Comments by "freein2339" (@freein2339) on "Dr. Ben Carson blasts Black Lives Matter movement in op-ed" video.

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  4. +Redblactivist You sound like a typical useless uncle tom with that weak bullshit...Black people don't have to "play the victim"..We have the racist white cops that are kiiling unarmed Black people to victimize us...we have the GOP voter suppression drive to victimize us...we have the bias court system which gives Black defendants more jail time then white defendants for the same crime to victimize us...we have Black professionals with a higher rate of unemployment then less qualified white professionals to victimize us..We have a growing number of white supremacist groups that have pokitical power to vixtimize us...Black people have had it harder then any group in this country with the exception of Native Americans ..Has any other group gone through slavery , reconstruction , peonage , Jim Crow , being the last hired and first fired , and of course our heritage , religion , language , culture etc were all taken away....We have "manufactored knee-grow" like you worshipping to a white Jesus and thinkiing there is no longer a need to fight racism because in your shallow brain racism doesn't exist...That's interesting since Black unemployment is always much higher than white unemployment...AND... Black professionals and Black college graduates have a much higher unemployment rate than uneducated white workers...The answer of course is to have own businesses and hire our own people ...And don't think that has not been tried before or done before ...Remember Black Wall St and places like Rosewood...???..But we must try again and we cannot be afraid to expose racism ...By the way , must Black people are not on welfare , are not in jail , are not on drugs and are not waiting for some white person to give them anything..You and the rest of the "step-n-fetch-it" knee-grows believe the images that you see on television...However there is much work to be done and we cannot ignore problems that we caused ourselves but to ignore the racism that we have faced and will continue to face is stupid at best...Maybe you need to study a history and ask yourself who gets must of the "government money"...Oil companies get subsides , defense contractors get tax breaks ,  Russian and Italian mafia gets police and court protection , when wlefare was started in the early 1900s Black people got nothing , the healthcare system also practices racism ..There is a book by Dorothy Robeerts titled..."Killing The Black Body"....I suuggest you read it....And the most unanswered question is ....Where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???...can you answer that..??...By the way , Carson is a nutcase....
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  7. +Ken Freeman You dumb ass nazis...Not everybody can avoid the racist court system and what happens when a white person assaults a Black person ..??..In most cases nothing ...You need to wake up and get your head out of your ass and stop making excuses for racism...The National Registry of Exonerations, a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan law school at Ann Arbor and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the School of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago. An updated registry of features stories of the wrongfully convicted and was recently released.According to the report, Blacks account for nearly half (47 percent) of all known exonerees in 1989, and Whites made up nearly 39 percent of all known exonerees. When the updated exoneration report was released in April, 57 percent of the known cases that occurred in 2012 involved Blacks.Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the editor of The National Registry of Exonerations said the 10 percent increase for Blacks was striking, but it’s too early to draw any firm conclusions. Gross said that he continues to learn about new cases that occurred in 2012. In last year’s report released in June 2012, the registry found that 50 percent of the all known exonerees were Black.“It’s striking and if it stands up and it repeats in another year or two it will be an important trend,” said Gross.According to the registry report, 52 percent of the wrongful conviction cases involved perjury or false accusation, 43 percent involved official misconduct and 41 percent involved mistaken eyewitness identification.The majority (57 percent) of all known exonerations were in homicide cases and 47 percent of those cases involved Black defendants and 37 percent involved Whites. Blacks accounted for 63 percent and Whites 18 percent of those wrongfully convicted of committed robberies.“Homicide and robbery, sadly to say, are crimes that African Americans are heavily overrepresented in the prison population,” said Gross.The report found that “African Americans constitute 25% of prisoners incarcerated for rape, but 62% of those exonerated for such crimes.”Faulty eyewitness identification continues to drive the high rate of Blacks involved in adult sexual assault exoneration cases. Gross said that this is likely because of problems associated with cross-racial identification.“White people don’t have the type of experience living with and distinguishing members of other races as minorities do,” said Gross. “There is also a long terrible history of racial discrimination in the prosecution of African Americans for rape when they are accused of raping White women and that may be a factor here, too.”According to the National Registry of Exonerations, a majority of the cases (52 percent) involve witness making a false accusation or committing perjury. Forty-one percent of the cases involve faulty eyewitness identification.“As a group, the defendants had spent nearly 11,000 years in prison for crimes for which they should not have been convicted – an average of more than 10 years each,” stated a report by The National Registry of Exonerations released in April.These are often the most productive years of a person’s life and the reason why many criminal justice advocates say that seeking compensation for wrongful convictions is the only chance that exonerees have in regaining a foothold in a world that is often much different than how they left it.