Your MesaZona blogger always wondered what kind of medications this dude is on from the very first time hearing him speak in public. Ya gotta wonder why The Donald nominated the likeable brain surgeon in the first place, followed by Senate approval. Mebbe all their heads need to get an examination, do ya think? Set-up to Fail +
Another Tall Tale from The House of Trump.... is this stuff amusing anymore??
Here's more fodder for the grist-mill media saying the obvious (backing it up with details)
Ben Carson, Retired Brain Surgeon, Has Lobotomized HUD
After a year of overseeing the anti-poverty department, Carson is realizing he may be in over his head.
by Tina Nguyen 05 March 2018 12:02 pm The Hive
Neurosurgery, one would assume, is a difficult task requiring intelligence, skill, and intense focus. But as former presidential candidate and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson recently declared, it is a positive cakewalk compared to working in Donald Trump’s White House. “There are more complexities here than in brain surgery,” Carson told The New York Times in an interview, perhaps a lame excuse for what the Times revealed to be a morass of problems at HUD: steep cuts to both staffers and budget; a brewing ethics scandal over Carson’s furniture budget; and a president indifferent to both the mission of HUD and to the man he appointed to lead it, whom he reportedly considers a beta “winner,” not an aggressive “killer.”
The result, as the Times reports, is that Carson has been either unable or unwilling to secure the funds that HUD desperately needs to take care of the millions of low-income Americans who rely on public housing and other forms of assistance:
When the Times brought up the fact that he allowed his businessman son to attend a HUD listening tour, despite the department’s warning about a possible ethics violation, Carson replied that he’d solved the problem by asking his wife and son whether they thought they were doing anything wrong. “I don’t have any problem with ethics, . . .HUH???????????
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Blogger Note: Just like here in Mesa, Such questionable quips have become another hallmark of Carson’s tenure
"I’m not going to just say no because it looks this way or that way,” Carson said. “We are ethically pure.”
Here in Mesa, add "conservative and religious"
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". . . In a subsequent appearance, he called poverty a “state of mind” that could be resolved with “the right mindset.” Both flubs caused a media uproar, largely overshadowing Carson’s vision for the agency: something called the EnVision Centers project, which seeks to establish thousands of centers to provide low-income families with job training, education, and health-care services. But even that, sources tell the Times, is floundering . . .
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