Dr. Ben Carson Speaks at National Press
Club
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May 28, 2014 - Retired
neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, subject of a draft movement seeking to
persuade him to run for president in 2016, called for unity and for a
logical and common sense approach to government in a speech at the
National Press Club. Carson, who has recently come out with a
book co-written with his wife Candy, stated: "The reason that Candy and I
wrote One Nation is to
illustrate to peple that we the American people are not each others'
enemies. The enemies are those people who are trying to drive a
wedge in every little crack they can find, to create, you know, racial
wars, gender wars, income wars, age wars..."
And he said:"When we gain control again—and
when I say
we I'm not talking about any particular political party—I'm talking
about people with common sense. When we gain control again what
we have to remember is we are not going to treat the secular
progressives the way that they treated us. We are going to govern
based on the Constitution of the United States of America, and we're
not going to have special favors. We're going to have only one
special interest group and that's the American people.
Carson,
who espouses a conservative, limited government philosophy, said he is
an independent: "And I'm talking about all of the American people. The downtrodden in our country have been abused so much over the last several decades by so-called do-gooders who have made them into a dependent class. We don't want a dependent class. We want everybody, we want the 47-percent to ascend to the highest levels possible. We have to put the right programs in place." "I don't really even like the
party system. I would be in
favor of a new law that says people's party affiliation cannot be on
the ballot, and therefore you would actually have to know who the
person was and what you were voting for. That would make a big
difference."
As he has in past speeches, Carson took on political correctness,
declaring:"I am not politically correct,
and I don't like political correctness."
Carson could not resist taking a few whacks at the left wing during his speech. For example he said he will: "...soon be coming out with some
principles of taxation, one of which is no American should have to pay
more than 37% of what they earn in taxes, and I'm talking about all
taxes. I'm talking about federal, state and local, all taxes
37-percent... Now we can make it 42-percent to those who make
over a million dollars just so that the left wing can be satisfied that
somebody's getting messed up."
"I have taken no steps towards such a thing. And I've got to tell you I do not wish that job upon anybody including myself. Have you noticed how people age when they get into that thing? I mean after a long and arduous career of neurosurgery, I was looking forward to learning how to play the organ and playing golf and learning new languages. I bought all these Rosetta Stones you know, but it appears to me that perhaps God has a different plan for me. [At this point many in the audience applauded, and some stood]. "I don't know what those plans are. Right now it's to continue to go around trying to wake our nation up and help the people to realize that our strength is in our unity and we need to stop fighting each other and we need to pool our collective resources." |
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