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Subject: Re: Trump's Freezing of Federal Grants
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:36:58 -0500
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On 1/30/2025 7:11 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:09:51 -0500, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-01-28 8:49 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> Trump issued a temporary freeze on federal grant payments today. This is a
>>> necessary move, as many of these of these grants are used to fund ridiculous
>>> left-wing projects – many not even in America!
>>>
>>> Let's take a look at some of them.
>>>
>>>
>>> In 2021, the Biden administration gave $540,000 to Transgender Equity
>>> Consulting, Inc. This firm is comprised of "six black and latinks transgender
>>> and nonbinary individuals" – one whom is apparently the "first BBW trans porn
>>> star".
>>>
>>> Alright then. Certainly sounds like something my federal tax dollars should be
>>> funding.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Biden admin issued $850,000 in federal grants to a left-wing
>>> organization's "LGBTQI+ family support program,"  to provide training for
>>> military families on how to "affirm the gender identity of their children".
>>>
>>>
>>> Over half a million went to support "behavioral health for the transgender
>>> community in Hawaii".
>>>
>>> Thanks, Biden.
>>>
>>>
>>> Biden sent $1.2 million to the New Orleans Community Support Foundation to
>>> "adopt a holistic, adaptive water management vision that centers the
>>> leadership of black, indigenous, and people of color communities."
>>>
>>> Water management benefits from having non-white people in charge. Who knew? Of
>>> course we saw how well DEI and water management mixed in L.A., didn't we?
>>>
>>>
>>> More than $600,000 to UC Irvine to "influence" social media networks to try to
>>> get black and latinks people to accept Wuhan Flu vaccines.
>>>
>>>
>>> $728,747 went to Florida International University to help understand the
>>> experiences of black students learning mathematics in a "hispanic-serving
>>> institution context".
>>>
>>> Uh...okay.
>>>
>>>
>>> Half a million for natural resource management...in Honduras.
>>>
>>>
>>> However, all of the above combined amounts to just a drop in the bucket when
>>> compared to how much money is going to pro-illegal immigration stuff.
>>>
>>> Example: Over $278 MILLION to Catholic Charities of Fort Worth for "refugee
>>> cash and medical assistance".
>>>
>>> Yep, that's right. Our tax money going to provide free health care and cash
>>> handouts to illegals. You still have to pay for your health care, don't you,
>>> you stupid American citizen. But illegals just have to crawl across the border
>>> and the federal government will give it to them for free... with your money.
>>>
>>>
>> I have no doubt that many of these grants are not a good use of public
>> money; the beneficiaries should probably be left to their own devices -
>> i.e. fundraising - to fund their activities.
>>
>> I have to wonder how many of these grants go to good and worthy causes
>> that taxpayers would approve. Surely there must be SOME!
>>
>> Is turning off the grant tap entirely really the best way to proceed?
>> Maybe grants need to be assessed individually and only cut off if they
>> fail to meet whatever criteria the government sets for being worthy of
>> grants. Otherwise, it starts to look like a case of throwing out the
>> baby with the bathwater....
>>
> 
> Nothing wrong with putting in place a temporary pause so each program
> can be looked it.  Biden put so much garbage in place that I don't see
> any other way to do this.

Well, if you don't see one, I guess that's that...