Posted on 07/04/2025 2:38:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The spigot has been turned off.
A Reagan administration joke depicted a Bureau of Indian Affairs administrator sobbing at his desk. “What’s wrong?” The bureaucrat responded, “My Indian died.”
Like the best political humor, it uses a ridiculous scene to illustrate a truth. Bureaucracies eventually exist for the bureaucrats.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrated this truth for more than six decades without, unfortunately, providing a laugh. On Tuesday, it ceased to exist. (RELATED: The Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on the Parallel Government)
Do you also turn its funeral into a party this weekend? The complete cessation of any department, bureau, agency, or even program of the federal government, after all, occurs more rarely than does the Fourth of July. This is a victory for everyone who believes in restrained government. The fact that next-on-the-chopping-block NPR laments its passing proves this. (RELATED: Uncle Sam Just Conducted Its Final April 15th Pledge Drive for PBS and NPR)
Started during the peak of the Cold War, the initial purpose, whether stated or not, of USAID involved providing money to poorer countries as a means to prevent their slippage into the orbit of the Soviet Union, whose class-warfare rhetoric had already seduced denizens of many such countries. But for most of USAID’s existence, the Soviet Union did not exist.
Perhaps a USAID bureaucrat somewhere cried when his Communist died. But bureaucracies prove more resilient than people or even ideologies. They are hard to kill. Just ask Elon Musk.
They also tend to wander from mission. This seems to be a key component that explains why the Trump Administration so easily abolished the agency.
USAID gave nearly $80 million to EngenderHealth, an abortion outfit that, as Dr. Thomas Williams points out, was started as the Sterilization League of...
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Endanger Health is a good name for an abortion clinic.
Effective USAID board of directors:
- George H. W. Bush
- William “Bill” Clinton & Associates
- George W. Bush
- B. Hussein Obama & Left-wing Hustlers Without Borders
- Joseph “Auto-Pen” Biden Benchwarmers for Obama Reruns
ALL FOR defending their USAID Money Laundromat.
President Donald J. Trump for closing that cartel.
Fast forward more than 20 years later and the program was still active, even though the only thing keeping the KKK afloat was the dues of the FBI infiltrators.
When the administration proposed ending the program because the mission had long since been accomplished, there was such an outcry that they had to back off.
It wasn't until Clinton was president a decade or so later that the program was quietly ended.
“”J. Edgar Hoover decided to infiltrate and but it.””
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Sorry!
So much for Democratic party campaign cash. It’s filtered through multiple blood suckers who all take a cut before ultimately ending up in the DNC campaign account.
“Bureaucracies eventually exist for the bureaucrats.”
If the $50B a year just got the ‘bureaucrats’ rich, that would not have been a much of a problem, since $50B is virtually pocket change in DC.
The BIG PROBLEM is how they LEVERAGED the money to destroy both this country and many, many, other countries. For starters, virtually all of the money used by Democrats to get out their vote, and cheat, came from USAID. Additionally, the conditions that led to the Neocon War in Ukraine was funded, in large part, by USAID, along with their efforts to start other wars in Russia’s border, including the country of Georgia, which, thankfully, was averted by some smart people there.
Yes, but the spigot still exists.
The spigot has not been abolished. Which means the spigot can simply be turned on again at a later time.
Yes, temporary fixes are wonderful. But let's be sober, not drunk, and keep in mind that it remains temporary.
This should be done to EVERY fed agency- all they are is end runs around the Constitution and a phenomenal waste of money.
Did they claw back Stacey Abrams loot?
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