Re: Gutting USAID

On Feb 17, 2025 at 2:02:22 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 2/17/2025 3:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Feb 17, 2025 at 12:18:37 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

 On 2/17/2025 12:19 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

   On Feb 16, 2025 at 7:56:01 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
  

   On 2/16/2025 6:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

     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:

 
     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.

 
   "With contributions totaling more than €64.4 million to date, Luxembourg
   is one of the Global Fund's largest donors per capita."
 
   https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/government/profiles/luxembourg/

  
   How does that meet the challenge I presented?

 
 Cutting to the chase: you said Luxembourg should send the U.S. Money.

 
 No, I asked anyone to name a country that taxes its citizens and sends the
 money to the United States.

 
I thought we'd dispensed with the absurdity of an eminently wealthy
nation receiving foreign aid. But maybe only I did.

Ireland is wealthy but it somehow expects us to dump our citizens' money on
them.

Meanwhile, the latest USAID scandalous spending to come to light is millions
to Guatemala to pay for sex change operations for Guatemalans. Why are the
U.S. taxpayers paying for sex change operations for *anyone*, let alone some
other country's people? If Guatemala thinks it needs more troons, it can pay
for them itself.