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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:21:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 4, 2025 at 10:01:36 AM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

> On 2/4/2025 9:59 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>  On Feb 4, 2025 at 9:31:18 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>>  wrote:
>>  
>>>  On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:27:31 -0800, suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  On 2/3/2025 10:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>    On Feb 3, 2025 at 9:57:31 PM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>>>    
>>>>>>    On 2/3/2025 9:35 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>>>      BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>>      The press is running for the fainting couch over Trump setting DOGE
>>>>>>>>  loose on
>>>>>>>>      USAID with plans to gut the entire organization.
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>      I don't care. Elon Musk isn't fucking president of the United States;
>>>>>>>      Trump needs to reign this guy in.
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>>      Here's a small taste of what USAID has been doing with your tax money:
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>      I'm sure every single government agency, including Library of Congress,
>>>>>>>      has absurd spending on pointless projects. But true government reform
>>>>>>>      takes real work, not just these power trips locking all the employees
>>>>>>>      out. Or lobby Congress to sunset the agency. Anything is better than
>>>>>>>      these stupid games.
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>    I had a thought tonight.. .If we don't fund these programs what if China
>>>>>>    steps in to do so? Then what happens?
>>>>>    
>>>>>    If China wants to fund a DEI musical in Ireland, let them.
>>>>>    
>>>>>    If China wants to throw its money away paying for transgender operas in
>>>>>    Colombia, who cares?
>>>>>    
>>>>  USAID does a lot more that DEI. This is the new boogey man y'all are so
>>>>  afraid of, a coupla years ago it was critical race theory.
>>> 
>>>  And even if they were wasting money on DEI, so what?
>>  
>>  So what? "They're wasting huge sums of money, but who cares?"
>>  
>>  This is why we're tens of trillions in debt. Forty years of everyone saying
>>  "So what?" to every lunatic expenditure.
> 
> Aid programs to other countries are less than 1% of the US budget.

A percent here and percent there and before long you're talking about real
money.

> Those trillions of debt got there during Trump v1 administration.

Not just Trump. Don't be disingenuous. We were $20 trillion in debt when Obama
left office.