Ben Carson: “Poverty, to a large extent, is
also a state of mind”..... NO, STUPID ASS!
POVERTY COMES FROM A COUNTRY
THAT FLOODS ITS OPEN BORDERS AND
JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
THIS FUCKING IDIOT IS STANDING IN MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY AND HE TELLS THE HOMELESS TO GO GET A JOB!
US
housing secretary proposes tripling rent for poorest households
By
Kate Randall
27 April 2018
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson proposed
sweeping changes to federal housing subsidies Wednesday, which would triple
rent for the poorest households while making it easier for local housing
authorities to impose work requirements on assistance recipients.
The move by the multi-millionaire HUD secretary comes following a
Republican proposal in the 2018 farm bill now going through Congress to impose
work requirements on recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP), better known as food stamps.
At the same time, the Trump administration is approving waivers
for states to impose work requirements on recipients of Medicaid, the health
insurance program for the poor jointly administered by the federal government
and the states.
Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order directing
federal agencies to expand work requirements for people receiving food stamps,
public housing benefits and welfare. Agency heads were ordered to issue
recommendations to the White House within 90 days, whether for administration
changes or new legislation.
This concerted attack on the most vulnerable segments of society
is part of a deliberate ruling class policy to drive already impoverished
people further into poverty, forcing them into competition with other workers
for low-wage employment at new centers of capitalist exploitation set up by
automakers, electronics producers and other manufacturers.
Carson’s Making Affordable Housing Work Act proposal comes amidst
a housing crisis that is forcing millions to live in squalid and unsafe
conditions and driving increasing numbers of people into homelessness.
While the HUD press release announcing Carson’s proposal declares
it will “provide meaningful, dignified assistance to those we serve without
hurting them at the same time,” it is clear that it will plunge people deeper
into poverty or out of the housing market altogether. This is by design.
The cruelest component of the plan would raise the existing cap on
rent for the poorest families from the existing $50-a-month ceiling to about
$150 a month. HUD officials say this would affect some 712,000 households.
The Carson initiative would also raise the rent for tenants in
subsidized housing to 35 percent of gross income, or 35 percent of earnings
working 15 hours a week at the federal minimum of wage of $7.25 an hour. The
current standard is 30 percent of adjusted income, a smaller percentage of a
lower base. About half of the 4.7 million households receiving housing benefits
would be affected, according to HUD.
The proposed bill would also allow local public housing
authorities to impose work requirements on those receiving benefits. Currently
only 15 of about 3,100 housing authorities across the country require some type
of work or job training in return for receiving assistance.
Rules allowing deductions for medical and childcare costs in
determining rent would be scrapped. In a call with the media Wednesday, Carson
made the charge that some tenants were gaming the system. “They know how to
include certain deductions that other people may not be aware of,” he said. “We
really want to level the playing field and make it much more even for
everyone.”
Seniors over the age of 65 and those with disabilities would be
exempt from work requirements and the rent increases would not take effect for
six years. This population currently makes up more than half of the households
receiving housing assistance.
All of these proposals will exacerbate the crisis in public
housing in America. There are currently about 1.1 million public housing units
located across the 50 states, according to the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities (CBPP). According to a HUD study, inadequate funding from the Public
Housing Capital Fund has contributed to a backlog of unmet needs for renovation
of housing developments and replacement of items such as appliances and heating
and cooling equipment.
The number of public housing units has fallen by more than 350,000
since the mid-1990s, as buildings have been allowed to deteriorate and either
stand idle or be demolished to make way for “mixed-use” communities with little
to no affordable housing. Since 2013, housing agencies have converted about
60,000 public housing units to those supporting Section 8 vouchers and other
assistance, according to CBPP.
Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal would slash funding for
HUD by $4.8 billion and completely axe the Public House Capital Fund, as well
as eliminate the Community Development Block Grant, which local governments use
for a variety of infrastructure needs.
