Closing USAID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sure more stories of bad than good will come out because that is the nature of clicks and news.

But for all intents and purposes this agency is gone. It is not coming back and we can hope some of solid, beneficial programs restart in the future under state department but I think we need to move on from this a focus on what is next.
I know DOGE is moving on to DOD now as lots of meetings being set up with them.

Education is already gone, and a lot of EPA this weekend.

Nope. DOGE does not get to delete a federal agency.

Not does Marco Rubio. Does he want to have any sort of political future after this? Is he thinking about his personal consequences?

[Anonymous]

This is literally insane

https://bsky.app/profile/noupside.bsky.social/post/3lhgz64rq5k2u

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sure more stories of bad than good will come out because that is the nature of clicks and news.

But for all intents and purposes this agency is gone. It is not coming back and we can hope some of solid, beneficial programs restart in the future under state department but I think we need to move on from this a focus on what is next.
I know DOGE is moving on to DOD now as lots of meetings being set up with them.

Education is already gone, and a lot of EPA this weekend.

Nope. DOGE does not get to delete a federal agency.

Not does Marco Rubio. Does he want to have any sort of political future after this? Is he thinking about his personal consequences?

Elon has thrown quite the grenade in his opening salvo. I’ll be curious to see if congress continues to appropriate funds for USAID and the other “deleted” agencies.

[Anonymous]

Politico funded over 8 million annuallt by USAID... CriCkEts

CIA dirty work delegated to USAID... crIckEts

USAID now under the State Department... rAGe!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sick and amoral is it that the world’s richest man is cutting food and medicine for the world’s poorest children, so that America’s wealthy can pay less taxes.

That is 100% what we are witnessing.

completely wrong.

I live in Virginia. If India decided to help the poor people in my town, while great intentions, I guarantee that most of the money will be siphoned off by the rich and powerful in my town. and that is what is happening (or was happening) with the US aid across the world.

if you want to help the poor, stop the overwhelming immigration.

Less than one week after ICE raided 7 food processing facilities in Mississippi apprehending nearly 700 illegal workers, American citizens are rushing to freshly-available jobs.
Koch Foods is headquartered in Chicago but maintains a chicken processing facility in Mississippi that employed 243 of the 680 undocumented Latino workers arrested in the raids last Thursday. Koch has since collaborated with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES), holding a job fair to recruit new, legal, workers, according to the Associated Press.

The fair raked in 200 applications before noon, according to local media. The company says it will require applicants to present two forms of identification before being hired, according to CNN. MDES will also vet all Mississippi workers for legality using the state’s E-Verify system, according to USA Today.

I would not do that work for peanuts with no benefits, like most US workers. maybe they should increase the wages and add health care? crazy idea to people like you.

Econ 101 will give you background on the impact of Supply and Demand on prices.
if Supply goes up, the cost will come down.
if Supply goes down, the cost goes up.

if we were to limit the overwhelming immigration of low wage workers, the wages for low wage workers would increase.

I think that is a good thing.
people like you think that is a bad thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/13/citizens-line-up-mississippi-jobs-fear-ice-raids-impact-immigrants/

You live in Virginia and you cite a Washington Post article from 2019 about immigration raids. Neither your living in virginia nor the article cited have anything to do with the reality of thousands of American workers abroad basically doing Gods work to help stem famine and illness so other countries are stabilized and not at war or proxy war between the US and Russia or other countries. The money spent by USAID was well documented as required by law, but of course those reports have now been taken offline, but your assertion that the rich were skimming the money is without basis in fact and suck into Musk's false assertions.

explain how subscriptions to Politico Pro stems famine and illness.

[Anonymous]

The USAID IG was investigating Starlink in Ukraine.

Gosh, I wonder why Musk took them out first.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sure more stories of bad than good will come out because that is the nature of clicks and news.

But for all intents and purposes this agency is gone. It is not coming back and we can hope some of solid, beneficial programs restart in the future under state department but I think we need to move on from this a focus on what is next.
I know DOGE is moving on to DOD now as lots of meetings being set up with them.

Education is already gone, and a lot of EPA this weekend.

DoD? There can't possibly be money wasted there! No kickbacks or fraud either!

