Here's my "Herman Cain" 999 Disaster Readiness Plan...it's just me...oh, and Glenn Beck :)

It finally hit me, I don't care about politics, really.  I'm clear that politicians are not going to solve these problems.  Don't get me wrong, I'm going to stay informed, I'm going to vote, but the problems we are facing are not going to be solved with the coming vote in 2012.  The reality is that we're going to solve these problems ourselves.  We have to take responsibility to take control of our futures and fix the issues the way we know how.  So, what's the plan...well, I don't know your plan so I'm going to share my plan.

Here's a list of things I'm planning on doing myself.  Here's a question, how do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.  People may mock me, but I don't really care.  I apologize to any of my family and friends where I've made you feel uncomfortable or if I've made it more difficult to maintain a relationship.  This is not panic, but there is a sense of urgency around doing this, so I'm praying for a miracle but planning for disaster.

"Our current economic path is unsustainable" has been said by an incredible list of everyone on the left and the right, and the warning has been unanimous...they are all warning of total economic collapse.  The warning I'm giving you now is not my words, but their words.  They aren't giving you solutions, so I'm going to share my plans.  You may not like what I've got to say and a lot of people won't do it because they don't want to think about it.  I've written before about situational blindness and the normalcy bias, so if you've read anything I've written I hope you're at least willing to consider the possibility that you can't get hurt by having a plan.

When Al Gore says, "the debate is over, it is unanimous...there is severe danger ahead" I tend to agree with him - I know, hard to believe, huh?

Raaammmmiiiinnnggggg ssssppppeeeeedddddd!!!!!! Brace for impact my friends.  There's no fairy with magic pixy dust or a magic wand who is magically going to solve this...there is no government solution coming, there's no way that politicians or bureaucrats are going to be able to create solutions faster than the rate at which our society is decaying and the rate at which evil is accelerating its agenda.

Once the proverbial crap hits the fan, you are going to have a maximum of 72 hours to be at your "survive in place" location after that crisis...is that enough time for you to adequately prepare.  Obviously not, so better get cracking.  Why 72 hours?  Because that's how long it's going to take before the looters realize the police aren't coming and you're fair game.

Reuters identifies Soros as the instigator behind Occupy Wall Street...is that any surprise at this point?  If you read history...revolutions, especially those of socialist/communist/marxist origination ALWAYS end in violence.

Illinois Rep Jesse Jackson, did you see this story yesterday?  http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/12/jackson-obama-should-declare-a-national-emergency-add-jobs-with-extra-constitutional-action/ calling on Obama to call a special emergency and to exercise "extraordinary" means of administrative controls because "congress is in rebellion" and encourages Obama in continuing to find ways to advance the cause of the American people.

Am I in a parallel universe where I'm the only one that sees this as a major red flag?

It was Israel who broke the news to us about the Iranian Terror attempt, not the U.S. intelligence community.

Center for American Progress just 'happpened' to be the location from where, Hillary Clinton, speaking about the Iran situation announced her verbal tongue lashing against this terrorist nation, really?

What about the massive Blackberry outage?  It started in Europe, went through Canada and then the U.S.  Three days of a major outage where there is supposedly triple redundancy in the system?

What is critically important is that you are responsible for discovering the truth because it is not being told to you.  Our Republic is under direct attack.  So...here are the steps - directly taken from Glenn Beck:

MONEY:
1. Gold, Food, Cig, Liquor, Sugar, Guns, Ammo, Seeds
2. Skills, Barter, Alliances
3. 30 Days Cash on Hand (if banking system goes down, you're out of luck, no ATMS working - think about Katrina)
4. Knowledge (is money, is power) build, fix, design, real value in education
5. Buy a House with Farmland (true water source)
   LOCATION - No Place Untouched
   Texas, Mountains, God
   If cannot Move - Alliances (create a network of those you know who can help)
6. Stop ALL excess spending
7. Choose Quality Durability/Fixable over fad and fashion
8. Measure 2x, Cut Once, do not waste anything
9. Fuel efficient, not to save the planet, but if we go to war in the Middle East - gas could go to $10 per gallon
10. Truck-SUV (pre 1979) take it off road, get around obstacles, durable, and something which has parts you can repair not relying on electronics that you can fix yourself.

