Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Gutting USAID Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:58:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:58:47 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="18ce198772ed487c9b9ee38c60ed3c54"; logging-data="872052"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/GPziv8zmi8gXJQ4dC/B/P" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:HXHtj50Hn6tmByX5wMVV+PgmyiA= On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:37:29 PM PST, "moviePig" wrote: > On 2/16/2025 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:14:19 PM PST, "moviePig" wrote: >> >>> On 2/16/2025 2:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>> On Feb 4, 2025 at 8:27:31 AM PST, "suzeeq" wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2/3/2025 10:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> On Feb 3, 2025 at 9:57:31 PM PST, "suzeeq" wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2/3/2025 9:35 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>>>>>> BTR1701 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.