Herman Cain Tells Wall Street Protesters That It's Not The Banks Fault They are Poor

Herman cain had a few choice words for the folks protesting on Wall Street:

As the “Occupy Wall Street” protests enter their third week and spread to cities across the country, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is expressing skepticism about the demonstrations. “What do they want?” Cain asked when asked about the protests in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “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.”

“Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks,” he continued. “If you don’t have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!” Cain said the banks were in part to blame with the 2008 financial crisis, but he said, “We’re not in 2008 — we’re in 2011!”

The demonstrations “come across more as anti-capitalism,” he added. While Cain dismissed the protests, he stressed in his interview with the Wall Street Journal that he’s more in touch with the middle class than the GOP frontrunner, Mitt Romney. In the latest CBS News poll, Cain is tied for first place with Romney.

Romney “has been a Wall Street executive, I have been a Main Street executive,” Cain said, citing his experience in the restaurant industry. “I have been closer to the pulse and the heartbeat of medium and small businesses, operationally, more so than Mitt.” And while Cain has been successful in business, he told the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, “Don’t spread this perception I’m a kajillionaire.”

On Tuesday, Romney also decried the Occupy Wall Street protests. “I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare,” he said.

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