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If it's relevant to what I posted then explain how it's relevant.No, it isn't. People would think that it was much, much higher. The percentage shows that it's a tiny drop in the ocean. Insignificant in the scheme of things.
From here:
Most people clueless on U.S. foreign aid spending
Secretary of State John Kerry aired an old complaint about the public and foreign aid. In a speech before the Chicago Cowww.politifact.com
'In January 2016, Kaiser found that only 3 percent of Americans correctly estimated spending at 1 percent or less of total spending. The average answer was that foreign aid accounts for 31 percent of the U.S. budget; 15 percent of the people thought it represented over half of all spending.'
C'mon, it couldn't be more obvious. People think it's a big deal. 30% of the budget! It's not. It's chump change.If it's relevant to what I posted then explain how it's relevant.
The point isn't the money, nor is it that they are responsible for the economic exploitation of the developing world as Chesterton alleges. It's that they are trying to give back a little for that exploitation and many of the kind of people who work for USAID are actually opposed to it. Unacceptable in MAGAland.C'mon, it couldn't be more obvious. People think it's a big deal. 30% of the budget! It's not. It's chump change.
If you earn a grand a week people think it's the equivalent of $300. It ain't. It's the equivalent of 2 bucks. That won't even get you a coffee.
It's the equivalent of complaining if your wife gave 2 bucks to a homeless guy.The point isn't the money, nor is it that they are responsible for the economic exploitation of the developing world as Chesterton alleges. It's that they are trying to give back a little for that exploitation and many of the kind of people who work for USAID are actually opposed to it. Unacceptable in MAGAland.
Okay so you made an irrelevant point that you can't explain. Hypothetically let's say the budget is a hundred million billion trillion dollars. What difference would that make?C'mon, it couldn't be more obvious. People think it's a big deal. 30% of the budget! It's not. It's chump change.
If you earn a grand a week people think it's the equivalent of $300. It ain't. It's the equivalent of 2 bucks. That won't even get you a coffee.
Trying to give back a little for our exploitation? Yeah well we once gave our slaves room and board and Sundays off.The point isn't the money, nor is it that they are responsible for the economic exploitation of the developing world as Chesterton alleges. It's that they are trying to give back a little for that exploitation and many of the kind of people who work for USAID are actually opposed to it. Unacceptable in MAGAland.
Especially if you were the one who made him homeless to begin with. It would make you seem "deplorable."It's the equivalent of complaining if your wife gave 2 bucks to a homeless guy.
Sure we did. Then we freed them, and now we can hate the guys who shamed us into giving them room and board and Sundays off while they were slaves. We can even send Musk and his thugs around to drag them out of their offices. Oops. It looks like we could have done that without having freed them and it would have made the slaves cheaper to keep. I guess Trump is a smarter President than Jeff Davis was.Trying to give back a little for our exploitation? Yeah well we once gave our slaves room and board and Sundays off.
It's the equivalent of your wife giving a thousand billion trillion dollars to the homeless guy.Okay so you made an irrelevant point that you can't explain. Hypothetically let's say the budget is a hundred million billion trillion dollars. What difference would that make?
Your post makes no sense.Sure we did. Then we freed them, and now we can hate the guys who shamed us into giving them room and board and Sundays off while they were slaves. We can even send Musk and his thugs around to drag them out of their offices. Oops. It looks like we could have done that without having freed them and it would have made the slaves cheaper to keep. I guess Trump is a smarter President than Jeff Davis was.
You're under no obligation to watch the video I posted, but if you don't watch it, please don't comment on its content.It's the equivalent of your wife giving a thousand billion trillion dollars to the homeless guy.
It's kind of an amount worth worrying about. As opposed to the current budget. Which isn't.
Sorry, I can't be any clearer than that.
OK. I promise I won't.You're under no obligation to watch the video I posted, but if you don't watch it, please don't comment on its content.
What do you think should happen?Trying to give back a little for our exploitation? Yeah well we once gave our slaves room and board and Sundays off.
The Federal Government is doing “lockouts” now?If you claim to care about the less fortunate in the world, what Trump/Musk are doing is the antithesis of that.