HUD’s own analysis of homelessness revealed that homelessness
increased in 2017 for the first time in seven years, driven by a 9 percent
increase of those experiencing homelessness on the streets. On a single night
in 2017, 553,742 people were homeless in the US. Of these, approximately
two-thirds were staying in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs,
and about one-third were entirely unsheltered.
In 2017, those under the age of 25, so-called unaccompanied youth,
accounted for 40,799 of the homeless population. The number of homeless
veterans increased for the first time since 2010. All of these figures are
undoubtedly underestimates, due to underreporting and to the homeless doubling
up with family members or friends in overcrowded and substandard housing.
Carson’s proposal—as part of the Trump administration’s aims—is to
ultimately dismantle the agency he was appointed to head. His contempt for
workers and the poor and the provision of any sort of social safety net to lift
them out of poverty was made clear in comments he made during his unsuccessful
bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
In October 2015, he said that those Americans “who take the
disadvantaged people in our country and say, ‘You poor little thing, I’m going
to give you everything that you possibly need.’ That’s not helping those people
and all that you have to do is look what’s happened since the Great Society
programs of Lyndon Johnson.
“We’ve spent $19 trillion and we have 10 times more people on food
stamps, more people in poverty, more broken homes, out of wedlock births,
crime, incarceration. Everything is not only worse, it’s much worse.”
Commenting last year on the Trump administration’s budget
proposal, Carson said in a radio interview that “poverty, to a large extent, is
also a state mind.” Carson, who grew up in poverty in Detroit and went on to
become an acclaimed neurosurgeon, said that people with “the right mindset” can
have everything taken away from them, but they can pull themselves up by their
own bootstraps.
Conversely, he said, “You take somebody with the wrong mindset,
you can give them everything in the world [and] they’ll work their way right
back down to the bottom.” In other words, the best way to help people living in
public housing is to raise their rents, require them to work for poverty wages,
and when they either don’t find a job or can’t pay the rent, throw them out onto
the streets.
Carson, of course, has no such worries of being homeless or
destitute. The former neurosurgeon is worth an estimated $26 million, according
to Forbes. While he likely stashed
away assets from his medical endeavors, he has made a fortune on a lucrative
second career as a writer and public speaker, earning more than $4 million from
141 speeches from January 2014 to May 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal. He also raked
in between $1.1 million and $6 million in book royalties, as well as millions
more from serving on the corporate boards of companies such as Costco.
Carson and his wife Candy closed in early 2017 on a single-family
home in Vienna, Virginia, paying $1.22 million for the five-bedroom,
four-and-a-half bathroom property. Zillow notes that the 6,380-square-foot
residence sports a swinging staircase, decorative columns, marble flooring, a
butler’s closet, an in-law suite, as well as a two-story great room with a wet
bar.
His Fairfax County home is about a 40-minute drive east to the
Barry Farm public housing complex in the District of Columbia. On Thursday, the
DC Court of Appeals vacated an order issued by the District’s zoning commission
that had approved the redevelopment of Barry Farm, to transform the Southeast
DC public housing enclave into a “mixed-income” community, threatening the
low-income housing of current residents.
Barry Farm holds special significance in the consciousness of DC
residents. After the Civil War it was purchased by a Union general on behalf of
the Freedman’s Bureau so that former slaves could purchase lots where they
could build homes. Although the final decision on Barry Farm has yet to be
made, President Trump’s entourage, including Ben Carson, would have such
developments demolished to make way for gentrification and homes for the rich,
with no provisions made for its low-income residents.
Dr. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), toured a homeless women’s center on Los Angeles’s infamous Skid Row Tuesday as part of a fact-finding mission aimed at tackling homelessness and providing job training for inner-city communities throughout the United States.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Carson also stopped by a faith-based drug treatment residential center in Echo Park after his visit to Skid Row.
“I can’t imagine how anybody could walk through an area like this and not have their heartstrings tugged,” Carson told reporters, according to the Los Angeles Times.
However, the HUD secretary is also under fire for the Trump administration’s proposal to raise public housing rents.
