HUD Secretary Ben Carson Says Poverty Is Just A ‘State Of Mind’

This is what Secretary Ben Carson has to say about Mindset as reported by the HuffPost:

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has some interesting thoughts on the poor. Namely that they should just stop being poor.

“I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind,” Carson, a neurosurgeon, told SiriusXM Radio in an interview released Wednesday. “You take somebody that has the right mindset, 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.”

Carson added that someone with the “wrong mindset” who has been given “everything in the world” will continue to stay poor.

Carson, Donald Trump’s pick to lead HUD after they were Republican presidential rivals, has previously referred to slaves who came to America as “immigrants” and has floated his concern that poor people getting government assistance might be getting too comfortable.

“There’s also a poverty of spirit,” Carson said in his interview Wednesday. “You develop a certain mindset.

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