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Here is why:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.
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I am becoming more bemused by the day by the number of people strangely interested in what is inside other people's knickers. Do they not know that it's none of their business?
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(02-03-2025, 11:58 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: Here is why:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.
- $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
Etc.... In another post you mention the US having 36 trillion of debt yet here you are quibbling about millions and even tens of 1,000s of dollars. The points you've raised here are not even chicken feed in the greater picture. You need to gain some perspective and a basic understanding of mathematics.
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(02-03-2025, 11:58 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: Here is why:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.
so rather generously one might say maybe $20 million in 'savings' - the USAID budget is approx $40 Billion. One might call that a drop in the ocean...
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05-03-2025, 07:56 PM
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(03-03-2025, 05:11 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I am becoming more bemused by the day by the number of people strangely interested in what is inside other people's knickers. Do they not know that it's none of their business?
Exactly my whole point, why should the US govt fund this rubbish, let alone outside the US?
(03-03-2025, 07:43 AM)harm_less Wrote: (02-03-2025, 11:58 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: Here is why:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.
- $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
Etc.... In another post you mention the US having 36 trillion of debt yet here you are quibbling about millions and even tens of 1,000s of dollars. The points you've raised here are not even chicken feed in the greater picture. You need to gain some perspective and a basic understanding of mathematics. It all adds up, and while it looks like chicken feed, you really need to see the rest of the rubbish USAID was spending, it runs into the billions.
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so that was the fraud and corruption in USAID huh?
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(05-03-2025, 07:56 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: (03-03-2025, 07:43 AM)harm_less Wrote: In another post you mention the US having 36 trillion of debt yet here you are quibbling about millions and even tens of 1,000s of dollars. The points you've raised here are not even chicken feed in the greater picture. You need to gain some perspective and a basic understanding of mathematics. It all adds up, and while it looks like chicken feed, you really need to see the rest of the rubbish USAID was spending, it runs into the billions.
Are you really that mathematically challenged?
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(05-03-2025, 09:25 PM)harm_less Wrote: Are you really that mathematically challenged? 
No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.
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(05-03-2025, 10:55 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: (05-03-2025, 09:25 PM)harm_less Wrote: Are you really that mathematically challenged? 
No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.
about 200,000% more by the looks of it...
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(05-03-2025, 10:55 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: (05-03-2025, 09:25 PM)harm_less Wrote: Are you really that mathematically challenged? 
No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.
But but but - Doge promised full transparency...
I liked the bit where Doge employees were firing themselves, lol.
Another tiny silver lining.
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More Trumpanzee B.S.
https://i.redd.it/kjfvk7603zme1.jpeg
Remember I said Trump will be the cause of the 3rd World War, he is super bad news
https://i.redd.it/w3dicm2ydyme1.jpeg
Local resident confronts anti-abortion protestors
https://v.redd.it/2e687rmt3yme1
Musk is being stupid as well
https://i.redd.it/5dw7548gezme1.jpeg
More Trumpanzee corruption
https://i.redd.it/xgf07v5cxxme1.jpeg
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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(06-03-2025, 05:45 PM)zqwerty Wrote: More Trumpanzee B.S.
https://i.redd.it/kjfvk7603zme1.jpeg
Remember I said Trump will be the cause of the 3rd World War, he is super bad news
https://i.redd.it/w3dicm2ydyme1.jpeg
Local resident confronts anti-abortion protestors
https://v.redd.it/2e687rmt3yme1
Musk is being stupid as well
https://i.redd.it/5dw7548gezme1.jpeg
More Trumpanzee corruption
https://i.redd.it/xgf07v5cxxme1.jpeg
That last one could come in handy; there must be all sorts of things which could be added to a dinner...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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Look what else stupid Trumpanzee and Co are doing, could it be that they are so ignorant that they don't like the word "Gay" or is it because the plane is given a female name?
Pentagon Wipes Records of Famed WWII Plane 'Enola Gay', Named After the Pilot's Mom, Because 'DEI' Is Dead
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-wipes...54450.html
We truly are living with ignorant barbarians amongst us.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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(09-03-2025, 02:46 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Look what else stupid Trumpanzee and Co are doing, could it be that they are so ignorant that they don't like the word "Gay" or is it because the plane is given a female name?
Pentagon Wipes Records of Famed WWII Plane 'Enola Gay', Named After the Pilot's Mom, Because 'DEI' Is Dead
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-wipes...54450.html
We truly are living with ignorant barbarians amongst us.
They really don't seem to understand that they're making their country a laughing stock around the world....
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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(06-03-2025, 09:32 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: (05-03-2025, 10:55 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.
But but but - Doge promised full transparency...
I liked the bit where Doge employees were firing themselves, lol.
Another tiny silver lining.
It is transparent, and they publish everything in full detail on their website and X feeds.
Anyway, the rot runs deep and DOGE have only just got started.
It's also been revealed that the democrats have used USAID as a money laundering scheme.
No wonder it's upsetting so many.
Things are going to get worse before it gets better.
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They publish stuff, and then when the media fact checks it they renege, or just remove it. Not what I call transparency...
As for the rest ct, that's more rabbit hole material.
One of the reasons DoGE is upsetting people is the illegality of what they are doing, and the obvious corruption that follows those moves. How come every department tasked with monitoring the safety of Musk involved businesses is either being hollowed out, or deregistered entirely? How come the court orders to stop their activities are being ignored? And how come their own party reps are starting to lodge objections to those activities? And how come none of the fraud they have 'uncovered' is being prosecuted?
Worse for sure, but I am not as confident as you about the better to come...
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you know, the money laundering thing would normally grab my attention - presumably from another late night post on twitter or 'truth' [sic] by Trump/Musk so I just can't seem to take it seriously.
In a few days or weeks it will turn out to be someone at USAID claimed some panadol on his/her charge account...
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