Ben Carson wins my prize for the lousiest campaign web site. It says dam little and what it does say is down right scary.
1.For this one idea alone you should throw him in the waste can. He proposes eliminating Medicare and Medical and replacing them with Health Savings plans. Anybody who has had to use an Emergency room lately will tell you that for even something simple it would take two years of Carson's plan to cover just that simple procedure. He proposes for the federal government to give everybody $2000 each year to establish a plan. With half the workers in the country making 33K or less this idea would put millions at risk if they couldn't afford to buy other health insurance. Here's a story detailing his plan . This plan even has conservative thinkers worried as this along with SS are the third rail of politics.
2. He would monitor all Liberal Colleges for teaching things he doesn't believe in and remove funding to those who hold opposite views. I don't know what to call this line of thinking , either think like I want you to teach or loose your funding. Notice please he is only going to monitor Liveral institutions never mind the mind boggling bullshit put out by conservative institutions. Not sure where he draws the line but surely he would be all for religious colleges putting out their religious propaganda.
3. Perhaps scariest of all he believes God wanted him to run. Well shit this could get interesting I wonder how God thinks about keeping Gitmo open, or blowing up this country or that,, or using drones to kill folks without trial , For my money keep God in his churches and out of our govenment and keep folks like Carson in his pulpit on Saturday as he goes to church.
These are just three things that jump out at you when you look at his positions. You can go to his web site and pretend your reading his plan but you get nothing but little (damned little) bits and dabs of where he is but no real plans to consider.
In fact you can lump all the republican candidates together in their views on programs of great concern for most Americans. They (Trump is an exception) to wanting to privatize SS, and Medicare and Medical , privatize all retirement plans , blow the crap out of anybody that looks cross eyed
at us.
Precarious times. If another right winger supported by corporate interests steals the election, the jack boots will come out. I am actively campaigning for Senator Bernie Sanders. If you don't know about him and his decades long fight for the working class, civil rights, and the environment, you are in for a treat. : ) feelthebern.org ~Heidi
ReplyDeleteHERE IS A BEN CARSON QUOTE FROM CBS NEWS TODAY Oct 25th, 2015:
ReplyDeleteThe retired neurosurgeon went on to explain that "as a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers." He also spoke about the time, at 14 years old, when he "tried to stab someone" -- a well-known story of Carson attacking a friend during an argument over preferred radio stations. He missed: the knife hit the teenager's belt buckle and snapped.
Need I say more? ~ Heidi