Saturday, February 15, 2025

Moar Storm

 



Well here we are. A storm, yes another one, is blowing in over North Central Texas, as it is over the country as a whole, and about time too. Billions of dollars in fraud, waste, mismanagement and corruption exposed every day. And all, dear friends, billed to you, the taxpayer. For example:


- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"
- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
- $2.3M for "strengthening independent voices in Cambodia"
- $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre
- $40M for "gender equality and women empowerment hub"
- $14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia
- $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for "inclusive and participatory political process" in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India
- $29M to "strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh"
- $20M for "fiscal federalism" in Nepal
- $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal
- $1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia
- $14M for "social cohesion" in Mali
- $2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa"
- $47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia"
- $2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt"

Like, what? Long story really short, the US taxpayer was funding global leftism and its purveyors to the tune of billions and making a lotta people inside the Beltway rich. You'll note DC house prices have dramatically declined.

What an exercise of industrial fraud, chicanery and malfeasance levied on the American people. I don't know, I hope there's a reckoning. But I do know this, nothing like it's occurred in our history, whether it's the fraud or its uncovering.

Will the perpetrators be brought to justice? Who knows, but it seems DC searches for off-shore banks, RICO, and defense lawyers are going exponential. As they should. In the meanwhile, Euro Elites seethe and rage as JDV and 47 sideline them for peace in the Ukraine.




Hey, did you vote to give billions of dollars to Ukraine? No, neither did I.

Your Pal,

LSP

5 comments:

LL said...

Think of all those worthy causes that my tax money will no longer fund. Yeah, it's sad. Think of all those boys in Mozambique who will go through life with an ant eater instead of a helmet.

LSP said...

It's a terrible tragedy, LL. I know you're up on this, but for the average punter... a revelation of grift and skulduggery.

The Night Wind said...

I'm sure that with a trustworthy character like Marco Rubio in charge of USAID now, we'll have total transparency. Things like why the USAID Inspector-General who was investigating aid to Starlink was fired for example. Or maybe examples of spending like Ivanka Trump's tour of Africa in 2018 to promote Trump's 'Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative;' or the millions that Trump spent on 'family planning' in Cambodia, or the three years under Trump that USAID funded transgender dance performances in Bangladesh for political and business elites, or the millions sent to Egypt in 2019 to 'strengthen educational opportunities and livelihoods of people in North Sinai, or the investigations of inflated USAID contracts in Afghanistan, or...

I'm sure that everything other than what Democrats approved will be withheld for 'National Security' reasons.

LSP said...

NW, you have a point, and a good one. Still, I applaud the stated intention.

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