“Unfortunately, many of our clients have been in jail for decades and often these were the best years of their life; the years where you can go to school and get an education, years where you can build a career and learn how to do a job,” said Paul Cates, communications director for the Innocence Project. “When they get out after 15 or 20 or 25 years, it’s very difficult to enter the job market without an education and without any marginal skills.”Cates said that, when the government confines someone for those lengths of time, they definitely deserve to be compensated. Cates added: “It’s particularly true when you consider that they have no way of making a living once they’ve been released.”Despite the proliferation of crime shows depicting the use of DNA in solving murders and proving innocence or guilt of a suspect, DNA testing is becoming less of a factor in wrongful conviction cases, because it is often initiated before cases go to trial.“DNA evidence can be very persuasive to courts and to judges and to prosecutors, because it’s a very definitive proof of innocence,” said Cates. “But in all these other cases where this evidence is not available, it’s really hard to prove when someone has been wrongfully convicted and the court system doesn’t make that easy.”..Like a typical little dick punk ass nazi you want Black people to remain silent about racism and think they are the fault of all this unexplainable hatred..By the way Adolf...Jesus had dreadlocks....These innocent people in jail did not act like fools...Tanir Rice was playing with a toy gun and was shot WITHOUT WARNING...did he act like a fool...???//..Did the Black cops that complainedt racist white cops act like fools...The fools are the ones like you that condone racism and then try to make excuses for it and then blame Black people for being targets of racism...Tell me Adolf......where does all this hatred for Black people come from...??? +Ken Freeman Typical useless nazi response...Tell you me you stupid ass...As an american citizen paying taxes and taking care of my family why shouldn't I expect to be treated fairly...??..And when I'm not treated fairly why should I be silent about it...???...Why are white defendant treated better then Black defendant...?? why is there a racist court system..??..,By the way , 90% of white people are killed by white people and most if not all serial killers are white nutcases that people like you keep making excuses for..You also keep making excuses for racism like it's some long lost novel tucked away in a small town library...Racism in this country is real and when unarmed Black people are killed for no reason then being Black that problem has to be addressed...Now I knoiw that you think white people are so damn wonderful and do very little wrong but the truth says otherwise...Therefore a movement like "Black Lives Matter" is needed just as the Civil Rights Movement was needed , just like the Panthers were needed , just like the Urban league was needed , just like the CBC is needed , just like the NAACP is needed...etc..etc.....Tell me ...where does all this hatred for Black people come from...??? 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  9. +freein2339 Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter.... "This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else." If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males." Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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  13. +Chris Kavanagh Here's what some republicans say about Obamacare...To be clear, the comments in this article are my opinion and mine alone and should not be construed as representative of the site in general.I’m also quite sure some of you have your fingers hovering over the R-I-N-O keys so let me start by giving you my Republican credentials and political views.I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life other than maybe when I was 18, didn’t know what I was doing and voted for people based on how patriotic their names sounded.I’m worried our entitlement programs have turned into a handout and not a hand up. Without better accountability measures, I think our current system traps families in a cycle of poverty.I would love to be able to invest my own Social Security money because with the government in charge, I don’t think my money is going to be waiting for me at retirement time.I’m concerned with our punitive tax system. We say it’s the American dream for everyone to make it big, but if you succeed, by golly, we’re going to take your money away and give it to someone else.I think less government is better government, except in cases of life and death (which is where I think health insurance falls).So that said, this is why I love the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it is so affectionately called by some.I love that it will help ensure everyone has access to careI’ve been reporting on health reform since before the law passed, and in the early days, there was a lot of concern about government death panels deciding who would get care and who would be left to die.Well, we already have our own version of death panels: It’s called health insurance. If you have coverage, you get treatment. If not, well, tough for you.True story: When my husband was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the parting words of the doctor who did the endoscopy were, no joke, “I hope you have health insurance. Because you’re going to need it.”Boy, was he right. When I called the cancer center for general information, they asked for our insurance information. When I made the consultation appointment, they asked for our insurance information. When we showed up, they checked our insurance information. In the middle of the consultation, we met with a finance guy who, that’s right, checked our insurance information.And then get this. We show up for the first chemo visit, my husband is hooked to the IV and the nurse says she needs to wait a minute before getting started. When my husband asked why, she said it was because they needed to reconfirm our insurance coverage. My husband asked what happens if the insurance company says they won’t