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发帖数: 8800 | 3 [Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. (September 18, 1951)] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you so much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Obama,
distinguished guests – which included everybody. Thank you so much for this
wonderful honor to be at this stage again. I was here 16 years ago, and the
fact that they invited me back means that I didn’t offend too many people,
so that was great. [LAUGHTER]
I want to start by reading four texts which will put into I want to start by
reading four texts which will put into context what I’m going to say.
Proverbs 11:9 With his mouth the Godless destroys his neighbor, but through
knowledge the righteous escapes.
Proverbs 11:12 A man who lacks judgement derides his neighbor, but a man of
understanding holds his tongue
Proverbs 11:25 A generous man will prosper. He who refreshes others will
himself, be refreshed.
2nd Chronicles 7:14 If my people who are called by my name will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then
will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land.
You know, I have an opportunity to speak in a lot of venues. This is my
fourth speech this week. and I have an opportunity to talk to a lot of
people. And I’ve been asking people what concerns you? What are you most
concerned about in terms of the spirituality and the direction of our nation
and our world? And I’ve talked to very prominent democrats, very prominent
republicans. And I was surprised by the uniformity of their answers. And
those have informed my comments this morning. now, it’s not my intention to
offend anyone. I have discovered, however, in recent years that it’s very
difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend
someone. [laughter]
And people walk away with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you
to say something, ah, did you hear that? The pc police are out in force at
all times. I remember once I was talking about the difference between a
human brain and a dog’s grain, and a man — and a dog’s brain, and a man
got offended. You can’t talk about dogs like that. [laughter] People focus
in on that, completely miss the point of what you’re saying. [laughter] And
we’ve reached reach the point where people are afraid to actually talk
about what they want to say because somebody might be offended. People are
afraid to say Merry Christmas at Christmas time. Doesn’t matter whether the
person you’re talking to is Jewish or, you know, whether they’re any
religion. That’s a salutation, a greeting of goodwill. We’ve got to get
over this sensitivity. You know, and it keeps people from saying what they
really believe.
You know, I’m reminded of a very successful young businessman, and he loved
to buy his mother these exotic gifts for mother’s day. And he ran out of
ideas, and then he ran across these birds. These birds were cool, you know?
They cost $5,000 apiece. They could dance, they could sing, they could talk.
He was so excited, he bought two of of them. Sent them to his mother,
couldn’t wait to call her up on mother’s day, mother, mother, what’d you
think of those birds? And she said, they was good. [laughter] He said, no,
no, no! Mother, you didn’t eat those birds? Those birds cost $5,000 apiece!
They could dance, they could sing, they could talk! And she said, well,
they should have said something. [laughter] And, you know, that’s where we
end up, too, if we don’t speak up for what we believe. [laughter] And, you
know, what we need to do — [applause] what we need to do in this pc world
is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought, and we need to
concentrate on being respectful to those people with whom we disagree.
And that’s when I believe we begin to make progress. and one last thing
about political correctness, which I think is a horrible thing, by the way.
I’m very, very come — compassionate, and I’m not never out to offend
anyone. But pc is dangerous. Because, you see, this country one of the
founding principles was freedom of thought and freedom of expression. and it
muffles people. It puts a muzzle on them. And at the same time, keeps
people from discussing important issues while the fabric of this society is
being changed. And we cannot fall for that trick. And what we need to do is
start talking about things, talking about things that are important.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
Things that were important in the development of our nation. one of those
things was education. I’m very passionate about education because it’s
made such a big difference in my life. But here we are at a time in the
world, the information age, the age of technology, and yet 30% of people who
enter high school in this country do not graduate. 44% of people who start
a four-year college program do not finish it in four years. What is that
about? Think back to a darker time in this our history. Two hundred years
ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave,
particularly to teach them to read. Why do you think that was? Because when
you educate a man, you liberate a man. And there I was as a youngster
placing myself in the same situation that a horrible institution did because
I wasn’t taking advantage of the education. I was a horrible student. Most
of my classmates thought I was the stupidest person in the world. They
called me dummy. I was the butt of all the jokes. Now, admittedly, it was a
bad environment. single-parent home, you know, my mother and father had
gotten divorced early on.
My mother got married when she was 13. She was one of 24 children. Had a
horrible life. Discovered that her husband was a bigamist, had another
family. And she only had a third grade education. She had to take care of us
. Dire poverty. I had a horrible temper, poor self-esteem. All the things
that you think would preclude success. But I had something very important, I
had a mother who believed in me, and I had a mother who would never allow
herself to be a victim no matter what happened. Never made excuses, and she
never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she
always said do you have a brain? And if the answer was, yes, then she said
then you could have thought your way out of it. It doesn’t matter what John
or Susan or mary or anybody else did or said. And it was the most important
thing she did for my brother and myself. Because if you don’t accept
excuse, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for
solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success.
