The Prescription To Save The Nation
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hat would Dr. Carson do if the United States were a patient
INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE Carson shares his personal testament of hope and ecouragement with middle school students and their families in Roswell, N.M.
on his operating table and had to be stabilized? “We have to make this patient understand that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you in life, is you,” he tells Newsmax. “It’s not somebody else. This is what unfortunately has become more and more prevalent in our society: thinking that someone else is responsible for my well-being . . . that somehow the government has a responsibility to take care of me and take care of my kids — and they know more about it than I do. “All you’ve got to do is look at all the other nations who have tried that before. Are any of them successful? Absolutely not. And have any of them ever achieved the status of this country? Absolutely not. “And look how quickly, when
woeful level of public education, offers a candid prescription for reviv- ing American capitalism, and gener- ally provides a manifesto for anyone who hopes to see the American dream restored to its erstwhile glory. Carson laments the quality of pub-
lic education. In his frequent visits with black schoolchildren, he often uses a history lesson to motivate them. “I tell them about slavery, when it
was illegal for blacks to learn how to read. I say, ‘Now why do you think that was? Do you think that was just arbitrary? No, the reason they didn’t want you to be educated is because education empowers people. So why would you voluntarily do to yourself what was being imposed by an unjust system before?’” So who’s responsible for America’s
decline? Progressive intellectuals? Democrats and Obama? Carson, not
surprisingly, has a more thoughtful answer. As the comic-strip character Pogo once said: “We have met the enemy. And he is us.” In a representative democracy,
Carson explains, the buck ultimately stops with “we the people.” The only ones who can preserve America are its people, he argues. “Our Founding Fathers felt very
strongly that our system of govern- ment could only function with a well-educated populace, with well- informed people,” Carson says. “And if we ever reached the point where the majority of people were not well educated and couldn’t think for them- selves, we would be extraordinarily vulnerable to slick-talking politicians. That’s where we are right now.” Many voters just pick the name
on the ballot they recognize without knowing anything else.
we did adhere to self reliance, hard work, innovation, caring — look how rapidly we accelerated to the pinnacle of the world. Men were walking on the moon within 200 years of our country’s founding. This is what we have to restore. And we have the ability to do it.” — D.P.
Carson says that is “the epitome
of irresponsibility.” “What’s happening is a natural outgrowth of what happens when you give people power,” he contends, adding, “That’s what our Founding Fathers railed against. They said, ‘We have to put into our Constitution, and into our laws, systems that take into account the greedy and evil nature of human beings.’ “We’ve forgotten about that, and
we’ve allowed it to run rampant,” Car- son concludes. “And we are now see- ing the results of it.”
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