Posted on 12/06/2016 7:58:42 AM PST by rktman
Today's installment of "We're Doomed, We're Doomed!" comes via The New York Times regarding the nomination of Dr. Ben Carson to head up the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Big-city mayors and housing experts are nervous about the idea of a billionaire real estate developer in the White House. Now President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon with no housing experience, as his nominee for secretary of Housing and Urban Development — and high anxiety has set in.
As The Times’s Mid-Atlantic bureau chief, I have spent a lot of time in Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, which are all run by Democrats. In those cities, and many others across the country, housing concerns are deeply intertwined with other poverty-related issues, including racial tensions with the police.
So they're worried about the real estate guy AND the guy who has no housing experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
They lie, they fret. That’s what the Slimes do.
I know people who trained under Carson. They consider him a near deity. Absolutely brilliant. I’m sure that disqualifies him from government work.
Surprised the NYT did not resurrect an old socialist DEM talking point and state “that Dr. Carson lacks gravitas”.
Newt said Carson was fine for the position and I’ll take his judgment over other folks.
They’re racists!
They are right to panic. Dr. Carson at HUD is an existential threat to the democrat party. Trump wants to bring blacks into the party. If he can do that, the inner cities are republican, and that brings several whole states into the red zone. Dr. Carson is now the tip of that spear. Trump was able to wedge blue collar families into the republican party. Now he and Dr. Catson will do the same in inner cities. If they are successful, the democrat party becomes a small regional party with California, New York, and college towns.
Democrats now against Black appointees
HUD is less about projects now and more about forcing high-density low-income section 8 housing into the suburbs. Recent HUD rules:
1. Landlords cannot use criminal background to determine whether to rent.
2. Section 8 subsidies go up a lot more for more expensive neighborhoods so that poor people can live in expensive neighborhoods.
3. If a county or city opposes a high-density low income housing project, HUD can overrule their zoning decisions and even votes and force them to put the ghetto-in-formation into their city and can fine them and appoint a federal “receiver” to oversee all their land use decisions.
4. Much more. HUD is a cesspool.
Think about what they are doing. As central cities gentrify, they have to put the poor people somewhere. So they want to punish the people in the suburbs. This is an enormous power play by property owners in central cities at the expense of property owners in the burbs.
I watched Don Lemon last night and they had Marc Lamont Hill on who was making fun of Carson as HUD head——all the other panelists,and Lemon,were laughing as if it was a SNL skit.
I was horrified.
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Unless I'm mistaken, Dr. Carson grew up in and survived the kind of housing HUD is associated with. What more relevant "experience" can the man have?
NYT=fake news.
Maybe we should have a Depends mail in campaign for these cry bullies!!
Running HUD?
I recall that we had a president who never had a job where someone reported to him, seldom voted, couldn’t show us his academic achievements, nor his birth certificate or social security card.
Can’t remember his name, but I recall that he was a Marxist Muslim mulatto POS!
Apparently, past picks, who had "housing experience", have sucked. I'll take Ben.
Yet the nyt had nothing to say about Andy Cuomo, the mismanagement, the missing money...
Can’t have any coloreds off the plantation, now can we.
Gosh, NYT not happy with something President Trump did? Hard to believe.
Same with the 99.99999% of the rest of the media. By the time President Trump actually takes office, no one will be paying a bit of attention to any of the media because everyone already knows what they’re going to say: “President Trump did something today we don’t like.” How many thousand times can one listen to this as if it’s “news” and not get bored and go do one of several hundred other more interesting things instead?
Still, it was interesting to see NYT expose their racism by opposing a black man for a cabinet post. So, far the NTY, WaPo and the rest have opposed ALL of President Trump’s picks because either they are too black, not black enough, too rich, too poor, too male, not male enough, not enough experience, too much experience, the wrong kind of experience, etc.
“Still, it was interesting to see NYT expose their racism by opposing a black man for a cabinet post”
It will interesting if they try to call him a “Uncle Tom” or a “house #igger”
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