pay, and the nurse told him they would probably pull us back to meet with a financial adviser and they might need to change the treatment plan.In other words, if you don’t have health insurance, you get sub-par treatment.That brings me to the next reason I love Obamacare.I love that it gives new options for those with pre-existing conditionsIf you have only ever had insurance through your workplace, you probably think the health insurance system is great. I know I did when I had group coverage. One huge difference is how pre-existing conditions have been treated under the law. . However, no such protection was extended to those buying individual plans. If you had a pre-existing condition and needed to buy your own health insurance, you were up the proverbial creek and without an oar.Here’s my real-world example – one that helped change my view on health insurance. In the summer of 2010, in anticipation of leaving my office job, which provided our family insurance, I received a quote for individual coverage that was $800 a month with a $7,000 deductible. And that was the good plan out of multiple choices.My husband was diagnosed with cancer a few months later and then our options dwindled down to exactly zero. Fortunately, a 1986 federal law – – gave me the right to continue to buy my former workplace policy for 18 months. It cost $1,300 a month but, hey, what else are you going to do if you need coverage?Then after 18 months, thanks to that same federal law, our insurance provider was required to offer us an individual insurance plan. This mercifully dropped our premiums to $800 a month but gave us a $5,000 deductible. However, we were grateful to just have insurance since my husband’s pre-existing condition meant no one else would cover us.You may be thinking there were high-risk pools for those with pre-existing conditions, right? Well, in our state, you needed to be uninsured for six months to be eligible. That’s not much help to people who have immediate medical needs.It may also be crossing your mind that people could just get a job or they should have gotten health insurance earlier or it’s such a small percentage of people affected that we shouldn’t bother changing the system. Maybe or maybe not, but again, we’re talking about people’s lives here. I find the attitude of “too bad for you” to be disturbing, particularly when it comes from my fellow Christian Republicans.I love that it focuses on preventive care and essential servicesOn a different note, I love that Obamacare is requiring insurance companies to provide free preventive services and cover essential services.I know mandates go against the pro-business party line, but as a Republican, I appreciate the fiscal soundness behind this strategy. It makes more sense to pay 60,000 a year to help someome manage thier diabetis  than it does to have them develop end-stage renal disease, which can cost upward of 70,000 per patientSame thing goes for mental health services which, prior to the passage of Obamacare, were not covered by 1 in 5 heslth plans.Under the law, mental health and substance abuse services are essential health benefits and must be covered by all new health insurance plans.Does mandating mental illness coverage increase our health insurance premiums? Perhaps, but I can’t believe our costs will go up more than the estimated 4 billion we are already paying annually as a result of untreated mental illness. And that doesn’t include the emotional price we pay when someone’s untreated mental illness leads to tradegyIn the short run, paying for preventive services and essential health benefits might cost us a little more. However, after crunching the numbers, I like to think my fiscally conservative friends would agree, in the long run, paying for preventive care simply makes sense.I love that it gives premium assistance to working familiesSo many government assistance programs are geared toward people living at or just above the poverty limit, and I love that Obamacare is extending some financial love to the working middle class.Many people work long hours to make ends meet and stay off the welfare rolls. If the government is going to be doling out money – and we all know it is – I’m glad these families are finally getting a piece of the pie.Plus, as with preventive care, I would rather give working families a couple hundred dollars a month to supplement their premium payments and keep them covered rather than have us pay for their emergency room visitsI love that it’s a start … but I’m not convinced it’s the answerFinally, I love that Obamacare is getting the conversation started. It’s not perfect by any means, but it has moved what is, quite frankly, a life and death issue to the forefront.That said, I am not convinced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the answer to our health care problems. These are my concerns:Constitutionality. Despite the fact I was secretly rooting for the bill, I was shocked when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. While I understand the reason for requiring everyone to get health insurance, the mandate seems like overreach of government authority. My hope would be that if affordable health insurance becomes widely available, everyone would be smart enough to take advantage of it without a government requirement.Government incompetence. My second concern is that the government may simply not be up for the challenge. Despite having three years’ advance notice, the online marketplace was and is a mess. It took at least 10 hours of my time to get my application in and, in the end, a technical difficulty preventing me from even being able to view my plan choices. Instead, I had to rely on a phone operator who had a questionable level of knowledge to explain the available plans. Couple that with all the people having trouble accessing their benefits, and I’m starting to wonder if the government is causing more harm than good.So the law isn’t perfect in my mind, but at least it’s moving our health care system in the right direction — a direction that ensures we don’t leave marginalized people to die.There you have it: That’s why I’m Republican and love Obamacare. Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong  Maryalene Laponsie....
