Posted on 10/05/2011 1:51:47 PM PDT by ToxicMich
(CNN) – If you're dissatisfied with the economy, or unemployed, Herman Cain thinks you should take a long, hard look in the mirror.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted Wednesday, the up-and-coming GOP 2012 contender and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza summed up his bewilderment about recent demonstrations on Wall Street.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Not just job-destroying but wealth-destroying. Who wants to get on a treadmill to feed the Washington monster?
When I got sick of counting on other people to employ me after other people whom I had counted on to employ me laid me off, I went into business for myself. I spend 50 something thousand a year to earn my own (taxed) 50 something thousand a year. My getting mad and getting off my behind was good for me and a hell of a lot of other people.
But did they teach you to discern the difference between personal goodness and wealth? If they taught you to conflate the two, they taught you a mistake.
There indeed is a fallacy that a job is something you always have to “get.” “Get a job!” Isn’t that what we always get on our high horses and tell the bums? But that is not the full picture of the possibilities. You didn’t “get” a job, you created it, and kudos to you.
Yep. Have you seen the comments at the link? The whiners are going ballistic.
Or MAKE one!
Ex.: OccupyWallSt types are whining that someone needs to come get and do their laundry. OK, so someone buy a hamper for a buck and charge 120% of costs to do it. Hey, ya got a job!
Far too many think jobs are something created by some higher power. They don't realize it's all variations on the theme of "I've got a skill/product, you have a need, let's contract a win-win here." You have a right to work; to wit you have the right to find something someone else wants/needs and figure out how to provide it to them at a price they're willing to pay.
That’s a good point. I’m not sure what the answer is. I do know that I don’t like the current system.
I can tell you that in a society full of people who say they want work, I can scarcely find any who will:
*provide relevant and complete information when they call about a help wanted ad (hey, call me back. Who? At what number?)
*not put stupid disqualifying things on their facebook or twitter accounts (preventing an interview in the first place (sorry, can’t give specifics without giving away identities - but think for instance about a man taking about how butt cute he is, only less nicely)
*show up at all for an interview
*show up on time for an interview
*show up for work
*call with any sufficient warning if they can not show up for work
*honor their commitments to my company
*not dishonor their name, my name, or the people with whom I contract, through stupid behavior at work
*not lie or steal
*not think quitting/failing to start after training via voice mail or text is ok
What I have found is that in general, the people I want or need do not want or need me, or have another job already, but need the work enough to add a part time gig to it.
And its not like I am offering minimum wage either.
"Isn't it a bit simple minded?"
No but I do think its very HEARTLESS!
Don't you mean......"insensitive" < /sarc>
I got it right away. It was a dig at Perry. Can’t believe people missed it.
No one would hire me after I finally got my degree, so now I run a couple of businesses, and employ several other people.
Who can sit around waiting for money to fall out of the sky?
Are you sure you’re on the right site?
Even so it is God that is the source of all possibilities. Failing to honor Him is to shoot oneself in the foot.
To me, saying that poor people have to blame themselves because is simple minded. It's no better then saying that capitalism is bad for the environment. It’s moronic.
There are many reasons why somebody can be poor without having anything to do with their will. Health issues for example. I am sure that there are Freepers here you are in a bad place not because they want to but because they can’t do it.
I agree that a lot (and I mean A LOT) of people are poor because they don't do anything about it. But all of them? It's the kind of statement that comes back at you and bite you on the a$$...
Thanks for the welcome by the way.
Mich
See my post 56.
“The conservative radio talk show host described the protests as “planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration, though he admitted he didn’t “have the facts to back this up.”
Nor does Cain have any facts to explain why we are all born with different abilities.
Be careful of the message that is insinuated, that somehow being “rich” in and of itself is equivalent to being worthy, or even is a necessarily desirable goal for all people. I think Cain fell into a subtle trap here. The envy-based protests of Wall Street are wrong, but it’s because envy is wrong.
Why did Jesus warn the “rich” that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven? Was He speaking of the mere quantity of funds in one’s name? Or was He speaking of one’s attitude towards one’s funds?
Context is everything.
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