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International US AID was necessary, proof is documented.
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A few thousand here, a few thousand there for things you know no taxpayer would approve of.
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Yeah, no one's saying USAID is all bad, just a lot of it. Get the useless shit out and retain the stuff that makes sense.
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Whenever you saw some absolutely absurd, completely unorganic NGOs, that you simply can't understand who is funding, and whose mission is like "there need to be more Ethiopians in Poland", you just know it's the NGO industrial complex, who was largely funded by usaid, state dept, and all sorts of other ideological slush funds the dems used to control.
USAID getting rekt might have just been one of the best ways to improve US relations with a lot of countries. Everybody hated that shit. aid is one thing, forced propaganda and degeneracy is another. good riddance.
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Oh my lord that was almost unwatchable. The crappy AI, the over the top pointless writing.
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USAID funded over $5 Billion for the Ukraine "coup" in 2014...
lol
How far back do Biden's blanket pardons go?
Analysis of Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast
Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he, his firm earned about $11 million from 2013 to 2018
The hard drive and documents from Senate Republicans indicate few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money.
www.nbcnews.com
USAID is rotten to the core
Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians as they developed democratic skills and institutions, strengthened the rule of law, and promoted civic participation and good governance, all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure, prosperous and democratic Ukraine.
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These things weren’t even funded by USAID though.
“White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said to reporters Tuesday that USAID had spent “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces; $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland; $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.” Those claims were picked up and spread widely on social media throughout the week.
Only the grant to a Serbian organization called Grupa Izadji was awarded by USAID. Its stated aim is to “to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
The rest were awarded by the State Department’s Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.”
Likewise, these drag shows fe funded in part by a State Dept grant, not by USAID.
@Fox by the Sea said nobody had a problem with USAID delivering food aid, but Trump obviously did.
USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil amid Trump funding freeze
Report from inspector general’s office criticized Trump administration’s attempt to drastically cut USAID
He’s killed billions in AIDS relief as well.
Overall, Trump has killed 90% of what USAID did.
Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
apnews.com
If you don’t like those grants or whatever, fine; but why are you wasting your time with that when Trump was killing the economy to the tune of trillions? Why are we acting like USAID did this when they didn’t? Why doesn’t the Trump State Dept just stop issuing those grants rather than killing an agency like USAID that is massively beneficial to the country?
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I think trump is doing it because it's one of the democrat money networks. my guess the agency will come back in some form. but currently the political war is about cutting and taking over the democrat slush funds.
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As if the money ever found it's way to that project.
If I was in power and someone tried to tell me that they spent six figures on some Transgender Opera in Columbia, I'd simply ask to see the opera, just to watch their faces go white and hear all the creative excuses as to why there is no transgender opera in Columbia.
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Except it’s not a slush fund nor is it a Democrat anything. I think it’s just a case of Trump desperately trying to free up money to offset massive tax cuts for the wealthy, and as long as they can pretend they’re doing that “because trannies” their base will let them get away with it.
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i've dealt with them. i've seen the amount of money they literally throw around for almost nothing. i've seen NGOs popped up from nothing. i've seen them hire "consultants" for thousands of dollars a week which were sons or relatives of local politicians. i've seen what delegations they bring along their official business. i've seen them "sponsor" all sorts of journalists who in turn are basically hired propagandists.
yeah it's a slush fund.
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No one? Are you sure about that?
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This may be the dumbest seriously written post ever made in the war room
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To me, it's really sad that you have to explain this.That’s not really it, no. I find the whole thing kind of ironic, because USAID works to do many of the things conservatives claim they want.
USAID works to stabilize poor, sick, and war-torn regions, and this has a whole slew of effects.
—It decreases irregular migration to the US from other countries. The main drivers of this are things like war and violence, lack of economic opportunity, lack of critical infrastructure (I mean things as basic as clean water). By working to reduce those things, you reduce irregular immigration to the US. An example of that is the Feed the Future program, which in Honduras reported a decrease in intent to migrate of 78%.
—It helps establish manufacturing and business in underdeveloped countries. Partnerships made there help the US import materials more cheaply that we can use in manufacturing thus helping us to compete with countries like China.
