Close down HUD; Support the Motto, "in God We Trust "; Withdraw from the UN

Open e-mail to Rep. Neugebauer:

Randy,

I read your newsletter.

I was not aware that you chair the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Congratulations!.

With respect to tomorrow's joint meetings to examine fraud in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) HOME Investment Partnerships Program, I believe, from your side comments, that you're on the right track.

For many years and with millions and perhaps billions of dollars of taxpayer money, the federal government has been trying to supply the "impoverished" with suitable housing. It doesn't work. Time and again, we have seen construction projects, which after a few years of operation, have again been torn down. The answer for the failure is very simple. The occupants have "no skin in the game", which rapidly leads to destruction of the facilities. In addition, HUD has also proven time and again that it has no capability to police these operations.

The conclusion is obvious. Congress must shut down HUD. This does not mean that the "impoverished" will have no place to live. Private industry has sufficient capital to build multi-occupant units, and more importantly the motivation and facilities to defend their investments.

During World War II, the government needed synthetic rubber and penicillin for the war effort. It built factories to supply these products. At war's end, government sold these facilities to private industry. As you know, these industries have further developed under private ownership. We now travel many thousands of miles farther on improved tires, and we now have a host of antibiotics to treat various illnesses.

HUD is another example where government should not be involved. The operation should be left to private industry. Government should concentrate on aspects of more fundamental significance, such as defense against foreign invaders, control of immigration, etc.

Close down HUD. Sell the existing facilities to private industry at a very nominal price. Leave a vacuum. Private industry will fill it, providing the Administration doesn't hamstring it with ridiculous restrictions.


Support the motto "in God we trust".


Withdraw from the United Nations. It routinely makes decisions which are contrary to the interests of the US. It may continue to do that with or without our presence, but at least we will not be supporting it financially.