Poor Dr. Ben Carson. He doesn’t know an REO from an Oreo cookie.
Politics
Donald Trump has forever boasted that he knows all the best people and vowed that if elected, he had the singular ability to put all the best people in all the top positions of government. So naturally, it was a bright idea for him to select a neurosurgeon to lead the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, right? Because, they’re interchangeable, right? Um… WRONG!
Most people might surmise that asking a neurosurgeon to lead the Department of HUD is about as idiotic as asking an urban developer to perform neurosurgery. However, Donald Trump is not most people. After all, Trump must have thought if a New York real estate investor could be given the reigns to the Oval Office, why couldn’t a brain surgeon be given the reigns to the Department of HUD??
And so on Tuesday, Secretary Carson proved to the world just how stupid the idea of him leading an urban housing agency had become. Or, in other words, Dr. Ben Carson may be the most preeminent pediatric brain surgeon of our time, but a housing or urban planning mind he ain’t!
During a Tuesday appearance before the House Financial Services committee, Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California wanted the Housing Secretary to provide an explanation regarding the disparity in REO rates.
Needless to say, it did not go well.
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Porter: I’d also like you to get back to me if you don’t mind to explain the disparity in REO rates. Do you know what an REO is?
Carson: An Oreo?
Porter: No, not an Oreo. An R-E-O. REO.
Carson: Real estate …
Porter: What’s the O stand for?
Carson: Organization.
Porter: Owned, real estate owned. That’s what happens when a property goes to foreclosure, we call it an R-E-O.
“Ben Carson has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those communities.” – Donald Trump
Yes, folks, Dr. Ben Carson, the once preeminent neurosurgeon and now THE highest ranking housing official in the nation appeared to be a bumbling idiot on national television. The man whose job it is to know the REO rates in the US didn’t even know what an REO was. In fact, he thought an REO was an OREO COOKIE!!
THIS is the man Donald Trump considered to be the BEST choice to lead HUD. With that mindset, what’s next, blind airline pilots??
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As I’ve expressed in previous Trump-related responses, IMO, Trump isn’t just stupid…he’s a *Special* kind of Stupid. And that’s pretty much the kind of people he appoints to work for him.
Carson’s reputation as a “brilliant” neurosurgeon notwithstanding, I’ve mentioned in the past (on a Carson-related post) that Carson comes across to me as someone affected by Savant syndrome…aka an idiot savant.
[A person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else.] Merriam-Webster dictionary
Suffice it to say, Carson continues to reinforce my opinion on that…smh.