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Taxpayers should have demanded accountability for USAID decades ago (www.collapselife.com)

submitted 2 days ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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USAID has long been plagued by waste, corruption, and covert political meddling; the biggest scandal may be how little scrutiny it has faced, until now.

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry can’t get myself in a tizzy over the tiny amount of money we spend helping people over the gazillions we spend killing them.

Stupid article.

[–] TokenBoomer 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

$60 billion is quite a lot for a country with no nationalized healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's less than 1% of the military budget alone. It's less than 0.0001% of the US's annual expenditures.

Yeah, obviously we should have nationalized healthcare, but USAID is not what's keeping that from being a reality. It's insurance company lobbying, and propaganda against it, among other things.

[–] TokenBoomer 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree, but that doesn’t absolve USAID for it’s problems.