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Trump assault on USAID leaves plant that makes peanut butter for malnourished kids scrambling
CNN ^ | February 27, 2025 | By MJ Lee

Posted on 02/27/2025 10:56:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Billthedrill

There IS a work around here.. Congrss can vote to Spend $x on this. That would be the cost of the PB and transportataion cost, as a one time thing.

It probably would cost $10k, for 100k packets of peanutbutter landed in Africa.

As opposed to an NGO, where we still pay for it. But, that route the “cost” per pack is probably $20/ea. then ad another $5/ per for “overhead and infrasructure”


41 posted on 02/27/2025 11:08:55 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh for Cripes sake!! There’s 50 different brands of peanut butter on store shelves to choose from. Maybe the government should get back to handing out surplus foods like they did years ago. I worked for the county welfare department in Rochester NY in 1965. They were handing out humongous cans of peanut butter and big slabs of American cheese to welfare recipients. That was before food stamps existed.


42 posted on 02/27/2025 11:09:13 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

****Each small bag contains 500 calories’ worth of the special peanut butter — which does not require refrigeration or additional preparation****

Where can we buy this stuff, there is definitely a market for it.

As far as Americans buying it for foreigners, surely other countries can simply buy it themselves, put it on their store shelves and also make sure that foreign governments can buy it in bulk, it is a product, sell it to those who want to buy it.


43 posted on 02/27/2025 11:09:22 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet again I ask, where in the constitution does it state we have to pay for this?


44 posted on 02/27/2025 11:09:58 AM PST by Dan Zachary
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah, yeah, just like the Iraqi baby milk plant...


45 posted on 02/27/2025 11:10:14 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reminder - The USAID was being funded with BORROWED money.

That is, there is no money in the till and so the government has to borrow money to give away.

What did these groups do before USAID? If they were charities they would seek donations from the public. They now have programs like GO FUND ME to appeal for money.

I say again, the United States government is borrowing money to give away and it has to stop.


46 posted on 02/27/2025 11:11:13 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Trump assault on USAID leaves plant that makes peanut butter for malnourished kids scrambling”

OMG !! The BEE had topped itself once more 🤣🤣


47 posted on 02/27/2025 11:11:34 AM PST by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If CNN was as interested in finding and reporting on corruption in our government and its elections systems as they in finding those “poor” souls effected by government cutbacks and crying the “sky is falling” this country would be a lot better off and CNN might have some credibility.


48 posted on 02/27/2025 11:11:54 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN adds more bogus lights to it’s co.


49 posted on 02/27/2025 11:12:07 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
article: "On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant …"

Mark Moore is the CEO. Maybe Mark Moore can liquidate his home and savings and retirement and donate his own money to help these toothy grinned chilluns. Every employee can forgo a salary and become a Roosevelt "dollar a year" man. Jimmy Carter farmed a lot of peanuts. Ask his estate to donate all their peanuts to manufacturer Deadbeat Peanut Butter.

These people are going to have to think outside the box.

50 posted on 02/27/2025 11:12:47 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN. COMPLETELY NOT NEWS


51 posted on 02/27/2025 11:13:09 AM PST by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-e )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

there’s so many egg shortage stories, yet they waste this headline on a peanutbutter story?

How difficult would it be to write “Kids find themselves in a sticky situation...”


52 posted on 02/27/2025 11:13:51 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MrRelevant
apparently without us, the entire world falls apart.
pretty much
53 posted on 02/27/2025 11:14:33 AM PST by stylin19a ( If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball)
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To: butlerweave

“I thought the Left said all children are allergic to peanuts”

Great point—I guess CNN wants to kill a bunch of folks in the third world—and then blame us for it!


54 posted on 02/27/2025 11:15:02 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow, so that’s where all those billions were going. Who’d a thunk it?


55 posted on 02/27/2025 11:15:06 AM PST by truthkeeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

56 posted on 02/27/2025 11:15:14 AM PST by PGR88
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Other countries will pick up the slack. Many nations and peoples will become more self sufficient. Families and Churches. Private organizations.. will have to do more and rely less on taxpayer funding.

Perhaps the Administration can push the numerous privately funded organizations that assist with disasters and encourage taxpayers to donate/volunteer there. Trump did that with Reverend Graham in NC.
Cajun Navy….

The Trump administration will need to show it is not as tragic as the media and libs are saying. The left lie.
No, nursing homes really aren't closing and putting Granny on the curb.
I don't think their rhetoric should be ignored. Call out and prove their lies.

All income levels of Americans like their government funded programs. They want the fraud and waste out of them. People punished for it.

Not too many rural Trump voters want their county hospital closed.

57 posted on 02/27/2025 11:15:34 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have Pfizer inject them all with a vaccine that causes peanut butter allergy, problem solved.


58 posted on 02/27/2025 11:15:35 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“CNN”. Pretty much told me all I need to know.


59 posted on 02/27/2025 11:16:25 AM PST by kawhill ("How did this guy look? Oh, sorta funny lookin'. In what way? Oh, kind of in a general way. I see." )
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To: SpaceBar

“The article doesn’t mention how tiny violin companies are booming.”

Clever. LOL.


60 posted on 02/27/2025 11:16:28 AM PST by Veto! (Tump Is Superman)
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