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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USAID needs to cut down to less than 20% from its current levels and they need to place employees elsewhere if possible. I agree with the contractor bloat which is other reason the current employees seem useless. [/quote]

20% is ridiculous. You are just pulling that # out of your a&@[/quote]

Do you know how much bloat there is at USAID? Most of the employees and contractors are on telework status and barely do anything. Also, why we need to spend money in other countries. [/quote]

To creat a more stable, safe world (terrorism doesn’t breed rampantly in open societies where people have food security, healthcare, education, and jobs). To create free markets for American goods.  To help people suffering from natural disasters, war, disease, and famine. We are a very interconnected world.  Some see usaid’s work as a moral imperative to help the less fortunate, but there are absolutely lots of concrete benefits for Americans that  go beyond helping the less fortunate.

Usaid’s work, and the work of other agencies who do foreign assistance, has had consistent support by both democratic and republican administrations.  There are different opinions on what should be prioritized, but that the work should be done has been a shared value.  Pepfar (president’s emergency plains for AIDS relief) was created under George W. Bush. [/quote]

It’s high time to pull all of this money out of foreign countries and invest it in our own.[/quote]

AGREE. Lets please stop sending all this GD $$ to Israel.

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USAID doesn’t send money to Israel. Several US agencies do international work.  USAID isn’t the only one, but it is often assumed it does all foreign assistance, I guess because ”aid” is in the agency’s name.  Foreign Assistance encompasses any spending related to foreign policy. USAID does things like global health (like responding to Ebola outbreaks before they become a global problem), democracy strengthening, education, disaster assistance (like famines), creating markets for US goods.[/quote]

USAID spends money on education, health, etc. in Palestinian territories.  T[b]he US also gives Israel military aid to destroy Palestinian society, destroy key infrastructure, and kill Palestinians to enable Israel to steal more Palestinian land. [/b] It makes no sense, at all.  [/quote]

The bold is a policy decision made at the Presidential and SecState and NSC level.  It is not made by people at USAID and DoD and State.  In fact, people at State resigned over the decision by top level political officials to continue to send weapons to Israeli units that were clearly in violation of international law and therefore the weapons transfers violated US Leahy law.

What I object to is the demonization (and firing) of line staff who are just doing their job neutrally as civil servants.  The paradoxical nature of US efforts is a result of presidential politics and reflects a lack of sustained attention to rational problem-solving by political leaders and a preference for dramatic show tirades to prove ones worth or timid self-absolutions of responsibility.

Despite that, at the end of the day, our political leadership is our own fault, and it’s something that will take our sustained attention to community, coalition-building and action for change (if we want to get out of this mess). [/quote]

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