I saw a YouTube video of Ben Carson in a Sirius-XM interview which sparked outrage late last month by saying poverty was a "state of mind" The New York Times summarizes the remarks that generated what it calls an "intense backlash"... "I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind," he said, according to a transcript of the interview that was later released online. "You take somebody that has the right mind-set, 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 added that helping people may not better their lives. "You take somebody with the wrong mind-set, you can give them everything in the world - they'll work their way right back down to the bottom," he maintained. Most people obviously overreacted not trying to really understand the real meaning of his statement. The real takeaway here is you can never outp
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