TRADITIONS:
1. Preserve truth
2. Shed Commercial

ELECTRONICS: (assume e-bomb, electronic crash)
1. Paper Documents - Take W/(Deeds, Notes, Contracts, Bank Statements)
2. Reduce/Remove/Simplify (do not become completely dependent)

EDUCATION:
1. Apprenticeships
2. Discuss Value of the School/What Can You Earn?  Is it worth it?
3. No Labels (Yale, Harvard) what do you get at the end of it?
4. Other Options (online)
5. Faith Education
6. College is NOT a given, not even a requirement in a sane society, trade schools are fine
7. Demand Merit from the school or GET OUT!  if they're not teaching and doing the job you're paying them
8. Always read, educate yourself
9. Hard copy of classic books
10. Learn old and lost practices like mending, canning, farming
12. Learn to fix an engine
13. Relearn and teach your children how to read a map
14. Stay up on True News
15. Know other side - if you don't know the arguments, if you can't state the other sides opinion, you can't argue against it.

BIZ/JOB
1.  Do your best, what's stopping you from being better?
2.  Be irreplacable, be the one that they can't cut in downsizing
3.  Be the product or service no one can cancel
4.  Learn from Depression
    - conserve/preserve
    - advertise (chevy) 10-1 Ford outspent before the depression,
    - downsize to help
5.  George Bailey
6.  Honesty, Integrity, Charity
7.  Spit yourself out of the system, innovate - highest spike of innovation in the 20th century came out of the Depression, the mother of invention
8.  Put Your Money where your Heart is.  don't put money with people who don't share your values.
9.  Do Business in symbiotic ways, we're all going to be in trouble and we're going to have to work together.  If I help you...you'll help me.
10.  Do Not try to put others out of business
11.  Gimbles/Macys
12.  Never be the smartest in the room
13.  Take care of employees
14.  give more/take less
15.  Read Franklin/Washington, find the people who are remarkable to you

LIFE
1.  Do not plan & move
    Plan - Pray - Obey
2. Practice Franklins Religion, i don't care what your faith is, we have to stop trying to baptize each other - we have to be more interested in loving each other than saving each other.  I want to be at a church who loves me for who I am, I want to be around people who respect me, honor me and love me for who I am.
3. Honor All obligations, be honorable
4. Draw your children close
5. Teach/Live Values
6. Do with Less Now
7. Serve and Share
8. Link up with 9/12 - phone, map
9. Have a meeting place, don't gather where others say to gather
10. Read Bible daily
11. Have a Gun, know how to shoot it
12. Resolve Inner Conflicts
13. Stop all Behavior that doesn't expand me into a better person
14. Make amends/find peace - get to work
15. Teach your children work ethic (I'm so proud of my kids, they GET IT!!!)
16. Tolerate nothing that you feel is wrong by remaining silent, you don't have to make a scene or fight, just leave IMMEDIATELY - vote with your feet, GET OUT
17. Never feed anger - righteous anger is all well and good, but we are rarely capable of that, we have to avoid giving in to anger...be more interested in loving than in being right.

It's never the first look that is the problem, it is the second look that leads to trouble

For my kids...BE happy and optimistic...life goes on, make plans for the future, get married and have children, raise your family...but always have a backup/disaster readiness plan, then you'll never be at someone else's mercy.

Not sure why...but the last thing Glenn said was to...

Sing songs

Thailand has an interesting export for us...you'll never guess

Parts of Thailand have experienced terrible flooding lately, and much of the country's production shut down as a result. Thailand makes everything from tire factories to hard disk drive manufacturers to rice... and given the slowdown in the economy, it couldn't have come at a worse time.


Not to worry, though, the government has a plan to fix it. Let me explain:


Thailand's central bank is sitting on roughly $212 billion in net foreign reserves right now. That's up 37% from last year and nearly 80% from 2009. Curiously, it all starts with Ben Bernanke.


