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    Exclusive Interview: Ben Carson on Draining the Swamp, Fighting Poverty, and Kanye West
    Genevieve Wood
    April 29, 2018
    http://tinyurl.com/ya85esao

    Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke to The Daily Signal's Genevieve Wood about his policy goals at HUD, what it's like to serve under President Donald Trump, and Kanye West's recent tweets. An edited transcript of the interview is below.



    Genevieve Wood: Secretary Carson, thank you for talking with The Daily Signal.

    Ben Carson: Absolutely. My pleasure.

    Wood: So you've been in office now a year and a half almost, right?

    Carson: Almost.

    Wood: Coming up on it. What have been the biggest challenges for you at HUD?

    Carson: There have been several challenges, but the biggest challenge is when I first came in there were no assistant secretaries or deputy secretaries, so it was like drinking from a fire hydrant every day....








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    Exclusive Interview: Ben Carson on Draining the Swamp, Fighting Poverty, and Kanye West
    Genevieve Wood
    April 29, 2018
    http://tinyurl.com/ya85esao
    Kanye has been a nice surprise:

    Wood: Final question for you. There’s been a lot of talk back and forth about Kanye West and coming out as supporting the president, or at least saying people should have the ability to say what they want to say about things. What do you think about this recent political discussion?

    Carson: I was pleased to see Kanye West come out and talk about that. I’ve had an opportunity to have conversation with him in the past, and he actually is a very thoughtful person.

    What our country doesn’t realize, and particularly what a lot of liberals don’t realize, is that it really is fairly racist for you to think that a black person has to think a certain way, and that if they don’t think that way, there’s something wrong with them and start calling them names and persecuting them. That is just as racist as anything that I can imagine...

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    Exclusive Interview: Ben Carson on Draining the Swamp, Fighting Poverty, and Kanye West
    Genevieve Wood
    April 29, 2018
    http://tinyurl.com/ya85esao

    Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke to The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood about his policy goals at HUD, what it’s like to serve under President Donald Trump, and Kanye West’s recent tweets. An edited transcript of the interview is below.



    Genevieve Wood: Secretary Carson, thank you for talking with The Daily Signal.

    Ben Carson: Absolutely. My pleasure.

    Wood: So you’ve been in office now a year and a half almost, right?

    Carson: Almost.

    Wood: Coming up on it. What have been the biggest challenges for you at HUD?

    Carson: There have been several challenges, but the biggest challenge is when I first came in there were no assistant secretaries or deputy secretaries, so it was like drinking from a fire hydrant every day....
    Dr. Carson is now getting a lot of flack for possibly increasing the rent for families in Federal housing. My question is how long should taxpayers continue to support able-bodied adults?

    I’m not talking about the disabled or elderly disabled. I’m talking about grown folks living on the gubmit dole.

    HUD Secretary Ben Carson planning to increase rent for low-income families in federal housing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    Dr. Carson is now getting a lot of flack for possibly increasing the rent for families in Federal housing. My question is how long should taxpayers continue to support able-bodied adults?

    I’m not talking about the disabled or elderly disabled. I’m talking about grown folks living on the gubmit dole.

    HUD Secretary Ben Carson planning to increase rent for low-income families in federal housing.
    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.3954170
    From the article....


    Wood: Because you’ve now been there long enough, you’ve really had a chance to see the landscape and say, “OK, here’s what’s working, here’s what’s not working when it comes to housing policy.” You’ve recently come forward with a pretty bold suggestion that you want to make some changes in terms of how those who receive assistance for public housing, what they have to do to get it. And as you already know, I don’t have to tell you, there are those out there who say you’re going to put people on the streets with your new policies. That you’re going to increase homelessness. How do you react to that?

    Carson: I would first of all say nobody’s going to be put on the streets. We’ve gone through the numbers very carefully to make sure that that doesn’t happen. We’ve made sure that rents are not increased for the elderly or the disabled.

    We are being realistic as we look at it. We knew what the budget was—with the budgetary constraints that we had to work with—and so we had to make some changes in the rent structure in order to conform with that budget.

    Now, there’s a possibility that budget’s going to be plused up if there’s no rescission, which gives us a little more flexibility. So this is really a starting point in the conversation....



    ....You look at the national debt, $20 trillion. By the year 2048, every dollar the federal government takes in will be used to service the debt. There’ll be no money for any programs.

    What we really do is start thinking ahead, but also recognizing that the federal government has been responsible for creating a system that causes people not to necessarily want to work, because if they make more money, their rent goes up, or they may no longer be eligible for their apartment, and this is a nonstarter. So we really need to figure out a way to incentivize people while at the same time providing them with the help that they need in order to move up that ladder.

    In the past, when people started moving up the ladder of self-sufficiency, we pulled the rug out from underneath them. I don’t want to do that.

    We have to understand that in 30 states you can actually make more money from just sitting back and receiving entitlements than you can from working a minimum-wage job, so it shouldn’t surprise us that a lot of people elect to take the first option.

    What they don’t actually understand is that if you take the minimum-wage job, you gain skills, relationships, opportunities that you would not otherwise have had, and in the long run you end up in a much better place. And this is where we really want people to be.....





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    Carson: That’s important because now they can make money and they won’t have their rent increased. And that’s the thing that keeps a lot of people from really wanting to get a better job. Also, simplifying the process by basing it on gross income rather than on adjusted income.
    This is good...for a time when very young we were on Section 8 housing subsidy....it was a REAL struggle to get ahead because the rent kept increasing...having had that kind of time would have enabled us to get ahead of the game....we were in a apartment we could not afford without the help so as soon as our income was over the limit we could no longer afford the apartment...that meant trying to find cheaper housing....get deposits together for another place and utilities....The Lord led us out of the rent trap shortly after that though....

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    OK, sooo if this initiative is focused on getting those lazy, able-bodied folks to get off their rusty-dustys and get a job, then I'm all for it...

    However, if these rent increases make it even more difficult for the "working poor" (who are scrambling as it is), to make ends meet, then I say, NO way, Doc!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Romans828 View Post
    OK, sooo if this initiative is focused on getting those lazy, able-bodied folks to get off their rusty-dustys and get a job, then I'm all for it...

    However, if these rent increases make it even more difficult for the "working poor" (who are scrambling as it is), to make ends meet, then I say, NO way, Doc!
    There will always be some who get caught in the snare...we can't ever have a perfect government formula that fits all fairly...or as we might judge to be fair...making sure the elderly and truly disabled is a good start...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Romans828 View Post
    OK, sooo if this initiative is focused on getting those lazy, able-bodied folks to get off their rusty-dustys and get a job, then I'm all for it...

    However, if these rent increases make it even more difficult for the "working poor" (who are scrambling as it is), to make ends meet, then I say, NO way, Doc!
    How long should we (tax payers), carry the working poor?
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