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.What Trump SHOULD do is have the Air Force fly tankers over these cities and drop the ANTISEPTIC version of Agent Orange on them. With all the filth and feces there has to be a huge health risk in them.
OR THIS
And you know what --- he could actually do that and not lose any voters.
Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.
That sure is an odd fantasy for a klown who came up as a landlord, let alone one who got repeatedly charged with housing discrimination.
Perhaps he's thinking of homelessness in "a very wonderful place in Germany"
Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.
That sure is an odd fantasy for a klown who came up as a landlord, let alone one who got repeatedly charged with housing discrimination.
Perhaps he's thinking of homelessness in "a very wonderful place in Germany"
Poverty sprawl accross this nation (as a result of government intervention), and the oppression of property owners rights in regards to their properties needs to end NOW.
This has become a major mistake in this country, and the facts on the ground don't lie.
Transforming areas into areas that become literally crap holes because the government wants to help people regardless of those people's character's etc has come back to bite this country hard.
An area I lived in when I was around 5 through ten years old is unrecognizable now. It is literally a crap hole from hell. This was prime realestate once, high ground, sidewalks, sewage, water, great roads etc, and most importantly it was SAFE.
It's now riddled with crime, homelessness, prostitution, robbery etc. There are literally no tresspassing signs tacked to trees in every front yard. Mean dogs in fences, property values completely wiped out. The poor hold outs whom couldn't leave due to being to old, (caused by either a husband or wife passing or just hoping things weren't going to get that bad so they stayed put), big mistake....They were left in tragic situation's where crack heads, gangs, prostitution etc roam the streets all times of the day now.
Houses are literally falling apart because no one believes in replacing rotten boards, painting, grass mowing or any of these things that normal neighborhoods have going on in them, otherwise when people are proud of their communities, and this instead of the abnormal neighborhoods in which these places have become.
Most of this problem is started by government paying for people to be housed in neighborhoods without any rules or responsibilities required of them or any government inspections once place them there. We the taxpayers are then being forced to pay for people to come into a neighborhood, and to destroy it. Next thing you know, there is litter everywhere, crime, houses in disrepair, drugs, mental instability, and on and on it goes.
If anyone tries to point any of these things out or complain about it, then of course they are either called inconsiderate of the poor, uncompassionate, unempathetic, and worse if blacks are involved, then you are instantly labeled racist regardless of any proof or facts in the matter that begs to differ.
Not being able to revisit the places where ones birthplace was or the house where one grew up in without being able to safely get out of your vehicle due to danger (much less actually walking up into a yard to ask someone can you walk around the old home place one grew up in), without caution being taken is just outrageous in this country today.
What the heck have we done ???
.What Trump SHOULD do is have the Air Force fly tankers over these cities and drop the ANTISEPTIC version of Agent Orange on them. With all the filth and feces there has to be a huge health risk in them.
OR THIS
And you know what --- he could actually do that and not lose any voters.
Not quite true.
Those inhabiting shitholes (actual, like 'Frisco) tend to vote Democrat but there might be a few innocents who'd perish along with the rest.
Do tell, and be specific.Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.
That sure is an odd fantasy for a klown who came up as a landlord, let alone one who got repeatedly charged with housing discrimination.
Perhaps he's thinking of homelessness in "a very wonderful place in Germany"
Poverty sprawl accross this nation (as a result of government intervention), and the oppression of property owners rights in regards to their properties needs to end NOW.
This has become a major mistake in this country, and the facts on the ground don't lie.
Transforming areas into areas that become literally crap holes because the government wants to help people regardless of those people's character's etc has come back to bite this country hard.
An area I lived in when I was around 5 through ten years old is unrecognizable now. It is literally a crap hole from hell. This was prime realestate once, high ground, sidewalks, sewage, water, great roads etc, and most importantly it was SAFE.
It's now riddled with crime, homelessness, prostitution, robbery etc. There are literally no tresspassing signs tacked to trees in every front yard. Mean dogs in fences, property values completely wiped out. The poor hold outs whom couldn't leave due to being to old, (caused by either a husband or wife passing or just hoping things weren't going to get that bad so they stayed put), big mistake....They were left in tragic situation's where crack heads, gangs, prostitution etc roam the streets all times of the day now.
Houses are literally falling apart because no one believes in replacing rotten boards, painting, grass mowing or any of these things that normal neighborhoods have going on in them, otherwise when people are proud of their communities, and this instead of the abnormal neighborhoods in which these places have become.
Most of this problem is started by government paying for people to be housed in neighborhoods without any rules or responsibilities required of them or any government inspections once place them there. We the taxpayers are then being forced to pay for people to come into a neighborhood, and to destroy it. Next thing you know, there is litter everywhere, crime, houses in disrepair, drugs, mental instability, and on and on it goes.
If anyone tries to point any of these things out or complain about it, then of course they are either called inconsiderate of the poor, uncompassionate, unempathetic, and worse if blacks are involved, then you are instantly labeled racist regardless of any proof or facts in the matter that begs to differ.
Not being able to revisit the places where ones birthplace was or the house where one grew up in without being able to safely get out of your vehicle due to danger (much less actually walking up into a yard to ask someone can you walk around the old home place one grew up in), without caution being taken is just outrageous in this country today.