When Ben Bernanke conjures trillions of new dollars out of thin air for QEx, that money has to end up somewhere... usually the Treasury Department or banks. (you may recall that banks were able to swap their worthless toxic securities for Bernanke's worthless dollars-- a truly bizarre trade...)


As funds make their way into the banking system, money managers often deploy those new dollars overseas to developing markets where the expected rate of return is much higher than in developed economies. 


Thailand is one of the largest economies in Asia and is capable of absorbing large capital flows. Neighboring Laos, for example, only has a $6 billion economy. You can't move $10 billion into Laos without seriously moving the needle. Conversely, Thailand's GDP is $247 billion, making it more suitable for large investments. 


Even with the size of Thailand economy's, though, the inflow of foreign funds has pressured the Thai baht. As Thailand is an export-oriented economy, nobody here wants a strong baht.


Thailand's central bank has aggressively fought the baht's appreciation. Taking a page from Bernanke's playbook, the bank has suppressed interest rates below the rate of inflation while simultaneously creating billions of new currency units with which to buy all the new US dollars flowing into the country. 


This is how the bank ended up with an 80% surge in foreign reserves from 2009-- it simply printed new baht to purchase the newly printed dollars. 


Thai people are not fooled by this trickery. Unlike brainwashed westerners who believe in their worthless paper, Thai people know that fiat money is a scam. Even the poorest Thais occasionally buy a few grams of gold with whatever savings they can scrap together on expectations of inflation.


They've turned out to be right; prices are rising. All of the new money ends up somewhere, and with interest rates below the rate of inflation, businesses, consumers, and banks all have an incentive to constantly redeploy funds.


The real estate sector has been the net beneficiary of this frenzy. Hell, everyone knows it's a bubble... the government, the developers, and even all but the most dim-witted customers. 


Developers are feverishly building as quickly as possible, sacrificing quality for speed, so that they can finish and collect the customer's money before the bubble bursts. It's like watching a live game of musical chairs.


Thailand now finds itself between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, the country is faced with rising inflation and a number of bubbles. On the other, it faces a declining economy. Orders from China, Europe, and the US have slowed, and the domestic economy isn't developed enough to tighten the slack.


Production shutdowns from the recent flooding certainly haven't helped.


The government's solution? Print money and put it directly into people's pockets by overpaying peasant rice farmers. 


Under the government's new plan, local farmers will receive the equivalent of roughly 40% more than the market price for rice. Anyone who slept through high school economics can tell you that price controls don't work. This is the stuff that feeds inflation, creates shortages, and misallocates production resources. 


Needless to say, there are global implications when one of the world's biggest producers and exporters goes down the path of inflation. 


This is exactly what happens when a government with access to cheap credit meets with an opportunity to launch a populist agenda. As President Obama's former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."


Thailand's flooding is a crisis, no doubt. Populist-driven inflation will be an even greater economic crisis. Make no mistake, when inflation comes home to roost in North America, it will be exported from countries like Thailand. 


This is an early sign that Mr. Bernanke is about to get some of those dollars back.


SOURCE:
Simon Black
Senior Editor, www.SovereignMan.com 

Rep. Jesse Jackson urges 'extra-constitutional action' in jobs crisis

The fact that this elected "useful idiot" likens GOP opposition to Obama's jobs bill with Southern rebellion in 1860 recommends the Congressman for early committal to an insane asylum.

But how creepy is this closet authoritarian when he recommends the suspension of constitutional liberties in an economic crisis?

The Daily Caller:

Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the Confederate "states in rebellion."

Jackson called for full government employment of the 15 million unemployed and said that Obama should "declare a national emergency" and take "extra-constitutional" action "administratively" -- without the approval of Congress -- to tackle unemployment.

"I hope the president continues to exercise extraordinary constitutional means, based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past," Jackson said. "He's looking administratively for ways to advance the causes of the American people, because this Congress is completely dysfunctional.

"President Obama tends to idealize - and rightfully so - Abraham Lincoln, who looked at states in rebellion and he made a judgment that the government of the United States, while the states are in rebellion, still had an obligation to function," Jackson told TheDC at his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday.

