Ben Carson Says Poverty Is Just “A State Of Mind”
Ben Carson Says Poverty Is Just “A State Of Mind”
Ben Carson, failed presidential candidate and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said in a recent interview that poverty is simply a state of mind for many Americans, as if they can somehow “think” their way out of crippling debt and the inability to provide for their families. How did this man make it through medical school? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Ben Carson, failed presidential candidate and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said in a recent interview that poverty is simply a state of mind for many Americans, as if they can somehow “think” their way out of crippling debt and the inability to provide for their families. How did this man make it through medical school? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
He later clarified his comments in an NPR interview:
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/05/531461142/ho...