In an interview published online on Wednesday, Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, described poverty as a “state of mind.”
“I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind. You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street, and I guarantee in a little while they’ll be right back up there,” he said during a town hall interview with friend Armstrong Williams that aired on SiriusXM radio Wednesday night. “And you take somebody with the wrong mindset, you can give them everything in the world, they’ll work their way back down to the bottom.”
Carson added that not all people have a “defeatist” attitude but that the government should help those who do.
“I think the majority of people don’t have that defeatist attitude, but they sometimes just don’t see the way, and that’s where government can come in and be very helpful,” he said. “It can provide the ladder of opportunity, it can provide the mechanism that will demonstrate to them what can be done.”
These guys sure have a way with words…
And Uncle Ben Carson’s so-called sanity is still an unproven state of mind.
Probably true.
If you have an education or skills to fall back on. If you have healthcare and access to food so you don’t have to worry about your family, then perhaps you can focus on an “opportunity”.
Show me where the Republicans support any of that. Without a safety net, poverty is hell not just a state of mind.
Ben Carson is the 2nd most mentally challenged person in the Trump administration, and equally heartless with all the rest.