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HUD Spending $70M to Teach Spending
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Craig Bannister of CNSNews.com sounds off on HUD’s new education plan,
- Duration 2:52
- Date Jun 14, 2012
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Judge of this is this an example of how the government wastes your tax dollars try this.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it is spending -- seventy million dollars to teach its employees.
How to spend money.
Craig -- proxy and as news services in DC conference is historic you -- explain this to is -- spend seventy million.
Teaching people how to spend of the money -- -- -- -- Well apparently hug feels that it's necessary to spend seventy million dollars to.
Effect what they call capacity building.
These programs these consulting converts are giving out.
All will be used to provide to.
Technical assistance.
Things such as.
Counseling on how to create manage and god designed web sites blogs and helped us.
Am dollop.
Essentially how to spend the three billion dollars Hud gives out and community development block -- all community development block us and that's an important caveat that community development block grants.
They get the money white -- -- hundred million -- ago.
Yes the seventy million is allocated.
To these.
The consulting company is summer and other organizations to teach the grant recipients how to spend the money they're getting so it -- be money that goes to community organizes for example to show them how to organize the money that they golf for that community model being -- -- -- it goes to community groups and to nonprofit organizations.
That are supposed to take this money and go out and help the homeless and -- Promote affordable housing.
And develop the Kennedys I should I just I thought I wanted to be sure about this you know so so we asked a spokesman -- Brian Sullivan from how we said.
-- so it sounds like.
You were giving this money to teach people how to spend money they already have and he's -- Absolutely.
Debt we've got the quote on the -- your question and his response yes absolutely teaching people how to spend money that they already have.
It other race saving graces here can you make a case that telling people community organizes and it is the money but -- how to spend with teaching how to spit you could make a case that could just.
I don't -- personally -- my philosophy is.
If you teach a man to spend your route seventy million dollars but.
If you hire someone who already knows how to do it you're just out the three billion dollars in grants and you -- the -- training expenses.
I don't wanna be sold Nazi -- but a good community organizer is the president United States who knows how to spend money.
Craig I'm sorry we're out of time and I don't mean to be facetious Craig -- restaurant -- CNN's news.