Well, you know, we did live in dire poverty, and one of the things that I
hated was poverty. you know, some people hate spiders, some people hate
snakes, I hated poverty. I couldn’t stand it. [laughter] But, you know, my
mother couldn’t stand the fact that we were doing poorly in school, and she
prayed and asked god to give her wisdom, what could she do to to to make
her sons understand the importance of wisdom? God gave her wisdom. At least
in her opinion. It was to turn off the tv, let us watch only two or three
programs during the week, and read two books apiece and submit to her
written book reports which she couldn’t read, but we didn’t know that. [
laughter] She put check marks and highlights and stuff — [laughter] But,
you know, I just hated this. And my friends were out having a good time. her
friends would criticize her. they would say you can’t make boys stay in
the house reading books, they’ll grow up and hate you. and i would overhear
them and say, you know, mother, they’re right. but she didn’t care.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
You know. [laughter] after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those
books because we were very poor, but between the covers of those books I
could go anywhere, I could be anybody, i could do anything. I began to read
about people of great accomplishment, and as I read those stories, I began
to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who has the most
to do with you and what happens to you in life is you. You make decisions.
You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision. And I came
to understand that I had control of my own destiny. And at that point I didn
’t hate poverty anymore, because I knew it was only temporary. I knew I
could change that. it was incredibly liberating for me, made all the
difference.
To continue on that theme of education, in 1831 Alexis de Toqueville came to
study America. The Europeans were fascinated. How could a fledgling Nation,
barely 50 years old already be competing with them on virtually every level
. This was impossible. De Toqueville was going to sort it out and he looked
at our government and he was duly impressed by the three branches of
government – four now because now we have special interest groups, but it
was only three back in those days. He said, WOW, this is really something,
but then he said, but let me look at their educational system and he was
blown away. See, anybody who had finished the second grade was completely
literate. He could find a mountain man on the outskirts of society who could
read the newspaper and have a political discussion, could tell him how the
government worked.
If you really want to be impressed, take a look at the chapter on education
in my latest book, America the Beautiful, which I wrote with my wife – it
came out last year, and in that education chapter you will see questions
extracted from a sixth grade exit exam from the 1800′s – a test you had to
pass to get your sixth grade certificate. I doubt most college graduates
today could pass that test. We have dumbed things down to that level and the
reason that is so dangerous is because the people who founded this Nation
said that our system of government was designed for a well-informed and
educated populace, and when they become less informed, they become
vulnerable. Think about that. That is why education is so vitally important.
Now some people say, ahhh, you’re over blowing it, things aren’t that bad,
and you’re a doctor, a neurosurgeon. Why are you concerned about these
things? Got news for you. FIVE doctors signed the Declaration of
Independence. Doctors were involved in the framing of the Constitution, the
Bill of Rights, in a whole bunch of things. It’s only been since recent
decades that we’ve extracted ourselves, which I think is a big mistake.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
We need doctors, we needs scientists, engineers. We need all those people
involved in government, not just lawyers…I don’t have anything against
lawyers, but you know, here’s the thing about lawyers…I’m sorry, but I
got to be truthful…got to be truthful – what do lawyers learn in law
school? To win, by hook or by crook. You gotta win, so you got all these
Democrat lawyers, and you got all these Republican lawyers and their sides
want to win. We need to get rid of that. What we need to start thinking
about is, how do we solve problems?
Now, before I get shot, let me finish. I don’t like to bring up problems
without coming up with solutions. My wife and I started the Carson Scholars
Fund 16 years ago after we heard about an international survey looking at
the ability of eight graders in 22 countries to solve math and science
problems, and we came out No. 21 out of 22. We only barely beat out Number
22 – very concerning.
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We we’d to to these schools and we’d see all these trophies: State
Basketball, State Wrestling, this, that and the other. The Quarterback was
the Big Man on Campus. What about the intellectual Superstar? What did they
get? A National Honor Society pin? A pat on the head, there, there little
Nerd? Nobody cared about them. And is it any wonder that sometimes the smart
kids try to hide? They don’t want anybody to know they are smart? This is
not helping us or our Nation, so we started giving out scholarships from all
backgrounds for superior academic performance and demonstration of
humanitarian qualities. Unless you cared about other people, it didn’t
matter how smart you were. We’ve got plenty of people like that. We don’t
need smart people who don’t care about other people.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
We would give them money. The money would go into a Trust. They would get
interest on it. When they would go to college they would get the money, but
also the school gets a trophy, every bit as impressive as a sports trophy –
right out there with the others. They get a medal. They get to go t a
banquet. We try to put them on a pedestal as impressive as we do the All-
State athletes. I have nothing against athletics or entertainment. I’m from
Baltimore. The Ravens won. This is great – okay. But, but – what will
maintain our position in the world? The ability to shoot a 25 foot jump shot
or the ability to solve a quadratic equation? We need to put the things
into proper perspective.
