Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 10:11     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The small amount of money the U.S. government spends overseas is the government equivalent of extra donations we randomly make at church or when a school kid hits us up for donations for their club.

A lot of money America spends comes home one way or another. For example, payment to the U.S. farmers who were growing crops just for overseas government donation.

And it counteracts our image as world police whether any particular nation becomes more favorable or not.

A lot of good can be done for very little in developing nations. The same money doesn't go very far in the U.S. in terms of saving LIVES.

We need to take societal accountability for the inhumane consequences of our obsolete insurance and care industries. I don't see this administration making any great steps in that regard. This is where the energy should be focused. Federal and state accountability for health care policies.



$35 million would go the same distance in West Virginia as it will in Kenya.


Doubt it. Wonder what the government and health insurers pay all in for vaccines here vs. there.

Lots of times the implementers of care overseas are paid at local wage rates or are charity workers.

No way U.S.health care workers are working for Kenyan salaries.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 09:40     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
OP, you're nuts. Why aren't you more bothered about the hundreds of millions of dollars the USG will need to spend to retrofit the Saudi gift of a plane that Trump has publicly announced he will keep after leaving office.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 09:34     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?


OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

Funny how you didn’t mention Israel in your post. Seems like you’re only bothered by the USA helping to save the lives of brown people overseas.


OP is right. I want to help people in poor countries, so I donate to charities. You should too... We don't need to do this with our tax dollars.


Do you complain when we give hundreds of billions in corporate welfare to people who are already billionaires and fund the atrocities of the Israeli military? For some reason, you're only worried about some small million dollar grants to improve the health systems of poor people. Given that millions of Americans travel to/from these countries each year and can transmit contagious diseases easily, you seem quite dense.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 09:25     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Fine. Don’t fund any foreign aid in Africa. But then don’t complain when country X funds new reserves of lithium and isn’t interested in giving American companies any access.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 09:07     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
I don’t understand where all this misinformation is coming from? Kenya receives two grants of around $500,000 each for HIV and TB, pathology and epidemiology in emerging/changing diseases. I mean, do you know what marberg or Ebola virus does to a human?? We need this education.
Israel doesn’t receive anything from HHS. India receives one grant for epidemiology and pathology, so our scientists can learn to identify tropical diseases.
Where is this fake news coming from?!
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:59     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Disease travels. And 55M is so very little. If it buys enough nets to prevent malaria deaths that's a good thing. Or HIV drugs etc.
I don't see you complaining about the 200M ballroom for the White House.


Being paid for with private funds...


Not quite, they are using donations meant to beautify the national mall. I would be livid if I had donated and it was redirected like this.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:56     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:The small amount of money the U.S. government spends overseas is the government equivalent of extra donations we randomly make at church or when a school kid hits us up for donations for their club.

A lot of money America spends comes home one way or another. For example, payment to the U.S. farmers who were growing crops just for overseas government donation.

And it counteracts our image as world police whether any particular nation becomes more favorable or not.

A lot of good can be done for very little in developing nations. The same money doesn't go very far in the U.S. in terms of saving LIVES.

We need to take societal accountability for the inhumane consequences of our obsolete insurance and care industries. I don't see this administration making any great steps in that regard. This is where the energy should be focused. Federal and state accountability for health care policies.



$35 million would go the same distance in West Virginia as it will in Kenya.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:54     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?


OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

Funny how you didn’t mention Israel in your post. Seems like you’re only bothered by the USA helping to save the lives of brown people overseas.


OP is right. I want to help people in poor countries, so I donate to charities. You should too... We don't need to do this with our tax dollars.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:53     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Disease travels. And 55M is so very little. If it buys enough nets to prevent malaria deaths that's a good thing. Or HIV drugs etc.
I don't see you complaining about the 200M ballroom for the White House.


Being paid for with private funds...


You mean, bribes?
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:53     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
The small amount of money the U.S. government spends overseas is the government equivalent of extra donations we randomly make at church or when a school kid hits us up for donations for their club.

A lot of money America spends comes home one way or another. For example, payment to the U.S. farmers who were growing crops just for overseas government donation.

And it counteracts our image as world police whether any particular nation becomes more favorable or not.

A lot of good can be done for very little in developing nations. The same money doesn't go very far in the U.S. in terms of saving LIVES.

We need to take societal accountability for the inhumane consequences of our obsolete insurance and care industries. I don't see this administration making any great steps in that regard. This is where the energy should be focused. Federal and state accountability for health care policies.

Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:53     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?


OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

It's always bothered me, as I pay $850 a month in premiums for a family of three, plus $12k in annual deductions before health care kicks in.


I always felt guilty about what happened during the Holocaust. But now, I'm really fed up with paying so much and getting so little. If you are going to say, America First, you better mean it.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:52     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:Disease travels. And 55M is so very little. If it buys enough nets to prevent malaria deaths that's a good thing. Or HIV drugs etc.
I don't see you complaining about the 200M ballroom for the White House.


Being paid for with private funds...
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:51     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?


OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.


Then why didn’t you post about that? The amount we spend on military aid to Israel far outstrips what we spent trying to keep poor kids overseas dying of preventable illnesses like the measles by giving them a 30 cent vaccine. Trump killed off USAID anyway, so it seems like you are just wanting to stir sh** about programs that helped keep poor people from dying while you condoning even more of your tax dollars being used to fund the Israeli military.


+1. OP whining about tiny tiny grants to poor brown people while ignoring billions of dollars of giveaways in tax cuts and subsidies to Trump cronies and billions in military aid to other countries.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 08:51     Subject: Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m just shocked and confused at the level of outrage for programs designed for the poor but crickets for programs that bail out corporations, billions of military aid to rogue nations, and wasteful spending by our own government.


I'm not upset about a program designed for the poor. I'm angry at the hypocrisy. Cancel all foreign aid programs. Shout America First. And then, instead of using that money to really help America, they give $35 million for Kenya alone. https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/360341

In this bucket we have 35million dollars for Kenya to provide childhood vaccines. In this bucket we have 35billion dollars for Israel to provide bunker buster bombs. Ouch, which one do you hate most OP.