What the heck have we done ???
Interesting POV, considering the Rump fortune came from siphoning off FHA money.
Meanwhile those people are free to rebel and destroy because after years of promises, the Demon-crats policies have failed them. The poor innocent are then left in the crosshairs of these angry rebellious poor uninformed people, who are told by the crats that the wealthy or middle class are the reasons for their life's problems. What a freaking nightmare or con game it has all been.Democrat policy is .. we desperately need struggling people so we can promise to save them! To get voted in again lol and it works because they destroyed public education.
Do tell, and be specific.Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.
That sure is an odd fantasy for a klown who came up as a landlord, let alone one who got repeatedly charged with housing discrimination.
Perhaps he's thinking of homelessness in "a very wonderful place in Germany"
Poverty sprawl accross this nation (as a result of government intervention), and the oppression of property owners rights in regards to their properties needs to end NOW.
This has become a major mistake in this country, and the facts on the ground don't lie.
Transforming areas into areas that become literally crap holes because the government wants to help people regardless of those people's character's etc has come back to bite this country hard.
An area I lived in when I was around 5 through ten years old is unrecognizable now. It is literally a crap hole from hell. This was prime realestate once, high ground, sidewalks, sewage, water, great roads etc, and most importantly it was SAFE.
It's now riddled with crime, homelessness, prostitution, robbery etc. There are literally no tresspassing signs tacked to trees in every front yard. Mean dogs in fences, property values completely wiped out. The poor hold outs whom couldn't leave due to being to old, (caused by either a husband or wife passing or just hoping things weren't going to get that bad so they stayed put), big mistake....They were left in tragic situation's where crack heads, gangs, prostitution etc roam the streets all times of the day now.
Houses are literally falling apart because no one believes in replacing rotten boards, painting, grass mowing or any of these things that normal neighborhoods have going on in them, otherwise when people are proud of their communities, and this instead of the abnormal neighborhoods in which these places have become.
Most of this problem is started by government paying for people to be housed in neighborhoods without any rules or responsibilities required of them or any government inspections once place them there. We the taxpayers are then being forced to pay for people to come into a neighborhood, and to destroy it. Next thing you know, there is litter everywhere, crime, houses in disrepair, drugs, mental instability, and on and on it goes.
If anyone tries to point any of these things out or complain about it, then of course they are either called inconsiderate of the poor, uncompassionate, unempathetic, and worse if blacks are involved, then you are instantly labeled racist regardless of any proof or facts in the matter that begs to differ.
Not being able to revisit the places where ones birthplace was or the house where one grew up in without being able to safely get out of your vehicle due to danger (much less actually walking up into a yard to ask someone can you walk around the old home place one grew up in), without caution being taken is just outrageous in this country today.
What the heck have we done ???
Interesting POV, considering the Rump fortune came from siphoning off FHA money.
Meanwhile those people are free to rebel and destroy because after years of promises, the Demon-crats policies have failed them. The poor innocent are then left in the crosshairs of these angry rebellious poor uninformed people, who are told by the crats that the wealthy or middle class are the reasons for their life's problems. What a freaking nightmare or con game it has all been.Democrat policy is .. we desperately need struggling people so we can promise to save them! To get voted in again lol and it works because they destroyed public education.
Trump slams Democrats for homelessness in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco | Daily Mail Online
He better be true to his word.these corrupt congressmen in California and Ny need to be impeached if they dont do their jobs and do something about the homeless problem.
Japan does not have this kind of problem as mentioned in the article because they dont have corrupt politicians as we do here in the states.
In my LA neighborhood, homelessness is fueled by a lack of affordable housing. 24 years ago a single apartment like the one I live in rented for $375 a month; today, that same apartment rents for about $1300 a month, and this all happened AFTER the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression.He better be true to his word.these corrupt congressmen in California and Ny need to be impeached if they dont do their jobs and do something about the homeless problem.
They are tricking Pres.Trump into giving them some money. They are going to take the money and hire a couple of guys that are on drugs to clean up the mess and pocket the rest. And then they are going to hire someone to supervise the employees. coming to work in a suit, that he will be talking to all of the prostitutes on the streets, telling them how an important man that he is. Then the city officials are going to demand for more money from the President, saying that they needs more workers, that is why the trash and poop is still on the streets. And if he doesn't gives them the money. That they will start crying out loud saying that Pres.Trump has broken his promise to help clean up the mess. Then Obama is going to go on T.V. and say that this is grounds for impeachment. Because he lied about helping to clean up the mess.Trump slams Democrats for homelessness in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco | Daily Mail Online
He better be true to his word.these corrupt congressmen in California and Ny need to be impeached if they dont do their jobs and do something about the homeless problem.
Japan does not have this kind of problem as mentioned in the article because they dont have corrupt politicians as we do here in the states.
Garbage is not the issue... nice deflectMeanwhile those people are free to rebel and destroy because after years of promises, the Demon-crats policies have failed them. The poor innocent are then left in the crosshairs of these angry rebellious poor uninformed people, who are told by the crats that the wealthy or middle class are the reasons for their life's problems. What a freaking nightmare or con game it has all been.Democrat policy is .. we desperately need struggling people so we can promise to save them! To get voted in again lol and it works because they destroyed public education.
