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By Kathryn Watson
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson said in a radio interview air- ing Wednesday that a mindset parents hand down to their children contributes to poverty.
"I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind," Carson said in a SiriusXM radio inter- view with Armstrong Williams, a top adviser to Carson's 2016 presidential campaign. "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."
"And you take somebody with the wrong mindset, you can give them everything in the world, they'll work their way right back down to the bot- tom," the neurosur- geon continued.
The former GOP contender also referred to a "pover- ty of the spirit" and a "wrong mindset" that can develop from inadequate parenting and a negative environ-
ment.
"I think the majority of people don't have that defeatist atti- tude, but they sometimes just don't see the way, and that's where govern- ment can come in and be very help- ful," Carson said. "It can provide the lad- der of opportunity, it can provide the mechanism that will demonstrate to them what can be done."
Carson himself grew up in poverty in inner-city Detroit. He worked hard, and went on to graduate from Yale University and the University of Michigan. Carson has indicated he will focus on not just reforming HUD poli- cies, but addressing social issues as well.
Carson is no stranger to contro- versial remarks. In March, he called African-American slaves "immigrants," and he in 2013 called Obamacare the "worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery."
Carson, confirmed March 2, walked into an agency with a financial night- mare. The depart- ment is working to fix billions in book- keeping errors that have kept it from receiving an audit opinion for years, according to HUD's Office of Inspector General. At the same time, President Trump's proposed 2018 budget slashes the department's fund- ing by about $8 bil- lion.
My son and his wife stopped by Sunday unannounced to visit.
I wouldn't answer the door but I did hold up my new medicine container and point- ed to the instruc- tions.
Instructions read: "Take one tablet before bedtime and Keep away from chil- dren."
A teacher was telling her class about plant names that have the word "dog" in them, such as dog-rose, dogwood, dog violet.
She asked the class if they could name another flower with the preface "dog".
Steven raised his hand and said, "Sure Miss Jones. How about a 'collie' flower?"
Police officer talks to a driver: "Your tail light is broken, your tires must be changed, and your bumper hangs halfway down. That will be 300 dollars!"
[Pause]
Driver: "Alright, go ahead and do it. They want twice as much as that at the garage."
A mom's teenage son was having trou- ble mastering the fine points of balanc- ing his new checking account.
"The bank returned the check you wrote
to the sporting goods store," she said.
"Oh good," he said, "NowIcanuseitto buy a new iPad!"
My friend Kimberly announced that she had started a diet to lose some pounds she had put on recently.
“Good!” I exclaimed. “I’m ready to start a diet too. We can be dieting buddies and help each other out. When I feel the urge to drive out and get a burger and fries, I’ll call you first.”
“Great!” she replied. “I’ll ride with you.”
Two businessmen walk into a diner in the countryside. They have decided to stop there for lunch, so without ordering anything they sit down, take out sandwiches from their bags and begin to eat them.
The waiter sees this and says to them, "You can't eat your own sandwiches in here!"
So the businessmen look at each other, shrug, and swap sandwiches.
My next door neigh- bor is originally from Canada. This past February we had what we call here in Oklahoma a blizzard.
I was discussing the 'blizzard' with my neighbor and ask how this compared to Canada.
His reply, "We call this July."
"Hey, what do you call a singing com- puter?"
"I don't know, what do you call a singing computer?"
"A-Dell."
A friend of mine had resisted efforts to get him to run with our jogging group until his doctor told him he had to exercise. Soon thereafter, he reluctantly joined us for our 5:30 am jogs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
After a month of run- ning, we decided that my friend might be hooked, especial- ly when he said he had discovered what “runner’s euphoria” was.
“Runner’s euphoria,” he explained, “is what I feel at 5:30 am on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.”
The person sitting next to me on a flight was a woman. Ever the charmer, I used one of my pick-up lines on her.
I asked, “Does the airline charge you extra for sitting next to good-looking men?”
“Yes,” she replied, “but I wasn’t willing to pay.”
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