Posted on 02/15/2009 7:53:04 PM PST by fiscon1
When I saw then HUD Secretary Steve Preston about two months ago, I got a lesson in the difficulties of being a real small government conservative. Preston began his speech by pronoucing that he believes in small governments. He then spent the next ten minutes rattling off a laundry list of policies that HUD implemented under his leadership, about six months in length, to help those in need. Preston, to me at least, believed in small government in theory only. The minute he had any power he used that power to expand the reach of his own office.
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I haven’t seen it, and while I totally agree with it the proposed legislation is a nonstarter. It will go nowhere. Opsommer probably knew this when he introduced it (I suspect it was a voter from his district who asked him to introduce the legis to begin with). Kudos to him for doing so, if nothing else. Many reps would flat out refuse to do so.
Furthermore, I am interested in some details the article fails to provide: What, specifically, is contained in the "laundry list" of policies that HUD implemented? Yes, some of it (in fact, much of it) may be gubmint overstepping its bounds. I can think of a few examples, however, in which HUD policies and guidelines are a good thing. Anyone who lives in a neighborhood with an abundance of Section 8 housing will know exactly what I'm talking about.
Anything we can do to give it traction?
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