"On several occasions now, we've seen ... the Congress is in rebellion, determined, as Abraham Lincoln said, to wreck or ruin at all costs. I believe ... in the direct hiring of 15 million unemployed Americans at $40,000 a head, some more than $40,000, some less than $40,000 - that's a $600 billion stimulus. It could be a five-year program. For another $104 billion, we bailout all of the states ... for another $100 billion, we bailout all of the cities," he said.

I doubt this moron ever cracked a history book in his life. There is a difference between a congress being "dysfunctional" and "in rebellion." And, of course, a congressional "rebellion" is not a revolution against the United States or its government, but rather a president - usually of the same party as the congressional majority!

His idea about the government hiring 15 million people - doing what he doesn't say - echoes the idiocy of the Occupy Wall Street protestors. And can you imagine the stampede if the government were hiring at $40 thousand a head? Most of those making less than that would quit their jobs to get a piece of that action. Also, the congressman might want to note that we sent $180 billion to states in 2009 and many of them are worse off today than they were then.

Where does America get these clowns who serve in Congress?

Source:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/rep_jesse_jackson_urges_extra-constitutional_action_in_jobs_crisis.html

Source:

Welcome to the American Fall

Gang...the revolution has begun.  It started in Tunisia and now we're in revolution here in America.  This was the Arch Duke Ferndinand moment of our day and the Arab Spring has rolled right across the Middle East and has now shown up on our doorsteps as the American Fall.  Are you worried about what's going on now in Iran?  If you knew how to think like them, you'd have a sense of what they're planning.  Or better yet, just read what they say, "the U.S. is in full blown crisis...corrupt foundation has been exposed to the american poeple" so there's no surprise when Obama admits to doing an end run around congress and implementing the Jobs Bill through administrative action without Congressional authorization and plans to "just get it done."  Are you kidding me?  How corrupt is that? The problems are not going to be fixed by talking about them, so the only solution is to take "peaceful" action which doesn't throw us into chaos.  What action are you going to take?

Learn to think as a revolutionary.  What do they want? Have you figured out what the "Occupy Movement" is protesting against?  Have you asked yourself why they've started out all friendly and happy?  Stop thinking like Americans in 2007, that's over.  The world is being redesigned and if you want to survive...at all...you've got to think differently.  We should be as tense as the country was during the Russian missile crisis, but we're not...why not?  Situational blindness and normalcy bias...WAKE UP!

Only thing missing right now to blow past the tipping point is assassinations.  Every other element is here from the 1960's, and if you're trying to recreate the 1960's (can you say Weather Underground Agenda - their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government.) then you've got to believe assassinations are coming.  Oh...guess what, they're already starting...did you watch the news announcement about the attempted assassination against the Saudi and Israeli Ambassadors?  Why is it that one of the two alleged assassins is not under our control?  The DOJ has supposedly been investigating this terror attack for months, but didn't reveal it until the day before Holder is going to be subpoened for lying to Congress.

As I was watching the combined press conference of Eric Holder, the FBI and some other related agencies I just got this sick feeling in my stomach.  The few remaining hairs on the back of my neck stood up.  The pieces just don't fit.  My gut reaction was, this just doesn't pass the sniff test.  Does this smell right to you?  The disclosure of this supposed plot BEGS for some kind of military action against Iran, but what is your belief about what Obama will do?  Obama has been clear through his actions that he has NO intention of confronting Iran and we are being weakened yet again on the International front.

Have you asked yourself why Isreali and Saudi Ambassadors were the targets?  Who benefits from having that happen.  What happens when the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia are united in action against a common enemy?  Who is that common enemy and what do they gain by putting our three countries into alliance?  What is our response, or lack of response?  We announced the plot and then we're still deciding whether to respond?  Did I hear that right?  Well, yes...because another press announcement by Hillary Clinton confirms exactly that!  We've known about this since May, but haven't done anything?  We have now put the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia in a position where we MUST respond, or the lack of response will embolden them to further action.  What happened when we didn't respond in Beirut in the 80's?  Somethings not right with this story...all of our possible outcomes are bad.

Think like a revolutionary.  This is where it all starts to work and without this framework it makes no sense.  Why would this administration release this information now, especially if they've had it for so long?