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  18. +Whitney Pyant....Over 90% of white peope are killed by white people and they are not killed by racist Black cops....Now the question seem to not want to answer is do you have a problem with unarmed Black people killed by racist white cops.....By the way , I don't deny any problems but you seem to deny what white racist cops are doing....Here's a sample of what Black cops deal with... New dashcam footage is backing up the claims of four African-American parole officers who were violently detained by local upstate New York police officers. The police in the City of Ramapo , NY claim that they did nothing wrong in how they handled the incident. But the parole officers say differently. Mario Alexandre, Sheila Penister, Annette Thomas-Prince, and Samuel Washington just filed a lawsuit against the city. They say that they were terrified and feared for their lives after officer pulled them over and held them at gun point, with assault rifles pointed at them. The footage from the dashcam video, obtained by CNN, shows a police cruiser swerve to the wrong side of the road to get to the vehicle where the four African American officers were sitting.One officer pulls a gun on the four plaintiffs. Another blocks traffic, using his SUV. One of the four emerges from the car with his hands up, even though he had done nothing wrong.Five police officers were present, including ones aiming assault rifles. Mario Alexandre explains that he was “violently assaulted” when pulled from the vehicle, and “slammed against the car.” Police claim they were in the right, however, because of a 911 call on the four officers, “concerned about four individuals observed in bulletproof vests in an unmarked vehicle.” Those were in fact department-issued bulletproof vests. They also had gold badges around their neck: a common image of officer that is familiar to virtually everyone. The officers even had an official sign placed on the dashboard that read: “State of New York – Executive Department – Division of Parole.”That apparently wasn’t enough to identify them as police officers to the racist cops who pulled them over.The racist officers involved in the incident were: Lt. Robert Lancia, Capt., Sgt. Margaret Sammarone, Thomas Cokely, and Suffern Sgt. Edward Dolan, according to The Journal News…Now I don't know what town you live in but am sure you can find some activists that are actually doing something in the community instead of whining about it....
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  24. +Whitney Pyant "We" are not in charge of the racist court system and "we" are not placed in grand Jurys that can convict racist cops..."We" do not move a trial to a "friendly lily white area"...And I;m not blaming whites for all our problems but when so many unarmed Black people are killed by racist white cops then yes it is a problem....This is what some Black cops say about your lovely and innocent racist cops....Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime. The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. "I had my ID on me so it didn’t escalate," said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. "But what’s suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?"Blacks made up 73 percent of the shooting perpetrators in New York in 2011 and were 23 percent of the population.A number of academics believe those statistics are potentially skewed because police over-focus on black communities, while ignoring crime in other areas. They also note that being stopped as a suspect does not automatically equate to criminality. Nearly 90 percent of blacks stopped by the NYPD, for example, are found not to be engaged in any crime. The black officers interviewed said they had been racially profiled by white officers exclusively, and about one third said they made some form of complaint to a supervisor. All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.Here's a question for you...Why don't we hear about Black cops running killing unarmed citizens...of any color...????
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  35. +Andrew Draxlar Finally ....a republican that has ther courage to tell the truth....Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter.... "This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else." If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males." Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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  36. +Andrew Draxlar I never said that white racist cops is the biggest problem in the Black community but it is a big problem that must be addressed...You like the rest of the nazi right wing want Black people to ignore all this intense racism and when an unarmed Black person gets killed by police the first thing you assume is that the police were justified in killing a Black person..You think all Black people are criminals and if they are killed by cops then they somehow deserve it...You also ignore the fact that BLACK COPS while off duty face the same racism that regular Black citizens face..You are too much of a racist idiot to understand reality ..And you have no idea what I feel for Black people or any people that are killed in this or any other country...Violence is a big problem in this country and it bothers me that idiots like you want to cherry pick what type of violence you want to address...Do you care about the serial killers that we have in this country ....do you care about the crime that has come here from Russia and is even glorified in movies...do you care about the rise of armed white supremacist groups...There have been marches all over the country about gun violence in the Black community but you like the rest of the stupid nazi right wing don't seem to know or care about that...Why don't YOU go to the Black community find out for yourself what is goiong on...and while you're at it , find out what is going on in your community...Find out who is really bringing the drugs in the your community and where the meth labs are and where the white supremacist groups meet and why is there this unexplained hatred for people of color...And it sounds like you are from another part of the world...Let me guess...You live in a place where at one time the people that lived there were people of color and "your ancestors" came and performed genocide and took most of their land....Is that right..???...because you don't seem to know anything about America....Watching Foxnews is not reality.....ps....There are many Black cops that police the community...The difference is they don't shoot and kill unarmed people....That madness is reserved for white racist cops....
