Herman Cain: It is your fault you are not rich...

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

richardhutnik said:

Remember, the premise is, "if you aren't rich, it is your fault".  So, the ONLY reason why someone isn't rich, is because of government?

Is some fleetingly small, basically negligible percentage of the population in dire straits despite having made all the right decisions because of sheer bad luck? Sure, maybe 0.001% of people are. But unless you're actively being held down by an unjust system as Luther Cain was, then yeah, if you want to see who's to blame for your failed life, odds are pretty good that you can catch a glimspe of the bastard in a mirror.

And even if we do pretend that people don't ultimately make the decisions that govern their own lives and give a pass to every inner city child of a broken home who's mired in a culture of failure and victimhood, the overeducated Wall-nuts banging on about the student loan debts that they agreed to assume are deserving of not one bit of sympathy or any other emotion, save contempt.

Larger forces are at work more often than you would assume. Take the Billy Joel song "Allentown" as an example, what of the person who, say, got married 30 years ago, got a loan and a house with kids all predicated on his steady paycheck at the steel mill, then the whole thing goes to pot and suddenly no jobs in steel exist in the USA? Oftentimes people bet on a sure thing, and suddenly conditions change in a way no-one could have foreseen.

Though i'll agree with your assessment of "the other 99." There are a hell of a lot of socialist reforms that we should mandate, but relief for yuppie college kids who are too lazy to leverage their bachelor's degree into a generic middle management position (even if only as a holdover while they continue to pursue something relevant to their major) should not form the locus of social action