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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:35:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 4, 2025 at 8:27:31 AM PST, "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.

To all the people defending the USAID spending, name any other country that
taxes their citizens and sends the money to the United States.