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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by wdmso

Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE of USAid:

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

What no links I am shocked.

Half of what you posted is all BS.

Oh so half isn't?

Still where’s the fraud. ?

Who said anything about fraud?

When is Musk. Going to show us what Trumps. USAID funded and spent. During his 1st Term?

What does it matter? If you can show wasteful or abusive USAid funding during Trump's administration, how would that make the agency not wasteful or abusive?

But we know you’ll never ask to see that.. it’s not convenient….

It would just be further proof of the agency's wastefulness and abuse.

No doubt USAid wasted money during Trump's administration as well as during its tenure under the other Presidents.

Now an examination of spending records shows that in October 2021 $24,000 (£19,000) of US taxpayer's money was given to the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, to "nurture and encourage equality, inclusion and diversity in storytelling, by facilitating self-generated narratives from diverse community groups through the medium of film".

In my opinion giving taxpayer money to an art institute in Ireland, especially for a DEI project, is a waste of money for a country that is 30 trillion dollars in debt, and whose citizens are suffering inflationary prices for their necessities as well as an impending collapse of their Social Security investment.

FYI just because Trump considers it waste and abuse. Because he doesn’t like it. Doesn’t make it so.

Doesn't make it not.

The funding was passed by congress and signed by the POTUS

Making it a law. The ones republicans find so pesky .. when they get in their way

It is a very pesky and wasteful law--regardless which Congress passed it or which President signed it.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

It is a very pesky and wasteful law--regardless which Congress passed it or which President signed it.

So, if someone disappeared Trump and Musk perhaps to Guantanamo and the majority of people thought they were pesky and wasteful and that it saved the country, would a law have been broken?
Who chooses which laws are enforced?
Why do we have the rule of law?
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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

So, if someone disappeared Trump and Musk perhaps to Guantanamo and the majority of people thought they were pesky and wasteful and that it saved the country, would a law have been broken?
Who chooses which laws are enforced?
Why do we have the rule of law?
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Hitler.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Hitler.

“Is this referring to the video? WTF are you talking about?”
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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

“Is this referring to the video? WTF are you talking about?”
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fascist

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

fascist

Projecting again?
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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Projecting again?
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Watch your tongue or you may get a visit from the Schutzstaffel.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Hitler.

This what they are reduced to.......sniveling crybabies...making hitler comparisons means they are idiots. They have tried everything else to stop him and nothing has worked. Its all they have left and makes them look stupider everytime.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

This what they are reduced to.......sniveling crybabies...making hitler comparisons means they are idiots. They have tried everything else to stop him and nothing has worked. It’s all they have left and makes them look stupider everytime.

I guess then a simple question is, under Trump is the country moving more towards Hitler or a representative democracy.

I’ll wait.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by spence

I guess then a simple question is, under Trump is the country moving more towards Hitler or a representative democracy.

I’ll wait.

Towards Hitler? Are you really this stupid? Ill wait....nah ...nevermind.
Hitler is all you got left in your toolbag.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

Towards Hitler? Are you really this stupid? Ill wait

You didn’t answer the question.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

I guess then a simple question is, under Trump is the country moving more towards Hitler or a representative democracy.

I’ll wait.

This country's move to Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and Robespierre and the Kaiser started with the Progressive movement in the late 19th century and was put in high gear during the FDR administration and has dribbled, off and on, continuously since then with the rise of our administrative state.

The DOGE kind of stuff is the only serious attempt to begin dismantling that unelected administrative grip that has gotten a stranglehold on our representative democracy.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by detbuch

This country's move to Stalin and Hitler and Robespierre and the Kaiser started with the Progressive movement in the late 19th century and was put in high gear during the FDR administration and has dribbled, off and on, continuously since then with the rise of our administrative state.

The DOGE kind of stuff is the only serious attempt to dismantle that unelected administrative grip that has gotten a stranglehold on our representative democracy.

^^^^^this guy^^^^^
I'm bright enough to let him debate....he's mopping the floor......with common sense.
My approach has been less sensitive to.... feelings.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

This country's move to Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and Robespierre and the Kaiser started with the Progressive movement in the late 19th century and was put in high gear during the FDR administration and has dribbled, off and on, continuously since then with the rise of our administrative state.

The DOGE kind of stuff is the only serious attempt to begin dismantling that unelected administrative grip that has gotten a stranglehold on our representative democracy.

The Progressive movement was in response to the rise of corporations.
John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company came to control 90-95% of oil refineries in the U.S.
Journalists, such as Ida Tarbell, exposed the nefarious methods used by John D. Rockefeller to push out honest competitors.
The government responded to harmful corporate behavior through the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which sought to limit large corporations’ ability to fix prices and exclude competition. Under the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, the Sherman Act was vigorously enforced through over 40 antitrust suits.

Never mind that since the 1970s almost all of our small businesses have been decimated by corporate agglomeration to the detriment of our middle class, today we have Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, Google….
And Musk has effective control of our government while FFOTUS with his obedient MAGA followers in Congress think they can control him.
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[spence]

Originally Posted by detbuch

This country's move to Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and Robespierre and the Kaiser started with the Progressive movement in the late 19th century and was put in high gear during the FDR administration and has dribbled, off and on, continuously since then with the rise of our administrative state.

The DOGE kind of stuff is the only serious attempt to begin dismantling that unelected administrative grip that has gotten a stranglehold on our representative democracy.

Yeah, let’s go back to a time where four men controlled most of the wealth in this country. Maybe my youngest son can finally put down his Xbox controller and get that job in the mill he’s always been after

For #^&#^&#^&#^&s sake