Even if all that Trump, Musk, et al. manage to do is to expose all this corruption, I will consider their efforts a success. If they actually manage to clean up a bunch of it, I will be profoundly amazed and grateful.
"With a foreign policy record that makes Liz Cheney appear up-to-date on her rabies shots,..." I certainly do appreciate a writer who can turn a phrase!
I'm sure upon examination, almost every other government agency has similar wasteful and even worse, harmful expenditures. It would be one thing if they just wasted the money having people dig holes and fill them back in, but they are actively HARMING the USA and really the rest of the world. The only people who benefit from these expenditures are the people who receive them. Guess they will just have to find something productive to do.
United States Agency for International Destruction would be more accurate. But the world has caught on to how this government always labels things in the opposite of what the effect will be. Inflation Reduction Act, anyone?
Funny that the presstitutes media was fighting against the aims of USAID for a long time, and now they are out blathering against President Trump and Elon Musk for shutting it down. It comes across as more anti-Trump crybabying by these goof-offs.
The amount of crap that has been poured into Merde Mountain over the years has been disgusting. And now, someone (or a couple of someones) has decided that they need to take a few levels of merde from the top and expose the rotten underbelly, and all you hear are complaints!
History has taught us that those who complain the loudest when the door is open also know that their ox is being gored the hardest and deepest.
My first job out of college in 1968 was with The Pathfinder Fund, an international family planning agency which was part of Harvard Medical School's School of Public Health. It was started by Clarence Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble). It was becoming heavily supported by USAID at the time I was hired to do translation work on the Spanish Desk as an Administrative Assistant to the field workers in Latin America. I helped develop a Spanish language comic book on family planning that was distributed to men's barber shops throughout Mexico in an effort to counter-act the prevalence of "machismo", a term that was becoming really vogue in the late 60's. I now recognize it as cultural meddling; but back then, at age 21, it felt like an important job that would improve the lives of many women if they were freed from one pregnancy after another...I had met Dr. John Rock who was instrumental in developing the now ubiquitous birth control pill--his office was in the same building in Boston where I worked; He was revered by all! We were "bettering the world"!
Then the presence of USAID grew larger and larger. Soon larger and more governmentally connected organizations world-wide, especially in Africa, were receiving grants from Pathfinder that became a funnel for USAID money. Pathfinder became no longer a charity for small family planning out-posts who we back in Boston supplied with birth control products and information from our medical research arm, raising money through frequent fund-raising efforts; but we became a branch of USAID. Gone was the modest. plain office. We had big-time management consultants with us. One of them was hired actually hired as our new Executive Director telling us lucky souls that "nowadays knowing medicine wasn't as important as being able to run a growing charitable non-profit." No more MD's running this place! Our office became large and swanky with carpeting and potted palms in the entry. Lot's of glass and many comfortable chairs for a new stream of posh visitors! Gone was the medical focus and the charitable way of thinking. I don't know if it was the Gamble family who sparked the change, or new contacts in USAID Washington, DC. Probably a combination of both. I quit a few weeks after the move to Brookline and a big fancy office with a new USAID-approved Executive Director....Thus began my long journey into Libertarianism. May the government octopus begin to shrink and let go!
Thanks Joel, your audience is growing and it is easy to understand why. My vision is a much much bigger audience, it's your job to ignite the fuse the blows NFTEOTW to everyone's go to news!
Medicare and Social Security need to be overhauled as well. People who don’t really need it take it anyway because the government gives it. I don’t have an answer, just know that no one wants to miss their share of the free handout.
There is no accountability for most of this moneyso you can bet alot of it comes back to our corrupt govt officials in the way of payola. Thank you Pres Trump for exposing and hopefully ending this travesty.
I factually had to read twice, to come to a better reality perspective, of what ‘Bull in a china-shop’ meets bureaucracies and thus greater implications.
The Orwellian construct called ‘Deep State’ or ‘The Swamp’(s)’ to be acted upon, are now being exposed as multi billions technicolored dens of corruption.
Squealing rats are running everywhere.
So many, so big and so disguised as angels of mercy.
INCREDIBLE. OR AS THE PORTENOS MIGHT SAY, "!INCREIBLE!"
YOU TELL'EMJOEL. I STUTTER.
JUST KEEP WRITING YOUR TRUTH CALMLY AND CLEARLY. PERHAP, EVEN SOME OF THE DEEPLY SLEEPING AND THOROUGHLY MESMERIZED WOKESTERS WILL AWOKEN TO TRUTH, AND SUDDENLY,IN A BLINDING FLASH, REALIZE THAT THEY ARE PROGRAMMED WITH A ITSHAY OADLAY OF LIES FROM ON LOW.
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR EFFORTS. AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR SEEKING THE TRUTH AND SPRAKING THE TRUTH AS YOU KNOW IT.
Even if all that Trump, Musk, et al. manage to do is to expose all this corruption, I will consider their efforts a success. If they actually manage to clean up a bunch of it, I will be profoundly amazed and grateful.
Amazed! AMEN!!!
Shocked. Thrilled. Grateful for sure.
I'm still watching my back in Maximum Safety Mode, while praying for their safety and success. Yours too, Joel.
Thank you. You made my week.
Thanks for covering this Joel. USAID is a key cog in the DC grifting machine.
"With a foreign policy record that makes Liz Cheney appear up-to-date on her rabies shots,..." I certainly do appreciate a writer who can turn a phrase!
The original draft was “…appear thoughtful and reserved…” but this one made me chuckle.
