Closing USAID
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As recently as this past year, Marco Rubio was pushing for MORE USAID funding. He knows how important this is to US international security and yet, he keeps his mouth shut now, falling in line with those who are harming our national interests. |
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DP. They sound like suckers. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/1247252.page#29068779 |
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| Mike Benz is exposing the massive USAID corruption. |
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Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right? Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately. And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you. What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby. Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA? Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it? |
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The only thing he is exposing is your unfathomable level of gullibility. |
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| 18:57 can go to hell. |
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What is false in that post? Challenge the content rather than blowing invictives. |
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| Whatever. You guys are so deep in. Just let him shut it all down- SS, Medicare, Education. Give it all to Musk. It's gonna happen anyway. I'd say maybe that will wake you up to the constant lies you consume but i think you'll still find a way to blame Biden while your bank accounts deplete. I don't care. Old people were never taught to fact check, so this is where we're at now, using Twitter screenshots as proof. Good God. |
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truth hurts https://asiatimes.com/2025/02/usaid-shutdown-isnt-just-a-humanitarian-issue-its-a-gift-to-china/ |
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Housing allowance is not $65k a year - the highest allowance is $58k (which would apply to large families), and it's also not payable to the employee. That's the max that the USG can pay- in other words, it can be less or much less - and it includes rent, heat, light/electricity, gas, trash, local taxes, insurance, and any other fees required by law. No one other than the Ambassador or the head of USAID is getting a chauffeur. Yes, private school on par with a US education is probably $18k a year. I'm not sure what you expect people with families to do. R&R is post-specific and you get plane tickets once per tour. The leave is your annual leave. Yes, the US routinely sends American women posted overseas back to the US to have their baby, especially if local conditions are not considered on par with the US. Your own health insurance pays and per diem means you are paying to stay in a hotel or other commercial lodging. In some respects the lifestyle can be quite nice and in some it can be very challenging. At one post, my kids rode to school in and Embassy van, followed by a truck of armed guards because the terrorism threat was so great. Then we got evacuated, lived in an apartment for 6 months while separated from their dad, he came back, there was a coup, and someone else packed our house up and we lost a ton of our belongings. The real question is: does America want to be a global power with global influence or not? If so, you're going to have to send qualified, dedicated people to do that work. And you're going to have to treat them right. I have no problem with eliminating fraud, waste, or abuse, but I don't think you are going to find it in how we house, school, and arrange travel for our people. |
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Look at SIGAR's report on counternarcotics in Afghanistan. It should give you more information about this. https://www.sigar.mil/Reports/Article-Display/Article/4020322/counternarcotics-lessons-from-the-us-experience-in-afghanistan/ |