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DOGE / Elon Musk Adviser Ron Paul says eliminate ALL Foreign Aid
X ^ | Dec 7 | BehizyTweets

Posted on 12/07/2024 1:07:15 AM PST by RandFan

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To: RandFan
That’s basically true, but it’s worse than that. I saw this first-hand in Afghanistan. I went as a volunteer but ended as a paid UN staff member, so I can share with authority.

I saw effective small NGOs not receiving aid, but large NGOs with high overhead getting millions. I had to work hard to keep my quality Afghan staff because USAID projects could pay them double, even though they were already done of the highest paid Afghans in Kabul.

You can search out the 2-tier pay scales of the UN and it’s many organizations. Local staff get a fifth of the international staff. This means the UN hires and trains some of the best workers in the country. After a while they see they can make much more as an international staff and leave the country to work elsewhere. So these international organizations rob the talent of a developing country and create a wealthy global class beholden to the UN. My very best and highest paid staff person took a job in Iraq. I was saddled with international staff from Bangladesh, Liberia, South Africa, and more.

USAID doesn’t do aid itself but contracts with these high-overhead established mega organizations. Their foreign offices oversee the projects, which is largely useless overhead.

I could go on…

41 posted on 12/07/2024 4:25:06 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: NurdlyPeon

Cool link. Nah, I’m not that piytar. Or maybe I am? 😂


42 posted on 12/07/2024 4:40:01 AM PST by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Wait until they really look at UN payments. Cut them off and boot them out.


43 posted on 12/07/2024 4:46:04 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: RandFan

HOORAY Elon, Vivek and Ron. Go DOGE!


44 posted on 12/07/2024 5:22:39 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: RandFan

Great - after eliminating foreign aid, put limits on so called ‘speeches’ by Americans connected to the US Govermmnet - limit speech pay to $1,000 a MINUTE so the ‘speech’ isn’t in truth a bribe.


45 posted on 12/07/2024 5:29:21 AM PST by GOPJ (Should a 30 year old man self-identified as being ten, be allowed to play little league baseball?)
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To: Candor7

I definitely agree with that, especially when it comes to Israel. The other nations can look after themselves for once.


46 posted on 12/07/2024 5:29:50 AM PST by AmericanNightmare
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To: AmericanNightmare
I think that Trump has the mandate of Heaven after his life has been saved.

Keeping to do an offering to YHWH and his chosen would be a very smart thing for us to do as a nation.

Remembering the protective power of that Divinity ( Exodus) We need it, given the demons arrayed to destroy us from within and without:


47 posted on 12/07/2024 5:42:37 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: RandFan

Trillions in debt and we’re sending money to other countries? Insane. No more foreign welfare. Let them pay for their own things. We’re broke.


48 posted on 12/07/2024 5:47:08 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: RandFan

Agree Al foreign aid stopped


49 posted on 12/07/2024 5:49:30 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: RandFan

Israel would love this policy. If Obama/Biden had not rescued and massively funded Iran (and therefore funded Hamas, etc.) Israel would not be at war now.


50 posted on 12/07/2024 5:56:32 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: cgbg
”let us just bribe the foreign leaders directly”

That is how China can buy a country for a few $ millions.

51 posted on 12/07/2024 5:59:29 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: RandFan

Gee, if we did that we wouldn’t need as many government workers and that would be a real tragedy wouldn’t it?


52 posted on 12/07/2024 5:59:47 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: RandFan

I agree but this is how our pols get rich so the opposition will be strong.


53 posted on 12/07/2024 6:02:31 AM PST by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: RandFan

See how much Death to America you get after pulling THAT teet out of the addicts’ mouth!!!


54 posted on 12/07/2024 6:02:49 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: RandFan

I agree


55 posted on 12/07/2024 6:03:57 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: Candor7
Keeping to do an offering to YHWH and his chosen would be a very smart thing for us to do as a nation.

If the present nation-state of Israel and its population truly represent God's "chosen," then why would they need the support and protection of the United States?

I mean, as has been said before in a somewhat different context, "What does God need with a starship?"

Fat, drunk, and dispensationalist is no way to go through life, son.

56 posted on 12/07/2024 6:38:53 AM PST by DSH
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Interesting...so cut aid to UN?


57 posted on 12/07/2024 7:06:16 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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To: RandFan

Use the foreign aid money to rebuild Appalachia.


58 posted on 12/07/2024 7:09:20 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: RandFan

Stop all aid except for Israel.


59 posted on 12/07/2024 7:19:29 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: RandFan

Oh, please, Lord. Let them listen to this man!


60 posted on 12/07/2024 7:24:32 AM PST by Nea Wood ( )
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