Closing USAID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:everyone has to realize that USAID is one of the biggest wastage of US tax $s and at places that doesn't help US citizens directly and very hard to track. You don't know who is getting paid in the name of these programs, so I support cutting it down and then rebuilding slowly. This is one of the reasons that congress is not making any noise on USAID. They know that facts are much worse than the support work they carry around the world. This waste is going on for a long time and going to end now.

Says it all and USAID elimination is moving forward. Imagine everyone (even left side) voters getting mad for not doing enough within US but sending billions on these dumb programs. The reason it survived for so long is because it was under wraps and leaders at USAID had a field day on the name of foreign aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the left didn’t add so much bullshit in funds the department could do good things but then we spend $14 million for gender equality for climate change opportunities in Tanzania. Yep shut it down

So you agree that if they really want to get into cost savings in the billions, they will really audit military and defense spending, right? Because that is literally where we spend crazy amounts of money and get swindled by contractors overcharging us excessive amounts of money, right?

If they do not take a hacksaw to military fraud, this is all performative bullsh*t

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:everyone has to realize that USAID is one of the biggest wastage of US tax $s and at places that doesn't help US citizens directly and very hard to track. You don't know who is getting paid in the name of these programs, so I support cutting it down and then rebuilding slowly. This is one of the reasons that congress is not making any noise on USAID. They know that facts are much worse than the support work they carry around the world. This waste is going on for a long time and going to end now.

It is a tiny fraction of the budget with an exponential return. How on Earth are you people living in times of unlimited access to information and managing to get DUMBER over time?

Were you hypnotized or something?

That you can refer to $40 billion as a tiny amount with a straight face is why the whole needs to be burned down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:everyone has to realize that USAID is one of the biggest wastage of US tax $s and at places that doesn't help US citizens directly and very hard to track. You don't know who is getting paid in the name of these programs, so I support cutting it down and then rebuilding slowly. This is one of the reasons that congress is not making any noise on USAID. They know that facts are much worse than the support work they carry around the world. This waste is going on for a long time and going to end now.

It is a tiny fraction of the budget with an exponential return. How on Earth are you people living in times of unlimited access to information and managing to get DUMBER over time?

Were you hypnotized or something?

That you can refer to $40 billion as a tiny amount with a straight face is why the whole needs to be burned down.

Get back to us when they audit the defence/military spending piece of the pie and how much Musk is r*ping taxpayers himself. Supposedly the Pentagon is next. But I bet it will be a light glance, ironic considering the Pentagon has historically had trouble passing audits.

[Anonymous]

So get back to you in a week or 2? Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:everyone has to realize that USAID is one of the biggest wastage of US tax $s and at places that doesn't help US citizens directly and very hard to track. You don't know who is getting paid in the name of these programs, so I support cutting it down and then rebuilding slowly. This is one of the reasons that congress is not making any noise on USAID. They know that facts are much worse than the support work they carry around the world. This waste is going on for a long time and going to end now.

It is a tiny fraction of the budget with an exponential return. How on Earth are you people living in times of unlimited access to information and managing to get DUMBER over time?

Were you hypnotized or something?

That you can refer to $40 billion as a tiny amount with a straight face is why the whole needs to be burned down.

Spending is best understood as a percentage of a total budget. A $10 coffee is a small amount to someone who makes $500k/year but to a broke person it’s more than they can afford.

Money is not absolute. The US economy is huge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:everyone has to realize that USAID is one of the biggest wastage of US tax $s and at places that doesn't help US citizens directly and very hard to track. You don't know who is getting paid in the name of these programs, so I support cutting it down and then rebuilding slowly. This is one of the reasons that congress is not making any noise on USAID. They know that facts are much worse than the support work they carry around the world. This waste is going on for a long time and going to end now.

It is a tiny fraction of the budget with an exponential return. How on Earth are you people living in times of unlimited access to information and managing to get DUMBER over time?

Were you hypnotized or something?

That you can refer to $40 billion as a tiny amount with a straight face is why the whole needs to be burned down.

40 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to nearly 900 billion on overall defence spending. And yes, I actually do want my tax dollars helping to curb HIV and TB and helping to curb hunger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So get back to you in a week or 2? Got it.

I know that they are looking at the Pentagon but my assumption is it is a fake look when that is the biggest piece of the pie. If they truly wanted to curb spending rather than be performative, it would have been the first place they looked and they would spend a heck of a lot of time there. Especially considering the Pentagon hasn't been able to get its sh*t together to pass am audit in the past.

Of course, if they truly wanted to be transparent rather than performative, they would have laid out all USAID spending.

[Anonymous]

Chris Cuomo last night questioned why USAID was picked to be examined first. He made some good points, such as when you go after the DoD you have to be prepared to deal with the aerospace giants. But I don’t think he hit on it quite right. Flash forward to a recent description by a blogger in Connecticut of her college visit with her kid to American University, a grossly overpriced yet mediocre private school in DC. She and her kid went to an international day function at the school. Display after display featured leftist causes, and the students often described their work as something that should be funded by a NGO. Little wonder USAID has a digital tool to search NGOs around the globe. Of course USAID is not the only agency giving grants to sustain left wing political causes (there will be more to be discovered) but politically the agency is easy pickings and is a shot across the bow at the far left academic industrial complex. A fellow alum is head of a gender studies and LGBQT program at Berea College in Kentucky. She is fortunate to have this post well, because for most gender studies types the career path is very limited and teaching the subject is one of the few. Cutting off federal grant money is a vital threat to these types. Politically popular, too. A working class family will never get on board with spending tax dollars for a trans opera in Columbia. Even if you make the case that such working class types are anti trans, it is very difficult to justify the spend. I was the law review editor at a top law school. But I was the rare poor kid. Already viewed as anti-intellectual because I was a serious NCAA athlete on scholarship (a bias you see here on DCUM), worst yet in being on my own since age 18 I was a Teamster every summer for years. It was in a fairly rough neighborhood in Chicago, but the workers contrary to today’s MAGA stereotypes were far from stupid. And to understand that culture which has been bruised and battered by global competition goes well beyond who they vote for. I learned my fellow law reviewers they had little understanding of how the vast majority of people lived. They dont strategize how to get their kid in a prestige school. If they are lucky their kid scrimps and saves and works through a local college. If they are lucky. My colleagues invariably responded that they didn’t like my tough persona. Heck they were so disconnected from the way people operate in tough neighborhoods that they never recognized being tough in my case was simply keeping my mouth shut. In any event it makes sense that Trump is charging after USAID first. Note the point is not the substance of USAID does but what kind of shot is being made across the bow.