Yeah, again ----- cities and municipalities large and small generally run nonpartisan elections to establish their governments. Again there is no "Democratic" or "Republican" way to establish when garbage day is. It just isn't involved.
I'm sure that's inconvenient to tribalist gadflies who demand bread and circus football games for message boards but that's the way it works. Thus falls the fallacy of "waah, Democrat-run cities".
That's cute Henri, but the post said nothing about political parties. It was addressing cultism.
Do tell, and be specific.Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.
That sure is an odd fantasy for a klown who came up as a landlord, let alone one who got repeatedly charged with housing discrimination.
Perhaps he's thinking of homelessness in "a very wonderful place in Germany"
Poverty sprawl accross this nation (as a result of government intervention), and the oppression of property owners rights in regards to their properties needs to end NOW.
This has become a major mistake in this country, and the facts on the ground don't lie.
Transforming areas into areas that become literally crap holes because the government wants to help people regardless of those people's character's etc has come back to bite this country hard.
An area I lived in when I was around 5 through ten years old is unrecognizable now. It is literally a crap hole from hell. This was prime realestate once, high ground, sidewalks, sewage, water, great roads etc, and most importantly it was SAFE.
It's now riddled with crime, homelessness, prostitution, robbery etc. There are literally no tresspassing signs tacked to trees in every front yard. Mean dogs in fences, property values completely wiped out. The poor hold outs whom couldn't leave due to being to old, (caused by either a husband or wife passing or just hoping things weren't going to get that bad so they stayed put), big mistake....They were left in tragic situation's where crack heads, gangs, prostitution etc roam the streets all times of the day now.
Houses are literally falling apart because no one believes in replacing rotten boards, painting, grass mowing or any of these things that normal neighborhoods have going on in them, otherwise when people are proud of their communities, and this instead of the abnormal neighborhoods in which these places have become.
Most of this problem is started by government paying for people to be housed in neighborhoods without any rules or responsibilities required of them or any government inspections once place them there. We the taxpayers are then being forced to pay for people to come into a neighborhood, and to destroy it. Next thing you know, there is litter everywhere, crime, houses in disrepair, drugs, mental instability, and on and on it goes.
If anyone tries to point any of these things out or complain about it, then of course they are either called inconsiderate of the poor, uncompassionate, unempathetic, and worse if blacks are involved, then you are instantly labeled racist regardless of any proof or facts in the matter that begs to differ.
Not being able to revisit the places where ones birthplace was or the house where one grew up in without being able to safely get out of your vehicle due to danger (much less actually walking up into a yard to ask someone can you walk around the old home place one grew up in), without caution being taken is just outrageous in this country today.
What the heck have we done ???
Interesting POV, considering the Rump fortune came from siphoning off FHA money.
By all means. Thought this would have been common knowledge by now, but it should be so here you go.
>> Fred had used Federal Housing Administration intended to help build affordable housing for military vets and others. When Ike heard of the profiteering practiced by many of the builders, he suspected a scandal and ordered an investigation. The probe was led by William McKenna, a lawyer and expert in housing, finance, and organized crime.
McKenna discovered a pattern of abuse in the housing program, with builders lavishing gifts—TVs, watches, appliances—on bureaucrats charged with determining who got access to the government money. The most glaring problems were in a federal office in New York run by a veteran political fixer named Clyde L. Powell.
Although his official salary was quite modest, Powell lived an extravagant lifestyle. Powell’s savings accounts noted frequent deposits in excess of his annual salary. An architect said he had bribed him with $10,000. A lawyer who was part of the city’s Democratic Party machine admitted he gave Powell nearly $50,000.
As the man who controlled the FHA’s New York office, Powell controlled the flow of money for Beach Haven, a big apartment complex Fred Trump built with FHA loans. He allowed Trump to start building before Beach Haven was actually approved and start renting to vets and others six months before he had to start repaying his loan.
In that time Trump pocketed $1.7 million in rent payments. Trump was also allowed to pocket most of a fee—5 percent of the Beach Haven development’s cost—that was earmarked for architectural work. Trump was also permitted to borrow more in federally subsidized funds—$3.7 million, to be precise—than he actually needed.
Eisenhower truly loved the fighting men he’d led to victory in World War II. When he learned of the manipulations practiced by developers to increase their profits he called them “sons of bitches.” After his investigation McKenna reported that Trump ranked near the top among builders who shared in excess payments approved by the FHA officials who were almost certainly on the take. His findings led to Senate hearings directed by Homer Capehart, a senator from Indiana, and Connecticut’s Prescott Bush, whose grandson Jeb was then 1 years [sic] old.
McKenna’s testimony about Trump had appalled Capehart, who said the details had made him “nauseous” and that builders had taken advantage of both the federal government and countless World War II vets. Capehart, a Republican, also said that the builders and the FHA were mired in “a grand scandal” far worse than the infamous Teapot Dome corruption case of the 1920s, in which bribes were accepted by officials to grant rich oil leases on federal land.
