Re: Gutting USAID

On Feb 4, 2025 at 10:01:36 AM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

On 2/4/2025 9:59 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Feb 4, 2025 at 9:31:18 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
 wrote:
 

 On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:27:31 -0800, suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
 

 On 2/3/2025 10:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   On Feb 3, 2025 at 9:57:31 PM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
  

   On 2/3/2025 9:35 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

     BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    

     The press is running for the fainting couch over Trump setting DOGE
 loose on
     USAID with plans to gut the entire organization.

    
     I don't care. Elon Musk isn't fucking president of the United States;
     Trump needs to reign this guy in.
    

     Here's a small taste of what USAID has been doing with your tax money:

    
     I'm sure every single government agency, including Library of Congress,
     has absurd spending on pointless projects. But true government reform
     takes real work, not just these power trips locking all the employees
     out. Or lobby Congress to sunset the agency. Anything is better than
     these stupid games.
    

   I had a thought tonight.. .If we don't fund these programs what if China
   steps in to do so? Then what happens?

  
   If China wants to fund a DEI musical in Ireland, let them.
  
   If China wants to throw its money away paying for transgender operas in
   Colombia, who cares?
  

 USAID does a lot more that DEI. This is the new boogey man y'all are so
 afraid of, a coupla years ago it was critical race theory.

 
 And even if they were wasting money on DEI, so what?

 
 So what? "They're wasting huge sums of money, but who cares?"
 
 This is why we're tens of trillions in debt. Forty years of everyone saying
 "So what?" to every lunatic expenditure.

 
Aid programs to other countries are less than 1% of the US budget.

A percent here and percent there and before long you're talking about real
money.

Those trillions of debt got there during Trump v1 administration.

Not just Trump. Don't be disingenuous. We were $20 trillion in debt when Obama
left office.