USAID ….worth the watch
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Absolutely. Hopefully the Doge czar digs into it deeper to find out who all got kickbacks, because i guarantee there are plenty of them that did.
Amazing how quickly MAGA went from populism to licking a bilionaire Nazi government welfare queen's balls.
At least you still have women’s soccer and The View. 🤣
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What’s your address? I want to send you a case of Virginia Slim menthols
^^^supports corruption and spending stupidly
Just saw someone claim Elon Musk is paying for four 30 second ads during the Super Bowl to detail corruption found by DOGE.
No official reports that’s I see yet but if this ends up being true I’m gonna laugh for days.
No official reports that’s I see yet but if this ends up being true I’m gonna laugh for days.
That fires up my inner Kirbah Smart. “I wanna eeeeeeaaaat!”
I understand the outrage at some of the BS that has been funded by USAID. I hope that the cuts to its programs are applied judiciously.
The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is an independent non-profit based here in the Shoals that partners with USAID and other countries to advance research and good farming practices to help feed the world.
Abandoning this effort will do damage to our relations with many developing countries and open the door for China to have greater influence.
I have interacted with people at this organization and they truly are non partisan and only interested in the advancement of good agriculture practices world wide.
The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is an independent non-profit based here in the Shoals that partners with USAID and other countries to advance research and good farming practices to help feed the world.
Abandoning this effort will do damage to our relations with many developing countries and open the door for China to have greater influence.
I have interacted with people at this organization and they truly are non partisan and only interested in the advancement of good agriculture practices world wide.
I too hope that such programs and charities continue. But the problem is government and the lack of oversight.
We had a similar program, and I'm sure you've also heard about it, where we did something VERY similar...we helped poppy farmers with their irrigation issues. True, it wasn't meant for that purpose but that is where the money went. That helped fund our actual enemies in their efforts to kill American and allied soldiers.
Government sucks at everything they do. It's true that there are some things that we can't allow non-government entities to do (like national security or law enforcement for example) but other things, almost every other thing, is done better when it isn't done by a government.
Also, just so you know, my dad spent almost his entire career in the fertilizer industry (phosphate and sulfuric acid) and programs like the one you just mentioned are destroying, or have destroyed, the American fertilizer industry.
American companies could no longer compete internationally, or even domestically, with companies who produced cheap fertilizer using cheap labor with little or NO EPA/OSHA style oversight. And we taught them how to do it and oftentimes even built their chemical plants and mining operations using American tax dollars.
We have decimated the American chemical industry. Is it kind to help feed the hungry? Yes. Is it in our best economic interests, or even our strategic interests, to decimate American industry like that? Clearly it is not...and the American tax payer is funding that crap? How is that equitable?
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Another btw...as part of a deal to get mining rights in Florida and in other parts of the US, our government required my dad's company to partner with USAID to help build some of these chemical plants.
My dad helped build them in South Korea and Brazil. His company also built several others throughout Africa, in other parts of Asia and South America but I can only recall the ones my dad helped build.
That company no longer exists. As far as I know, IMC and WR Grace are hanging on by a thread as domestic fertilizer producers but I'm not certain that they are even American owned at this point.
My dad helped build them in South Korea and Brazil. His company also built several others throughout Africa, in other parts of Asia and South America but I can only recall the ones my dad helped build.
That company no longer exists. As far as I know, IMC and WR Grace are hanging on by a thread as domestic fertilizer producers but I'm not certain that they are even American owned at this point.
Unfortunately, if we actually want to get a balanced budget, I don't think now is the time to apply cuts judiciously. It needs to be blanket cuts on many things, USAID is just the tip of the iceberg on what needs to go. Nobody wants the little guy to get hurt along the way, but it's going to be unavoidable to some extent. Going to have to burn some things down along the way.
If Trump/Elon actually do it correctly, it may be difficult for the Republicans in the mid-terms in 2026 because there is going to be some pain, and there is going to be some good programs that get cut along with all the waste.
I agree, there are a lot of legitimate programs funded through USAid….. that’s what makes this highway robbery, corruption and waste so painful….. and hideous, that these phuckers hid this crap behind such positive and proper window dressing
Guilt by association and perception is everything. Regardless of the 'service' this organization is performing, the organization needs to be disbanded and rebuilt from the top down. You cannot preform 10% in the light and 90% shadows, hold up the 10% banner and scream don't to this to this organization.
Agree. We also need to make sure such aid is at least relatively equitable for the American taxpayers who are funding it. It's hitting many of them twice as some of these Americans are losing their jobs overseas.
My dad had some incredible stories from his time in Brazil and South Korea (particularly SK) building these plants and then teaching the locals how to operate them.
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