"Food and medicine and infrastructure buy good will, good will translates to conversations, and conversations turn into intelligence and partnerships." Will Selber on how USAID helped the military mission in Afghanistan:
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The minimal cost of foreign aid has been instrumental in the United States becoming the greatest economic and military power the world has ever known or will know. A bargain at 10 times the price.
It looks like the money we spent there did wonders for "winning the war." I'm glad that we spent a trillion dollars to replace the evil Taliban with the Taliban.
USAID also provided $300M SANAD a construction resources company to the government of Gaza specializing in Cement. Guess what that government - HAMAS - did with the gift.
They built hundreds of miles of terror tunnels which they used to invade Israel and rape, pillage, kill, and burn.
Thank you for pointing out the true work of the Agency for International Development. You mean it does important things...not giving condoms to Hamas--as the GOP advertise?
Yes. Congress's job & the reason for Attorneys Generals. What about wasteful spending at DOD? What about the obvious conflicts of interest for Musk
eliminating those who oversee his contracts...
How much did it cost us for Trump to go to the Super Bowl? It's hypocrisy in plain sight.
Sure I would hope that Congress would also be involved in ending wasteful spending, but surely the exec branch has the authority to end wasteful executive branch spending. It wouldn't be a question if it was a Dem president doing it. And I'm all for shrinking the DoD to something reasonable!
Major news networks need to highlight these stories! Trump cares not about outrage, he thrives on it. Soft power stories have incredible impact on American 🇺🇸 psyche!
Let’s be real: these cuts are simply to desensitize the public to executive takeover of all fiscal matters so DOGE can then say that they’ve exhausted all other possible options to reduce debt and that there is no other option than to privatize Medicare & Social Security.
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America is run now by FOOLS
They built hundreds of miles of terror tunnels which they used to invade Israel and rape, pillage, kill, and burn.
USAID - the American taxpayer - paid for the Israeli/Gaza War.
USAID deserves a gloriously ignoble death.
eliminating those who oversee his contracts...
How much did it cost us for Trump to go to the Super Bowl? It's hypocrisy in plain sight.