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Rubio Announces New U.S. Foreign Aid Model That Cuts Out NGOs
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The truth is that our foreign aid had become a joke — a way to line pockets and spread wacko leftist ideology more than anything. Rubio told ABC's George Stephanopoulos — who tried to do that whole "Trump is killing people by cutting aid" thing — back in September that "We're gonna do more than anyone in the world, again, this year, but we're gonna do it the right way. We're gonna do it holistically. We're gonna do it as part of an integrated foreign policy."
During that interview, Rubio pointed out that the reason why people die is much more nuanced than what the media wants to print. In some regions, wars prevent aid from reaching its target, or gangs steal it before it can reach its intended recipients. In some places, the middlemen, the distributors, simply don't handle it well, etc. The world is not a one-size-fits-all situation, George.
"But the United States has saved more lives and continues to save more lives than any other country in the world," the frustrated Secretary of State continued. "And we're gonna continue to do it, but we're gonna do it the right way and in a responsible way. We're not gonna continue to pour billions of dollars out the door of American taxpayer funds for programs that don't work and in some cases were flat-out corrupt."
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(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
My Comment: I am glad to see that the Trump administration is moving in the right direction on this.
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The truth is that our foreign aid had become a joke — a way to line pockets and spread wacko leftist ideology more than anything. Rubio told ABC's George Stephanopoulos — who tried to do that whole "Trump is killing people by cutting aid" thing — back in September that "We're gonna do more than anyone in the world, again, this year, but we're gonna do it the right way. We're gonna do it holistically. We're gonna do it as part of an integrated foreign policy."
During that interview, Rubio pointed out that the reason why people die is much more nuanced than what the media wants to print. In some regions, wars prevent aid from reaching its target, or gangs steal it before it can reach its intended recipients. In some places, the middlemen, the distributors, simply don't handle it well, etc. The world is not a one-size-fits-all situation, George.
"But the United States has saved more lives and continues to save more lives than any other country in the world," the frustrated Secretary of State continued. "And we're gonna continue to do it, but we're gonna do it the right way and in a responsible way. We're not gonna continue to pour billions of dollars out the door of American taxpayer funds for programs that don't work and in some cases were flat-out corrupt."
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(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
My Comment: I am glad to see that the Trump administration is moving in the right direction on this.
Well the thought is in the right place.
Reading the whole article I didn’t find a lot of specifics or even “we’re not going to fund NGOs”
Talks about one to one bilateral agreements. Er shakedowns. Where the US dangles assistance based on …"U.S. government financial support will be linked to countries’ ability to meet or exceed key health metrics with financial incentives for countries who exceed those metrics."
Hope there’s more meat to it than “We’re eliminating taxes…”
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The aid should only go out because it benefits the American people. No AND, IF or BUTs.
As to the pipe bomb story, I guess we were fed bad info all along? I remember security video where we were told someone alerted officers of the pipe bomb and they seemed unconcerned, letting children and others walk right past it. We were told dogs that sniff out explosives did not detect anything there. Who knows what to believe any more.
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Our education system may be infected with "woke" worse than any other group.
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If you don’t know about Palantir you should study up.
This coked up nut job runs the company.
Our government is deeply embedding their AI into every corner of our government
This coked up nut job runs the company.
Our government is deeply embedding their AI into every corner of our government
I was listening to a Lara Logan podcast recently where 2 guys claimed that Smartmatic originated in Venezuela and has helped steal elections worldwide. This guy mentions that too.
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Good job on rooting out this fraud and abuse by SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler
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"Widespread Misconduct": Trump Admin Orders All Beneficiaries Of Nation's Largest DEI Program To Surrender Financial Records
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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….The National Security Strategy even suggests Washington is distancing itself militarily from NATO (but something which should come as no surprise given recent Trump statements related to the alliance's lagging spending), saying "it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies" to the United States.
…."Their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure. If present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years.”
Sybertiger
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How it should be done. Thank you FREE STATE OF FLORIDA WITH NO BULLSHIT
Venezuela isn’t in the top 10 countries that import drugs into the US.
Why aren’t we blowing up random Mexican ships? Or Colombians? They import more drugs to the US in a week than Venezuela does in a year.
The reason is this isn’t actually about drugs or “narco terrorism.”
This is about Venezuela nationalizing their oil, costing US oil billionaires to lose money, and selling it to China.
Don’t let these drooling retards like Pete Hegseth try to tell you this is about “narco terrorism” or some stupid shit like that they use to blow up fishing boats in international waters off the coast of Venezuela
Why aren’t we blowing up random Mexican ships? Or Colombians? They import more drugs to the US in a week than Venezuela does in a year.
The reason is this isn’t actually about drugs or “narco terrorism.”
This is about Venezuela nationalizing their oil, costing US oil billionaires to lose money, and selling it to China.
Don’t let these drooling retards like Pete Hegseth try to tell you this is about “narco terrorism” or some stupid shit like that they use to blow up fishing boats in international waters off the coast of Venezuela