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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:20:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 4, 2025 at 4:31:26 AM PST, "NoBody" <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 05:35:52 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
> <ahk@chinet.com> 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.
>> 
> 
> He is acting on authority and approval of the President.  What's to
> "reign in" if he's done this?
> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>>> . . . 
> 
> What's your issue with the list of waste that you deleted?

Never fear! I've got more...

USAID spent taxpayer dollars on

--$43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan that had no customers

--$1.5 million to promote LGBT Jamaicans

--$4 million for trans Hungarians

--$5.5 million for gay rights in Uganda

--$17 million for "trans inclusion" programs in Vietnam

--$25 million to promote "green transportation" in Georgia

--$1 million for Arab and Jewish photographers

--$20 million for the fund George Soros uses to get prosecutors like L.A.'s
George Gascon elected

--$8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid "binary-gendered
language", and...

--$122 million ended up in the hands of terrorists