Ben Carson blog #1

The candidate I chose to examine is Ben Carson, who is a republican candidate. Ben Carson, like many others, grew up in a poor - single parent home in Detroit. His mom had a big impact on his life and career path. She always made him strive to do better by making him read books and doing book reports on them. From that he got a love for learning and went on to go to Yale University. After Ben graduated he became an X- ray technician, school bus driver, bank teller and other odd jobs. After that Ben Carson got accepted into The University of Michigan School of Medicine. From there he did his residency training at John Hopkins University Medical Center. Ben Carson then directed pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children Center for 29 years. Now he is also the founder of the Carson Scholars Fund. He and his wife started this fund in 1994 and it operates in all 50 states and has awarded more than 7,500 scholarships.

Ben Carson has little strictly political experience but has many awards, degrees, and has sat on many boards.

Some of these include:

• ·      2001 CNN and TIME Magazine as one of the nation’s 20 foremost physicians and scientist

• ·      2001 selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 “Living Legends.”

• ·      2004 appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the President’s Council on Bioethics 

• ·      2006 Spingarn Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the NAACP.

• ·      2008 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, the highest civilian honor in the land. 

• ·      67 honorary doctorate degrees

• ·      Member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

• ·      Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Science

• ·      Member of the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished American 

• ·      An Emeritus Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University.

• ·      Sat on the board of Kellogg Company

• ·      Sat on the board of Costco Wholesale Corporation

• ·      Sat on the board of Academy of Achievement

• ·      Spoken twice at the national prayer breakfast, 1997 and 2013

• ·      Writer and author of eight books; Gifted Hands, America the Beautiful, Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great, and One Nation, What We All Can Do to Save America’s Future

Ben Carson is qualified to be the next president for many of reason. He is a very well rounded person being an author, doctor, businessman and many more. I think will all of this awards, and other business ventures he has shown qualities needed for a president. In this book, One Nation, he discusses many issues facing America and what he thinks he can do to make them better. He has a clear plan for many of the issues. Also in his book he talks about how people have asked him to run for president because of his ideas and views. On the Ben Carson for President website he lists the main issues he thinks are important to deal with right away. They are:

• ·      Protecting Innocent Life,
• ·      Balanced Budget Amendment,
• ·      Education,
• ·      Keeping Gitmo Open,
• ·      Health Care,
• ·      Keep Faith in Our Society,
• ·      Russia and lessons Learned,
• ·      Protect the Second Amendment,
• ·      Stand by Israel, and a
• ·      Better Tax Code.

What is essential to know about Ben Carson is how explains his decision to enter politics, In his book America the Beautiful, he says, "I believe it is a very good idea for physicians, scientists, engineers, and others trained to make decisions based on facts and empirical data to get involved in the political arena".

To learn more here is a link to Ben Carson For president 

https://www.bencarson.com/issues