That’s a pretty stretch you are making. We are talking about fraud, waste and USAID funneling money through NGOs. I’m not in favor of isolationism. I’m in favor of providing true aid to foreign countries who need it.
Op seems like his demographic.
I think you’d be hard pressed to find any decent human who would deny food to starving people. So stop funding LGBTQ pamphlets and buy some food instead. I don’t get why this is not easily agreed to.
So given that most of us agree that USAID is likely rife with funding for suspicious NGO entities could it be a very easy first target for DOGE? Bring up these silly examples like LGBTQ pamphlets in countries who have starving people, get the taxpayers really stirred up, score an easy victory and then hunt for some bigger game at other agencies?
Oh I think we have some of those issues already right here . So let’s stop those small dollar amounts that nonetheless ADD UP.
Did you know it would cost $25 billion to make sure no American would go hungry? And $31.5 billion each year for 20 years to have clean water for everyone in America?
Per googles it is $8.5 billion
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This is a wrong take. Have their been CIA hiding behind the USAID flag in the past? Probably but that's not what the organization is about. If it is what you are suggesting, you have to wonder why Trump would want to dismantle it.There are so many examples of how they are using these NGOs created by our political overlords to do covert operations that the CIA use to do. I wonder how Russia got the idea for these bot farms??
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just because you don't like something or someone doesn't make it fake. lol
Again, what does Trump have to do with us using money for covert ops through NGOs under the guise of USAID?
But they (NGOs and the spooks) are using it as a front. That is what is so wrong about this whole situation. I’ve stated a couple times we should reform it and not get rid of it.
There are so many examples going back to 1961.
Per googles it is $8.5 billion
How Much Global Health Funding Goes Through USAID? | KFF
This analysis highlights USAID's role in global health and shows that the agency provided the vast majority of the nation's global health assistance for other countries in 2023 (about $6.2 billion or 73% of the total bilateral global health funding that year).
Let's assume those numbers are correct.
I am with you WWJD. I’m just using what we are spending on USAID as an example. We can be using those $$$ at home for less than the budget we are forking out to some corrupt organizations.
Is that a USAID problem or a CIA problem?There are so many examples going back to 1961.
5 of the Worst USAID Scandals in History
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug traffickingwww.yahoo.com
USAID was founded in 1961, just as Washington was getting more heavily involved in Vietnam. The Kennedy administration's Special Group (Counter-Insurgency) quickly tasked USAID "to coordinate economic assistance programs with military civic action programs." More bluntly: The agency worked hand in glove with the CIA's proxy wars.
In Laos, one of Vietnam's neighbors, USAID helped the CIA arm and feed ethnic Hmong guerrillas fighting communist forces—and, sometimes, to compel the Hmong to do that fighting. "Since USAID decided where the rice was dropped, the Hmong had no choice but to stand and fight," writes historian Alfred McCoy. His 1972 book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, also made waves when it claimed USAID was helping Hmong militiamen and other warlords smuggle opium.
Chief of border customs paid/by Central Intelligence's USAID," sang the beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg, who worked with McCoy. "The whole operation, newspapers say/supported by the CIA."
Meanwhile, USAID's Office of Public Safety helped train police and security forces of U.S. allies, including unsavory dictatorships. The office set up an extensive surveillance network in Vietnam and founded an International Police Academy for other anticommunist allies. National Security Adviser Robert Komer argued in 1962 that these programs were "more valuable than Special Forces in our global counter-insurgency efforts."
The controversy came to a head in 1970 when Uruguay's Tupamaros guerrillas kidnapped and murdered USAID adviser Dan Mitrione, who the guerrillas accused of teaching torture to the Uruguayan police. Congress ordered USAID to shut down its Office of Public Safety in 1973. "It matters little whether the charges [of torture] can be substantiated," the Senate Foreign Relations Committee stated. "They inevitably stigmatize the total United States foreign aid effort."
The U.S. government still provides training to foreign police forces—including ones notorious for torture—but those programs are now largely handled by the State Department.
You asked for a number and I googled for said number. Why would I know how much it would cost hahaYou're referencing the same budget you've been critiquing as being some sort of partisan waste to funnel money into the hands of your political rulers?
Look at the OP. He brought it up in the pod and I had to look and confirm it. I did that a couple of times throughout this pod and low and behold, #confirmed
Front is an ugly word, and we really shouldn't be referencing the CIA as if it's some sort of dog whistle.
That was my first thought when I heard Trump was cutting AIDS funding.
I laid out what it would cost to feed every American and have clean water then followed up with we can use the rest of the USAID budget for helping our allies. I had no idea reading comprehension was this tough for you.
Sounds like you think we should have pursued policies that would accelerate the climate crisis. How does that make sense?
For those countries, it may have made (and still may make) a mountain of sense. But that wasn't our policy, and as I said, 'so be it'.
I would stop trying to be a martyr but fake narratives about my positions are making me into one 🙏🙌💪🏿