A parade of bureaucrats and developers, Trump included, testified in July 1954. Clyde L. Powell deflected his interrogators by repeatedly citing the protections against self-incrimination enshrined in the Constitution. One builder pounded the witness table as he insisted upon his innocence. Another suffered a heart attack in the hours after his testimony.
No one performed more brilliantly than the witness who consumed most of the afternoon hearing on July 12. Dapper in a fine suit and carefully trimmed mustache, Fred Trump sat at the witness table flanked by attorneys. With a flair that foreshadowed his son’s future performances on TV, Trump outlined the convoluted but ultimately legal means he used to get the most for himself out of a program created to benefit vets and others deemed deserving of help.
At times Trump’s testimony proceeded with a “Who’s on first?” quality worthy of Abbott and Costello. Asked when he had purchased some land, Trump answered, “Five or eight or ten years” prior. Questioned about a project estimate that included an extra 5 percent “architect’s fee,” which mostly went into his own pocket, Trump insisted it was included to satisfy the FHA. When a skeptical Senator Capehart pressed him, Trump added, “And it is provided by the regulation.”
“What is provided by the regulation?” said Capehart.
“The 5 percent architect’s fee.”
“Have you ever seen a regulation that says that?”
“No, I’m a builder.”
“Then how do you know these regulations provide for a 5 percent architect’s fee?”
“They wouldn’t have allowed it if they didn’t.”
So it went for much of the afternoon with Trump warning at times, “That is a very iffy question,” and then launching into descriptions of the complex methods he used to squeeze maximum profit out of the taxpayers.
He explained, for example, that the land under his Beach Haven development was held by a trust devoted to his children. The buildings, however, were owned by half a dozen corporations. Every year these six entities paid rent to the trust—really his children—for the use of the land. Under the terms of the lease the Trump kids might receive $60,000 or more in pure profits every year for 98 more years. Then lease could be renewed for another 99 years.
With similar candor Trump explained how he had paid himself the general contractor’s fee that had been included in the estimate he submitted to the FHA, and how he fattened his own wallet by having one of his corporations do business with another of his. To the senators this was the equivalent of a man mowing his own lawn and then insisting he should be paid for the chore. Trump insisted that he was more like the tailor who pays a low-wage assistant to sew a custom suit, then charges his customer full price. If the quality is the same, thanks to the tailor’s supervision, why shouldn’t he get the money?
In Trump’s tailoring at Beach Haven consisted of a plan he submitted to the government that called for extra high construction costs, which allowed him to borrow more money and get the government’s approval to charge higher rents. The final tally on the project showed that Beach Haven had been built for $4 million less than the estimate. (Worth $35 million in 2016 dollars.)
The extra high rents set when the project was approved remained in place, even after the excess profits were revealed, because the FHA permitted it. Similarly, the cash left over from the FHA building loan stayed in a Trump bank account. As far as he was concerned, this money was fairly earned and, technically speaking, not personal income. As he explained, as long as he didn’t put the cash in his pocket, the $4 million could be regarded as a rainy-day fund for Beach Haven. <<
Here's the entire report on those hearings if you'd care to peruse.
That specific enough for ya?
Now having read that --- watch this. Especially the line at the end:
Tired of the lying yet? Fred must be.
Do tell, and be specific.Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.That sure is an odd fantasy for a klown who came up as a landlord, let alone one who got repeatedly charged with housing discrimination.
Perhaps he's thinking of homelessness in "a very wonderful place in Germany"
Poverty sprawl accross this nation (as a result of government intervention), and the oppression of property owners rights in regards to their properties needs to end NOW.
This has become a major mistake in this country, and the facts on the ground don't lie.
Transforming areas into areas that become literally crap holes because the government wants to help people regardless of those people's character's etc has come back to bite this country hard.
An area I lived in when I was around 5 through ten years old is unrecognizable now. It is literally a crap hole from hell. This was prime realestate once, high ground, sidewalks, sewage, water, great roads etc, and most importantly it was SAFE.
It's now riddled with crime, homelessness, prostitution, robbery etc. There are literally no tresspassing signs tacked to trees in every front yard. Mean dogs in fences, property values completely wiped out. The poor hold outs whom couldn't leave due to being to old, (caused by either a husband or wife passing or just hoping things weren't going to get that bad so they stayed put), big mistake....They were left in tragic situation's where crack heads, gangs, prostitution etc roam the streets all times of the day now.
Houses are literally falling apart because no one believes in replacing rotten boards, painting, grass mowing or any of these things that normal neighborhoods have going on in them, otherwise when people are proud of their communities, and this instead of the abnormal neighborhoods in which these places have become.
Most of this problem is started by government paying for people to be housed in neighborhoods without any rules or responsibilities required of them or any government inspections once place them there. We the taxpayers are then being forced to pay for people to come into a neighborhood, and to destroy it. Next thing you know, there is litter everywhere, crime, houses in disrepair, drugs, mental instability, and on and on it goes.
If anyone tries to point any of these things out or complain about it, then of course they are either called inconsiderate of the poor, uncompassionate, unempathetic, and worse if blacks are involved, then you are instantly labeled racist regardless of any proof or facts in the matter that begs to differ.