[Anonymous]

Did big ballz shut them down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:everyone has to realize that USAID is one of the biggest wastage of US tax $s and at places that doesn't help US citizens directly and very hard to track. You don't know who is getting paid in the name of these programs, so I support cutting it down and then rebuilding slowly. This is one of the reasons that congress is not making any noise on USAID. They know that facts are much worse than the support work they carry around the world. This waste is going on for a long time and going to end now.

It is a tiny fraction of the budget with an exponential return. How on Earth are you people living in times of unlimited access to information and managing to get DUMBER over time?

Were you hypnotized or something?

That you can refer to $40 billion as a tiny amount with a straight face is why the whole needs to be burned down.

It’s just a number. It has no inherent value except in relation to a larger number. The percentage is what matters. Seriously learn basic math. You are destroying our country because you don’t understand math. JFC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chris Cuomo last night questioned why USAID was picked to be examined first. He made some good points, such as when you go after the DoD you have to be prepared to deal with the aerospace giants. But I don’t think he hit on it quite right. Flash forward to a recent description by a blogger in Connecticut of her college visit with her kid to American University, a grossly overpriced yet mediocre private school in DC. She and her kid went to an international day function at the school. Display after display featured leftist causes, and the students often described their work as something that should be funded by a NGO. Little wonder USAID has a digital tool to search NGOs around the globe. Of course USAID is not the only agency giving grants to sustain left wing political causes (there will be more to be discovered) but politically the agency is easy pickings and is a shot across the bow at the far left academic industrial complex. A fellow alum is head of a gender studies and LGBQT program at Berea College in Kentucky. She is fortunate to have this post well, because for most gender studies types the career path is very limited and teaching the subject is one of the few. Cutting off federal grant money is a vital threat to these types. Politically popular, too. A working class family will never get on board with spending tax dollars for a trans opera in Columbia. Even if you make the case that such working class types are anti trans, it is very difficult to justify the spend. I was the law review editor at a top law school. But I was the rare poor kid. Already viewed as anti-intellectual because I was a serious NCAA athlete on scholarship (a bias you see here on DCUM), worst yet in being on my own since age 18 I was a Teamster every summer for years. It was in a fairly rough neighborhood in Chicago, but the workers contrary to today’s MAGA stereotypes were far from stupid. And to understand that culture which has been bruised and battered by global competition goes well beyond who they vote for. I learned my fellow law reviewers they had little understanding of how the vast majority of people lived. They dont strategize how to get their kid in a prestige school. If they are lucky their kid scrimps and saves and works through a local college. If they are lucky. My colleagues invariably responded that they didn’t like my tough persona. Heck they were so disconnected from the way people operate in tough neighborhoods that they never recognized being tough in my case was simply keeping my mouth shut. In any event it makes sense that Trump is charging after USAID first. Note the point is not the substance of USAID does but what kind of shot is being made across the bow.

I grew up in a rough situation myself so I understand the disdain for wealthy liberal nonsense. BUT I also am a solid democrat since they are the only party to fight for the working class. The republicans just use cultural warfare to dupe the working class into voting against their own interest. That should piss off every working class person to be played like that.

I could care less about transgender theater as long as we have socialized medical care that wouldn’t make my family choose between care and putting food on the table. The reason we don’t have affordable medical care is because the republicans block every effort. That’s a fact. We don’t have a lack of money for nationalized medical care. We have political opposition.

It makes me so sad to see how brainwashed the working class has become over issues like that. I just shrug and ignore the looney rich phony liberals while continuing to support good policy that can help the less fortunate. I cannot understand self sabotaging cultural warfare when that is how the wealthy have us all twisted up and fighting one another while they continue to scam us. Why care more about punishing USAID than our own country? That’s just stupid. Working class political discourse used to be much more practical decades ago compared to now.

[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.

USAID is a terrorist organization

Agreed. It funds terrorists. I mean, look how much they gave to Tel Aviv University: $581 Million, while it seems the govt can't do sh*t to help AMERICAN college students w/ their loans. The govt only knows to punish and destroy them for daring to use their 1A

https://x.com/APhilosophae/status/1887531835338436794

Where the hell does this nonsense come from? And how did you get so dumb as to believe it without question? No, the US government did not give Tel Aviv University $581 million:

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-tel-aviv-university-did-not-get-581-million-dollars-from-us-taxpayers-official-data-shows-under-6-million.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Charity begins at home.

As does cruelty, which is also killing leolle the world over.

What’s your point?

[Anonymous]

I really wish the MAGAs would fact check these conjured USAID programs that are sprouting up on twitter and through the eco-sphere. I mean there was a not critical thinking and so much of it is simply nonsensical.

Yes it would be silly for usaid to fund the things alleged, which is why they don’t actually find those things. Why do you believe they do?????