I'm sure upon examination, almost every other government agency has similar wasteful and even worse, harmful expenditures. It would be one thing if they just wasted the money having people dig holes and fill them back in, but they are actively HARMING the USA and really the rest of the world. The only people who benefit from these expenditures are the people who receive them. Guess they will just have to find something productive to do.
Highly unlikely. Crybabies don't like having their toys and funding taken away.
No doubt that USAID is just the first worm ball to be exposed, with too many more like it.
Musk's term of a 'worm ball' is good, but the old 'can of worms' term is still better?
So many cans of worms, and so little time to get rid of them!
That is just one department. But then I think in every western country things like this abound on the plenty side.
United States Agency for International Destruction would be more accurate. But the world has caught on to how this government always labels things in the opposite of what the effect will be. Inflation Reduction Act, anyone?
Funny that the presstitutes media was fighting against the aims of USAID for a long time, and now they are out blathering against President Trump and Elon Musk for shutting it down. It comes across as more anti-Trump crybabying by these goof-offs.
The amount of crap that has been poured into Merde Mountain over the years has been disgusting. And now, someone (or a couple of someones) has decided that they need to take a few levels of merde from the top and expose the rotten underbelly, and all you hear are complaints!
History has taught us that those who complain the loudest when the door is open also know that their ox is being gored the hardest and deepest.
“Merde Mountain” 😂. Excellent
Beat me to it!
My first job out of college in 1968 was with The Pathfinder Fund, an international family planning agency which was part of Harvard Medical School's School of Public Health. It was started by Clarence Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble). It was becoming heavily supported by USAID at the time I was hired to do translation work on the Spanish Desk as an Administrative Assistant to the field workers in Latin America. I helped develop a Spanish language comic book on family planning that was distributed to men's barber shops throughout Mexico in an effort to counter-act the prevalence of "machismo", a term that was becoming really vogue in the late 60's. I now recognize it as cultural meddling; but back then, at age 21, it felt like an important job that would improve the lives of many women if they were freed from one pregnancy after another...I had met Dr. John Rock who was instrumental in developing the now ubiquitous birth control pill--his office was in the same building in Boston where I worked; He was revered by all! We were "bettering the world"!
Then the presence of USAID grew larger and larger. Soon larger and more governmentally connected organizations world-wide, especially in Africa, were receiving grants from Pathfinder that became a funnel for USAID money. Pathfinder became no longer a charity for small family planning out-posts who we back in Boston supplied with birth control products and information from our medical research arm, raising money through frequent fund-raising efforts; but we became a branch of USAID. Gone was the modest. plain office. We had big-time management consultants with us. One of them was hired actually hired as our new Executive Director telling us lucky souls that "nowadays knowing medicine wasn't as important as being able to run a growing charitable non-profit." No more MD's running this place! Our office became large and swanky with carpeting and potted palms in the entry. Lot's of glass and many comfortable chairs for a new stream of posh visitors! Gone was the medical focus and the charitable way of thinking. I don't know if it was the Gamble family who sparked the change, or new contacts in USAID Washington, DC. Probably a combination of both. I quit a few weeks after the move to Brookline and a big fancy office with a new USAID-approved Executive Director....Thus began my long journey into Libertarianism. May the government octopus begin to shrink and let go!
Just pointed out one of the many ways of the leviathan. Thanks
Thanks Joel, your audience is growing and it is easy to understand why. My vision is a much much bigger audience, it's your job to ignite the fuse the blows NFTEOTW to everyone's go to news!
May your vision be our future. Thanks for your support, kind sir. Much appreciated!
Medicare and Social Security need to be overhauled as well. People who don’t really need it take it anyway because the government gives it. I don’t have an answer, just know that no one wants to miss their share of the free handout.
That's unlikely. Social security is everyone's favorite welfare program (it's a tax, not a retirement plan, and CONgress will never admit the truth).
It is a tax, and a Ponzi scheme!
MedicAID, grifters abound. Medicare I already paid for and ain’t leaving till I’m done.
There is no accountability for most of this moneyso you can bet alot of it comes back to our corrupt govt officials in the way of payola. Thank you Pres Trump for exposing and hopefully ending this travesty.
I factually had to read twice, to come to a better reality perspective, of what ‘Bull in a china-shop’ meets bureaucracies and thus greater implications.
The Orwellian construct called ‘Deep State’ or ‘The Swamp’(s)’ to be acted upon, are now being exposed as multi billions technicolored dens of corruption.
Squealing rats are running everywhere.
So many, so big and so disguised as angels of mercy.
Bravo...saying it as it is, at last!
Toto really pulled back the curtain on this one.
PLEASE FORGIVE CAPS--ALMOST BLIND
INCREDIBLE. OR AS THE PORTENOS MIGHT SAY, "!INCREIBLE!"
YOU TELL'EMJOEL. I STUTTER.
JUST KEEP WRITING YOUR TRUTH CALMLY AND CLEARLY. PERHAP, EVEN SOME OF THE DEEPLY SLEEPING AND THOROUGHLY MESMERIZED WOKESTERS WILL AWOKEN TO TRUTH, AND SUDDENLY,IN A BLINDING FLASH, REALIZE THAT THEY ARE PROGRAMMED WITH A ITSHAY OADLAY OF LIES FROM ON LOW.
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR EFFORTS. AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR SEEKING THE TRUTH AND SPRAKING THE TRUTH AS YOU KNOW IT.
SINCERELY,
LIAM OF LIAM'S LADDER
Have they no shame?
No. Glad I could help.
USAID signifies Thermopylae, the gates of which lead to the Deep State.