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[USAID] Looks like Ukraine's "Independent Media" were all on US Payroll.

USAID is a bunch of globalists who's sole purpose was to spend taxpayer money on NGOs and the like that hate disparaged the USA.
Plus it was heavily DEI

The idiot Dems are all clucking the same tune "It's unconstitutional to end USAID"
the tiniest bit of research would find USAID was created by executive order by JFK (1961) i think as a means to deliver the Foreign Aid act.

Im sure everyone here understand executive orders can be overturned by the next POTUS.
USAID could have it's functions delivered by State, without al the wasteful administrative costs, and aid to groups unfriendly to the USA
 
anatta said:
USAID is a bunch of globalists who's sole purpose was to spend taxpayer money on NGOs and the like that hate disparaged the USA.
Plus it was heavily DEI

The idiot Dems are all clucking the same tune "It's unconstitutional to end USAID"
the tiniest bit of research would find USAID was created by executive order by JFK (1961) i think as a means to deliver the Foreign Aid act.

Im sure everyone here understand executive orders can be overturned by the next POTUS.
USAID could have it's functions delivered by State, without al the wasteful administrative costs, and aid to groups unfriendly to the USA
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USAID has a legitimate purpose. However, somewhere along the way I think they lost their mission. It got expanded upon and the waste, fraud and abuse was rampant. Ask anybody that has an ounce of ethics that worked there and you will find that information confirmed.

One very small example...when flying in and out of the hell hole countries that we serve, the American staff is forced to utilize the local airline companies. As such, they will spend 3 times as much money on airfare than if they simply bought the seats on the open market. I often gave my friend my airline miles to upgrade from steerage to business class on some of these long hauls (i.e., from Pakistan or other flights that they were traveling on their way out of Afghanistan). A friend of mine would usually do the upgrades for me, as they worked in the industry. They were appalled at the price of the original flight, as if using American brokers that price would have garnered them a first class seat. That's just a small amount of the waste. Don't get me started on the waste happening at the embassies and the barely out of their teens staff partying it up over there while our soldiers were putting their lives on the line.

Having said that, I don't agree that closing the doors overnight is the answer.
 
Boots said:
USAID has a legitimate purpose. However, somewhere along the way I think they lost their mission. It got expanded upon and the waste, fraud and abuse was rampant. Ask anybody that has an ounce of ethics that worked there and you will find that information confirmed.

One very small example...when flying in and out of the hell hole countries that we serve, the American staff is forced to utilize the local airline companies. As such, they will spend 3 times as much money on airfare than if they simply bought the seats on the open market. I often gave my friend my airline miles to upgrade from steerage to business class on some of these long hauls (i.e., from Pakistan or other flights that they were traveling on their way out of Afghanistan). A friend of mine would usually do the upgrades for me, as they worked in the industry. They were appalled at the price of the original flight, as if using American brokers that price would have garnered them a first class seat. That's just a small amount of the waste. Don't get me started on the waste happening at the embassies and the barely out of their teens staff partying it up over there while our soldiers were putting their lives on the line.

Having said that, I don't agree that closing the doors overnight is the answer.
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Thanks for the background
 
Boots said:
USAID has a legitimate purpose. However, somewhere along the way I think they lost their mission.
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Save your MAGA talking points for Mike Johnson.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Save your MAGA talking points for Mike Johnson.
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Is there something you'd like to dispute with respect to what I wrote? Is it the part where I said it shouldn't have simply been unplugged overnight? Or is it the part where I said there is massive waste? Is your only method of debate to personally attack the other side?
 
The world needs to know, and is finding out quickly, that the honeymoon is over.
 
Boots said:
Is there something you'd like to dispute with respect to what I wrote? Is it the part where I said it shouldn't have simply been unplugged overnight? Or is it the part where I said there is massive waste? Is your only method of debate to personally attack the other side?
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Show us the massive waste. And don't deluge us with right-wing/MAGA sources.
 
Juin said:
Money corrupts. All money, Roubles or Dollars. The thesis that Rouble corrupts but Dollars do not is nonesense. When a country, any country, puts down money it is to buy some kind of influence
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Why do you believe that Roubles have corrupted Vladimir? Would you be willing to go on record sharing your evidence of this with the Russian security apparatus? I’ve no doubt they would be very interested in what you have to say about corruption within the Putin Administration.
 
Boots said:
Having said that, I don't agree that closing the doors overnight is the answer.
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Donald is not interested in your opinion. He is the one with total authority, he makes the call, and your job is not to backstab him with this kind of disloyalty, but rather to ask how you can personally help Donald in his fight fight fight. I suggest that you buy a pair of his sneakers as an apology for openly and egregiously disagreeing with Donald and Elon and their mission to Save America.
 
Mycroft said:
I think USAID is destined for the chopping block.

Samantha Powers might need to retire.
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Samantha Power gets uglier by the day. Her 'outside' now matches her evil 'insides'. Yuck.
When it all comes out, the illegal spying on Americans for political gain will make Watergate look like a fender bender collision.
 
Putinists tenting their pants in public is ****ing gross.
 
Juin said:
Something odd here! The media of one country on the payroll of another country? Isn't that what the man Putin is accused of? The charge being meddling? These images of the Ukrainian media hogs suckling at the teats of USAID hardly convey an image of independence by the hogs. And its thick with hypocrisy, given the scare campaign against the man Putin for journalism without a license in the likes of Georgia, Romania, Germany, France
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Even worse are those here in the USA who might as well be on the payroll of Ukraine itself.

Vindman testified the position of Ukraine Defense Minister
was offered to him 3 times while betraying our country.
Ukraine is his birth country. His loyalties lay with Ukraine, not the US.
He and his brother have proven that.

Strip him of US citizenship and ship him back to his native country.
and he should take his stinking brother with him!!!!!!
Others are bad but the poster boy for being a grade A Blue Falcon has to be
Lt. Col Alex Vindman who was not your typical Army Ranger-----he lead from the chow hall
& maybe at the cocktail parties--not the front lines.

Vindman is a Ukranian national migrant in costume. Vindman should be the code word for "Buddy ****er". The guy who gets everyone else into trouble, sells out all his friends to higher ups & somehow always seems to get out of his duty,
 
slick said:
Samantha Power gets uglier by the day. Her 'outside' now matches her evil 'insides'. Yuck.
When it all comes out, the illegal spying on Americans for political gain will make Watergate look like a fender bender collision.
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Yeah - she's regular medusa.
🤣😂🤣

 
Boots said:
Go find another monkey to clap for you. I'm not interested.
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Then don't trumpet your MAGA propaganda.

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