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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:56:01 -0500
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On 2/16/2025 6:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.

"With contributions totaling more than €64.4 million to date, Luxembourg 
is one of the Global Fund's largest donors per capita."

https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/government/profiles/luxembourg/