Closing USAID
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Anonymous
The only ones hiding are the DOGE clowns. |
Anonymous
Well said. |
Anonymous
| Interesting how you degenerates are so desperately defending the gross mismanagement of taxpayer dollars…..likely because you pay no taxes. |
Anonymous
And Obama? While campaigning, he even vowed to slash government waste. Funny how he only increased the waste after he got into power. Any yes, now he’s awfully quiet. |
Anonymous
What an uninformed comment. The middle class and upper middle class, play all the federal and state income taxes. Reportable income is for suckers. The bottom 40% don’t report enough income or make enough income to pay any federal income tax after welfare or child tax shields. And the top 0:1% doesn’t work a w-2 job and lives off their interest so they don’t generate any income tax. Highly doubt the welfare queens, black market illiterate illegals, or the top 0.1% of wealth is posting on DCUM. So no. Not buying your post. |
Anonymous
They’ve been telling you it’s made up |
Anonymous
1) it was established in the US Constitution 2) you clearly have no idea the services it provides in very rural areas 3) the concept of "bankruptcy" doesn't or shouldn't apply to a SERViCE provided by the Federal government. Perhaps if the GOP tried to help make the USPS more efficient rather than gutting it over the past 40 years, it would be in a better place. |
Anonymous
Supposedly the White House via President Elon Musk is spreading information on "bad projects" funded by USAID. here's a list they gave and MY response on each project. Clearly, they want to use divisive language to freak out the Republican base.... — $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language” - this is probably a journalism project and the avoiding the binary language was probably ONE exercise in ONE workshop. — $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq yep. This is probably true. And would you NOT want kids to have a good show that teaches you to be kind, neighborly and socially conscious?? — $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan Yep - and since Republicans LOVE disinformation, I can see why they’d hate this. — $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities” Yep. Because people with disabilities matter and SHOULD be included. — $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala - Nope. USAID does not pay for surgery or sex changes. That’s not an allowable cost. They MIGHT have paid for activism for people to understand and accept trans people - again, something Republicans seem obsessed with… for some reason. — $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles” - Yep. Because inclusion of women in the democratic process is a Democratic ideal. Understand that Republicans don’t want women in politics from this comment. — $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society” - Sure - perhaps this was ONE activity. Diversity means a lot of things - I am guessing this means understanding the differences between tribes, the difference between Libyan Christians and Muslims, and have content to support them. Given Libya is coming out from under a brutal dictator, you can see why helping a society be coherent and work together would be good to keep from radicalizing individuals…. — $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorgroup - I doubt that. EVERY project, participant and partner is checked against several databases - OFAC and the UN lists to ensure NO money (if possible) goes to those linked to terrorism. I am guessing that this was a $10m food aid project, designed to help fight extremism by giving people food so they don’t starve AND to keep them from going to radical madrasas to get fed,,,, and radicalized. — $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia - Yep. Probably a big project on reducing carbon emissions. Republicans seem to hate the idea of a cleaner environment and a cleaner planet for some reason. Maybe OIL MONEY that pays them? — $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam - Yep. From this I understand the word that freaks out Republicans is ‘inclusion’ because they would like to divide and exclude people - especially women, people with disabilities and minorities. — $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam Yep - Same as the prior response. — ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab Probably. But given that Trump shut down this type of funding and oversight in China when he took office the LAST TIME, would you NOT want to fund groups that know what they are doing to keep something like Covid from happening again? — $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax - Again - this is political and revenge commentary. They don’t mention the group or the activity just that it was a group Trump didn’t like. — $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group” - Yep. Probably to help with advocacy. Republicans hate gay people, so this makes sense they’d not want this tiny amount to go for that. — $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium” - I am 100% sure this was not to pay for this in DC. USAID funds don’t pay for US-based construction. Also, I take away from this the Republicans are unhappy that this funded a Black Church for something because they don’t like minorities. — $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica - Yep. Same comment as above on the other projects they don’t like. Republicans hate gay people. — $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America - same as above. If you don’t want to promote livelihoods in Central America to stem the flow of migrants by creating a better life, then understand from this that Republicans in particular hate gay people. — $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack) - No one can predict when an attack will come from anyone. This is a VERY complicated situation in the Middle East… what part of trying to stop violence is bad for Republicans? — $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon - Yep. Why is this bad? Do Republicans hate entrepreneurship that much? — $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans - Yep. Republicans hate gay people. — $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda - given Christians have gone to Uganda for years to create a VERY unsafe environment and even laws against being gay, I can see why a “Christian Nationalist” government/Republicans would not want that to stop. — $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world” - Yep. Republicans hate gay people. — $6.3 million for men who have s*x with men in South Africa - This would be a PEPFAR project designed to help those men, who exist, to access HIV drugs. Or to help them understand better sexual options to keep from spreading HIV. Again, Republicans hate gay people. — $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion” Yep. Because Republicans hate minorities and women. |
Anonymous
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That is a great review of these issues! Really shows how easy it is to scare people with quoted phrases about things they vaquely fear and don't understand.
For everyone suddenly upset about USAID, you seem to think this was all recently "exposed" by DOGE. It's all been sitting at USASpending.gov this whole time, waiting for you to see it. You just didn't care to take the time to review the data and understand it. We can't make serious changes to our government without a serious understanding of the problem. If you didn't do your homework before the election, at least do it know and call your reps to get them to stop this. Ask for a serious review and cutting of federal spending, not this ridiculous slash and burn. |
Anonymous
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I thought they were the party of babies and pro-life?
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3lig4x2awuj2i Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late The employee, identified only as Terry Doe, says he’s been in touch with 25 other pregnant foreign service officers who are fearful their care will be cut off if the agency closes down completely on March 8. |
Anonymous
Iraq has the Religion of Peace. This is a waste of money. |
Anonymous
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TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique. That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why??? |
Anonymous
Dude. It prevents HIV. It’s not “volunteer” circumcision, it’s “voluntary,” meaning not coerced. You can spend money for life on taking pills after you get HIV, or you can reduce your risk by a little snip. Then there is less HIV in the world to mutate and come over here to infect your sons and daughters. This is not waste and fraud, this is routine public health programming. Why in the world would you demonize something you are so ignorant about? |
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How much $$$$$$ did USAID “offer” each poor man in Mozambique to do risky surgery on his genitalia?
Why not respect their cultural values, and simply model proper hygiene for both men and women? Some religions mandate circumcision on their baby boys, but certainly not all. Again, cultural respect is essential. |
Anonymous
... You're against reducing transmission of HIV. |