SeattleGriz wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:26 pm
kalm wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:10 pm
You’re the alt right guy. Tell me.
Fake Christian.
Can't admit you have nothing on policy about Carson, just hate his Christian stance. You have no leg to stand on invoking anything to do with Christianity.
Racist.
I was confirmed a Lutheran, fake Christian. I know many Christian’s…some real who follow the teachings of Jesus, and many fake. You like Carson exactly because of the photo I posted.
It’s not hard to look up Carson’s political career. Only a racist fake Christian would try and project racism because there are a few inexperienced or corrupt POC I disagree with. What a weird strategy.
In December 2017, The Economist described the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), led by Ben Carson, as "directionless".[181] Most of the top HUD positions were unfilled and Carson's leadership was "inconspicuous and inscrutable".[181] Of the policies HUD was enacting, The Economist wrote, "it is hard not to conclude that the governing principle at HUD is to take whatever the Obama administration was doing, and do the opposite."[181] HUD scaled back the enforcement of fair housing laws, halted several fair housing investigations started by the Obama administration[182] and removed the words "inclusive" and "free from discrimination" from its mission statement.[182] HUD saw an exodus of career officials during Carson's tenure.[183]
On March 6, his first day as secretary, while addressing Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees, Carson saluted the work ethic of immigrants, and during his comments, he likened slaves to involuntary immigrants. A HUD spokesman said that no one present thought Carson "was equating voluntary immigration with involuntary servitude".[184] In the same speech, Carson was criticized by some for saying that the human brain "was incapable of forgetting and could be electrically stimulated into perfect recall".[185]
Under the federal budget proposed by Trump in 2017, HUD's budget for the fiscal year 2018 would be cut by $6.2 billion (13%) and the Community Development Block Grant, a program which Carson praised in a trip to Detroit as HUD secretary, would be eliminated.[186][187] Carson issued a statement supporting the proposed cuts.[188] Carson suggested that federal funds for housing in Detroit could be part of an expected infrastructure bill.[186]
In April 2017, while speaking in Washington at the National Low Income Housing Coalition conference, Carson said that housing funding would be included in an upcoming infrastructure bill from the Trump administration.[189]
In July 2017, during his keynote address at the LeadingAge Florida annual convention, Carson stated his concern about "seniors who become destitute" and reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had increased public housing programs for the elderly by an unspecified number.[190]
Carson speaks in 2019
In summer 2017, Carson allowed his son, Baltimore businessman, Ben Carson Jr., to participate in organizing a HUD "listening tour" in Baltimore. Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the younger Carson "put people he'd invited in touch with his father's deputies, joined agency staff on official conference calls about the listening tour and copied his wife on related email exchanges".[191] The son's involvement prompted HUD staff to express concern; the department's deputy general counsel for operations wrote in a memorandum "that this gave the appearance that the Secretary may be using his position for his son's private gain".[191][192] Carson's wife, son, and daughter-in-law also attended official meetings.[191] In February 2018, the HUD inspector general's office confirmed that it was looking into the role Carson's family played at the department.[193]
During congressional testimony in May 2019, while being questioned by U.S. Representative Katie Porter,[194] Carson did not know what the term REO ("Real Estate Owned" refers to housing owned by a bank or lending institution post-foreclosure) stood for and confused it with the cookie, Oreo.[195][196] In response, Carson went on the Fox Business Network where he accused Democrats of adhering to "Saul Alinsky" tactics.[197]
On March 1, 2020, the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced Carson's addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force.[198]
On November 9, 2020, Carson tested positive for COVID-19 after attending President Trump's Election Night party.[199][200] He initially treated himself with a homeopathic oleander extract on the recommendation of Mike Lindell, the founder of My Pillow, Inc., which Carson said caused his symptoms to disappear. Oleander was previously rejected by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19 and Carson received criticism for promoting an unscientific homeopathic treatment.[201][202][203] He disclosed on November 20 that he subsequently became "extremely sick" and attributed his recovery to Regeneron's experimental antibody therapy. He said that President Trump had given him access to the drug.[204]
Office furnishing scandal
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Main article: Ben Carson office furnishing scandal
Carson received criticism for spending up to $31,000 on a dining set in his office in late 2017.[205] This expenditure was discovered after Helen Foster, a career HUD official, filed a complaint alleging that she had been demoted from her position because she refused to spend more than the legal $5,000 limit for office redecorations.[206] Carson and his spokesman said that he had little or no involvement in the purchase of the dining set. Later, email communications revealed that Carson and his wife selected the dining set.[207] On March 20, 2018, Carson testified before the United States House Committee on Appropriations that he had "dismissed" himself from the decision to buy the $31,000 dining room set and "left it to my wife, you know, to choose something".[208] On September 12, 2019, HUD's inspector general released a report clearing Carson of misconduct.