Many teachers have told us that when we put a Carson Scholar in their
classroom, the GPA of the whole classroom goes up over the next year. It’s
been very gratifying. We started 16 years ago with 25 scholarships in
Maryland, now we’ve given out more than 5,000 and we are in all 50 states,
but we’ve also put in Reading Rooms. These are fascinating places that no
little kid could possibly pass up. And uh, they get points for the amount of
time they spend reading, and the number of books they read. They can trade
the points for prizes. In the beginning they do it for the prizes, but it
doesn’t take long before their academic performance begins to improve.
And we particularly target Title One schools where the kids come from homes
with no books and they go to schools with no libraries. Those are the ones
who drop out. We need to truncate that process early on because we can’t
afford to waste any of those young people. You know, for every one of those
people we keep from going down that path – that path of self-destruction
and mediocrity, that’s one less person you have to protect yourself and
your family from. One less person you have to pay for in the penal or
welfare system. One more taxpaying productive member of society who may
invent a new energy source or come up with a cure for cancer. They are all
important to us and we need every single one of them it makes a difference.
And when you go home tonight read about it, carsonscholars, carsonscholars.
org
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
Why is it so important that we educate our people? Because we don’t want to
go down the pathway as so many pinnacle nations that have preceded us. I
think particularly about ancient Rome. Very powerful. Nobody could even
challenge them militarily, but what happened to them? They destroyed
themselves from within. Moral decay, fiscal irresponsibility. They destroyed
themselves. If you don’t think that can happen to America, you get out
your books and you start reading, but you know, we can fix it.
Why can we fix it because we’re smart. We have some of the most
intellectually gifted people leading our Nation. All we need to do is
remember what our real responsibilities are so that we can solve the
problems. I think about these problems all the time, and my role, you know,
model was Jesus. He used parables to help people understand things. And one
of our big problems right now, and like I said, I’m not politically correct
, so I’m sorry, but you know – our deficit is a big problem. Think about
it. And our National Debt – $16.5 Trillion dollars – you think that’s not
a lot of money? I’ll tell you what! Count one number per second, which you
can’t even do because once you get to a thousand it will take you longer
than a second, but…one number per second. You know how long it would take
you to count to 16 Trillion? 507,000 years – more than a half a million
years to get there. We have to deal with this.
Here’s a parable: A family falls on hard times. Dad loses his job or is
demoted to part time work. He has 5 children. He comes to the 5 children, he
says we’re going to have to reduce your allowance. Well, they’re not
happy about it but – he says, except for John and Susan. They’re, they’re
special. They get to keep their allowance. In fact, we’ll give them more.
How do you think that’s going to go down? Not too well. Same thing happens.
Enough said.
What about our taxation system? So complex there is no one who can possibly
comply with every jot and tittle of our tax system. If I wanted to get you,
I could get you on a tax issue. That doesn’t make any sense. What we need
to do is come up with something that is simple.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
When I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual
in the Universe, God, and he’s given us a system. It’s called tithe. Now
we don’t necessarily have to do it 10% but it’s principle. He didn’t say,
if your crops fail, don’t give me any tithes. He didn’t say, if you have
a bumper crop, give me triple tithes. So there must be something inherently
fair about proportionality. You make $10 Billion dollars you put in a
Billion. You make $10 you put in $1 – of course, you gotta get rid of the
loopholes, but now now some people say, that’s not fair because it doesn’t
hurt the guy who made $10 Billion dollars as much as the guy who made $10.
Where does it say you have to hurt the guy. He’s just put in a billion in
the pot. We don’t need to hurt him.
It’s that kind of thinking – it’s that kind of thinking that has resulted
in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That money needs to be back here,
building our infrastructure and creating jobs – and we’re smart enough –
we’re smart enough to figure out how to do that.
We’ve already started down the path to solving one of the other big
problems, health care. We need to have good health care for everybody. It’s
the most important thing that a person can have. Money means nothing,
titles mean nothing when you don’t have your health, but we’ve got to
figure out efficient ways to do it. We spend a lot of money on health care,
twice as much per capita as anybody in else in the world, and yet not very
efficient. What can we do?
