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USAID & Monolithic Democratic Corruption

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CRS has a CEO who pulls in over $600,000 a year. Missionaries of the Poor reach the poorest of the poor, they themselves have taken a vow of poverty and owe nothing. There is no reason to waste money going through the bureaucracy of the federal government. Don't tax the people so heavily in this way they can donate directly to good charitable organizations, not necessarily those chosen by Democratic Party leaders.
How does China do it? They're our big competitor in the "hearts and minds" business.
 
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The anti-Catholicism in the article, written for a publication owned by Russ Vogt, Trump's latest dangerous cabinet pick and author of Project 2025, is sickening.

He attacked the USCCB (American bishops.)
He attacked Catholic Charities (4 out of 4 stars in Charity Navigator.)
He attacked Catholic Relief Services (93% of funds collected go directly to the poor overseas--not listed in Charity Navigator.)
He accused them of cooperating with sex trafficking! Drug cartels!

Why? Because they follow the commands of Jesus, as interpreted by Popes Francis and Leo, to 'welcome the stranger.'

They are maligned and slandered because they believe in Jesus' Gospel--the Generosity Gospel--instead of the "Prosperity Gospel" (he who dies with the most toys wins.)
 
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The anti-Catholicism in the article, written for a publication owned by Russ Vogt, Trump's latest dangerous cabinet pick and author of Project 2025, is sickening.

He attacked the USCCB (American bishops.)
He attacked Catholic Charities (4 out of 4 stars in Charity Navigator.)
He attacked Catholic Relief Services (93% of funds collected go directly to the poor overseas--not listed in Charity Navigator.)
He accused them of cooperating with sex trafficking! Drug cartels!

Why? Because they follow the commands of Jesus, as interpreted by Popes Francis and Leo, to 'welcome the stranger.'

They are maligned and slandered because they believe in Jesus' Gospel--the Generosity Gospel--instead of the "Prosperity Gospel" (he who dies with the most toys wins.)
The CEO of Catholic Charities San Antonio, José Fernánde, stated that he was within grant rules in giving airfare to migrants. As I said, the Catholic group Missionaries of the Poor serves the poorest of the poor. That organization does not provide free airfare to migrants. In one of the greatest hoaxes of the century, the Biden administration insisted the border was safe, secure, and closed, and pretended they could do nothing more to stop the flow of migrants without legislation. We did eventually learn they were secretly using taxpayer money to fly more into the country. What the Biden administration program did enable human trafficking, bringing back slavery in our country to a level not seen since the end of the Civil War. Additionally, the flow of migrants has been brought to a trickle and so there is no longer the need to provide food and medicine to so many. Taking a careful look at how CRS spends money, many, but not all, of there programs lost support. The states and private givers can replace the money if they think it is being well spent.
 
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Additionally, the flow of migrants has been brought to a trickle and so there is no longer the need to provide food and medicine to so many. Taking a careful look at how CRS spends money, many, but not all, of there programs lost support. The states and private givers can replace the money if they think it is being well spent.
While you are justifying all of this in an attempt to assuage your conscience, New York Times estimates that 300,000 children have died since the aid was eliminated. Some of them had been born with HIV and were surviving because of drugs that cost the United States government 12 cents a day per child. So that means that for 84 cents a week, we decided that each one of those children doesn't deserve to live. Shame on Trump and all I think the tax cuts for billionaires are more important than the lives of 300,000 little children.
 
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Foreign aid is one of the easiest conduits for government officials to steal money from poor and middle-class Americans.


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Wow.

That is a White house link and you would think when you clicked their links in claims, you would expect see some kind of well founded evidence of all this fraud and abuse.

But no, they link to "The Daily Mail" "The Daily Caller" "Breitbart" and of course, the emphasis "The requested URL was not found on this server."

I mean, this is the White house's link. This is sad and simply won't do.
 
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