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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:30:46 -0500
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moviepig wrote:
> On 2/3/2025 8:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

>> The press is running for the fainting couch over Trump setting DOGE loose 
>> on USAID with plans to gut the entire organization.
>> 
>> Here's a small taste of what USAID has been doing with your tax money:
>> 
>> --$1.5 million to advance DEI programs in Serbia's workplaces
>> 
>> --$70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland
>> 
>> --$47,000 to produce a transgender opera in Colombia
>> 
>> --$32,000 to publish a transgender comic book in Peru
>> 
>> ...and the list goes on.
>> 
>> They don't need to just put a stop to outrageous spending of tax dollars 
>> on crap like this, they need to burn down the entire organization and 
>> start from scratch.
>> 
>> Why, as an American taxpayer, do I even care if Serbia's workplaces have 
>> DEI, let alone want to spend millions on it?!? If Serbia wants DEI, they 
>> can damn well fund it themselves.
>> 
>> Same with Ireland. If it loves DEI so much it wants to praise it in the 
>> form of musical theater, then Ireland can pay for it.
>> 
>> And Colombia... and Peru. Why in the fuck are we spending untold amounts 
>> of our money on this crap in the first place, let alone for other 
>> countries?
>
>Some backward nations don't recognize DEI as an unpardonable scourge...

OK, who's forging postings from moviepig?

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