Not being able to revisit the places where ones birthplace was or the house where one grew up in without being able to safely get out of your vehicle due to danger (much less actually walking up into a yard to ask someone can you walk around the old home place one grew up in), without caution being taken is just outrageous in this country today.
What the heck have we done ???
Interesting POV, considering the Rump fortune came from siphoning off FHA money.
By all means. Thought this would have been common knowledge by now, but it should be so here you go.
>> Fred had used Federal Housing Administration intended to help build affordable housing for military vets and others. When Ike heard of the profiteering practiced by many of the builders, he suspected a scandal and ordered an investigation. The probe was led by William McKenna, a lawyer and expert in housing, finance, and organized crime.
McKenna discovered a pattern of abuse in the housing program, with builders lavishing gifts—TVs, watches, appliances—on bureaucrats charged with determining who got access to the government money. The most glaring problems were in a federal office in New York run by a veteran political fixer named Clyde L. Powell.
Although his official salary was quite modest, Powell lived an extravagant lifestyle. Powell’s savings accounts noted frequent deposits in excess of his annual salary. An architect said he had bribed him with $10,000. A lawyer who was part of the city’s Democratic Party machine admitted he gave Powell nearly $50,000.
As the man who controlled the FHA’s New York office, Powell controlled the flow of money for Beach Haven, a big apartment complex Fred Trump built with FHA loans. He allowed Trump to start building before Beach Haven was actually approved and start renting to vets and others six months before he had to start repaying his loan.
In that time Trump pocketed $1.7 million in rent payments. Trump was also allowed to pocket most of a fee—5 percent of the Beach Haven development’s cost—that was earmarked for architectural work. Trump was also permitted to borrow more in federally subsidized funds—$3.7 million, to be precise—than he actually needed.
Eisenhower truly loved the fighting men he’d led to victory in World War II. When he learned of the manipulations practiced by developers to increase their profits he called them “sons of bitches.” After his investigation McKenna reported that Trump ranked near the top among builders who shared in excess payments approved by the FHA officials who were almost certainly on the take. His findings led to Senate hearings directed by Homer Capehart, a senator from Indiana, and Connecticut’s Prescott Bush, whose grandson Jeb was then 1 years [sic] old.
McKenna’s testimony about Trump had appalled Capehart, who said the details had made him “nauseous” and that builders had taken advantage of both the federal government and countless World War II vets. Capehart, a Republican, also said that the builders and the FHA were mired in “a grand scandal” far worse than the infamous Teapot Dome corruption case of the 1920s, in which bribes were accepted by officials to grant rich oil leases on federal land.
A parade of bureaucrats and developers, Trump included, testified in July 1954. Clyde L. Powell deflected his interrogators by repeatedly citing the protections against self-incrimination enshrined in the Constitution. One builder pounded the witness table as he insisted upon his innocence. Another suffered a heart attack in the hours after his testimony.
No one performed more brilliantly than the witness who consumed most of the afternoon hearing on July 12. Dapper in a fine suit and carefully trimmed mustache, Fred Trump sat at the witness table flanked by attorneys. With a flair that foreshadowed his son’s future performances on TV, Trump outlined the convoluted but ultimately legal means he used to get the most for himself out of a program created to benefit vets and others deemed deserving of help.
At times Trump’s testimony proceeded with a “Who’s on first?” quality worthy of Abbott and Costello. Asked when he had purchased some land, Trump answered, “Five or eight or ten years” prior. Questioned about a project estimate that included an extra 5 percent “architect’s fee,” which mostly went into his own pocket, Trump insisted it was included to satisfy the FHA. When a skeptical Senator Capehart pressed him, Trump added, “And it is provided by the regulation.”
“What is provided by the regulation?” said Capehart.
“The 5 percent architect’s fee.”
“Have you ever seen a regulation that says that?”
“No, I’m a builder.”
“Then how do you know these regulations provide for a 5 percent architect’s fee?”
“They wouldn’t have allowed it if they didn’t.”
So it went for much of the afternoon with Trump warning at times, “That is a very iffy question,” and then launching into descriptions of the complex methods he used to squeeze maximum profit out of the taxpayers.
He explained, for example, that the land under his Beach Haven development was held by a trust devoted to his children. The buildings, however, were owned by half a dozen corporations. Every year these six entities paid rent to the trust—really his children—for the use of the land. Under the terms of the lease the Trump kids might receive $60,000 or more in pure profits every year for 98 more years. Then lease could be renewed for another 99 years.
With similar candor Trump explained how he had paid himself the general contractor’s fee that had been included in the estimate he submitted to the FHA, and how he fattened his own wallet by having one of his corporations do business with another of his. To the senators this was the equivalent of a man mowing his own lawn and then insisting he should be paid for the chore. Trump insisted that he was more like the tailor who pays a low-wage assistant to sew a custom suit, then charges his customer full price. If the quality is the same, thanks to the tailor’s supervision, why shouldn’t he get the money?
In Trump’s tailoring at Beach Haven consisted of a plan he submitted to the government that called for extra high construction costs, which allowed him to borrow more money and get the government’s approval to charge higher rents. The final tally on the project showed that Beach Haven had been built for $4 million less than the estimate. (Worth $35 million in 2016 dollars.)
