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The Real Lessons of the HUD Scandal |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Stuart M. Butler |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,590 Words, 16,248 Characters |
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There is a famous scene in the movie Casablanca in which Claude Raines, as the French chief of police, is closing down Rick's American Bar on orders from the wartime German authorities. He uses the pretext of illegal gambling. "I hear there's been gambling going on here," he tells his friend Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart. "I'm shocked, shocked!" Just then, an employee sidles up to the police chief: "Your winnings, sir," he announces. Raines, obviously embarrassed, pockets the money and quickly proceeds to close the bar.
The recent congressional hearings on influence peddling at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) no doubt proved entertaining to Casablanca aficionados, since they bore such a remarkable resemblance to the movie scene--except that there has been...
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...Pierce and denouncing Regan policies for supposedly aggravating the management problem are trying to draw attention from the real scandal of federal housing policy: programs that were designed first and foremost to reward the rich and to lubricate the congressional reelection machine. The only way to reform HUD is to sweep away these inherently corrupt and wasteful programs and start again. vbcrlf
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