J'ai toujours trouvé sympathique cette idée que chacun est responsable de son destin et que la réussite s'obtient à la "force du bras". Je me souviens d'une passage d'un roman de William Martin (mon auteur de roman historique préféré!) intitulé The lost constitution. Il s'agit de la devise d'une famille fictive au centre du récit: "In America we wake up in the morning, we go to work, we solve our problems".
C'est bien dans un récit fictif et c'est vrai pour de nombreux aspects de notre vie. Mais qu'en 2011 un politicien aspirant au titre de Président dans une des périodes économiques les plus difficiles de l'histoire du pays puisse se permettre de tels propos est choquant. Où était-il lorsque Wall street était sur les genoux en raison sa propre folie? Il est actuellement en tête chez les candidats républicains selon les derniers sondages...
"Herman Cain had some tough words for the Occupy Wall Street protests, in an interview with Wall Street Journal: Don’t blame the banks for your financial problems — blame yourself.
“I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated, to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration,” Cain said. “Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks — if you don’t have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!”
Interviewer Alan Murray asked: “You don’t think the banks have anything to do with the crisis that we went into in 2008?”
“They did have something to do with the crisis that we went into in 2008. But we’re not in 2008 — we’re in 2011!” Cain replied.
Cain continued: “Okay. Yes, they had a big part to do with it. And obviously you could go back and say okay, what did the banks do, to do this? These demonstrations, I honestly don’t understand what they’re looking for. To me, they come across more as anti-capitalism. That’s basically what it comes across as.
“When I was growing up, I was blessed to have had parents that didn’t teach me to be jealous of anybody, and didn’t teach me to be envious of somebody. It is not a person’s fault because they succeeded — it is a person’s fault if they failed. And so this is why I don’t understand these demonstrations, and what is it that they are looking for.”"
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/cain-if-you-dont-have-a-job-and-you-are-not-rich-blame-yourself-video.php?ref=fpb
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