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<div id="pastingspan1" style="text-align: right; "><span style="  text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><em>Photo Credit: Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com</em></strong></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; "><span style="">Honestly, I think about Ben Carson a lot. To anyone who doesn&#8217;t follow the political sphere extremely close, and to some that may, the answer in my opinion is, out of nowhere.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; "><span style="">If you google &#8220;where did Ben Carson come from,&#8221; (as I did) your answer comes up as Detroit... Really?</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; ">For a very long time Mr. Carson was a neurosurgeon, and from 1984 to 2013, he was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. He was even the subject of a television drama entitled &#8220;Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story&#8221; (Full disclosure I haven&#8217;t seen it. But I will when it hits Netflix or when Mr. Carson&#8217;s campaign sends me back a statement on his stance on small business. For the record, they have not, as of writing).</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal; "><span style=""><br /></span></div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal; "><span style="">But in all fairness to the Ben Carson campaign, is a neurosurgeon not what this company needs right now? Is a neurosurgeon not what is needed for franchising and small business? Someone who thinks extremely calculated and decisive?</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; ">There is no shortage of questions of what the country needs but there is definitely a clear need for the economy to continuing to grow and more jobs to be created. Enter franchising. According to ADP, the franchise community raised employment by 52,500 jobs.</div><div style="font-style: normal; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; ">As we continue to progress into the more formidable stages of the <a href="http://1851franchise.com/details/2909/10-Things-Franchisors-Can-Learn-From-the-Presidential-Campaign-" target="_blank">republican and democratic campaigns</a>, we will discover more and more what each candidate has in store for the economy.</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal; "><span style=""><br /></span></div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal; "><span style="">I was tasked with writing a profile about Ben Carson by our publisher, but his campaign refused to answer my requests for a statement on small business or on franchising.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; ">From what I&#8217;ve seen and read on Ben Carson, he is very pointed on social issues but not as hard-nosed on business issues that can change the way business is thought of on a national scale. In no way is this a call for or against Ben Carson (quite the contrary, I think Mr. Carson is the best opposition to Hilary Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination).</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal; "><span style=""><br /></span></div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal; "><span style="">In closing; I can&#8217;t give you a clear picture of Ben Carson as hard as I try. I can give you my personal opinion of the man and his campaign, and I can continue to give you political anecdotes, but he continues to be a mystery to where his capital compass points. Either way, don&#8217;t listen to me when you choose a presidential candidate. Look inward at your family, your business and what will be best for your family.</span></div><div id="pastingspan1" style="font-style: normal;   "></div>

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