He’s a good person, but he is too peaceable.
Trump will set the policy and direction and Carson will carry it out. Too many lived the Clinton years and fell for their BS that cabinet secretaries were out there doing all the bad stuff on their own.
It’s my understanding that, before he turned his life around, he was not so peaceable.
Good grief, nobody’s perfect! Get a grip.
He attacked someone with a knife so hard, it broke on the buckle. If that is peaceable, I would not want to upset the good Dr. /half joking
We’ll see if he’s too peaceable.
The urban problem, in a nutshell, is decades of failed top down urban planning. Central planning which zoned small family businesses out of existence and left the residents there but eliminated their jobs.
A typical inner city economy prior to “urban development” was one of blocks and blocks of very small family shopkeeper enterprises, food markets, laundry, gifts, hardware, clothes, books, jewelry, you name it. The shopkeeper’s family lived in the third floor apartment above his shop, worked at the shop, and rented out the second floor apartment. Then blocks and blocks of small factories and plants, followed by blocks of larger plants, factories, refineries, and commodity producers.
The common theme in all of this industry was that it was unplanned and largely unregulated - it evolved over many decades, out of the natural human desire to ply a trade and make a living, and people found a niche regardless of all ethnicity, social class or education.
There were problems of course: income and education inequality, as some did better than others, filth and pollution, as there were not zoning laws and EPA regulation, there was crime - organized and other. There was racism as cultures clashed in the melting pot. These neighborhoods were often disheveled and messy, the markets smelled of rotting fish and garbage - an embarrassment to the government class and white collar commuter class who had to pass through them on the way to the train station.
So came the age of urban planning which outlawed street vendors in many cities, razed entire multipurpose buildings and replaced them with high rise apartment buildings in strictly residential zones. The problem was that the shops were gone so the unemployed shopkeeper families could not afford the new apartments.
Next came the EPA and health regulations which shut down thousands of factories and restaurants. Labor laws which finished off the rest.
Wealthier investors and residents who could afford the regulatory compliance and could commute to their white collar employment moved in and pushed the jobless and homeless into designated ghetto areas - but even these were “renovated” and the trash was cleared off the street.
This failed urban planning is what Dr Carson needs to find solutions for - and the solutions don’t require years of bureaucratic experience in failed leftist social planning.
Quite the contrary; what is needed is a conservative who understands the damage done by decades of leftist social planning and his to undo job killing regulation, zoning and planning and who understands the concept of liberty and the dignity of free enterprise.
Free enterprise and limited government may not provide equal wealth, but it provides equal opportunity and the dignity of self sufficiency.
I think Dr Carson will be perfect for this job.