The extra high rents set when the project was approved remained in place, even after the excess profits were revealed, because the FHA permitted it. Similarly, the cash left over from the FHA building loan stayed in a Trump bank account. As far as he was concerned, this money was fairly earned and, technically speaking, not personal income. As he explained, as long as he didn’t put the cash in his pocket, the $4 million could be regarded as a rainy-day fund for Beach Haven. <<
Here's the entire report on those hearings if you'd care to peruse.
That specific enough for ya?
Now having read that --- watch this. Especially the line at the end:
Tired of the lying yet? Fred must be.
Fred ?????? and not Donald ?????
What's Fred got to do with Donald, and if you would like to, you can find thousands upon thousands of con-men or crooks throughout time, and party means nothing in relation to them. Did you think that this story involves our current President just because he was kin to Fred ??? I'm judging Trump in the current, and not in the past.
Herb Caen himself was a pile of feces published five days a week.'Frisco has been a shithole since Herb Caen died.
Do tell, and be specific.Let me just say by experience, and not just opinion. The housing situation in this country needs to be given back to it's owners to do with their property what they want to do with their property, and the government needs to get the hell out of it now.
Poverty sprawl accross this nation (as a result of government intervention), and the oppression of property owners rights in regards to their properties needs to end NOW.
This has become a major mistake in this country, and the facts on the ground don't lie.
Transforming areas into areas that become literally crap holes because the government wants to help people regardless of those people's character's etc has come back to bite this country hard.
An area I lived in when I was around 5 through ten years old is unrecognizable now. It is literally a crap hole from hell. This was prime realestate once, high ground, sidewalks, sewage, water, great roads etc, and most importantly it was SAFE.
It's now riddled with crime, homelessness, prostitution, robbery etc. There are literally no tresspassing signs tacked to trees in every front yard. Mean dogs in fences, property values completely wiped out. The poor hold outs whom couldn't leave due to being to old, (caused by either a husband or wife passing or just hoping things weren't going to get that bad so they stayed put), big mistake....They were left in tragic situation's where crack heads, gangs, prostitution etc roam the streets all times of the day now.
Houses are literally falling apart because no one believes in replacing rotten boards, painting, grass mowing or any of these things that normal neighborhoods have going on in them, otherwise when people are proud of their communities, and this instead of the abnormal neighborhoods in which these places have become.
Most of this problem is started by government paying for people to be housed in neighborhoods without any rules or responsibilities required of them or any government inspections once place them there. We the taxpayers are then being forced to pay for people to come into a neighborhood, and to destroy it. Next thing you know, there is litter everywhere, crime, houses in disrepair, drugs, mental instability, and on and on it goes.
If anyone tries to point any of these things out or complain about it, then of course they are either called inconsiderate of the poor, uncompassionate, unempathetic, and worse if blacks are involved, then you are instantly labeled racist regardless of any proof or facts in the matter that begs to differ.
Not being able to revisit the places where ones birthplace was or the house where one grew up in without being able to safely get out of your vehicle due to danger (much less actually walking up into a yard to ask someone can you walk around the old home place one grew up in), without caution being taken is just outrageous in this country today.
What the heck have we done ???
Interesting POV, considering the Rump fortune came from siphoning off FHA money.
By all means. Thought this would have been common knowledge by now, but it should be so here you go.
>> Fred had used Federal Housing Administration intended to help build affordable housing for military vets and others. When Ike heard of the profiteering practiced by many of the builders, he suspected a scandal and ordered an investigation. The probe was led by William McKenna, a lawyer and expert in housing, finance, and organized crime.
McKenna discovered a pattern of abuse in the housing program, with builders lavishing gifts—TVs, watches, appliances—on bureaucrats charged with determining who got access to the government money. The most glaring problems were in a federal office in New York run by a veteran political fixer named Clyde L. Powell.
Although his official salary was quite modest, Powell lived an extravagant lifestyle. Powell’s savings accounts noted frequent deposits in excess of his annual salary. An architect said he had bribed him with $10,000. A lawyer who was part of the city’s Democratic Party machine admitted he gave Powell nearly $50,000.
As the man who controlled the FHA’s New York office, Powell controlled the flow of money for Beach Haven, a big apartment complex Fred Trump built with FHA loans. He allowed Trump to start building before Beach Haven was actually approved and start renting to vets and others six months before he had to start repaying his loan.
In that time Trump pocketed $1.7 million in rent payments. Trump was also allowed to pocket most of a fee—5 percent of the Beach Haven development’s cost—that was earmarked for architectural work. Trump was also permitted to borrow more in federally subsidized funds—$3.7 million, to be precise—than he actually needed.
Eisenhower truly loved the fighting men he’d led to victory in World War II. When he learned of the manipulations practiced by developers to increase their profits he called them “sons of bitches.” After his investigation McKenna reported that Trump ranked near the top among builders who shared in excess payments approved by the FHA officials who were almost certainly on the take. His findings led to Senate hearings directed by Homer Capehart, a senator from Indiana, and Connecticut’s Prescott Bush, whose grandson Jeb was then 1 years [sic] old.
