{"id":6107,"date":"2011-10-13T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/cain-lied-about-advisors-qualifications\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T07:06:08","slug":"cain-lied-about-advisors-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/cain-lied-about-advisors-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Cain lied about advisor’s qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I think of 9-9-9, what comes to mind is Sgt. Schultz from Hogan\u2019s Heroes, saying \u201cNein! Nein! Nein!\u201d, followed by, \u201cI know nothing!\u201d  Even though several outside economists have declared that Cain\u2019s plan will cause a huge drop in federal revenue, Cain denies their claims, based on his so-called \u201cpanel of economists\u201d, that appear to be mythical.  He only names one advisor, and lied about that advisor\u2019s credentials.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"13Cain\"From Politico<\/em><\/span> — Herman Cain’s economic adviser is not an economist<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Herman Cain says his much-touted 9-9-9 plan is the product of extensive testing and thinking, but the only man he cited as involved with its research \u2014 Rich Lowrie of Cleveland, Ohio \u2014 is not a trained economist<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Instead, Lowrie \u2014 who\u2019s the only economic adviser Cain has been willing to mention by name \u2014 is a wealth manager for a division of Wells Fargo and according to his LinkedIn page holds an accountancy degree from Case Western Reserve University. Lowrie also spent three years on the advisory board of the conservative third-party group Americans For Prosperity.<\/font><\/p>\n

The former Godfather\u2019s Pizza CEO was pressed for his circle of economic advisers at Tuesday\u2019s debate in response to a question from moderator Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cMy advisers come from the American people. Now, I will have some experts. One of my experts that helped me to develop this is a gentleman by the name of Rich Lowrie out of Cleveland, Ohio<\/strong>,\u201d Cain said during the debate. \u201cHe is an economist<\/strong><\/font>, and he has worked in the business of wealth creation most of his career.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the video.  Watch Cain lie.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now, if Lowrie is a wealth manager, not an economist, what does a wealth manager at a bank do?  Ideally, they help people plan for their future by analyzing their needs and providing them the investments that meet those needs.  Some are honest and take that role seriously.  Others are just securities sales people for Banksters.  My best guess is that Lowrie is one of the latter, because he also worked three years for Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy front group founded by and operating for the Koch Brothers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I think of 9-9-9, what comes to mind is Sgt. Schultz from Hogan\u2019s Heroes, saying \u201cNein! Nein! Nein!\u201d, followed by, \u201cI know nothing!\u201d  Even though several outside economists have declared that Cain\u2019s plan will cause a huge drop in federal revenue, Cain denies their claims, based on his so-called \u201cpanel of economists\u201d, that appear […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}