Anonymous
02/08/2025 17:22
Subject: Re:Will USAID really be permanently shut down?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:One of the affidavits filed with the USAID lawsuit is from a 7-month pregnant foreign service officer whose entire medical plan for the birth of her child and care of her younger children has been thrown out the door. I can't imagine what this woman's life has been like the last couple of weeks, hope she's OK.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213.9.4_2.pdf
She's got 3 kids on IEPs, one with a serious mental health condition caused by multiple moves with the government? I know pointing this out sounds insensitive, but lady, take care of your family.
Wow. Yes, insensitive. It's a double foreign service family. People choose careers long before they have babies. Then when they have babies, they need to keep working in order to feed and raise them. So, of course, they continue to do that with the career they have invested a lot of time building and thus provides them with the most flexibility, options and pay.
Also, kid's mental health outcomes are not always predictable, whether you are at home or overseas. One of my kids would have loved living in different countries and being sent back to the US for boarding school, another would have hated it and probably would have ended up with academic and mental health challenges (which we had anyway in the US and were not necessarily easier to address in the US.)
Insensitive but on point. (There were) Lots of stable careers in international development that didn't involve rotations every two years. They wanted to stay with the foreign service.
Anonymous
02/08/2025 17:18
Subject: Re:Will USAID really be permanently shut down?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:One of the affidavits filed with the USAID lawsuit is from a 7-month pregnant foreign service officer whose entire medical plan for the birth of her child and care of her younger children has been thrown out the door. I can't imagine what this woman's life has been like the last couple of weeks, hope she's OK.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213.9.4_2.pdf
She's got 3 kids on IEPs, one with a serious mental health condition caused by multiple moves with the government? I know pointing this out sounds insensitive, but lady, take care of your family.
Wow. Yes, insensitive. It's a double foreign service family. People choose careers long before they have babies. Then when they have babies, they need to keep working in order to feed and raise them. So, of course, they continue to do that with the career they have invested a lot of time building and thus provides them with the most flexibility, options and pay.
Also, kid's mental health outcomes are not always predictable, whether you are at home or overseas. One of my kids would have loved living in different countries and being sent back to the US for boarding school, another would have hated it and probably would have ended up with academic and mental health challenges (which we had anyway in the US and were not necessarily easier to address in the US.)
Anonymous
02/08/2025 16:43
Subject: Will USAID really be permanently shut down?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am not up for supporting the mission of USAID. It's time we bring it in and cease the wastage.
+1. Let’s focus on solving some of our own problems before we solve the world’s.
USAID was working on ending an Ebola outbreak. You think Ebola (and other disease) doesn't cross country lines? Must be nice to be so ignorant and carefree.
+1. But, not to mention, USAID's role in global polio eradication, tuberculosis treatment, and HIV treatment. These are far more prevalent than ebola, and, although less deadly than polio, they leave people with lifelong illness that diminishes the ability to be independent and productive if untreated.
Because we live in a world with global travel, the more prevalent these illnesses are globally, the more likely it is they will reach the US.