More fake news by the media?
Trump’s twitted yesterday that he was considering Carson for the HUD spot. Yahoo news = fake news.
yet it’s been posted here...how many times?
Carson was on a fox channel this am and as much a made the claim that he had been offered the job. Huckabee was on both fox cable stations this am and didn’t say jack even when pushed.
I like Dr Carson and would welcome his appointment to a post that would take advantage of his medical knowledge, such as Surgeon General.
I would like to see an HUD appointee that has demonstrated the skills of “right sizing” a large organization like HUD...
it is one of the most bloated bureaucrappies in WashDC, with a number of offices and programs that are either NOT properly at the federal level to begin with, or are poorly performing. A manager with demonstrated downsizing and refocussing skills....
Maybe not; but would Yahoo News be the first to know?
It sounds like a “pre-offer.” “Ben, if you want it, I will formally offer it to you.”
This allows Ben his dignity. Let’s pray for wisdom to apply to Ben. Maybe out of the bad fits for this ill conceived bureaucracy (no right way to do the wrong thing), Ben is the least bad of them all. The right thing would be to re-envision the role of HUD, while trying to avoid a calamitous upset while that is going on. Ben is at least versed enough in American founding philosophy to know the right thing, I believe. Return HUD-like activities to the states, at the least. The Constitution of the USA is ill suited for welfare activities on this level, and has to be distorted to keep them up. State constitutions, less of a problem.
HUD doesn’t make sense. HHS maybe....
Why not Surgeon General? Seems much more relevant to Carson. HUD needs much higher energy management.
It is fascinating that Obama wants to stop “fake news” but the exact opposite happens!! It is wild, like some kind of covert verbal code between him and his crazy leftist fascist media!
Coverage of the transition has been terrible.
Eliminate HUD. Don’t appoint anyone and start removing people from this agency.
Federal HUD has proven to be a disaster.
Let the states control the HUD portion of State taxes that are poored into the FERAL Government coffers.
You will see progress in short order because the State knows what its people should need interfacing with local communities.
I never believed Carson had been offered HUD when it was announced. It would have been racist — “you may be a brain surgeon, but your being black and the inner cities being mostly people of color is what qualifies you.”
Trump more interested in “good fit” and “best practices” than that. Carson would have been so completely ticked off at the suggestion that the merest discussion of it would never even have gotten to the “leak” stage.