McKenna’s testimony about Trump had appalled Capehart, who said the details had made him “nauseous” and that builders had taken advantage of both the federal government and countless World War II vets. Capehart, a Republican, also said that the builders and the FHA were mired in “a grand scandal” far worse than the infamous Teapot Dome corruption case of the 1920s, in which bribes were accepted by officials to grant rich oil leases on federal land.
A parade of bureaucrats and developers, Trump included, testified in July 1954. Clyde L. Powell deflected his interrogators by repeatedly citing the protections against self-incrimination enshrined in the Constitution. One builder pounded the witness table as he insisted upon his innocence. Another suffered a heart attack in the hours after his testimony.
No one performed more brilliantly than the witness who consumed most of the afternoon hearing on July 12. Dapper in a fine suit and carefully trimmed mustache, Fred Trump sat at the witness table flanked by attorneys. With a flair that foreshadowed his son’s future performances on TV, Trump outlined the convoluted but ultimately legal means he used to get the most for himself out of a program created to benefit vets and others deemed deserving of help.
At times Trump’s testimony proceeded with a “Who’s on first?” quality worthy of Abbott and Costello. Asked when he had purchased some land, Trump answered, “Five or eight or ten years” prior. Questioned about a project estimate that included an extra 5 percent “architect’s fee,” which mostly went into his own pocket, Trump insisted it was included to satisfy the FHA. When a skeptical Senator Capehart pressed him, Trump added, “And it is provided by the regulation.”
“What is provided by the regulation?” said Capehart.
“The 5 percent architect’s fee.”
“Have you ever seen a regulation that says that?”
“No, I’m a builder.”
“Then how do you know these regulations provide for a 5 percent architect’s fee?”
“They wouldn’t have allowed it if they didn’t.”
So it went for much of the afternoon with Trump warning at times, “That is a very iffy question,” and then launching into descriptions of the complex methods he used to squeeze maximum profit out of the taxpayers.
He explained, for example, that the land under his Beach Haven development was held by a trust devoted to his children. The buildings, however, were owned by half a dozen corporations. Every year these six entities paid rent to the trust—really his children—for the use of the land. Under the terms of the lease the Trump kids might receive $60,000 or more in pure profits every year for 98 more years. Then lease could be renewed for another 99 years.
With similar candor Trump explained how he had paid himself the general contractor’s fee that had been included in the estimate he submitted to the FHA, and how he fattened his own wallet by having one of his corporations do business with another of his. To the senators this was the equivalent of a man mowing his own lawn and then insisting he should be paid for the chore. Trump insisted that he was more like the tailor who pays a low-wage assistant to sew a custom suit, then charges his customer full price. If the quality is the same, thanks to the tailor’s supervision, why shouldn’t he get the money?
In Trump’s tailoring at Beach Haven consisted of a plan he submitted to the government that called for extra high construction costs, which allowed him to borrow more money and get the government’s approval to charge higher rents. The final tally on the project showed that Beach Haven had been built for $4 million less than the estimate. (Worth $35 million in 2016 dollars.)
The extra high rents set when the project was approved remained in place, even after the excess profits were revealed, because the FHA permitted it. Similarly, the cash left over from the FHA building loan stayed in a Trump bank account. As far as he was concerned, this money was fairly earned and, technically speaking, not personal income. As he explained, as long as he didn’t put the cash in his pocket, the $4 million could be regarded as a rainy-day fund for Beach Haven. <<
Here's the entire report on those hearings if you'd care to peruse.
That specific enough for ya?
Now having read that --- watch this. Especially the line at the end:
Tired of the lying yet? Fred must be.
Fred ?????? and not Donald ?????
What's Fred got to do with Donald, and if you would like to, you can find thousands upon thousands of con-men or crooks throughout time, and party means nothing in relation to them. Did you think that this story involves our current President just because he was kin to Fred ??? I'm judging Trump in the current, and not in the past.
Once AGAIN --- you can read it right above --- I alluded to where the Rump fortune came from.
You asked for specifics on that, and you got 'em.
Do tell, and be specific.Interesting POV, considering the Rump fortune came from siphoning off FHA money.
By all means. Thought this would have been common knowledge by now, but it should be so here you go.
>> Fred had used Federal Housing Administration intended to help build affordable housing for military vets and others. When Ike heard of the profiteering practiced by many of the builders, he suspected a scandal and ordered an investigation. The probe was led by William McKenna, a lawyer and expert in housing, finance, and organized crime.
McKenna discovered a pattern of abuse in the housing program, with builders lavishing gifts—TVs, watches, appliances—on bureaucrats charged with determining who got access to the government money. The most glaring problems were in a federal office in New York run by a veteran political fixer named Clyde L. Powell.
Although his official salary was quite modest, Powell lived an extravagant lifestyle. Powell’s savings accounts noted frequent deposits in excess of his annual salary. An architect said he had bribed him with $10,000. A lawyer who was part of the city’s Democratic Party machine admitted he gave Powell nearly $50,000.
