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“America The Beautiful” author Dr. Ben Carson on Obama’s birth-control mandate and its impact on religious freedom.
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Last week the president offered what it called an accommodation.
On his controversial contraception dictate shifting the cost of birth control from religious institutions of which -- -- -- -- insurance companies.
Now here is the president last Friday.
The results will be that religious organizations won't have to pay for these services.
And no religious institution will have to provide these services directly.
Joining me now is doctor Benjamin Carson is director of pediatric neurosurgery.
At Johns Hopkins author of the new book America the beautiful -- discovering what made this nation great.
And by the way we have a direct link to.
The doctors work from home page of Lou Dobbs dot com great to have you with us thank you very nicely that.
The president engaging in.
Maneuvers of -- sort that it has set off the national media trying to hear what he's doing accommodation but.
And refusing to accept the word compromise.
What do you make of what he's doing well.
You know I have.
Take it back to math.
In the United States is like a patient.
And and what we're seeing are symptoms.
Of the disease.
And what this disease is a growing and completely out of control government.
That wants to take over everything.
And isn't disease begins to take over maybe the kidneys and then -- live where and then the -- and pretty -- it consumes that whole individual.
This is what we happened this is exactly.
What the founding fathers of our nation we're afraid -- and you know that that's something that talk about in the book we are gone so far afield at this point so this this is not really surprising.
What the president is doing here it's a natural.
-- Of tremendous growth and invasion.
Of privacy.
Issues -- Jack -- former director going to be -- cheapest on Sunday -- Enhanced by our Chris Wallace of Fox News.
Where the president got the authority.
Two in polls.
Cost on insurance companies unilaterally.
Single.
Is a this is in the court court accommodation tuned to the Catholic church and faith based communities.
And he said in the affordability act in obamacare.
I talked with a number of experts.
I couldn't remember where that was they who know -- it's not in there this is a president and you say who is being invasive.
Because.
Where he would find statutory authority it would also be in contravention some save the Fifth Amendment.
It's it's -- Fifth Amendment and the First Amendment but you know the fact of the matter is.
If the president would exercise.
Anywhere near the sensitivity.
About religious freedom.
In this country as he does about this -- And offending them we wouldn't even have these kinds of problems so.
Let's bring some Kennedy here let's be sensitive about everybody's.
Religious inclinations and -- and not just one particular group.
And I just think that if we would -- -- And we.
Our history and -- constitution and understand.
What their original intent was the founding fathers were deathly afraid.
That are government will grow too big.
And -- To the point where it couldn't subsist without taking everything from the people.
There is I think you've you mentioned our founding fathers are documents and you think of the Federalist papers and James Madison talking about actions and here in the mightily.
This president is given now.
-- -- To a populism that is based on group and identity politics he is waging in his most recent document -- -- Class warfare is there's no other words that it what are your thoughts.
Well you know I think this is the last place on earth where we should have class warfare when you look at our history you know.
Socialism started.
Because they were looking at the United States of America.
And they think you've got all these very wealthy people who Ford's from the current gays in the Mellon from the Kellogg the moment people -- -- this -- -- that everybody else.
You can't have a system that works like that you've got to have a overarching government that we distribute some understands that in.
Well what they didn't understand this at all those people I just mentioned.
Instead of doing like the Europeans didn't passing money down from generation generation poured money back into the infrastructure -- this -- Created jobs factory's textiles the most powerful.
Middle class in the history of the world was created by them which -- our nation to rise to the pinnacle and record time.
In 200940.
Of the wealthiest families in America pledged to give away half of their well.
Go to another country in the world and asked them the content and look at you happen to have three -- This has always been a feeling generous nation look at all the foundations that have been made it for the purpose of taking care of people.
Who's first in line whenever this disaster.
We we don't want -- extinguish that with this class warfare that the worst thing that we can possibly -- Under management cars.
Thanks for being with us as always look forward significance of that and the book is America the beautiful.
-- rediscovering what made America great.
