After 4 years in the Cabinet, Ben Carson tells Beck: "The swamp is much deeper than I expected"

YouTube ^ | Feb 20 | Glenn Beck

[RandFan]

Dr. Ben Carson's Prescription to Heal America | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 98

[Bulwyf]

Freedom. Some must want it. That overrides all.

[SisterK]

Dr. Carson survived the last four tumultuous years with his heart and his head intact.
God bless this very good man.

[SisterK]

Dr. Carson is a fiscal conservative. He focused on the cleaning up waste and fraud in HUD.

[cgbg]

what exactly did Ben Carson DO in 4 years as HUD secretary

He did not want the job.

He had no industry experience.

The HUD bureaucracy is very complex and very confusing to an outsider.

There are thousands of laws and many tens of thousands of regulations that affect their operations.

The reality is that the most powerful position at HUD (where the rubber really meets the road) is the FHA Commissioner.

The administration chose a Bush retread for that job (after the former Commissioner had gone around in the industry revolving door before becoming the Commissioner for a second time) so it was business as usual.

Lobbyists and industries regulated and or subsidized by HUD have _total_ control of the Department and have had that control for _decades_.

So--is Carson to blame?

Well, sorta, maybe.

He was in way over his head and the administration's choice for FHA Commissioner doomed him.

One simple move he could have made that would have caused chaos in the ranks--and forced _major_ change in the clogged arteries of the agency--would have been to move the HQ _far_ out of DC into the heartland--to a place like Omaha or Boise--far away from the lobbyists.

Most HQ employees would have retired (many were retirement eligible) and that would have been a good thing.

[ifinnegan]

“Maybe we’re not thinking logically”.

Carson is great.

[Vigilanteman]

Michael Savage took essentially the same position before last summer's riots and the kangaroo court railroading of the St. Louis area couple who had to brandish semi-automatic weapons to protect their own neighborhood . . . because local law enforcement chose to stand down to the rioters.

I would not be surprised if Dr. Carson changed his mind as well.

[servantboy777]

I believe the shadow government (deep state) has taken over Warshington. We’ve lost our government.

We just witnessed a coup. Looked very different than any other coup like you’d see in 3rd world countries, but a very sophisticated multi pronged four year attack.

So sophisticated, anyone who dares acknowledge it was a coup is berated and ostracized.

Coordinated operation to cover their tracks and create a reality from falsehood. A campaign of censorship from multiple fronts to rewrite events of the last 5 years.

Ben Carson is probably stunned by what he’z learned.

Pretty scary stuff.

[cgbg]

I promise you that it would take a team of forensic accountants with fanatical determination to even begin to find the waste and fraud at HUD.

It is buried deep in the bureaucracy, and the folks who know about it would _never_ talk about it to an outsider.

Carson was in _way_ over his head....not his fault...just the way it is.

If you want to learn more read the writings of former FHA Commissioner Catherine Austin Fitts.

Here is her HUD story—in her own words:

https://dillonreadandco.com/hud-is-a-sewer/

Warning: This stuff is _complicated. In fact, she is the only FHA Commissioner _ever_ that had both the intelligence and the determination to seriously root out agency corruption.

[NetAddicted]

BOOKMARKED!

[Jane Long]

Bookmarking.

[miserare]

LOL!

[entropy12]

It does not require a STEM degree to figure out the SWAMP is deep and large. Just observe which area in USA has the highest income and net worth. It is the DC area. They are in control of the golden goose namely the Vast American middle class who is getting fleeced.

[Robert DeLong]

I believe you are right, unfortunately.

[Jane Long]

Just a few of the agencies that bucked Trump:
DOJ
FBI
CDC
EPA
State
DOD
CIA

Many of these agencies willfully broke the law in doing so, knowing that with the DOJ working against Trump, there would be no consequences.

Large parts of the bureaucracy have escaped control of the elected government.

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Spot on.

[Jane Long]

I believe the shadow government (deep state) has taken over Warshington. We’ve lost our government.

We just witnessed a coup. Looked very different than any other coup like you’d see in 3rd world countries, but a very sophisticated multi pronged four year attack.

So sophisticated, anyone who dares acknowledge it was a coup is berated and ostracized.

Coordinated operation to cover their tracks and create a reality from falsehood. A campaign of censorship from multiple fronts to rewrite events of the last 5 years.

Ben Carson is probably stunned by what he’z learned.

Pretty scary stuff.

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Great post.

PDJT didn’t have a wing man, like Eric the Red Holder.

[wac3rd]

Right on point.

Faked an election, impeached on false crimes committed by themselves.

The Deep State and Big Tech, along with the old media, new media, universities and Hollywood want a Globalist future.

They want absolute power.

[wgmalabama]

I can promise you there are many in the DOD civil service (not leadership) that are ardently patriots. My personal experience. Just regular people as worried as you are. Their pensions don’t appear that great IMHO. It appears to be similar to SS. The old pensions are gone. So it’s not like the old days.

In addition average DOD can’t 302 form innocent people. I see more graft in NASA than DOD. Washington DC is a different story. Political to the core. Average solders and civilians are not making bank.

[Major Matt Mason]

At this point, it certainly seems like freedom-loving Americans are wasting their time voting in federal elections (at the least). No one in Washington cares what we think (and in fact, we are under attack), and there are no consequences for law-breaking by politicians, bureaucrats, or not-so-civil servants.

[olivia3boys]

I’m a federal employee and the pensions are pretty much gone now—only those hired before 1994 have them—very few of those left; they are mostly already retired.

There are some good, hardworking federal employees out there, too. A lot of contractors have replaced the gravy train. . .

Come join the federal workforce! One way to improve it is to join it. :)

[huldah1776]

But Trump knew with the lockdowns that the mail in vote was coming. And why did he have faulsi in there?