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2017-07-06 Home Front: Politix

[TheHill] Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) ripped into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in a speech Saturday, saying Carson "doesn’t care about people in public housing."
Waters has visited Cuba a number of times, praised Fidel Castro, and demanded an end to the U.S. trade embargo. In 1998 Waters wrote a letter to Castro citing the 1960s and 1970s as "a sad and shameful chapter of our history," and thanked Castro for providing help to those who needed to "flee political persecution." In 1998, Waters wrote an open letter to Fidel Castro asking him not to extradite African-American activist Assata Shakur. After a woman drowned during an attempted escape from Cuba to the U.S. in 1999, leaving a six-year-old son, Elian Gonzales, who survived and requested asylum in the U.S., Waters called on President Bill Clinton to return him at once to Cuba.
"[Carson] knows nothing about the mission of HUD," Waters said in a speech at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. "He doesn’t care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn’t know the difference between an immigrant and a slave."

Waters was referring to Carson’s remarks at a March event for HUD employees in which he referred to slaves brought to America as "immigrants."

"That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity," Carson had said. "There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less."

Carson also said in May that poverty was "a state of mind."

"You take somebody that has the right mindset, you take everything from them and put them on the street and I guarantee in a little while they’ll be right back up there," he said in a SiriusXM radio interview in May. "And you take somebody with the wrong mindset, you can give them everything in the world, they’ll work their way right back down to the bottom."

Waters also warned Carson that she would be tough on him when he testifies before the House Financial Services Committee, of which she is the ranking member.

"[If he] thinks that I am going to give him a pass, I am going to take his ass apart," Waters said.

Posted by Elmolunter Cherens9348 2017-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 She's not fit to wipe his ass

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-06 07:04|| 2017-07-06 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 "In 1998 Waters wrote a letter to Castro citing the 1960s and 1970s as "a sad and shameful chapter of our history,"

Maybe Mad Maxine would be willing to move to this communist paradise (sarc). Getting her out of Kalifornia would be good for everyone. BTW, no one has suggested a psychiatric test for her to determine whether she is fit to serve. Maybe it is just apparent to everyone that she is not "fit" and does not "serve."

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-06 09:14|| 2017-07-06 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Mad Maxine thinks she can do better than a brain surgeon? Where's the popcorn?

Posted by gorb 2017-07-06 09:31|| 2017-07-06 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 She has no brain, gorb.

Looking for handouts from him, maybe.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-07-06 09:52|| 2017-07-06 09:52|| Front Page Top

Carson also said in May that poverty was "a state of mind."

As Heinlein said, you can't enslave a free man, you can only kill him.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-07-06 10:05|| 2017-07-06 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 The fact she is going after him so heavily shows she is terrified he might actually get things done and show her serfs that they have a choice.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-07-06 10:15|| 2017-07-06 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Carrying the water for the CBC. She makes Robert Mugabe look like a centrist.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-06 10:20|| 2017-07-06 10:20|| Front Page Top

#8 He also said you can't free a slave. The slave has to free him/herself

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-07-06 11:04|| 2017-07-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Ok he has been in the position for what? Four-Five months?

She has been in her position for what? 20-30 years yet she hasn't done anything to help the poor - just used them as vote-slaves.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-07-06 11:23|| 2017-07-06 11:23|| Front Page Top

#10 One of Carson's problems is he doesn't speak in sound bites like a politician so most of what he says can easily be cherry-picked to twist what he says. Someone should teach a course on that sort of stuff for newbies to Politics.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-07-06 11:30|| 2017-07-06 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Waters also warned Carson that she would be tough on him when he testifies before the House Financial Services Committee, of which she is the ranking member.

"[If he] thinks that I am going to give him a pass, I am going to take his ass apart," Waters said.

Exhibit #2,473 of everything that is wrong with the mindset of the typical Congress critter.

Posted by Crusader 2017-07-06 11:30|| 2017-07-06 11:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Bring it.

Posted by Bobby 2017-07-06 11:51|| 2017-07-06 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Tucker Carlson last might eviscerated her:
"onsider where she lives," Carlson said of Waters," in a "6,000 square foot, $4.3 million mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles."

"How did she afford a place like that after having spent the last 40 years working in government?" Carlson asked. "We hate to speculate."

Congress has the second highest percentage of African-American residents in the state of California," Carlson said. "Now the neighborhood where Waters actually lives is just six percent black, or as she might put it herself if she didn't live there, ‘it's segregated, like 1950s level segregated.'"

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-07-06 11:51|| 2017-07-06 11:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Missing piece:
"The district she represents in Congress...."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-07-06 11:53|| 2017-07-06 11:53|| Front Page Top

#15 She likes representing them, she just doesn't want to live amongst them.

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-06 12:07|| 2017-07-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#16 "Mescaline" Waters is always a pleasure to observe.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-07-06 19:03|| 2017-07-06 19:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Looks like she has her own plantation now and has to protect her district from the influence of smarter black Americans. Aka black on black verbal violance.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-07-06 20:48|| 2017-07-06 20:48|| Front Page Top

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