Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 17:08     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


There are plenty of non profits helping in poor countries but they will never make up for the cut in US funding. Also, the US had pretty good leverage in those countries, far more than the non profits. Good work is being done by groups such as Save the Children but they can only do so much. Finally, a lot of non profits had funding from USAID but now that money is gone.


Surely all the good liberals in this country will put their money where their mouth is and write checks. No? Only if the IRS demands? Hmmm.

To quote Bernie Sanders regarding his abysmal rate of charitable giving "We do what we do."


I don't see the USAID budget being given back to the taxpayers, so, with what money are people supposed to be donating?


Exactly.

DOGE evidently cut expenses (which I don't believe) so where is my money?? When do my taxes go down? All I have seen is that my utilities and food prices have increased.



Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 17:07     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


There are plenty of non profits helping in poor countries but they will never make up for the cut in US funding. Also, the US had pretty good leverage in those countries, far more than the non profits. Good work is being done by groups such as Save the Children but they can only do so much. Finally, a lot of non profits had funding from USAID but now that money is gone.


Surely all the good liberals in this country will put their money where their mouth is and write checks. No? Only if the IRS demands? Hmmm.

To quote Bernie Sanders regarding his abysmal rate of charitable giving "We do what we do."


It's not the job of one side to support soft power. Both sides should take responsibility but the billionaire Musk and his sidekick Yawny Donny did not want to do that.

Every day, around 1,000 babies die from AIDS due to US AID cuts. So, you win. You get a cookie of death.

Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:50     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
I just put it on autopay.

https://www.betterplace.org/en/discover/87-usaid-cuts

If you want to help, you can help. If you don't, just complain on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:35     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


There are plenty of non profits helping in poor countries but they will never make up for the cut in US funding. Also, the US had pretty good leverage in those countries, far more than the non profits. Good work is being done by groups such as Save the Children but they can only do so much. Finally, a lot of non profits had funding from USAID but now that money is gone.


Surely all the good liberals in this country will put their money where their mouth is and write checks. No? Only if the IRS demands? Hmmm.

To quote Bernie Sanders regarding his abysmal rate of charitable giving "We do what we do."


You have no idea what you are talking about fool.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:34     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


There are plenty of non profits helping in poor countries but they will never make up for the cut in US funding. Also, the US had pretty good leverage in those countries, far more than the non profits. Good work is being done by groups such as Save the Children but they can only do so much. Finally, a lot of non profits had funding from USAID but now that money is gone.


Surely all the good liberals in this country will put their money where their mouth is and write checks. No? Only if the IRS demands? Hmmm.

To quote Bernie Sanders regarding his abysmal rate of charitable giving "We do what we do."


I don't see the USAID budget being given back to the taxpayers, so, with what money are people supposed to be donating?


Fortunately for me I’m now required to take a minimum distribution from my retirement accounts and to avoid paying taxes on it I can donate it so I do. Keep in mind that US citizens give more to charity than just about any other country on a per capita basis.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:34     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:USAID was funding a lot of stuff it had no business funding. Some of the best things it was doing is still being funded via State.

This thread is just bluesky repeat bubble and pointless to engage in any further.


USAID was funding a few projects that could be cut. Not "a lot" of stuff. And as someone who works on those State programs, they've also been slashed horrifically.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:32     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:USAID was funding a lot of stuff it had no business funding. Some of the best things it was doing is still being funded via State.

This thread is just bluesky repeat bubble and pointless to engage in any further.


You just said nothing yourself. "A lot of stuff," but nothing.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:30     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


In other words, you don't know anything about this sector.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:28     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:USAID was soft power, and gave us a way to influence foreign policy, in our own interest. It helped keep the US at the negotiation table, and now it's just China and Russia. We just walked away from key relations with foreign governments that took years to build. It is heartbreaking that people in these countries relied on our leadership, especially in human rights and democracy. And we just walked away.

+1
It gave us multiple angles for soft power via winning people over, managing some aspects of what was in education, etc. It also kept many horrible diseases at bay. Something I think lots of these maga done grasp is that it was in essence a handout to farmers in the US without being a direct handout.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:27     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
USAID was funding a lot of stuff it had no business funding. Some of the best things it was doing is still being funded via State.

This thread is just bluesky repeat bubble and pointless to engage in any further.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:25     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


There are plenty of non profits helping in poor countries but they will never make up for the cut in US funding. Also, the US had pretty good leverage in those countries, far more than the non profits. Good work is being done by groups such as Save the Children but they can only do so much. Finally, a lot of non profits had funding from USAID but now that money is gone.


Surely all the good liberals in this country will put their money where their mouth is and write checks. No? Only if the IRS demands? Hmmm.

To quote Bernie Sanders regarding his abysmal rate of charitable giving "We do what we do."


I don't see the USAID budget being given back to the taxpayers, so, with what money are people supposed to be donating?


Oh, no, sorry, that went to the billionaires. But I'm sure they'll do the right thing! Right?
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:23     Subject: Re:USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:Opposing foreign aid is so incredibly short sighted. The soft power that this administration has squandered will take a generation to recover, if it's even possible. And now all those regions where the US was investing in education and economic development have become much, much more dangerous. Do these idiots think that danger will stay in one place??

They were all about "never forgetting" 9/11 and yet here we are... leaving hotspots to boil over, leaving anger against America to grow-- unchecked by the vaccines, schools, food aid, and environmental interventions that made people think twice before listening to the radical radio shows. Now there's NO hope for young people except joining the militia (Al Shabab, Boko Haram, ISIS, pick one) which will at least feed them.


Where a vacuum is created, someone will fill it often bad characters. During the depression, in Chicago Al Capone spread largess far and wide allowing him to almost take over the city. The feds finally nailed him for income tax evasion because local law enforcement was protecting him.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:18     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


Can we fund the US military that way? Donations from good folks like you who think killing people on the other side of the world is good and effective foreign policy? You might get me on board with that!
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:17     Subject: USAID funding - sad conversation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hey, good news everyone. Did you know that you can donate to non profits that provide medical care to poor people in developing countries? I just found out. Before now, I thought it could only be done with my tax dollars, and distributed in a manipulative way that advanced U.S. foreign policy.

Anyway, now that I know this, I guess I can still help people who are less fortunate than I am.


There are plenty of non profits helping in poor countries but they will never make up for the cut in US funding. Also, the US had pretty good leverage in those countries, far more than the non profits. Good work is being done by groups such as Save the Children but they can only do so much. Finally, a lot of non profits had funding from USAID but now that money is gone.


Surely all the good liberals in this country will put their money where their mouth is and write checks. No? Only if the IRS demands? Hmmm.

To quote Bernie Sanders regarding his abysmal rate of charitable giving "We do what we do."


I don't see the USAID budget being given back to the taxpayers, so, with what money are people supposed to be donating?
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 16:16     Subject: Re:USAID funding - sad conversation
Opposing foreign aid is so incredibly short sighted. The soft power that this administration has squandered will take a generation to recover, if it's even possible. And now all those regions where the US was investing in education and economic development have become much, much more dangerous. Do these idiots think that danger will stay in one place??

They were all about "never forgetting" 9/11 and yet here we are... leaving hotspots to boil over, leaving anger against America to grow-- unchecked by the vaccines, schools, food aid, and environmental interventions that made people think twice before listening to the radical radio shows. Now there's NO hope for young people except joining the militia (Al Shabab, Boko Haram, ISIS, pick one) which will at least feed them.