What are you going to do with this information?  I hope you ponder it, I hope you start thinking out of the box, I hope you start questioning EVERYTHING you see...because we're not being told the truth.  Releasing the plot without a plan of action or recourse causes confusion and chaos.  Words are meaningless now and have become so jumbled that it's almost impossible to discern what's actually going on.

Question with boldness...trust but verify!

Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities

Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities

As the American Declaration of Independence clearly states, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to band together and collectively declare their rights and responsibilities to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle and bind them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should disclose the causes which impel them to such.

Therefore let us declare that we still hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But with those rights come responsibilities.

In order to continually experience life, liberty and happiness as promised, nature’s God demands obedience to His law to protect those rights. This is where we have fallen short and therefore, in order not to lose the blessings of freedom, the people of the world must turn from the sole focus on rights, and recognize the inherent and required responsibilities that we have.

Among the responsibilities to which we must adhere to maintain our God given rights are honor, courage and vigilance.

Over time, we believe that these basic human responsibilities have been trampled, and replaced with degradation, fear and apathy.

But when a long train of abuses of the people and conscience by the media and by other segments of society, pursuing the same path of reducing them to ridicule, scorn and even sub-human status, it is their right, it is their DUTY, to peacefully, but vehemently take a stand.

Men want to be king, and the more we concentrate on our rights and the more we are told not to worry about our responsibilities, the more we lose our rights.

Just as physics show, for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. The time has come to declare that at least for the western world human rights are generally accepted and moving in the right direction however a new movement is required a movement of human responsibility.

The media, politicians and large institutions both academic and political have been lying to us, and we must demand the truth be told.

Political correctness has polluted our language and clouds our every discussion.

With that demand, comes the responsibility that we tell the truth first, in ourselves. Too many of us delegate our responsibility to the media…and too many believe there is no personal responsibility at all.

What was once accepted as good and right, is now considered bad and evil, and that which was bad and evil is now presented to the world as good and decent.

Opposing thoughts or opinions are referred to as crazy, insane, non-factual and utterly without merit. Furthermore, we are told, they should not even be heard.

Now, the time has come to take a stand by exhibiting the traits – honor, courage and vigilance.

What is honor? It is being honest in all of our dealings. It is showing loyalty and fairness, and being a beacon of integrity in all our beliefs and actions. It is showing respect for others.

Ruth honored Naomi when she told her that she would not leave her. That she would go wherever Naomi went, that she would live where Naomi lived and die where Naomi died. Her God would be Naomi’s God.

Courage is the ability to face danger, criticism or scorn – not without fear, but while overcoming fear to deal with that which comes our way.

When no one else in the Kingdom wanted to face the mighty giant, Goliath, young David was willing. David must have felt fear at the sight of his foe, but overcame it, and courageously vanquished his enemy.

Vigilance is being watchful for all forms of treachery and tyranny, lies and deceit. The person in the watchtower, waiting all night, suddenly sounding the alarm that the enemy is coming. The careful observer of the markets and economies who proclaims to the world, all is not well, there is trouble ahead and the outspoken critic of the powerful, going against societies’ grain, warning that all is not as we’re being told. These are the vigilant.

We implore all people to stand with these characteristics – honor, courage and vigilance.

To that end, we must restore honor in our own lives. Seek after the truth. Declare right now, that no longer will we simply accept what is told us by the media or anyone else.

The media has the responsibility to tell the truth, we have the responsibility to learn it.

Stand with courage, even if it means the end of our jobs, the end of our positions in life…or even the end of our very lives.

We must have the courage to be peaceful, while recognizing the courage to defend and respond to threats and/or attacks when necessary.

Turn the other cheek when possible.

We must be vigilant. We must think the unthinkable. The holocaust occurred because no one could imagine it, but evil never sleeps, and neither must we.

As Edmund Burke said, “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” We must DO something. Stand watch. Speak up. Become involved.

Thus, we the people do hereby declare not only our rights, but do now establish this bill of responsibilities.

1. Because I have the right to choose, I recognize that I am accountable to God and have the responsibility to keep the 10 commandments in my own life.

