Ben Carson: Homeless shelters shouldn't be 'comfortable settings' or else people might just stay..
Source: RawStory
Ben Carson: Homeless shelters shouldn’t be ‘comfortable settings’ or else people might ‘just stay’ in them
BRAD REED
03 MAY 2017 AT 08:43 ET
Ben Carson, the secretary of the Housing and Urban Development, is reportedly obsessed with making sure low-income residents living in government-sponsored housing aren’t enjoying themselves too much.
A new report from the New York Times reveals that Carson this week visited a homeless shelter in Ohio and was “plainly happy” after he saw that it had “stacked dozens of bunk beds inside” and
“purposefully did not provide televisions” so that residents there wouldn’t get too comfortable.
Elsewhere, Carson expressed consternation that an apartment complex for veterans was so well heeled, as he remarked that it lacked “only pool tables.” Carson obsessively makes sure that poor people who get government assistance don’t have things too good, the Times notes, because he believes that making life too comfortable for them would create a sense of dependence.
“A comfortable setting… would make somebody want to say: ‘I’ll just stay here. They will take care of me,'” Carson explained. However, many residents and housing officials in the buildings that Carson toured this week dismissed his appearance there as a dog-and-pony show.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/ben-carson-homeless-shelters-shouldnt-be-comfortable-settings-or-else-people-might-just-stay-in-them/
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to police jails and apply for admittance to spend the night. That will teach the consequences of being poor.
When somehow they manage to get a job paying subsistence slave wages without TV and comforts until the day they fall over dead, you don't want anyone looking back nostalgically at their days in a 'homeless center,' wondering 
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"Dead," "broken," "corrupt," "lost" is what the enemies of democracy have worked very long and hard to make people believe. If true, there would be nothing for Obama's group -- or especially us, the people -- to protect, would there? They convinced people to vote for them to "save" and "restore" democracy from the corrupt ruins Democrats brought it to. They'll "restore," all right, into something a lot more like an authoritarian corporate fascist state.
To that end, they insist everything in their way is already broken and corrupt--and must be swept away and rebuilt.
Like the Constitution--which they pretend has already been warped into something it was never meant to be,
The election process--which they pretend is horribly corrupt and keeps electing Democrats against the will of the people,
The independent workings of the three branches of government--which were created to govern of, by and for the people and to protect people from tyranny of the majority.
All the programs that serve the people in general--which they insist are all failing,
The Democratic Party--which is completely in their way and which they insist is corrupt and "out of touch" with the people.
Uhuh. Many of the people who elected those villains believe all those lies.
Obama's group is also called "United to Protect Democracy." But they really mean to protect democracy.
United to Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan nonprofit with an urgent goal: to hold the President and the Executive Branch accountable to the laws and longstanding practices that have protected our democracy through both Democratic and Republican Administrations. We have seen an unprecedented tide of authoritarian-style politics sweep the country that is fundamentally at odds with the Bill of Rights, the constitutional limitations on the role of the President, and the laws and unwritten norms that prevent overreach and abuse of power. The only limits to prevent a slide away from our democratic traditions will be those that are imposed by the Courts, Congress, and the American people.
Who Are We?
United to Protect Democracy was conceived by a group of former White House and Administration lawyers and experienced constitutional litigators, all with a deep understanding of how the federal government works. As we were the ones tasked with implementing and enforcing the norms that have constrained presidential power for decades, we know what those guardrails are and when those in power may be tempted to violate them. As we defended past presidents against legitimate oversight and illegitimate attacks, we also know how to leverage tools outside government to prevent the exploitation of power within it. One thing that we know about those tools, however, is they require an engaged public—they require all of us to unite to make them effective.
What Will United to Protect Democracy Do?
We will monitor, investigate, report on, organize and litigate against any action taken by the Executive Branch that could erode the rules, practices and freedoms that underpin our ability as a self-governing people to hold our leaders accountable. In short, we will unite with Americans from all backgrounds to use every tool at our disposal to protect our democracy.
The lawyers have gotten hard to work, and this link is to their page describing 16 actions they're heavily involved in. No doubt many more are in the works.
https://unitedtoprotectdemocracy.org/
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Something few, if any, Republicans are interested in considering on any subject especially when it concerns poor people in our society. 
Thank you for bringing facts HERE, though.
be fucking with veterans I wonder. I think I'll soon be losing, under this administration, my bene's for serving in another hypocritical war that wasted many, many lives in the name of "truth, justice and the ameriKKKan way"....: 
his bathrobe buddy is a mean guy but he helps Carson think up this crap...
after all.
he's no doubt fully on board with unlimited tax cuts for the wealthy, because they are dog's deserving.
Whereas, according to Uncle Ben, the poor are the undeserving who should suffer for not being the annointed.
Never mind that capitalism has shipped the jobs overseas or that many of the veterans are no longer able to work, after having been used up by the military.
More evidence of the rampant cruelty and unChristian values of this maladmin.
that's what this is all about. Some folks need to bring others down to feel successful. Republicans always think they worked hard to deserve everything they have while others are lazy and worthless and need to suffer. God wants some people to be prosperous while others can go die in a ditch.
If Repubs are so jealous of the unemployed, they should quit their jobs and try living on these fabulously mythical benefits and see how it really is.
Somebody's getting something they don't deserve... 
and cable?
just might want to stay longer.....
