Trump administration cuts million dollars donation for Nepal.
Funding all of these things cost every American a grand total of $2.14 each per year (assuming these costs are annual). (729M total cost, 340.1M US population as of July 2024.) He uses these big numbers to make the whole thing seem scary, but the cost is completely insignificant. The average person has no concept of just how much money the government brings in, and how completely meaningless dollar amounts of this magnitude are, and all of these sort of reports take advantage of that to make people angry.
Another way to look at it: The total cost of all of these initiatives is less than 0.1% of the US’s annual military budget.
And far less than the amount of money that either Trump or Musk will have funneled to themselves and their businesses over the next few years.
But Musk’s companies are getting more lucrative government contracts, paid for by the taxpayer, so that’s cool I guess.
Of course. Government inefficiency is everything that helps poor people. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is totally efficient, though.
They’re also completely ignoring the return on investment of these funds. China is busy investing around the globe to sow pro Chinese sentiment everywhere. If you want democracy to thrive these are the types of investment that can buy your side long term alliances. But we already know they don’t want democracy to survive.
Tripping over pennies to lose dollars. These turds do not understand soft power and international trade.
Yup. And by the end of the week China will step in and replace all of that funding.
And then we’ll be left wondering why we’re being kicked out of all our overseas bases. And then why the SEA countries are acquiescing to everything China wants and then why Taiwan gives up major concessions like allotting high quality computer parts to China.
It’s all connected.
It’s such an easy concept. I can’t figure out if they actually don’t get it because they are so narcissistic and why would anyone appreciate a few million in aid or if they are just playing stupid to posture to their base and be able to do even worse while everyone is distracted.
I think the later might be more accurate and I’m really curious what else I am missing.
Never underestimate bad students who reject academically rigorous ideas because they’re intimidated by smart people.
Foreign aid has hilariously good ROI. When I went to Africa, locals told me that the Bush admin introduced the concept of bug nets to prevent mosquito bites and malaria. A one-time program that probably cost Americans at most $10 drove a major cultural shift that has saved possibly millions of lives and has affected everyone. We’ll literally buying goodwill.
Musk has all the money in the world but has no real friends. He doesn’t know what the value of anything other than money means, that’s why these expenditures are nothing but waste to him.
I’d like to thank DOGE for single handedly strengthening Chinas soft power around the world!
This whole list amounts to $729 million. That is 20% of the $3.5 billion in additional money we sent in one month to Israel to buy bombs and missiles. You can see what kind of goodwill our government is really interested in “spreading”. Maybe the USAID money was well spent and we could do something about the money that is going to death, misery and creating more hate against us? Crazy talk, I know.
What in all of that list am I supposed to be upset about? All i see are good causes to better medical and Democratic outcomes in other countries.
I’d rather my tax dollars be spent on these things, than more cyber trucks or whatever.
Any sane semi-intelligent human would agree but we don’t live in that world.
Kinda curious what the reaction are but not enough to give that Nazi traffic.
Gotta pinch as many pennies as we can to fund the most important causes like funneling more money into the pockets of billionaires.
They are deliberately not giving the time scale on these things, and this is all from inception of these programs. This is a cumulative total of spending over decades in most cases, and definitely over many years for others.
Fuck these assholes for trying to justify their existence.
Leave it to the trump regime to fuck around and revive things like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Which America pretty much let happen. We were happy to fuck around in Vietnam, where we lost, and Korea but Cambodia? Nothing to see there folks.
Americans really don’t know anything about Cambodia.
I once went on a Holiday in Cambodia.
Korea but Cambodia
completely agree about cambodia, nixon’s hideous bullshit there is still killing kids through unexploded ord. Korea?
I mean maybe I don’t get your gist but we fought a long war there then pretty much occupied the place for the remainder.
Yeah, fuck all these programs that legitimately help people; lets cut those, then spend 5x that money on bombs to be used in an ongoing genocide.
There’s also a chance that many of these are employing Americans carrying out this work. So it may not even be the most extreme thought that “all this money is leaving America”. He could be cutting American jobs, that pay American taxes (so a portion of that comes right back to the tax fund).
I’m not surprised he’s against anti corruption campaigns in Serbia. That’s kind of the opposite of his whole deal.
Taking bets on him thinking it’s some kind of DEI program for nipples.
We would save so much more if musk just fucking exploded.