Turmoil inside USAID: DOGE reps take over offices, senior officials placed on leave
Amid ongoing turmoil inside the U.S. Agency for International Development, sources told ABC News that Department of Government Efficiency staffers have moved to take over offices, escalating tensions as more senior staff members are locked out of internal systems, additional employees are placed on administrative leave, and the agency’s newly appointed chief of staff resigned as the Elon Musk-led agency works to assert control over the USAID, which oversees foreign aid, disaster relief and international development programs.
On Friday night, a dramatic scene played out when a group of individuals who identified themselves as State Department employees and DOGE representatives arrived at the USAID offices in the Ronald Reagan Building and demanded immediate access to every office, according to sources familiar with the incident.
After initially being denied entry, the group told security guards that if they were not granted entry, they would call the U.S. Marshals Service, sources said. The guards ultimately complied, the source said.
As reports emerged over clashes inside USAID, Musk unloaded a barrage of attacks against the agency across his social media platform, X.
"USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die," Musk wrote in one post.
When shown Musk’s posts on X targeting USAID, a senior official for the agency told ABC News, “The warp-speed of this mafia-like takeover has shaken USAID staff to the core.”
The group gained access to USAID’s internal systems on Friday, including the agency’s website and several critical databases, according to sources familiar with the matter. Among the systems was the Development Evaluation Clearinghouse, which houses reports on past and ongoing USAID programs, as well as the Development Information Solution (DIS) -- a system used to track congressionally mandated and performance-related data for all USAID programs worldwide.
Sources also said that the group also seized control of a software system called Phoenix, a program for USAID's financial management system used to track and manage the agency’s budgeting, accounting and financial transactions. The system was down over the weekend, sources said, which has sent shockwaves across contractors for USAID who are fearful they won't be paid for their work. Major firms that manage global supply chains, including those for initiatives like antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and other essential medicines to combat HIV/AIDS, rely on Phoenix.
Sources told ABC News the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts are being overseen by Peter Marocco, a campaign ally in the Office of Foreign Assistance who was reportedly caught on camera inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Website Vanished
It's been a tumultuous weekend for USAID — the U.S. Agency for International Development. On Saturday sometime after 3 a.m., its website went down, according to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit group that tracks web pages.
The deletion of the website and social media accounts alongside significant layoffs and the near-total suspension of work is an effort to dismantle USAID entirely, Jeremy Konyndyk told NPR. Konyndyk led disaster relief under Obama and the COVID and mpox responses under Biden at USAID. He's currently president of the aid group Refugees International.
"They're trying to eliminate the agency," Konyndyk said.
"They have announced no plan and given no rationale — they're just taking everything down," Konyndyk said. "They're trying to do it behind the scenes rather than openly," he said, so they don't have to "defend what they're doing" in announcements to the public.
The consequences of a diminished or erased USAID would be dire, Konyndyk said, noting that one key component of its programs is keeping outbreaks and epidemics from reaching U.S. shores.
USAID is "enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling," wrote Dr. Atul Gawande, former assistant administrator for global health at USAID, in a post on Bluesky on Sunday.
The dissolution would extend beyond "the unlawful destruction of USAID's life-saving work," Gawande told NPR. "USAID has become the place where the administration is demonstrating and developing its playbook for eviscerating other targeted agencies."
The web shutdown comes in the wake of both the stop work order and the furloughing or laying off of hundreds of USAID employees. In his first two weeks in office, the Trump administration placed senior leadership at USAID on leave and laid off or furloughed more than 400 contractors in the agency's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and also laid off hundreds more in its Global Health Bureau.
“It’s ‘good’ to be the King!”—Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI, (History of the World, Part one, 1981)Nothing is illegal for the President. If anything is illegal for those that do his bidding, he just needs to pardon them, then it's all legal for them too.
“It’s ‘good’ to be the King!”—Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI, (History of the World, Part one, 1981)
I've watched your video. But I still don't get your issue with USAID.You're under no obligation to watch the video I posted, but if you don't watch it, please don't comment on its content.
Maybe we’ll do like your neighbors do and require all citizens to vote.The eligible voters who didn't vote, they are getting exactly what they empowered by not voting.
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