Sam Brownback: “I want to talk about one particular example in this area that we are talking about, a magical bureaucracy being able to…”

“I want to talk about one particular example in this area that we are talking about, a magical bureaucracy being able to solve an issue. This is the agency of HUD, Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Speaker, I would like to start this off by saying that no one here questions the good intentions of the people who work in these agencies, of the employees at HUD, or the people even that design these programs. These are good people with good intentions, but the problem is we want to talk about reality and what has been the actual reality of what has happened after all these good intentions and all this investment of resources and all these people pouring in from a centralized solution. We are talking about a centralized bureaucratic organization in the form of HUD, Housing and Urban Development as an agency, trying centralized solutions from Washington for a Nation that covers 260 million people across five time zones that has the largest economy, that is the international leader of the world. We are going to plan all this in one central entity. That is the fallacy of what we are talking about.”