What will liberals do when it is Trump vs Defense Department? We already know the answer is to support Cheney.

[Anonymous]

Publicly available information about that probe is still online. An announcement from last May reads: “The USAID Office of Inspector General, Inspections and Evaluations Division, is initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine. Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals.”

[Anonymous]

What’s happening with the Small Business Admin?

[Anonymous]

That bishop that excoriated Trump at the national cathedral collected 50 million from USAID for resettlement of immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That bishop that excoriated Trump at the national cathedral collected 50 million from USAID for resettlement of immigrants.

The Bishop herself collected nothing from USAID. Do you mean one of the several Episcopal church agencies undertook contracts for USAID, just like Elon Musk's businesses accepted government contracting money?

[Anonymous]

the fact that authoritarian leaders from around the world are celebrating this is the tell.

[Anonymous]

Can anybody confirm or deny that USID was funding opposition journalism in other countries tried—particularly developed western countries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Two and a half MILLION to DEI in Serbia is NOT valuable to anyone.

Be specific. What DEI in Serbia? Do you even know or are you a parrot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sick and amoral is it that the world’s richest man is cutting food and medicine for the world’s poorest children, so that America’s wealthy can pay less taxes.

That is 100% what we are witnessing.

completely wrong.

I live in Virginia. If India decided to help the poor people in my town, while great intentions, I guarantee that most of the money will be siphoned off by the rich and powerful in my town. and that is what is happening (or was happening) with the US aid across the world.

if you want to help the poor, stop the overwhelming immigration.

Less than one week after ICE raided 7 food processing facilities in Mississippi apprehending nearly 700 illegal workers, American citizens are rushing to freshly-available jobs.
Koch Foods is headquartered in Chicago but maintains a chicken processing facility in Mississippi that employed 243 of the 680 undocumented Latino workers arrested in the raids last Thursday. Koch has since collaborated with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES), holding a job fair to recruit new, legal, workers, according to the Associated Press.

The fair raked in 200 applications before noon, according to local media. The company says it will require applicants to present two forms of identification before being hired, according to CNN. MDES will also vet all Mississippi workers for legality using the state’s E-Verify system, according to USA Today.

I would not do that work for peanuts with no benefits, like most US workers. maybe they should increase the wages and add health care? crazy idea to people like you.

Econ 101 will give you background on the impact of Supply and Demand on prices.
if Supply goes up, the cost will come down.
if Supply goes down, the cost goes up.

if we were to limit the overwhelming immigration of low wage workers, the wages for low wage workers would increase.

I think that is a good thing.
people like you think that is a bad thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/13/citizens-line-up-mississippi-jobs-fear-ice-raids-impact-immigrants/

This exactly! I have been saying this for years.

The way liberal support illegal immigration is mind-boggling. It allows wealthy business owners to keep wages low and deny benefits to employees while leaving taxpayers to make up the difference (through government funded social programs).

And you are correct OP, that a large amount of money that USAID spent was likely not being used to actually ‘save babies’. Give it time for more information to come out - I hope the media is truthful in reporting any corruption if it is found to be the case.

“The economic and societal changes that followed the curtailment of immigration “made possible the success of the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s,” according to Stanford economic historian Gavin Wright.

Without the immigration reduction, the Great Migration of Black southerners to the North and West would not have occurred as it did, and the civil rights movement would never have progressed as it did. The Great Migration and the resulting rapid rise in Black incomes spurred the increased enrollment at Historic Black Colleges and the elevated numbers of Black lawyers, physicians, clergy, and other professionals whose ranks produced the leaders of the civil rights movement. Without the Great Migration and the Great Leveling, it is difficult to imagine the civil rights movement successes in the 1950s and 1960s.

On immigration, the Angus Deaton, a Princeton professor writes:

“I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. I no longer think so. Economists’ beliefs are not unanimous on this but are shaped by econometric designs that may be credible but often rest on short-term outcomes. Longer-term analysis over the past century and a half tells a different story. Inequality was high when America was open, was much lower when the borders were closed, and rose again post Hart-Celler (the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965) as the fraction of foreign-born people rose back to its levels in the Gilded Age. It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been able to hire the European migrants they preferred.”

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton

Cool story. But what does that have to do with illegal actions by an Oligarchy?