Herman Cain is a great business guy, a speaker at Tea Party rallies, a black American (NO I refuse to say African-American, we're Americans and that's it!), and has some leadership qualities. He would symbolize to the world that the Republican Party is not a racist group and the Tea Parties don't care about the color of the skin. Herman Cain represents himself to the world as a defender of the free market system and as a voice for the Tea Party.
Hold it right there. Before we begin sounding the trumpets to herald in a hero, let's do some research on the guy and see what he's really like. Times past we've been let down after we have elected a person in to find out that what he said and suppose to have symbolized was untrue. I think also, that we really do need to stop looking at the color of the skin because this really is not the time to try and prove anything to the world about us not being racists. The racist tag that has been attached to the Republican Party is simply the Democrats having done a great job of playing the race card and spreading the fallacious idea that Republicans are racist. A quick overview of the history of the Democratic Party would confirm that the opposite is in fact true.We know who we are and we know we are not basing our thoughts or actions just because someone is of a different shade of color. We should base our thoughts of a person by what they have done in the past, what they have said, and what they stand for. So, let's move pass this racism thing and see what history of this man tells us.
A short biography on Herman Cain; After completing a master's degree in computer science from Purdue University, Cain left the navy department and started working for the Coca-Cola company as a business analyst. He later went on to work for the Philsbury Company and went all the way up to Vice President, and then went on to manage over 400 stores for Burger King. He was so successful with Burger King that Philsbury decided to bring Cain back and placed him as CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Cain is well known for this position with Godfather's Pizza and while he was CEO, he took a stand against then President Clinton's universal healthcare plan. During this time as CEO of Godfather's Pizza, however, Cain was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and was later the chairman of the board 1995-1996 after which he resigned to become active in national politics. http://www.think-it-inc.com/HermanCain.htm ; http://www.horatioalger.org/members_info.cfm?memberid=CAI96
Cain got his first taste in national politics while he was serving as CEO for Godfather's Pizza. Cain started getting by starting a radio show called The Herman Cain Show on an Atlanta radio station. He also worked for Fox News as a commentator and was a syndicate writer in a local newspaper. Cain later went on to start the Herminator's Intelligent Thinkers Movement, HITM, with hopes to have 100,000 activists in every congressional district. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain
In 1996, Cain was a senior advisor for Dole's then campaign for Presidency and later went on to attempt a campaign and get nominated for Senate on the Republican ticket. Neither of these attempts were successful. http://www.rlc2011.com/speakers_list/herman-cain/, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58347-2004Jul17
While Cain was running for Senate, his opponent, Mac Collins, accused Cain of being a moderate because Cain supported affirmative action. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58347-2004Jul17 The only response Cain could offer to Collins' accusation was that he was conservative in that he was more pro-life than Collins was. Cain was against abortion even in the case of rape and incest. He based his conservatism on how far more religious he was than the other candidates. He attempted to discredit Isakson by saying that Isakson approved of abortion for the case of rape, incest and medical needs. Besides the fact that Cain dodged the accusation of supporting affirmative action, it's as if he based his "conservatism" by how religious he is and not by facts, preserving individual rights and his adherence to the US Constitution. Needless to say, Isakson was the one who won the nomination to the Republican ticket.
Since 2010, Cain became a popular speaker for Tea Party rallies and attended over 40 such rallies. He called himself a "dark horse candidate" and a leader for the Tea Party rallies. Well, note to Herman Cain, the Tea Party rallies were never about giving politicians power; they were about giving the power back to the people where it rightfully belongs. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/herman-cain-the-gop-wild-card/8367/
Herman Cain does have some good positions to offer as a candidate for the Republican Party. He supports policies that will lower regulations, lower taxes, and reduce, albeit slightly, government intrusion in the economy. He supports returning the gold standard in spite of having been a chairman of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City. Cain also favors supporting off shore drilling and even wants to allow drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He also wants to allow the free markets take reign of advancements in alternative energy sources instead of having the government dictate who will be the economic winners and losers. Cain favors repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, because he believes that the free market should be the largest provider of health care, not the government. He is also in support of Israel's right to defend itself and make their own decisions in what they think is best for them. Cain supports Israel as our ally and the only one that we have in the most dangerous part of the world.
