Ben Carson Wants to Make Housing Available. Just Not Too Comfy.

[elleng]

'Ben Carson does not like the creature comforts, at least not for low-income Americans reliant on the government for a helping hand.

As he toured facilities for the poor in Ohio last week, Mr. Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-housing secretary, joked that a relatively well-appointed apartment complex for veterans lacked “only pool tables.” He inquired at one stop whether animals were allowed. At yet another, he nodded, plainly happy, as officials explained how they had stacked dozens of bunk beds inside a homeless shelter and purposefully did not provide televisions.

Compassion, Mr. Carson explained in an interview, means not giving people “a comfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: ‘I’ll just stay here. They will take care of me.’”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/ben-carson-hud-poverty-plans.html?

[niyad]

1. he is complete slime.

[guillaumeb]

2. Interesting how a person can be apparently very competent,

extremely competent, in one narrow field, and so oblivious to reality in most other matters. Carson epitomizes the autistique savant syndrome.

Recommended.

[Nwgirl503]

3. Wish had gotten his head stuck in that elevator

Nothing like treating poor worse than incarcerated people.

[Freethinker65]

4. Carson evidently believes Reagan's welfare queen myth

sad.

[louis-t]

5. Maybe you could force them to sleep on a bed of nails.

[3catwoman3]

6. And make them build those beds...

...themselves.

[GoCubsGo]

7. I am so fucking sick of these so-called people.

I hope he finds himself forced to live in his car. Fucking asshole.