Where has Ben Carson been all this time?
Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson gave a scolding to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Monday, accusing her of caring more about show-boating than working to addressing homelessness in her district and telling the congresswoman: “Basic manners elude you.”
“My mother always taught me that people shouldn’t throw rocks, especially while they live in a glass house,” Carson wrote to Waters in a letter obtained by Politico. “Because of that wise lesson, I was a little surprised to read your hostile letter to President [Donald] Trump regarding the record number of homeless Americans in California, particularly in your district.”
Sec. Carson was reacting to a letter Rep. Waters wrote President Trump last month, where she told the president, “Your shamelessness knows no bounds,” demanding details on his administration’s “reported plans to unilaterally demolish homeless tent camps and relocate homeless individuals to federally-owned facilities.”
“Shamelessness is a career politician of 30 years laying blame,” Carson wrote in response. “Shamelessness is allowing more than 55,000 Americans to live on the very streets they represent.”
The HUD chief went on to defend the Trump administration’s plans by saying, “To me, the most compassionate, obvious, and logical solution would be to get as many homeless Americans off the streets — with a roof over their heads — as soon as humanly possible.”
“I have sent multiple letters to your office and requested numerous meetings, but each time you’ve refused,” Carson continued. “Basic manners elude you and it seems that instead of producing results, you’re more interested in producing cheap headlines at the President’s expense — like a true career politician.”
Carson and Waters have had several feuds during Carson’s tenure with the Trump administration, with Waters saying in 2017 that the HUD secretary — a brain surgeon by trade who grew up in poverty — “doesn’t care about people in public housing.”
Src: The Blaze
Waters is nothing but a liar. Scams the people who voted for her. Stole money from taxpayers to give to family members. So why isn’t she arrested? Because the Democrat party in the house are corrupt. Why do you people vote for this disgraceful woman when she does nothing for you?
Waters is scum!
I wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Ben Carson’s assessment of Rep. Waters. Since hearing her urging of violence to President Trump and those who believe in his presidential leadership, Rep. Waters did attract my attention based upon her viciousness towards President Trump, which motivated me to pay attention to her more than before my decision.
Based upon her extremist threats towards the President, Rep. Waters is a combination of hoodlum and geriatric member of the Democratic-Socialist political party.
Dr. Carson , the old girl is like an empty garbage can – they make the most noise! By the way put your name in the hat for Presidential race of 2024! I think you would a great choice.
Maxine Waters is the epitome of a disgusting, hypocritical, narcissistic, wealth builder on the backs of her constituents (who appear to be deaf, dumb and blind to her antics as they continue to keep her where she does not belong) and has not one iota of decency left in her moral compass.
Maxine Waters is delusional and a liar and it is far past time for her constituents to vote her out of Congress and if they do not they are as uncaring about themselves and their fellow Californians as she is. She has done nothing for her state, her district and her seat in Congress for 25 of those long, long, 30 years in office except continue to line her pockets with ill-gotten gains and to spread her vile propaganda making unfounded accusations and projecting her ill-will onto others as if they were the authors of her disgusting behavior.
She, like the Obama’s are personally demoralized if they are not in the limelight 24/7. Oh yeah, can’t forget their competition, Hillary and Billary!
Suffice it to say that during her tenure her district has gone from a beacon for tourism to having major social and health problems via a burgeoning, uncontrolled homeless population that is devastating the areas they have taken over.
Quite a legacy you have created Maxine.
I used to love California but that love has soured and turned into disgust because of what the Californian voting public has placed in public office at all levels of government within their state and into Congress. Yes, your economy is the 5th largest in the world but at what cost to your overall well-being? Look around, take in the view and the stench of your major metropolitan areas that were once clean and inviting, most especially San Francisco. I know that if the actual truth were told with factual statistics revealed, your once thriving tourism would be in the dump and your taxation over the past 20 years exponentially increased to pay for that monetary loss as well as your spreading state “Sanctuary” designations to appease your self-serving, liberal left wing career politicians who are hell bent on open borders no matter what it costs the rest of you.
If you want to continue to pay tax after tax and then have those taxes increase annually then by all means continue to allow your elected to stay in office. If you want illegals to drain your social service’s coffers with no mandate nor intention to ever reimburse any of the funds then again, by all means , maintain your politcal voting status-quo. If you want the hard core homeless that have no intention of re-entering normal society (unfortunately now the majority of their ranks) with all the negativity they foster then by all means, continue your voting status-quo.
Wake-up California, you are now seeing, feeling, and enjoying the “rankness” of left wing Democratic political rule for the last 40 years. It is not your politicians that are creating the state’s booming economy, it is your businessmen and women. Your career politician’s actions and inaction stifle even more economic success. Their legislation and policies create a financial incentive and social welfare magnet for your burgeoning homeless and illegal populations whose contributions are negative in connotation and reality. They take and take more without repayment, result, increased financial burden on you via taxation.
Again, change your voting habits and give the other side a chance to clean up the all-encompassing social mess your state is now in.
I know what California was and now is, the overall comparison is heartbreaking. AND, your state is continually reeling because of one disaster after another, why is that do you think?
I lived in California as a young child in the City of San Fernando, now unrecognizable in comparison. My family moved away and returned when I was middle school age. We again lived in the San Fernando Valley in Sylmar, same transition. I enlisted in the military and upon discharge I moved back to California, same SF Valley and lived in Northridge until 2005. I worked for the state in disaster emergency response and recovery and was illegally laid-off along with 200+ fellow state employees. We were vested state employees and had a critical mission for the state. I have not been back.