05-27-2017, 10:08 AM
(05-26-2017, 01:32 PM)GMDino Wrote: Before I share the story and all the reasons he is wrong let me agree with the premise of it being a "state of mind."
Studies have shown that if you are used to living check to check and being "poor" no matter how much money you earn you live the same kind of lifestyle.
Sadly what the good doctor says, to reinforce what the administration is selling, is that people like being poor and living off those sweet, sweet government checks and food stamps that they simply don't want to get off of them.
As the article will point out many people receiving government aid ARE working already.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/25/530068988/ben-carson-says-poverty-is-a-state-of-mind
You should also agree with the premise that the title of the article "Ben Carson says poverty is a state of mind" is misleading.
This article was created under a pretense.
Carsons exact words were "Poverty to a large extent is ALSO a state of mind"....not the end all be all to the reason why poverty exists.
You could also argue that poverty cannot be a state of mind.. but rather ones state of mind determines whether a person remains in poverty or not. In some cases that is true, in some cases not.
"Ben Carson says poverty is a state of mind" .... read as "Carson thinks a person in poverty is only in their imagination" to a SJW liberal. So lets take that little snippet, write a Carson bashing article about it and call it news..
