Re: Gutting USAID

On Feb 4, 2025 at 4:31:26 AM PST, "NoBody" <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 05:35:52 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> 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.
 

 
He is acting on authority and approval of the President.  What's to
"reign in" if he's done this?
 

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.
 

. . .

 
What's your issue with the list of waste that you deleted?

Never fear! I've got more...

USAID spent taxpayer dollars on

--$43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan that had no customers

--$1.5 million to promote LGBT Jamaicans

--$4 million for trans Hungarians

--$5.5 million for gay rights in Uganda

--$17 million for "trans inclusion" programs in Vietnam

--$25 million to promote "green transportation" in Georgia

--$1 million for Arab and Jewish photographers

--$20 million for the fund George Soros uses to get prosecutors like L.A.'s
George Gascon elected

--$8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid "binary-gendered
language", and...

--$122 million ended up in the hands of terrorists