So your argument is that unqualified people have held the position before?
HUD is not in the construction business.
So you voted for Hillary? She had lots of government experience. Much more than Trump.
“So your argument is that unqualified people have held the position before?”
No the argument is that leadership skills are transferable regardless of the job.
Jack Kemp used the leadership he developed as a quarterback and the research skills he developed as a congressman to perform a different job well because those skills transferred to his new job.
There is no reason to think that the abilty to make decisions under pressure, to trust one’s judgement, the attention to detail, the ability to trust one’s team, to delegate parts of a task to others, and the ability to break complex problems down to manageable steps-all attributes of good surgeons -are not things that Ben Carson couldn’t transfer to his new job.
Details can be delegated leadership cannot.
I’m not saying he will be great but there is no reason to automatically believe that Ben Carson could not perform adequately in the job. HUD also not a real high profile department
If he had experience the he would be part of the system.
Actually, I’d contend that HUD Secretary is a fairly useless position for a department that should be dissolved. Less concerned about who occupies the office than why we’re spending federal money on the department itself.
“So your argument is that unqualified people have held the position before?”
My argument would be that people who are “qualified” by virtue of previous experience surviving in the swamp should not be elected, appointed, or hired.