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[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]

Why? But an anonymous internet person says so? Try reading a newspaper or a scientific research journal.
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext
An impact counter estimated that USAID funding discontinuation caused 62 557 adult deaths and 130 535 child deaths just until mid-April 2025.
https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-more-14-million-preventable-deaths-2030-if-usaid-defunding
Research finds more than 14 million preventable deaths by 2030 if USAID defunding continues, including more than 4 million children under five[/quote]

The population of Africa is estimated at 1.5 billion people.  They add about another 35 million people per year to that number. Call me an a-hole, but using our funds to ensure that population growth number is even higher when we have around 200,000 “deaths of despair” in our own country every year doesn’t make sense to me.  [b]I’d much rather see those funds used to prevent medical debt here or support our own health programs.[/b]  [/quote]

That's a great and popular idea!
Guess who blocks us getting our own money at home?
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