these people out there protesting because they are actually doing something.