Posted on 10/13/2017 6:07:44 AM PDT by markomalley
Prominent liberals, Sen. Bernie Sanders among them, insist that health care is a human right, and the same can be said about housing, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said on Thursday.
Waters, the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, was among several African-American Democrats on the committee who blasted HUD Secretary Ben Carson as uncaring and incompetent because he supports the Trump administration's budget cuts.
"In the face of the immense housing needs in our country, President Trump chose Dr. Ben Carson to serve as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development," Waters said in her opening statement at the HUD oversight hearing.
She continued:
The secretary of HUD is supposed to be at the forefront of our efforts to create strong communities; expand access to safe, decent and affordable housing; and enforce fair housing rights.
Housing is the foundation on which our entire society is built. It is a platform for economic mobility and well-being. It is a crucial part of our national economy. It is a necessary human right.
We need strong leadership and a bold vision for HUD in order to expand access to affordable housing in this country. Unfortunately, I have seen nothing to indicate that Secretary Carson is up to the challenge.
Waters and a few other Democrats complained that Carson supports President Trump's budget, "which slashes funding for critical housing programs."
Carson told the committee that "spending more taxpayer dollars does not necessarily create better outcomes."
"We must constantly evaluate our programs to ensure that we are delivering services effectively and efficiently to HUD's constituents and responding to today's challenges with the best practices and technologies," the secretary said. Carson added that he's working to "reform our programs and remain careful stewards of taxpayer dollars."
Rep. Waters had three opportunities to question Carson, because two Democrats yielded their time to her. She spent much of that time asking Carson if he agrees with various tweets and statements Trump has made.
You have big house Maxine the mouth start opening to you homeless constituents. Walk the talk.
There is a very useful tool in logic and philosophy called reductio ad absurdum ( “reduction to absurdity” ) which basically takes an argument and extends its assumptions to its limits. If health and now housing is a right then where do these ‘rights’ end? The right to food is the next obvious one and beyond that, what?
Note that these are very VERY different ‘rights’ than our Founders envisioned and articulated in the Declaration and Constitution. The Founder’s concept of rights were not granted by government but were inherit to being a citizen. Their articulation of these rights was for the purpose of forbidding the GOVERNMENT from infringing or denying them.
Bernie, Maxine, Hillary (etc.) have their definition of ‘rights’ as obligations of government to provide and guarantee. Something totally different and, in my opinion antithetical to what we see in the wishes of the Founders.
Note that the phrase is “pursuit of happiness” NOT “guarantee of happiness”!
Yes, and we know which side the Democrats are on.
California secession is looking better every day. Mad Maxine would be in another country. And since that country will have open borders, the US can ship all its non-working citizens there to get their human right housing.
It’s very clear that under DemocRATS, the HUD Sec. handed out wads of cash to Black ‘Leaders’ in Big City Urban areas. When HUD Sec. Bed Carson does NOT hand out wads of cash, Black ‘Leaders’ have a cow!
I still say throw her in jail.
Some state and local lawmakers have been prosecuted for not living in the districts they ran to represent — a requirement under California law. When it comes to Congress, federal law only requires members live in the same state as the district.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-congress-living-outside-district-20151222-html-htmlstory.html
In 2010, the House Ethics Committee investigated Waters for steering $12 million in bailout funds to a bank where her husband sat on the board and held stock.
http://sandrarose.com/2017/05/maxine-waters-siege-congresswoman-lives-4-8m-mansion-paid-daughter-750000-mail-campaign-flyers/
And that's why England had poorhouses, we used to have mental hospitals and we still have jails.
You don't work, you don't eat.
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