Politically incorrect: Dr. Ben Carson’s right-wing medicine show … – Arizona Daily Sun

The Trumpeters are fully embracing the right-wings imperious disdain for poor people, blaming them for creating their own economic distressa convenient ideological fabrication for a government intent on destroying our nations social safety net.

And who better to mouth this moral rationalization of a patently immoral policy than Trumps Housing Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson? Raised in poverty, he became a renowned and very wealthy surgeon, so other impoverished Americans should do likewise. Carson recently spoke to this, explaining that poverty is just a state of mind. See, its simplesimplistically-speaking.

Of course, poverty is actually a state of money (i.e., the lack thereof). Its also a state of joblessness of miserly minimum wages of being disabled of limited education of a prison record and of many other hard-knock realities. Carson offers bootstrap babble about poor people having the wrong mindset, adding that Americas safety net has made poverty too cozy for the poorall of which is a plutocratic fantasy to make Trump & Company feel righteous about trying to cut off the helping hand.

One cut whacks $6 billion out of Carsons own agency, including a vital program helping five million very-low-income Americans rent apartments. Nine-out-of-ten of them are either elderly, people with disabilities, veterans, or working poor people with children. Slamming the door in their faces condemns most of them to living on the streets. How does that Make America Great?

Its time to say the obvious: The likes of Trump and Carson are incompetent ideologues, operating as if gutting government programs will magically make our countrys complex problems go away. They simply dont know what theyre doing, dont know how to govern a great democracy, and theyre making a great mess.

Jim Hightower is a best-selling author, radio commentator, nationally syndicated columnist and editor of The Hightower Lowdown, a populist political newsletter. He has spent the past four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be: consumers, working families, small businesses, environmentalists and just-plain-folks. For more of his work, visit http://www.jimhightower.com.

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