Forgetting where you came from!

     It makes a great story. He was born to a single mom who could not read, but who made him write book reports and read them to her so she knew he was doing the work.  He ate welfare food, got health care from the clinics and got government paid for glasses. He was accepted into college and med school because of affirmative action.  And now he is a rabid opponent to all of those programs.  Dr. Ben Carson. He wants to promote himself as a great story of individual achievement that proves that those who are on welfare could get off and out of the ghetto if they would just work hard.   His story is a great story but why does he want to deny the same help to others?   Somehow there must be a conflict and confused personality in him that does not want to have to remember that struggle and the struggle that others are still trying to make.
     The same confusion exists in most of the southern states. All those southern states that have representatives in congress shouting and preaching about the need to eliminate welfare, worker's comp, unemployment benefits, medicare and medicaid, live and are elected in states that are receiving more in federal aid than they are contributing to the government in taxes.  That is the Southern states get back more in those programs in terms of total dollars than they pay in taxes to the Federal government. The whole area is receiving welfare and are dependent on the liberal northern states to pay for them.
     It takes somebody with more intelligence than I have to understand the mind and the attitude that can stand up and bite the hand that is feeding it so loudly and aggressively.