Re: Gutting USAID

On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:37:29 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 2/16/2025 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:14:19 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

 On 2/16/2025 2:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   On Feb 4, 2025 at 8:27:31 AM PST, "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.

  
   To all the people defending the USAID spending, name any other country
that
   taxes their citizens and sends the money to the United States.

 
 Umm, the idea is to send money to countries poorer than the sender...

 
 Really? So Ireland is so poor it needs the U.S. taxpayer to fund its DEI
 musicals, does it?

 
Your contention seems to be that other countries should send the U.S.
money ...because reciprocity.  My description of the practice clarifies
why the U.S., as the richest country, is never a recipient.

The U.S isn't the richest country. Both China and Luxembourg are richer than
the U.S. as a percentage of per capita GDP.