2. Because I have the right to worship as I choose, I have the responsibility to honor the right of others to worship as they see fit.

3. Because I have freedom of speech, I have the responsibility to defend the speech of others, even if I strongly disagree with what they’re saying.

4. Because I have the right to pursue happiness, I have the responsibility to show humility and express gratitude for all the blessings I enjoy and the rights I’ve been given.

5. Because I have the right to honest and good government I will seek out honest and just representatives when possible. If I cannot find one then I accept the responsibility to take that place.

6. Because I have the God given right to liberty, I have the personal responsibility to have the courage to defend others to be secure in their persons, lives and property.

7. Because I have the right to equal justice, I will stand for those who are wrongly accused or unjustly blamed.

8. Because I have the right to knowledge, I will be accountable for myself and my children’s education…to live our lives in such a way that insures the continuation of truth.

9. Because I have the right to pursue my dreams and keep the fruits of my labor, I have the responsibility to feed, protect and shelter my family, the less fortunate, the fatherless, the old and infirm.

10. Because I have a right to the truth, I will not bear false witness nor will I stand idly by as others do.

Unconditionally, while maintaining my responsibility to compassionately yet fiercely stand against those things that decay the natural rights of all men. And for the support of this declaration, and with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other our lives, fortunes and sacred honor.

Why Greece Will Fail and a Greek Default is Inevitable

Date: October 10, 2011 Reporting From: Bangkok, Thailand

Let's pretend for a moment that Greece is a human being. I'll call him George. 

George is a hairdresser and makes $40,000 per year. George has limited assets. He has zero savings, no precious metals, and is way underwater on his mortgage. His credit card debt is over $100,000, and his bare minimum living expenses are $45,000 annually, over 10% more than he makes. George's credit is pitiful, and he cannot obtain any more new loans.

George's neighbor Hans has a big family. All the kids work hard and contribute to the family savings. Hans sees George's plight and decides the neighborhood has to stick together; he starts loaning George some money out of his family's savings, and eventually begins to take on more and more of George's personal debts.

Many of the other neighbors-- Luciano, Seamus, and Juan-- are in the same boat as George: drowning in debt with massive personal expenses and no hope to pay them back. 

Everyone is looking to Hans for help.  He's the responsible one in the neighborhood. Now, Hans doesn't want them all to go bust because he knows it would be bad for the neighborhood property values... but Hans's children are balking at the prospect of working hard on their newspaper routes just so that George can keep his plasma screen TV. 

Very soon, George is going to run out of options and will have to have a difficult conversation with his credit card companies. In the real world, there is no other choice.

In the pretend world of politics, however, European leaders have been able to convince everyone that it's all under control. Never mind that the whole situation has completely fractured capital markets; traditional valuation metrics have taken a back seat to rumors of secret meetings and loud talk of bailout plans.

Think about it: Dexia passed summer bank stress tests with flying colors. A couple of months later it's going bust. How can markets function without confidence in balance sheet accuracy? Or whether a government will even be around tomorrow? This is kind of a problem when sovereign debt is the cornerstone of the financial system...

And yet, stock markets worldwide surged today on the news of a European 'pledge' to help banks. 

Do yourself a favor and stop watching their lips move. These 'plans' are nothing more than lies and misdirection. Just like our friend George, a Greek default has to happen. Politicians can pretend whatever they want, but in the real world where we live, financial deadbeats have no other options.

Until tomorrow, 
 

Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com 

What you may not know about Herman Cain

What you may not know about Herman Cain who is running for president....

He’s not a career politician (in fact he has never held political office). He’s known as a pizza guy, but there’s a lot more to him. He’s also a computer guy, a banker guy, and a rocket scientist guy.

Here’s his bio:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).
• Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.
• VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).

All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!

• Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.
• Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.
• In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.
• He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side.

Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!

• Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.
• Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country). This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system.

After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!

• Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include Speak as a Leader, CEO of Self, Leadership is Common Sense, andThey Think You’re Stupid.
• Radio Host. Around 2007—after a remarkable 40 year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).

He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking—

STACK THAT UP AGAINST THE 'COMMUNITY ORGANIZER'....

Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century.