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Seedersandleechers

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Tue Mar 6, 2018, 06:32 AM Mar 2018

BEN CARSON, RETIRED BRAIN SURGEON, HAS LOBOTOMIZED HUD

Neurosurgery, one would assume, is a difficult task requiring intelligence, skill, and intense focus. But as former presidential candidate and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson recently declared, it is a positive cakewalk compared to working in Donald Trump’s White House.

“There are more complexities here than in brain surgery,” Carson told The New York Times in an interview, perhaps a lame excuse for what the Times revealed to be a morass of problems at HUD: steep cuts to both staffers and budget; a brewing ethics scandal over Carson’s furniture budget; and a president indifferent to both the mission of HUD and to the man he appointed to lead it, whom he reportedly considers a beta “winner,” not an aggressive “killer.”

The result, as the Times reports, is that Carson has been either unable or unwilling to secure the funds that HUD desperately needs to take care of the millions of low-income Americans who rely on public housing and other forms of assistance:


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/how-ben-carson-hobbled-hud

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BEN CARSON, RETIRED BRAIN SURGEON, HAS LOBOTOMIZED HUD (Original Post) Seedersandleechers Mar 2018 OP
This whole ridiculous administration thinks anyone can do anything..... chelsea0011 Mar 2018 #1
Total idiots can destroy anything and everything. It requires true genius to build democratisphere Mar 2018 #2

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
1. This whole ridiculous administration thinks anyone can do anything.....
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 06:45 AM
Mar 2018

It is the ultimate in hubris and at it's core just corrupt and lazy. There is no way Carson had any business being put into that job. Just as there is no reason Tillerson is SOS, Javanka is anything, and right down every agency.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
2. Total idiots can destroy anything and everything. It requires true genius to build
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:00 AM
Mar 2018

departments that produce policies and take actions for the greater good of all humanity. drumpf has his cesspool swamp overflowing with the worst kind of creatures known to man.

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