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  37. +Andrew Draxlar You stupid ass nazi....The reason why there is a NAACP , The Black Panthers , The Urban League , and Black Lives Matter is because of stupid ass nazis like you...The racial problems in this country have been going on for centuries since the first racist nazi came here and preceded to perform genocide on people of color...The nation is already divided and the tensions have always been high..But you seem to ignore the cause of that temsion...Tell you what "Adolf"...when these white racist cops stop killing innocent unarmed Black people and when the bias court system stops giving a Black defendent more jail time than a white defendednt for the same crime and Black cops start runniing around killing unarmed citizens then the tension and division will stop...The racisl problems in this country have been caused by the actions of white people therefore your point about why Black Lives Matter exist is complete bullshit....Let me know when you go to these racist cops and get them to act like human beings instead of killers...And don't think you can go to all white cops becauses ome white cops are actually doing their jobs correctly....However why don't these "good cops" speak out when they know these racist cops are in the wrong...You know for a fact that if Black cops were killing unarmed white peoplke white cops would be outraged and their would a movement against these cops......You need to be honest and face your unexplained hatred for people of color.....thus ended the lesson.....
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  38. +freein2339 On a national radio show [on Aug. 27], Carson said that the country need to re-examine how it cares for veterans but also how to cut back on government bureaucracy. The retired neurosurgeon said, “We don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Affairs should be folded in under the Department of Defense.” As regular readers probably know, plenty of Republican presidential candidates support incorporating a voucher sytstem into the VA, effectively privatizing parts of veterans’ care, but Carson is the first national candidate, at least in recent memory, to suggest eliminating the cabinet agency altogether.   John Biedrzyck, head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, isn’t impressed. “To suggest that disabled veterans could be sent out into the economy with a health savings account card overlooks the fact that civilian health care has waiting lists of their own … and presupposes that civilian doctors have the same skill sets as VA doctors, who see veterans of every age and malady every day,” Biedrzyck said in a statement. As the Military Times’ report added, Paralyzed Veterans of America Deputy Executive Director Sherman Gillums Jr. called Carson’s recommendation “a misguided notion born from ignorance of what each department does.”   “Those who insist ‘we don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs’ are likely people who in fact do not need VA care because of good health or cannot access VA care due to ineligibility, as is the case with Dr. Carson,” he wrote. “However, frustration in reaction to problems in VA combined with ignorance about what VA does and how it works are not the ingredients for a recipe of success where fixing the department is concerned.”   Former Gen. Paul Eaton stating that the separate department was necessary and Carson’s idea was misguided. Rather than think of ways to nickel and dime our veterans Dr. Carson should be thinking of other areas of fat in government – particularly in defense contracts – that can be cut, so we can hire more doctors and caregivers, to provide returning veterans with the kind of care they earned.”
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  48. +Timothy O'B Actually it's spelled Cain and the "mark" was actually leprosy...Depending on who you ask that is why certain people fled to the Caucas mountains which are located in Europe....Some historians claim that the caucasian was created there...I only know that devils do what devils do , therefore when a group of people seem to always act like devils then I have to call it like I see it...Face it man and be honest....western culture has done a lot more harm to the world than any other culture...Thats a fact....So where does all the hatred from people of color come from....did the devil make you do it..??ps...Africans are an old race.while whites are really mutations of a mutation.sorry to burst your bubbles , science doesn’t lie....Scientists said that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife. The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races. Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting the finding as a discovery of "the race gene." Race is a vaguely defined biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only part of what race is -- and is not. Like I said...it depends on who you ask....
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