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
Here’s my solution. When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an
electronic medical record and a health savings account [HSA], to which
money can be contributed, pre-tax from the time you are born, to the time
you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that
when you’re 85 years old and you’ve got 6 diseases, you’re not trying to
spend up everything. You’re happy to pass it on and nobody is talking about
death panels. That’s number one. Also –
For the people who are indigent, who don’t have any money, we can make
contributions to their HSA each month because we already have this huge pot
of money instead of sending it to bureaucracy – let’s put it into HSAs.
Now they have some control over their own health care and what do you think
they’re going to do? They’re going to learn very quickly how to be
responsible. When Mr. Jones gets that diabetic foot ulcer, he’s not going
to the Emergency Room and blowing a big chunk of it. He’s going to go to
the Clinic. He learns that very quickly – gets the same treatment. In the
Emergency Room they send him out. In the Clinic they say, now let’s get
your diabetes under control so that you’re not back here in three weeks
with another problem. That’s how we begin to solve these kinds of problems.
It’s much more complex than that, and I don’t have time to go into it all
, but we can do all these things because we are smart people.
And let me begin to close here – another parable: Sea Captain, and he’s
out on the sea near the area where the Titanic went down. And they look
ahead and there’s a bright light right there – another ship he figures. He
tells his signaller to signal that ship: deviate 10 degrees to the South.
Back comes the message, no you deviate 10 degrees to the North. Well, he’s
a little bit insensed, you know. He says, send a message, this is Captain
Johnson, deviate 10 degrees to the South. Back comes the message, this is
Ensign 4th Class Reilly. Deviate 10 degrees to the North. Now Captain
Johnson is really upset. He says send him a message, this is a Naval
Destroyer. Back comes the message, this is a Lighthouse. Enough said.
Now, what about the symbol of our Nation? The Eagle. The Bald Eagle. It’s
an intereting story how we chose that but a lot of people think we call it
the bald eagle because it looks like it has a bald head. That’s not the
reason It comes from the Old English word Piebald, which means crowned with
white. And we just shortned it to bald. Now, use that the next time you see
somebody who thinks they know everything. You’ll get ‘em on that one.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
But, why is that eagle able to fly, high, forward? Because it has two wings:
a left wing and a right wing. Enough said.
And I wanna close with this story: two hundred years ago this Nation was
involved in a war, the war of 1812. The British, who are now our good
friends thought that we were young whippersnappers. It was time for us to
become a colony again. They were winning that war and marching up the
Eastern Seaboard, destroying city after city, destroying Washington D.C.,
burned down the White House. Next stop Baltimore. As they came into the
Chesapeake Bay, there were armadas of war ships as far as the eye could see.
It was looking grim. Fort. McHenry standing right there. General Armisted,
who was in charge of Fort. McHenry, had a large American flag commissioned
to fly in front of the Fort. The Admiral in charge of the British Fleet was
offended, said take that flag down. You have until dusk to take that Flag
down. If you don’t take it down, we will reduce you to ashes.
There was a young amateur poet on board by the name of Francis Scott Key,
sent by President Madison to try to obtain the release of an American
physician who was being held captive. He overheard the British plans. They
were not going to let him off the ship. He mourned. As dusk approached he
mourned for his fledgling young Nation, and as the sun fell, the bombardment
started. Bombs bursting in air. Missiles, so much debrie. He strained,
trying to see, was the flag still there? Couldn’t see a thing. All night
long it continued. At the crack of dawn he ran out to the bannister. He
looked straining his eyes all he could only see dust and debrie.
[Benjamin Carson] Source: LYBIO.net
Then there was a clearing and he beheld the most beautiful sight he had ever
seen – the torn and tattered Stars and Stripes still waving. And many
historians say that was the turning point in the war of 1812. We went on to
win that war and to retain our freedom and if you had gone onto the grounds
of Fort. McHenry that day, you would have seen at the base of that flag, the
bodies of soldiers who took turns. Propping up that flag, they would not
let that flag go down because they believed in what that flag symbolized.
And what did it symbolize? One Nation, under God, [applause] indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. God Bless.
【在 a**e 的大作中提到】
: O8的表情很有趣。
: 丫开始的时候一定以为又能听一曲忠诚的赞歌
| R********e
发帖数: 165 | | D*******o
发帖数: 3229 | 5 I will be happy to see him running for 2016. | a***s
发帖数: 5417 | 6 可惜他在美国的政治光谱上属于边缘人物。
【在 D*******o 的大作中提到】
: I will be happy to see him running for 2016.
| a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 7 CNN有批评他不礼貌.不该当着国王的面说新衣
【在 R********e 的大作中提到】
: 左媒对这次演讲完全没有报道嘛。。
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发帖数: 7340 | 8 听到后面奥巴马脸色不好看
别人都鼓掌了，那两个人都没有反应
【在 a**e 的大作中提到】
: CNN有批评他不礼貌.不该当着国王的面说新衣
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