Huge common sense and win-win economic solution when that is where we need to focus. Maybe some of it makes sense, though not to me, there is only so much pie and it needs to be shared judicially. What a great opportunity to expand markets and opportunities for best in class companies along side developing country entrepreneurs. Love the Greenland suggestion, much better than taking it over.
Brilliant and much needed. Enough of the Federal government throwing around taxpayer money with no regard to the return. It's not welfare, it's investment, and should be treated as such. Thank goodness Biden (the conduit for progressive left policies) is soon gone.
Spot on, brothers. Spot on. There are seven former directors on the board for USAID and they are only developing 'assets' for their policy uses against the interests of Americans.
See @MikeBenzCyber for a master class in the evils these people advance.
Well said. Unfortunately, I am still enough of a cynic to believe that the interests of the few will usually supersede those of the many. Crony capitalism is real, regardless of the party in power. Here's hoping that the simple mission statement of promoting American interests is adhered to. As Regan said...Trust but verify.
These agencies and those responsible for their budgets would do well to keep in mind Hamilton's reflection in a slightly different context (the Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794) that "under every form of government, Rulers are only Trustees for the happiness and interest of their nation, and cannot, consistently with their trust, follow the suggestions of kindness or humanity towards others, to the prejudice of their constituent."
The outgoing administration just learned the hard way (if they learned at all).
Sure hope they listen to you! There needs to be all the change you mention and policies to lock it in for the long term. One possible solution is to force easily accessible publication of where the funds are going, what happened to them, and what the quantifiable return on investment is.
Well reasoned! And the examples are important to challenge the present narrative. We are not saying that we should stop foreign aid, instead we want to refocus accountability and oversight - which will naturally repurpose aid to more viable projects.
I think the actual root cause issues with USAID are a lot bigger & deeper than you realize.
The AID in USAID doesn't stand for "foreign aid." It stands for "Agency for International Development," which in practice is a euphemism for Empire Management Operations.
The reason it sucks so bad at efficacy wrt philanthropic aid is that philanthropic aid isn't the purpose of the organization.
I recommend Mike Benz as a good commentator on this subject.
I believe it has become a huge money laundering enterprise. Aid goes out and contributions come into mostly Dem coffers. Political foundations like Bill and Hillary's seem to get a lot of these types of donations.
The idea that gov't can simply 'redirect' the funds it's been wasting is naive. Gov't can't 'invest' bc it's not operating in the market. It's players don't feel the consequences of their mistakes. They never have and never will find the best incremental use of funds.
Melei didn't redirect funds. He slashed them. We should do likewise. It's a fantasy to think that this time (and only this time) the gov't will actually get it right. Zero out all foreign aid.
Well said. Unfortunately, I am still enough of a cynic to believe that the interests of the few will usually supersede those of the many. Crony capitalism is real, regardless of the party in power. Here's hoping that the simple mission statement of promoting American interests is adhered to. As Regan said...Trust but verify.
Nice How To. The foreign policy blob is wasting taxpayer funds and hurting those who it claims to help. NGO delenda est.
Huge common sense and win-win economic solution when that is where we need to focus. Maybe some of it makes sense, though not to me, there is only so much pie and it needs to be shared judicially. What a great opportunity to expand markets and opportunities for best in class companies along side developing country entrepreneurs. Love the Greenland suggestion, much better than taking it over.
Brilliant and much needed. Enough of the Federal government throwing around taxpayer money with no regard to the return. It's not welfare, it's investment, and should be treated as such. Thank goodness Biden (the conduit for progressive left policies) is soon gone.
Spot on, brothers. Spot on. There are seven former directors on the board for USAID and they are only developing 'assets' for their policy uses against the interests of Americans.
See @MikeBenzCyber for a master class in the evils these people advance.
Well said. Unfortunately, I am still enough of a cynic to believe that the interests of the few will usually supersede those of the many. Crony capitalism is real, regardless of the party in power. Here's hoping that the simple mission statement of promoting American interests is adhered to. As Regan said...Trust but verify.
These agencies and those responsible for their budgets would do well to keep in mind Hamilton's reflection in a slightly different context (the Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794) that "under every form of government, Rulers are only Trustees for the happiness and interest of their nation, and cannot, consistently with their trust, follow the suggestions of kindness or humanity towards others, to the prejudice of their constituent."
The outgoing administration just learned the hard way (if they learned at all).
Sure hope they listen to you! There needs to be all the change you mention and policies to lock it in for the long term. One possible solution is to force easily accessible publication of where the funds are going, what happened to them, and what the quantifiable return on investment is.
Well reasoned! And the examples are important to challenge the present narrative. We are not saying that we should stop foreign aid, instead we want to refocus accountability and oversight - which will naturally repurpose aid to more viable projects.
I sure hope USAID gets DOGEd.
Countries that don't support us or our allies should be cut off from aid.
The aid needs to help with private sector development, not social engineering or woke indoctrination.
I think the actual root cause issues with USAID are a lot bigger & deeper than you realize.
The AID in USAID doesn't stand for "foreign aid." It stands for "Agency for International Development," which in practice is a euphemism for Empire Management Operations.
The reason it sucks so bad at efficacy wrt philanthropic aid is that philanthropic aid isn't the purpose of the organization.
I recommend Mike Benz as a good commentator on this subject.
Cut Foreign Aid by at least 50% immediately. It funds genocide, racism and anti-Christianity efforts almost completely.
I believe it has become a huge money laundering enterprise. Aid goes out and contributions come into mostly Dem coffers. Political foundations like Bill and Hillary's seem to get a lot of these types of donations.
The idea that gov't can simply 'redirect' the funds it's been wasting is naive. Gov't can't 'invest' bc it's not operating in the market. It's players don't feel the consequences of their mistakes. They never have and never will find the best incremental use of funds.
Melei didn't redirect funds. He slashed them. We should do likewise. It's a fantasy to think that this time (and only this time) the gov't will actually get it right. Zero out all foreign aid.
This is an excellent description of what can be done, and really what needs to be done, to effectively use our resources. thanks for this
Well said. Unfortunately, I am still enough of a cynic to believe that the interests of the few will usually supersede those of the many. Crony capitalism is real, regardless of the party in power. Here's hoping that the simple mission statement of promoting American interests is adhered to. As Regan said...Trust but verify.
One of yor better topics/ conversations.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
This subject has been around since biblical times, different names, subjects & geography
do not change the effects of too much wealth [ whatever the source]
thinking they can dictate due to their priveldged position.
The Democratic Republic experiment didn't last too long! [ good call Benjamin]
Lets hope the DOGE can pull us out of this freefall.