CAIN REFUSES TO SEE BAD ECONOMY

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/herman-cain-occupy-wall-street_n_996265.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

He says the recession and the housing bubble were "imaginary". He doesn't want to audit the Fed and was a former Fed Chairman. Yet he supported bailing out the banks frm this imaginary recession. And to top it off, Cain croons:

"If You Don't Have A Job And You're Not Rich, Blame Yourself"

 

Yes, Herm. I'll just go out to my job tree. It's right next to my money tree in the back yard.

CAIN FLIP-FLOP

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/herman-cain-flip-flopped-on-the-killing-of-anwar-al-awlaki/246084/

Herman Cain Flip-Flopped on the Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki

 

 In May, he said the U.S. citizen could not be targeted for assassination legally. On Sunday, he praised Obama's decision.

 

TG: Is it any surprise that Herman had to check the wind direction on this one?

CAINSIAN ECONOMICS

http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/one-week-before-collapse-cain-says-economy-great/

ONE WEEK Before Collapse, Cain Says Economy Great

Amazingly, Herman Cain’s star continues to rise, which means Republicans think it’s all right for someone to endorse Mitt Romney, as Cain did, to support TARP (it’s not his fault, say supporters — he somehow had no idea it would be used to “pick winners and losers”!), and to be completely clueless about the condition of the economy right up to the moment of the collapse.

Now this really takes the cake: here is Herman Cain on September 1, 2008, saying the economy is in terrific shape.

Here’s what happened over the following two weeks:

– Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the U.S. government (Sept. 7);
– Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America;
– Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy;
– The Fed bailed out AIG;
– Washington Mutual was sold to JP MorganChase;
– Treasury Secretary Paulson said the economy was so bad that $700 billion must be spent on bailouts immediately; otherwise, warned Ben Bernanke, “we may not have an economy on Monday.”

On September 1, 2008, Herman Cain was laughing at the “imaginary recession.” That is how clueless this man is.  That is also how clueless lots of Republicans are, since they think a guy this hopeless would make a good president during a time of general collapse, a collapse he didn’t even slightly see coming and whose nature escapes him completely.

And when the chips were down, Cain reflexively supported the Establishment by embracing the grotesque and indefensible TARP. He lectured “free-market purists” while doing it. But next time he’ll be a maverick and defy the Establishment, right?

Meanwhile, Ron Paul specifically warned in 2001 that Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, whose NASDAQ bubble had just burst, were in the process of creating a housing bubble.  Here he is saying it: (see video on website).

He made comparably prescient statements over the next several years, while every single other Republican candidate in the running was either mute on the economy or actually thrilled with it.  Thus Joe Scarborough asked him: “How could it be that you knew this on the Banking Committee in 2003, and nobody else did until after the collapse?”

See rest of article on website.

CORRUPTION SPREADS TO PERRY AIDES

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/29/perry-aides-told-different-stories-in-lawsuit/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=09cbad72a4-9_29_119_29_2011&utm_medium=email

Perry aides told different stories in lawsuit

(Reuters) - Contradictions in sworn statements about Rick Perry's fundraising for his 2006 reelection bid raise questions about whether aides to the Texas governor, who is now running for president, gave false or misleading testimony under oath.

NO CAIN, NO PAIN

http://www.wakeup1776.com/2011/09/herman-cain-is-bad-for-america-and-not.html

Herman Cain is Bad for America and not a Conservative

Several good reasons to reject Cain.

PERRY KICKBACK CORRUPTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhkiL_-NBk

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down the shady donor dealings and favors suggesting corruption involving 2012 Republican Presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Perry's job program: Gov't jobs for illegal aliens, on the back of the American Taxpayer

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/study-most-new-texas-jobs-went-immigrants

Study: Most new Texas jobs went to immigrants

"Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers" [TG: about half of them illegal aliens]

"Americans filled just 20% of the new jobs in Texas, even though "the native born accounted for 69% of the growth in Texas' working-age population."