My god, this man is stupid....

Like most members of donald trump’s cabinet, ben carson was hired to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development with virtually no relevant experience whatsoever. And if a surreal hearing on Capitol Hill is any indication, he hasn’t gotten up to speed in the last two-plus years re: the basic functions of the agency he oversees, whose work impacts millions of Americans. In fact, it seems like he may actually be regressing in his knowledge, to the point that he could very well be unable to explain what HUD stands for by the end of 2019—as in, what the actual acronym stands for, not the agency’s mission, which was seemingly lost on the former neurosurgeon some time ago.

On Tuesday, Rep. Katie Porter began a line of questioning about the alarming rates of foreclosure at HUD by asking carson, “Do you know what an R.E.O. is?” The question was seemingly intended to be rhetorical, like asking a bank C.E.O., “do you know what a mortgage-backed security is?” and then cutting off their “Yes ma’am” to launch into a monologue about how the instrument, and banker greed, caused the financial crisis. Except in this case the answer was apparently No, if you can believe it, I literally have no clue.

“An Oreo?” carson asked.

“No, not an Oreo,” Porter responded, spelling it out slowly for him like a small child. “An R-E-O. R.E.O.”

“Real estate . . . ” Carson started before pausing, dragging out the cringe-inducing back-and-forth for another interminable minute.

“What’s the O stand for?” Porter asked, to which Carson answered, “organization.” Which wasn’t right!

“Owned, real estate owned,” Porter replied, explaining, “That’s what happens when a property goes to foreclosure, we call it an R.E.O.”

Supporters of the administration and its inept employees will surely be claiming this was some kind of gotcha moment that doesn’t reflect Carson’s deep understanding of federal housing policy, which would be a convincing argument if not for the fact that “R.E.O.” is a common, everyday term used in the field in which Carson currently works. (In a past life, this would be kind of like Carson not being able to point where the medulla oblongata is located.) Despite his failure to demonstrate even a basic knowledge of what HUD does, however, the doctor has done a semi-reasonable job by Trumpian standards when it comes to chipping away at the agency‘s mission from the inside, rolling back an Obama-era housing rule and attempting to triple the rent on America’s poorest households, not to mention increasing the number of health and safety violations in public housing properties while advocating for deeper budget cuts.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/ben-carson-oreo-hearing

The article pretty much says it all - we've got people in charge of things they have no knowledge of - starting with the president.


Only the best though, huh trumpsters?  

smh

T And T Garage wrote on 05/21/19 at 16:20:46:

- we've got people in charge of things they have no knowledge of -

But that certainly does NOT,
apply to, 'Gun' laws.

Or the slue of other 'laws' that the UL, FDS, Socialists want to make.

WebsterMark wrote on 05/21/19 at 18:01:19:



LOL - no, ben has no business being in that job.  His skin color doesn't enter into it.  Funny that you see it that way... I wonder why?

He's obviously an intelligent person - he's s surgeon.

But I know several doctors that can't turn a wrench - and like them, ben is way out of his element.

T And T Garage wrote on 05/22/19 at 05:46:21:


Racist.

And I think this occurred in a meeting where leftist, traitorous Democrats (yea I know, redundant) for more and more of our resources to illegal aliens. WFT is wrong with you people?.....

T And T Garage wrote on 05/22/19 at 05:46:21:

ben has no business being in that job.  

And you also saying: - we've got people in charge of things they have no knowledge of -

Would that be JUST LIKE YOU, and all the other Gun Haters/Banners.
When they say, 'sensible gun laws', when they do not know the first thing about Guns or Gun Laws that are already on the books.

YOU know nothing about Gun/Laws,
Yet continually say, 'what should be done'.
And you clearly are Raciest, about Ben,
because now, YOU, know more about what he is doing, then him.
And YOU, have decided he knows Nothing about the job he is doing.