From: Bi-valve Mollusk <Bi-valve_Mollusk@riptear.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Both Presidents Obama And Biden Said They Wanted To End Waste In
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:17:48 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2/21/2025 2:37 PM, tye syding wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:52 -0800
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>
>> Because I wanted to emphasize that because DOGE is calling something
>> "waste" doesn't make it so.
>
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/
>
> For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous â and, in many cases, malicious â pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight.
>
> Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
>
> $1.5 million to âadvance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbiaâs workplaces and business communitiesâ
> $70,000 for production of a âDEI musicalâ in Ireland
> $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
> $47,000 for a âtransgender operaâ in Colombia
> $32,000 for a âtransgender comic bookâ in Peru
> $2 million for sex changes and âLGBT activismâ in Guatemala
> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
> Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations â even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
> Millions to EcoHealth Alliance â which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
> âHundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syriaâ
> Funding to print âpersonalizedâ contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
> Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund âirrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,â benefiting the Taliban
> The list literally goes on and on â and it has all been happening for decades.
>
> Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.
The staggering thing is the left is defending the above, and more. Not
because they don't think it's worthy use of US taxpayer dollars, but
only because it's Trump who is acting on it.