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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:58:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:37:29 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 2/16/2025 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>  On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:14:19 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>  
>>>  On 2/16/2025 2:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>    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.
>>> 
>>>  Umm, the idea is to send money to countries poorer than the sender...
>>  
>>  Really? So Ireland is so poor it needs the U.S. taxpayer to fund its DEI
>>  musicals, does it?
> 
> Your contention seems to be that other countries should send the U.S. 
> money ...because reciprocity.  My description of the practice clarifies 
> why the U.S., as the richest country, is never a recipient.

The U.S isn't the richest country. Both China and Luxembourg are richer than
the U.S. as a percentage of per capita GDP.