If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding
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The Washington Post
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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Farmers know who purchases their crops, and they voted to slash government spending thinking *their* checks would be spared...
Don't blame the folks that look angry.
Ten bucks a punch. Really hard punches will cost you more.
Isn't that what they wanted?
As we withdraw China moves in. Chinese influence may stop the US & bring in their security forces.
All that money that goes to lazy, undeserving, immoral blah blah blah (ie Those People) ends up in the pockets of GOP-voting landlords, grocery stores, farmers, and other US businesses.
Sounds like a win.
But, if you have an agenda or depending where your ideology lands you can yell "welfare"
Apathy or active disinterest are a huge part of our problem. News needs to be exciting and confirming assumptions or people will just tune out and watch the Kardashians.
We're f*cked.
Like Jim Jones kind of creepy
They only knew they hated the DEMS!
It is to get the media back to reporting the real! Report CFx34 crimes as real crimes instead of just normal news!
No tv, radio, news feeds, apps w/ads and social media. ANYTHING WITH ADS!!
Hit their $$!
Most maga voters, correction MOST VOTERS, have no idea what USAID actually does.
Messaging needs to point out how musk is directly hurting maga voters!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/
Maybe that would have convinced Trump not to attack it...
Which side did you vote for?
#FAFO
Sigh.
#MAGACultMorons #MAGAts #MAGAtMorons #MAGAt #MAGACult #Republicans
In a tl:dr world he has the upper hand.
I will not be sending my Tax check until April 15th along with my paper return. They can process my return and check manually.
Now it's a little late.
How are people supposed to know these things if no one tells them? Looking at you, MSM.
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mast-exposes-outrageous-usaid-and-state-department-grants/
Now you know why 'the American Farmer' is "over".
Techbros are getting all of it!
I have no TV.
I go there, often.
They pic oranges, apples, to carrots, potatoes, asparagus, pecans....it's amazing what enough money they can get robotic equipment to do..
ppl are just cheaper, up until now.
yes,..it's real.
other than a few specific stoop jobs,..they'll automate the rest.
'self driving trucks'..is 'a clue'.
the 1st place they'll be seen in quantity, will be in grain fields..instead of paying a guy $20/hr allday to follow a Combine, which is itself alrdy 90% automated.
“Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, “