As the man who controlled the FHA’s New York office, Powell controlled the flow of money for Beach Haven, a big apartment complex Fred Trump built with FHA loans. He allowed Trump to start building before Beach Haven was actually approved and start renting to vets and others six months before he had to start repaying his loan.
In that time Trump pocketed $1.7 million in rent payments. Trump was also allowed to pocket most of a fee—5 percent of the Beach Haven development’s cost—that was earmarked for architectural work. Trump was also permitted to borrow more in federally subsidized funds—$3.7 million, to be precise—than he actually needed.
Eisenhower truly loved the fighting men he’d led to victory in World War II. When he learned of the manipulations practiced by developers to increase their profits he called them “sons of bitches.” After his investigation McKenna reported that Trump ranked near the top among builders who shared in excess payments approved by the FHA officials who were almost certainly on the take. His findings led to Senate hearings directed by Homer Capehart, a senator from Indiana, and Connecticut’s Prescott Bush, whose grandson Jeb was then 1 years [sic] old.
McKenna’s testimony about Trump had appalled Capehart, who said the details had made him “nauseous” and that builders had taken advantage of both the federal government and countless World War II vets. Capehart, a Republican, also said that the builders and the FHA were mired in “a grand scandal” far worse than the infamous Teapot Dome corruption case of the 1920s, in which bribes were accepted by officials to grant rich oil leases on federal land.
A parade of bureaucrats and developers, Trump included, testified in July 1954. Clyde L. Powell deflected his interrogators by repeatedly citing the protections against self-incrimination enshrined in the Constitution. One builder pounded the witness table as he insisted upon his innocence. Another suffered a heart attack in the hours after his testimony.
No one performed more brilliantly than the witness who consumed most of the afternoon hearing on July 12. Dapper in a fine suit and carefully trimmed mustache, Fred Trump sat at the witness table flanked by attorneys. With a flair that foreshadowed his son’s future performances on TV, Trump outlined the convoluted but ultimately legal means he used to get the most for himself out of a program created to benefit vets and others deemed deserving of help.
At times Trump’s testimony proceeded with a “Who’s on first?” quality worthy of Abbott and Costello. Asked when he had purchased some land, Trump answered, “Five or eight or ten years” prior. Questioned about a project estimate that included an extra 5 percent “architect’s fee,” which mostly went into his own pocket, Trump insisted it was included to satisfy the FHA. When a skeptical Senator Capehart pressed him, Trump added, “And it is provided by the regulation.”
“What is provided by the regulation?” said Capehart.
“The 5 percent architect’s fee.”
“Have you ever seen a regulation that says that?”
“No, I’m a builder.”
“Then how do you know these regulations provide for a 5 percent architect’s fee?”
“They wouldn’t have allowed it if they didn’t.”
So it went for much of the afternoon with Trump warning at times, “That is a very iffy question,” and then launching into descriptions of the complex methods he used to squeeze maximum profit out of the taxpayers.
He explained, for example, that the land under his Beach Haven development was held by a trust devoted to his children. The buildings, however, were owned by half a dozen corporations. Every year these six entities paid rent to the trust—really his children—for the use of the land. Under the terms of the lease the Trump kids might receive $60,000 or more in pure profits every year for 98 more years. Then lease could be renewed for another 99 years.
With similar candor Trump explained how he had paid himself the general contractor’s fee that had been included in the estimate he submitted to the FHA, and how he fattened his own wallet by having one of his corporations do business with another of his. To the senators this was the equivalent of a man mowing his own lawn and then insisting he should be paid for the chore. Trump insisted that he was more like the tailor who pays a low-wage assistant to sew a custom suit, then charges his customer full price. If the quality is the same, thanks to the tailor’s supervision, why shouldn’t he get the money?
In Trump’s tailoring at Beach Haven consisted of a plan he submitted to the government that called for extra high construction costs, which allowed him to borrow more money and get the government’s approval to charge higher rents. The final tally on the project showed that Beach Haven had been built for $4 million less than the estimate. (Worth $35 million in 2016 dollars.)
The extra high rents set when the project was approved remained in place, even after the excess profits were revealed, because the FHA permitted it. Similarly, the cash left over from the FHA building loan stayed in a Trump bank account. As far as he was concerned, this money was fairly earned and, technically speaking, not personal income. As he explained, as long as he didn’t put the cash in his pocket, the $4 million could be regarded as a rainy-day fund for Beach Haven. <<
Here's the entire report on those hearings if you'd care to peruse.
That specific enough for ya?
Now having read that --- watch this. Especially the line at the end:
Tired of the lying yet? Fred must be.
Fred ?????? and not Donald ?????
What's Fred got to do with Donald, and if you would like to, you can find thousands upon thousands of con-men or crooks throughout time, and party means nothing in relation to them. Did you think that this story involves our current President just because he was kin to Fred ??? I'm judging Trump in the current, and not in the past.
Once AGAIN --- you can read it right above --- I alluded to where the Rump fortune came from.
You asked for specifics on that, and you got 'em.
Specifics on Fred Trump ?? Don't think so, and Donald can't help if Fred gave him anything. I know I wouldn't turn down my inheritance if that's what it was.
Socialism make society a shit hole... fact
