Definitive Proof: Conservatives Can't Trust Snopes Anymore: Recently, these remarks by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson caused liberals to break out into hives: That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they, too, had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.