In principle all these positions are great but nevertheless the amount of deregulation he supports is still miniscule and will by no means make America an economically friendly nation. He also hasn’t advocated any substantial spending cuts anywhere in the government or privatizing any government programs. Cain is at best (!) in favor of implementing socialism albeit at a slower pace than Obama and the left.
Herman Cain says he supports lowering taxes but is in favor of a Fair Tax of 23%. I like the idea of Fair Tax but a low one. At 23% Fair Tax, we can expect to pay 23 cents for every dollar we spend. That adds up! Just imagine going to the store to buy $100 worth of groceries and add another $23 to that bill. Do you think you can handle that? Don't forget that you also have to pay a state and local sales tax on top of that. Besides that, why only lower the corporate tax from 35% to 25%? Why not just lower it to 0%? Corporations are being forcedto ship jobs overseas because they have to compete in a global economy and in order to do that they have to go for the cheapest labor available. So, why not make it economically feasible for corporations to have jobs here in America and make a profit?
Herman Cain claims to be fiscally conservative but if that is true, then why was he in support of Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP? Cain saw TARP as a way for the taxpayer to invest while saving a troubled asset. When asked about his support of TARP, he said he had no regrets as he said, "I studied the situation. I have no trouble with the idea; I had trouble with the implementation, picking winners and losers." (http://004eeb5.netsolhost.com/hc133.htm ; http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/267029/introducing-herman-cain-robert-costa?page=7 ) How does one pass something like TARP without picking the winners and losers? If that is the stand he takes on it, then we might as well have given bailouts to ALL companies in a given market and consider them all losers.
Forget anything about correcting, let alone get rid of, what is wrong with our welfare system and Social Security. Herman Cain is only in favor of streamlining these government entitlement programs. (http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/rep_bios.php?rep_id=98516477&category=views&id=20110508174238) And well, when you streamline government, you only streamline government power to coerce violations of your individual rights. There's a reason for checks and balances in government and it's meant to act as a way to restrict government; not to restrict the individual.
But the worse political stand that I see from Herman Cain is his position on Iran. His idea of "dealing" with Iran is a diplomatic approach to nuclear disarmament.( http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/rep_bios.php?rep_id=98516477&category=views&id=20110509171147) Either Cain is naive about Iran, or that he really doesn't know much about what's going on in the Middle East. They have made it clear many times over that their intent is to wipe Israel from the map and kill all the Jews. There really is no deal-making with them to give up their quest.
Bottom line; Herman Cain is not the capitalist he claims to be. He is more of a corporatist or fascist. You cannot be a capitalist if you are in favor of government welfare, keeping government Social Security, in favor of bailouts and stimulus from government and you certainly cannot be a capitalist if you support affirmative action. To be a capitalist means to know, understand and protect individual rights; none of which describes Herman Cain. Just as well, a true capitalist would never support the Federal Reserve as he has done because a free market capitalist system would never tolerate a concentration of power in one bank that causes for the mess we are in. One bank that controls other banks, dictates what interest rates we can charge and how much other banks are allowed to make. That is not capitalism. For a bit of “trivia”, according to Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute, during the Gilded Age of America, from the Civil War to the World War, America experienced the greatest economical growth than any other time in America history and we didn’t have a Federal Reserve Bank or any kind of central bank.
Should Cain ever become president, we will still continue to have a debt crisis because he refuses to attack the very reason how we got here, he'll tank the economy further if the Democrats haven't done the job already, and then at the end of his presidency you'll hear people say it's because capitalism failed. Truth is capitalism didn't fail. We don't have capitalism and Cain is not the capitalist people think he is. He favors giving corporations a break and yet still wants to keep welfare and Social Security. We will have a mixed economy with elements of socialism, elements of free markets with lots of government intrusions.
I would beware of Herman Cain and do the research yourself. He’s another wolf in sheep’s clothes.
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