“There is one inescapable imperative driving this reform effort,” Carson said in a call with reporters about a tripling on the cap on rent for the poorest families, according to the Washington Post. “The current system isn’t working very well. Doing nothing is not an option.”
He reportedly added, “Every year, it takes more money, millions of dollars more, to serve the same number of households. It’s clear from a budget perspective and a human point of view that the current system is unsustainable.”
Another proposal by the Trump administration would increase rents by 5 percent.
Ali Alshuailat, who lives in a housing project in Pacoima told local ABC affiliate ABC 7, “Going up five percent is not a compassionate way because a lot of people here, it’s really hard for them to make it a day. They go day by day. And these people want to come in and raise it.”
In a conference call with reporters, Carson reportedly said his proposal would encourage the 4.5 million who benefit from HUD programs to look for higher-paying jobs.
Others have suggested it will only exacerbate the city’s homelessness epidemic.
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
AS
WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s
Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
NANCY PELOSI, and her LA RAZA SISTERS, SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN,
FORMER SEN. BARBARA BOXER and NOW SEN. KAMALA HARRIS are a pantheon of staggering
self-serving corruption.
They and their families have all gotten filthy rich off of
these women’s elected office.
Their endless hispandering for the illegals’ votes has turned
California into Mexifornia, a drug, gang and anchor baby welfare third-world
dumpster!
“Liberal governing has
transformed beautiful California into the poverty
capital of America with the worst quality of life. Crazy
taxes,
crazy high cost of living, and crazy overreaching
regulations have crushed the middle class, forcing the middle class to
exit the Sunshine State. All that is left in California are illegals
feeding at the breast of the state, rapidly growing massive
homeless tent cities, and the mega-rich.” LLOYD MARCUS
AMERICA:
MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE
… and in
exchange we get 40 million Mexican flag wavers, homelessness, a housing crisis,
heroin & opioid crisis and jobs for legals crisis…. ALL THANKS TO THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-cheap-is-staggering-cost-of-mexicos.html
“Thirteen years after welfare
reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a
child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very
high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of
education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an
unwillingness to work. The major welfare programs examined in this report
include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized
housing.” Steven A. Camarota
TRUMP’S SECRET
AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
"During the same month that
Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First”
agenda, Nielsen’s committee
released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis
as a win for big business who would profit greatly
from a never-ending stream
of cheap, foreign
migrants."
AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK AND TWELVE
ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/rick-moran-los-angeles-mexicos-second.html
HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES,
MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST
CITY, WORSENS BY THE DAY…. Approximates the great depression
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/homeless-crisis-in-mexicos-second.html
HOMELESS AMERICA’S HOUSING CRISIS as 40 million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/homeless-in-america-hundreds-of.html
EVERY AMERICAN (Legal) only one paycheck and
two illegals away from living in their cars.
TRUMP’S SECRET AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
TRUMP’S SECRET AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
"During the same month that Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First” agenda, Nielsen’s committee released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis as a win for big business who would profit greatly from a never-ending stream of cheap, foreign migrants."
Will She or Won’t She Throw American Workers Under the Bus?
Will the Trump administration stand by its pledge to protect U.S. workers and remake immigration in the national interest, or won’t it?
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is set to announce her decision (yes, her decision) about yet ANOTHER increase in low-skilled, H-2B visas. The annual cap of 66,000 visas, approved by Congress, has already been reached, and big business is screaming for cheaper, exploitable foreign workers. Last year, then-DHS Secretary John Kelly increased the cap by 15,000 visas, calling it a “one-time increase.” So, Secretary Nielsen, what will it be? Here are a few things people should be aware of regarding this little known-visa category.
Here are the four top reasons why an H-2B increase is a really bad idea:
- These visas are for jobs that Americans won’t do: H-2B visas are for low-skilled jobs that have always been filled by Americans and legal immigrant workers, including such jobs as housekeepers, landscapers and hotel workers.
