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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know some people aren't going to like hearing this but USAID wasn't just feeding poor kids in Africa. That was only a tiny percentage of USAID work and actually still goes on under State.

Most of USAID was pet projects and donor causes f9r liberals and an entire NGO industry grew up around it, often started by former USAIDers. And when something like that happens, you find a lot of cronyism. It's sort of comparable to big city government machines finding plum jobs and sinecures for their supporters. And it went unchecked and unregulated, so admin salaries at the NGOs exploded. Some founders became quite rich acting as contractors. And while some good projects happened, a lot of it was dubious and just another way to slosh billions around consultants and contractors with people feeding from the trough both in DC and on the ground overseas and the % that actually ended up being used for genuinely good outcomes is much smaller than most people realize. And USAID was definitely used to indirectly send money undercover to entities overseas.

USAID did become a liberal sinecure entity, using taxpayer dollars to effectively reward liberal supporters and connections. It's why the Trump administration moved so fast to shut it down. And it's also why no one is missing USAID. Only maybe 1% genuinely ended up helping villagers in developing countries.

I'm sorry for the people in the article but the whole industry was rampant with cronyism and out of touch. [/quote]

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The destruction of USAID was estimated to have caused 600,000 deaths as of last November. Probably at least 1 million by now [/quote]

There is no way this is true.[/quote]

There's a lot of data on this. The numbers are estimates, of course, but most of them agree we're looking at minimum 500,000 deaths per year, ongoing, that would not have occurred if USAID had continued. That's on top of a higher number of deaths in the first year due to the abrupt nature of the cuts.[/quote]

Those "models" are all over the place and purely speculative propaganda. There's really no way of knowing, but there are a bunch of desperate people with motivated reasoning trying to keep a gravy train going. [/quote]
Again, how do you know any of this?[/quote]

Try reading some articles on the speculative methodologies and broad assumptions these types of models employ to arrive at such estimates. Stop with this lazy reply and maybe do some work yourself.[/quote]
No, I’m asking you to explain it. Someone gave you journal articles to support the opposite point. You’ve offered nothing but your opinion. I’m asking you how you made your conclusion. Explain it.[/quote]

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/421105/usaid-pepfar-cuts-death-toll?utm_source=chatgpt.com[/quote]

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