Just some feel-good news for everyone's weekend....
Posted on 02/08/2025 11:53:27 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said during an interview that some of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts could hurt “long-term American interests,” particularly on the foreign policy front.
“A well-run foreign aid program, and I’m not saying that’s what exists now, but a well-run foreign aid program is trying to help our friends, persuade others to become friends. How you spend it in the country is open to debate. But nobody talks about, are we spending enough in the right countries to advance American interests? That’s what you need,” Bolton said during a Friday appearance on NewsNation’s show “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Bolton said the “culture of bureaucracy” will resist and that is why, in his view, it is paramount to have enforcers capable of properly responding.
“The question is, do you have people capable of leading the bureaucracy, of kicking the bureaucracy in the butt when it needs to happen, or you just have a bunch of guys taking names off buildings and putting people on administrative leave,” Bolton said on Friday, referencing DOGE’s focus on U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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the left’s american interest are not american interests.
George Washington: “Bolton, you’re an idiot. My own vision was “big government” for its time, but compared to your idiocy, it was still very small and limited.”
He needs to be arrested. He has to be getting bribed by someone.
That's the sound of thousand of Beltway rice bowls shattering, Bolton's not the least of them.
“He has to be getting bribed by someone.”
It is said that DOGE will be using some AI, wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see his name in the USAID contacts way down the line. How nice!
“ But nobody talks about, are we spending enough in the right countries to advance American interests?”
Thats exactly what they’re doing, you walrus faced buffoon.
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“A well-run foreign aid program, and I’m not saying that’s what exists now, but a well-run foreign aid program is trying to help our friends, persuade others to become friends.
Don't try to argue that USAID is well run. Even at its best, foreign aid is sending money from poor people in rich countries to rich protein poor countries. In Bolton's quote, the "friends" are every beggar, freak and corrupt politician in the world, both here and in foreign countries. We have more than enough of all of those, we don't need to convince more to join the soup line.
Who? All I hear is crickets.
This dimwit didn’t give a crap about Americans or their interests. It was all about his own interests.
We know Bolton got some AID funds—directly or indirectly.
Metaphysical certainty.
His opinion really doesn’t matter anymore. He doesn’t have a security clearance, or access to an a government building, so he probably really has no idea what’s going on. I bet that stings a little bit doesn’t it Bolton?
Just some feel-good news for everyone's weekend....
no country that hates THESE United States of America already will EVER be persuaded to even like us...at ANY price.
He lost his security clearance and now he’s finding out there isn’t much demand or use for warmongering government grifters like him. 2025 has started off real bad for Johnny B!
Yeah Johnny boy just feel the pain from the withheld funds of overseas trans.”affirming” surgeries
I detest the stupid games the Left plays.
No one (or at least almost no one) is suggesting there are never any cases where foreign aid is appropriate.
It’s just that the system is so completely broken, that we have to fix that first and take care of our own citizens before we focus on helping others.
NAILED IT.
He wants the Ring of Power for Himself!HE will do it right! Precious …
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