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[BlackGoku03]

Read that article. All I can say is wow. It reflects more poorly on Trump for picking this man to work for him than anything else. Ben is an idiot when it comes to politics and public offices, he should be nowhere near this program.

I'm sure, if he got what he really wanted, all of the housing would look like this:

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[Baron von Loathsome]

I can't believe I've never seen a .gif of Yzma saying "They really should have thought of that before they became peasants" from The Emperor's New Groove. Describes the GOP to a tee.

For posterity.

 

[capitalCORN]

It is not the "sweat of your brow" as Bioshock advertises. But by the lashes of the whip, and stabs on the path of thorn that process is made.

 

[cameron]

Carson overcomes his lack of HUD/government policy experience with his sheer contempt for those living in poverty. What a great cabinet pick.

To some residents who met with Mr. Carson, the tour was nothing more than a dog-and-pony show.

On his second day in Columbus, Mr. Carson stopped by the apartment of Alzene Munnerlyn, an 87-year-old living in senior housing and using a voucher to pay part of her rent after she was priced out of her last apartment. For about 10 minutes, Mr. Carson and several local housing officials posed for pictures in Ms. Munnerlyn’s living room and chatted with her about her place.

As Mr. Carson was leaving, Ms. Munnerlyn, a retired information officer for the Ohio Department of Education, said she felt a little used. She had wanted to tell Mr. Carson that President Trump’s plans to cut funding for housing vouchers might make it harder for other seniors to keep their homes.

But, she said: “It was staged. It was so fast.”

Hours later, Bela Koe-Krompecher, clinical director at the Y.M.C.A. of Central Ohio, expressed a similar sentiment after walking with the housing secretary through an apartment and medical clinic for the chronically homeless.

“It’s so choreographed,” he said moments after Mr. Carson left Franklin Station, a supportive housing center for the homeless. “I was kind of told, ‘Be quiet, Bela.’ But I think people need to have that blunt conversation.”

Even if the tour wasn't a photo op, the probability of swaying Carson and his ilk is pretty low.

 

[Dehnus]

They'd kill them in camps if they had the ability.

Hey now.. no need to kill them that fast. We can do that via hard labour and underfeeding them, until they drop dead. Then make them into Soylent Green and underfeed the working ones with the dead ones.

As Calvinism claims: Jesus shows his love by making you rich and powerful, and you shouldn't help others either as that is going against Jesus his will. Predestination decided the fate of the poor before they were even born. It is just fair.

(I joke, but sadly we are getting closer and closer to this crap . )

 

[Dehnus]

Modern day Mother Theresa right there

Actually he is, Mother Theressa was an asshole to the sick and poor. So yeah, he certainly is a Mother Theressa. But he is no FDR or Baruch Spinoza that's for sure.

 

[IrishNinja]

you'd be absolutely disgusted to see how many city officials think like this, too

i've volunteered with a number of homeless outreach programs where we've been told we were "encouraging homelessness". it's a disgusting lack of empathy coupled with a complete lack of awareness of one's privilege, all proudly on public display.

 

[rokkerkory]

Are you kiddng me???

 

[yanipheonu]

I like to think people who think this way get reincarnated into an extremely poor household.

Actually that might be a decent isekai premise.

 

[SymbiantXenos]

FYI, this is Ben Carson's house:

That isn't from Bioshock Infinite?

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

The GOP should do a new new deal that tells people what they can't have.

AC.
Fridge.
Stove.
Microwave.
AC

....Continue if you want.

 

[LionPride]

These faceless poors don't deserve anything

 

[Cymbal Head]

Poor people are bad people. We know they are bad because they are poor.

Therefore they deserve to be punished.

Ipso facto, QED.

 

[Version 3.0]

The GOP should do a new new deal that tells people what they can't have.

AC.
Fridge.
Stove.
Microwave.
AC

....Continue if you want.

I think you have their "logic" backwards. It's not that people can't have these things. It's that, if you do have these, then you don't qualify as poor. So you don't need any help. Therefore, if you're receiving any help, you're a freeloader. Or possibly a criminal.

For posterity.

Nice.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

They have indoor plumbing! Ridiuclous, I bet some even have their own bathrooms! WTF?!

 

[Kayhan]

What, Fyre Festival too good for the poor now?