—As I mentioned already, it provides new partners for our own exports. This isn’t a small thing; the growth in exports we had to these countries was credited for helping us get out of the Great Recession as quickly as we did. Our recovery could’ve been longer and worse without them. Likewise, if you truly want to start closing the overall trade deficits the US has, we need to increase our exports. USAID helps us do that.
—It helps us retain status as the reserve currency. This is important. When China conducts international trade, they convert their yuan to the dollar. The entire global economic system is based around the dollar, and it would be very bad to lose that. Why is the dollar the reserve currency? Because we protect the trade routes. USAID helps us to do that in ways that don’t involve military force and expense, and are long lasting and mutually beneficial.
TLDR: It is not a viable long term strategy to blow money on ICE raid after ICE raid, plane flight after plane flight, building prison after prison; nor is it viable to tax the shit out of American consumers (via tariffs) to close trade deficits. The most viable strategy is to help these underdeveloped countries become emerging markets.
Feeding Resilience: The National Security Imperative of USAID’s Food Security Programs - The Council on Strategic Risks
Amid multiplying threats, food security initiatives like Feed the Future and FEWS NET are essential to national security.councilonstrategicrisks.org
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Bullshit. These countries have huge tariffs on our exports, how is that helping us?
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Could you imagine if Russia spent $5 billion dollars on the Jan 6 "insurrection" and it was actually successful in overthrowing Biden's election?USAID funded over $5 Billion for the Ukraine "coup" in 2014...
lol
How far back do Biden's blanket pardons go?
Analysis of Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast
Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he, his firm earned about $11 million from 2013 to 2018
The hard drive and documents from Senate Republicans indicate few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money.
USAID is rotten to the core
Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians as they developed democratic skills and institutions, strengthened the rule of law, and promoted civic participation and good governance, all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure, prosperous and democratic Ukraine.
That's essentially what we did in Ukraine, and look at all of the fallout from USAID's involvement.
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what I'm the most impressed by is that somehow the democrats managed to turn a CIA regime change slush fund into their own grift machine.
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That’s not really it, no. I find the whole thing kind of ironic, because USAID works to do many of the things conservatives claim they want.
USAID works to stabilize poor, sick, and war-torn regions, and this has a whole slew of effects.
—It decreases irregular migration to the US from other countries. The main drivers of this are things like war and violence, lack of economic opportunity, lack of critical infrastructure (I mean things as basic as clean water). By working to reduce those things, you reduce irregular immigration to the US. An example of that is the Feed the Future program, which in Honduras reported a decrease in intent to migrate of 78%.
—It helps establish manufacturing and business in underdeveloped countries. Partnerships made there help the US import materials more cheaply that we can use in manufacturing thus helping us to compete with countries like China.
—As I mentioned already, it provides new partners for our own exports. This isn’t a small thing; the growth in exports we had to these countries was credited for helping us get out of the Great Recession as quickly as we did. Our recovery could’ve been longer and worse without them. Likewise, if you truly want to start closing the overall trade deficits the US has, we need to increase our exports. USAID helps us do that.
—It helps us retain status as the reserve currency. This is important. When China conducts international trade, they convert their yuan to the dollar. The entire global economic system is based around the dollar, and it would be very bad to lose that. Why is the dollar the reserve currency? Because we protect the trade routes. USAID helps us to do that in ways that don’t involve military force and expense, and are long lasting and mutually beneficial.
TLDR: It is not a viable long term strategy to blow money on ICE raid after ICE raid, plane flight after plane flight, building prison after prison; nor is it viable to tax the shit out of American consumers (via tariffs) to close trade deficits. The most viable strategy is to help these underdeveloped countries become emerging markets.
Feeding Resilience: The National Security Imperative of USAID’s Food Security Programs - The Council on Strategic Risks
Amid multiplying threats, food security initiatives like Feed the Future and FEWS NET are essential to national security.
lol... It's not the US's job to save the world.
And USAID has been a CIA front since it's inception
‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency
Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba, they appear to have been right. In an eye-opening display of incompetence, the United States covertly launched a social media platform in Cuba in 2010, ...
NGO's run wild and spend money with zero oversight.