- The unemployment rate is so low that we need to import low-skilled workers: The national unemployment rate might be 4.1 percent, but according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate in the construction industry is much higher. For average construction workers it’s 9.7 percent, 8.9 percent in building and grounds cleaning/ maintenance, and 11.3 percent for farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.
- All U.S. workers willing to do these jobs are already employed: Recent data from BLS shows that more than 50 percent of working age Americans without a high school degree are not in the labor force. The number of unemployed workers 25 and older, with a high school degree or less, totaled more than 2 million in 2017.
- H-2B workers are allowed to bring their spouses and minor children, too: Instead of bidding up wages by a few dollars an hour if they can’t find a U.S. worker, this program allows employers to seek workers from abroad, thus cutting their wage costs overall. And when these workers plop their kids into the local school system – at an average cost well in excess of $ 10,000 per year – local taxpayers, not the business owner who imported the worker, get hit with the bill.
The bottom line: If employers can search for these “much needed” workers abroad, then they can search a little harder for them here. Or maybe bid up wages a skosh. Those workers are here, these are jobs that Americans are doing every day, and there are plenty of unemployed workers who want to work.
So, whose side will you come down on, Secretary Nielsen?
AS WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people, more
than the total population of Latin America and double the population of the US."
"During the same month that Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First”
agenda, Nielsen’s committee released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis as a win for big business who would profit greatly
from a never-ending stream of cheap, foreign migrants."
ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER…. Amazon’s JEFF BEZOS PLAN FOR A NEW AMERICAN SLAVERY
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
AS WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
Report: Amazon Importing More Foreign Workers to Take Coveted Tech Industry Jobs than Facebook, Google Combined
Amazon, the multinational online retail conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined.
Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News.
Data reported by Statista reveals that Amazon requested to import 2,515 foreign H-1B workers in 2017, more than the 720 foreign workers that Facebook asked for and the 1,213 foreign workers Google has attempted to bring to the U.S.
In 2017, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and Apple all requested more foreign workers to take U.S. jobs than the year before. In 2016, Amazon was one of the top 20 corporations demanding foreign workers to take jobs.
As Breitbart News reported, tech conglomerates like Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple hide their H-1B foreign worker hires through outsourcing firms like Cognizant, Tata, and Infosys. The practice allows the corporations to claim they are not undercutting or replacing American workers at extraordinary rates, as they simply contract the foreign workers through the outsourcing firms.
Meanwhile, the H-1B visa program and importation of foreign workers has crowded out American young people and STEM graduates from high-paying jobs in Silicon Valley, the tech hub of the world, Breitbart News reported.
Data analyzed by the Seattle Times revealed that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Though not specified in the analysis, a wide number of the tech industry’s foreign tech workers are imported to the United States through the H-1B visa, which brings more than 100,000 foreign workers to the U.S. every year.
Oftentimes, importing a foreign worker on the H-1B visa is the first step in a multinational corporations’ effort to outsource the American job, as the foreign worker arrives in the U.S., is trained in the job, and then is eventually sent back overseas with the job.
The growing foreign-born population dominating the workforce in Silicon Valley comes as nearly 500,000 Americans graduate in the STEM fields every year. Those American graduates are forced to compete with a booming foreign-born population in the U.S. and foreign workers who are imported by outsourcing firms and major tech conglomerates.
The foreign-born population in Silicon Valley is likely heavily weighted and biased to male Indian nationals, as they make up nearly 70 percent of all imported foreign workers on the H-1B visa, as cited by the Center for Immigration Studies.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
JEFF BEZOS, BILL GATES AND WARREN BUFFET and SWAMP KEEPER TWITTER TRUMPER….
(JEFF BEZOS)
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION II WILL IS PAVED BY THE LOOTING BILLIONAIRE CLASS AND WILL TRAMPLE THE POLS THAT GROVEL AT THEIR FEET FOR BRIBES!
"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people, more
than the total population of Latin America and double the population of the US."
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD
FRONTPAGE MAG
TRUMP’S SECRET AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.