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CousinIT

(9,159 posts)
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 01:14 PM Apr 2017

While MSM has been obsessed with Trumps latest hijinks, Ben Carson has been doing serious damage

. . .Carson’s secrecy “may have something to do with the fact that Secretary Carson would rather not have to answer to the public and defend the outrageous budget cuts he and Donald Trump are trying to ram through Congress,” the trustee wrote.

Trump’s proposal cuts $6.2 billion from HUD, or 13.2 percent of its annual budget, by slashing public housing support and development grants. The budget gets rid of the 42-year-old, $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, the Choice Neighborhoods program and the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program.

"We’ve spent a lot of money on Housing and Urban Development over the last decade without a lot to show for it,” said Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. “Certainly, there are some successes but there are a lot of programs that simply cannot justify their existence and that’s where we zeroed in.” Meanwhile, according to CNBC, the Community Development Block Grant program provided housing assistance to nearly 74,000 households, gave public services to nine million Americans and created over 17,000 jobs in 2016 alone. But somehow Mulvaney can’t, or won’t, acknowledge these successes as he touts his budget blueprint that will hit the poor in almost every way possible.

Carson has attempted to defend the cuts to the public, and his past statements show he’s likely on board with them. The new HUD secretary has frequently claimed that with government subsidies, people are not incentivized to get off the federal dole. Carson has made some pretty outrageous statements including that poverty is “really more of a choice than anything else.”

Nothing like getting thrown out on the street with two kids and a $7.25-per-hour job to give you the tools to achieve the American dream.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/while-mainstream-media-has-been-obsessed-with-trumps-latest-hijinks-ben-carson-has-been-doing-serious-damage/
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While MSM has been obsessed with Trumps latest hijinks, Ben Carson has been doing serious damage (Original Post) CousinIT Apr 2017 OP
So, he got out of the elevator? underpants Apr 2017 #1
Carson's like a living NPC in a bad video game. Dave Starsky Apr 2017 #2
Pyramids? MFM008 Apr 2017 #3

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
2. Carson's like a living NPC in a bad video game.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 01:32 PM
Apr 2017

You know, the kind that speaks in non-sequitors, stands or walks around in weird places at weird times for no reason, and won't move out of your way no matter how you try to push past him.

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