Ben Carson for President

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This is fantastic! ;D

Ben Carson for President

The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon has two big ideas for America.

(From the Wall Street Journal) ~


Whether this weekend finds you blowing two feet of snow off the driveway or counting the hours until "Downton Abbey," make time to watch the video of Dr. Ben Carson speaking to the White House prayer breakfast this week.

Seated in view to his right are Senator Jeff Sessions and President Obama. One doesn't look happy. You know something's coming when Dr. Carson says, "It's not my intention to offend anyone. But it's hard not to. The PC police are out in force everywhere."

Dr. Carson tossed over the PC police years ago. Raised by a single mother in inner-city Detroit, he was as he tells it "a horrible student with a horrible temper." Today he's director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and probably the most renowned specialist in his field.

Late in his talk he dropped two very un-PC ideas. The first is an unusual case for a flat tax: "What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and he's given us a system. It's called a tithe.

"We don't necessarily have to do 10% but it's the principle. He didn't say if your crops fail, don't give me any tithe or if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe. So there must be something inherently fair about proportionality. You make $10 billion, you put in a billion. You make $10 you put in one. Of course you've got to get rid of the loopholes. Some people say, 'Well that's not fair because it doesn't hurt the guy who made $10 billion as much as the guy who made 10.' Where does it say you've got to hurt the guy? He just put a billion dollars in the pot. We don't need to hurt him. It's that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That money needs to be back here building our infrastructure and creating jobs."

Not surprisingly, a practicing physician has un-PC thoughts on health care:

"Here's my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed—pretax—from the time you're born 'til the time you die. If you die, you can pass it on to your family members, and there's nobody talking about death panels. We can make contributions for people who are indigent. Instead of sending all this money to some bureaucracy, let's put it in their HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care. And very quickly they're going to learn how to be responsible."

The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon may not be politically correct, but he's closer to correct than we've heard in years.

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Here's the video of Dr. Carson's speech (notice how uncomfortable King O is throughout ;D )

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Dr. Carson explains why he spoke out in front of Obama.

Video at link:

www.mrconservative.com/2013/02/4758-carson-explains-giving-speech-in-front-of-obama/

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Dr. Carson is my new hero! ;D

Dr. Ben Carson Takes To Fox To Address His Critics, Blast ObamaCare, And ‘Stand Up To The Bullies’

by Andrew Kirell | 5:24 pm, February 11th, 2013

Newfound conservative hero Dr. Benjamin Carson appeared on Fox’s Your World this afternoon to respond to his detractors who’ve called his National Prayer Day speech before the president “inappropriate” and “offensive” given the apolitical nature of the event.

Asked how the president initially reacted to the speech, Dr. Carson told host Neil Cavuto that Obama “came over to me and said he appreciated my speech and he admired me and took my hand and didn’t squeeze too hard.”

“What do you mean? One of those fishy hand shakes?” Cavuto inquired.

“It was a good handshake,” Carson replied.

Cavuto asked the doctor, who came dressed in a white lab coat, to address his critics who’ve accused him of using the event to “showboat” before the president. “What we need to do is we need to be able to discuss intelligent ways of solving the multitude of problems that threatens to destroy our nation,” Carson said, “and there are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for news the long run.”

He added: “Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies.”

“Why did you take [your speech] to go beyond medical policy and talk about tax policy?” Cavuto pressed, prompting Carson to say:


“One of the things I also said during the speech, there will be some people who will say, but you’re a doctor and you’re a surgeon. You should be sticking to that. And I mentioned the fact that five physicians signed the Declaration of Independence and were involved in the framing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and several other things. There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us. We’re people who have learned how to make decisions based on facts, empirical data, rather than on ideology, and one of the geniuses — one of the real things that made us a great nation — is that we brought people from all backgrounds into the legislative process.”

The doctor also noted that people don’t often ask why lawyers get involved in “this that and the other,” so he doesn’t understand why they would say it to a well-educated physician like himself. “I have advocated a tax policy that comes from the Bible,” Carson continued. “If it was good enough for God, why wouldn’t it be good enough for us?”

Asked for his “gauge” on the medical community’s reaction to ObamaCare, Carson said: “I know a lot of doctors. I work with a lot of doctors, and I didn’t find a lot of support for it. I find a lot of people who were really quite disappointed. … It’s an expansion of the bureaucracy. You need a patient and a doctor. Along comes the middleman to facilitate the relationship and it has become this mammoth creature that completely controls everything. And isn’t really even necessary.”

Cavuto then brought up that many have called for Dr. Carson to consider a 2016 presidential run. “I’ve had people telling me that for many years now,” the physician said. “If i had a nickel for everybody who told me that, I could finance a campaign. … I’ve always said if god grabs me by the collar and sticks me in that arena, that’s the only way i’ll do it.”

The doctor then took the time to announce that he plans to retire from surgery in June to focus on teaching and “getting the populace back to where it used to be … because an uneducated populace will fall for anything, and if you go and talk to most people, they mean well, but they don’t have much of a breadth of education, of knowledge, of understanding what the issues are, and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they’re supposed to think, and they keep repeating that and pretty soon they say, oh, well, that must be true.”

“I assume you’re talking about other pundits, doctors,” Cavuto joked before ending the segment.

Watch below, via Fox:
(at website: www.mediaite.com/tv/dr-ben-carson-takes-to-fox-to-address-his-critics-blast-obamacare-and-stand-up-to-the-bullies/ )