Re: Gutting USAID

On 2/4/2025 12:20 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 3, 2025 at 7:43:51 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 2/3/2025 8:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  The press is running for the fainting couch over Trump setting DOGE loose on
  USAID with plans to gut the entire organization.
    Here's a small taste of what USAID has been doing with your tax money:
    --$1.5 million to advance DEI programs in Serbia's workplaces
    --$70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland
    --$47,000 to produce a transgender opera in Colombia
    --$32,000 to publish a transgender comic book in Peru
    ...and the list goes on.
    They don't need to just put a stop to outrageous spending of tax dollars on
  crap like this, they need to burn down the entire organization and start
from
  scratch.
    Why, as an American taxpayer, do I even care if Serbia's workplaces have
DEI,
  let alone want to spend millions on it?!? If Serbia wants DEI, they can damn
  well fund it themselves.
    Same with Ireland. If it loves DEI so much it wants to praise it in the form
  of musical theater, then Ireland can pay for it.
    And Colombia... and Peru. Why in the fuck are we spending untold amounts of
  our money on this crap in the first place, let alone for other countries?

>
Some backward nations don't recognize DEI as an unpardonable scourge...

 Again, if they want it, they can fucking pay for it themselves. It's not my
responsibility as an American taxpayer to fund DEI musicals in goddam Ireland,
for fucks sake.

DEI isn't inherently evil, but merely suffering from a transformation into religion ...which inevitably few principles survive.  Its positive values, otoh, may be as worthy as any of being spread.