Quite the opposite in fact...US dollars fund all kinds of horrific things.
Posted on 09/23/2025 8:30:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, but on Tuesday morning, he took some time out to make the morning show rounds on several networks. He didn't shy away from promoting the Donald Trump administration's "America First" policies.
On ABC, George Stephanopoulos seemed obsessed with cuts to foreign aid, claiming they've led to deaths around the world. Rubio wasn't willing to play along with that tired narrative that I thought the left finally gave up on months ago. As the secretary has pointed out numerous times, USAID was a "dysfunctional organization" filled with corruption that was doing more to line pockets and spread a wacky leftist agenda than actually help people.
"We're gonna do more than anyone in the world, again, this year," Rubio said, adding, "But we're gonna do it the right way. We're gonna do it holistically. We're gonna do it as part of an integrated foreign policy."
He continued:
We are not gonna fund an NGO industrial complex that built itself up that was taking a substantial percentage of the money and not going directly to the recipients. It was going to these organizations that had multi-billion dollar projects and budgets. We're not gonna continue to do it that way. We are gonna provide aid. We're providing aid now. We just rolled out our new initiative on health.
It's going to be much more successful and much more effective. We're gonna enter into direct compacts with the countries. We're gonna empower our embassies and our ambassadors to direct which projects we and how much money countries are gonna be receiving. So, we are restructuring the way we do aid that's gonna be far more effective.
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That's ridiculous...well then they died because England didn't give enough money or Canada didn't give more or China didn't...Let's blame the other countries that don't do any foreign aid. How about China? I mean, China's the second-largest economy in the world, they don't give money to these projects, so that people die because China didn't give more money?
"I, and I think anybody who tells you that somehow it's the United States, if we cut a dollar, somehow we're responsible for some horrific thing that's going on in the world is just not true," Rubio elaborated.
Stephanopoulos then tried some sort of "gotcha" situation, but apparently, he doesn't watch too many Rubio interviews. There is no game of "gotcha" in which Rubio doesn't win.
After all these years Stephanopoulos is still just the sniveling little worm who was Clintons character assassin
Rubio has become one of Trump’s best hires as POTUS.
Georgie Step-On-All-Of-Us continues to be who and what he has always been. He ran the 1990s Clinton War Room. All of the abused women were attacked by the War Room.
What’s next? Will he defend Epstein because Clinton was on the Epstein Lolita Express Jet dozens of times?
Rubio has become one of Trump’s best hires as POTUS.
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Yes!
Except personal donors actually care about getting results and can get involved both from a hands-on perspective and an oversight perspective. I'm not a huge philanthropist, but even at my level with a middle-class background I have done things like funded a soccer league (with uniforms) and Bible lessons in a gang-ridden village in El Salvador, provided significant funding to orphanages in El Salvador and Pakistan (basically keeping the latter one open) as well as a home for abused and exploited teen mothers in El Salvador. In Chad I support a missionary who drills wells providing fresh water to remote villages. And so on.
Next month when I visit Pakistan I'll be visiting a Christian school where the kids are sitting on the floor to do schoolwork, such is the poverty of their parents. If it checks out I plan to buy them all desks. In all of this, I really believe a government trying to do the same things would spend at least 10X what I'm doing, if not more. Heck, last time I was in El Salvador we put together what turned out to be an awesome pair of free medical clinics that just grew from grassroots efforts of the volunteers I invited (it was a freelance trip), with donated/loaned equipment, a local ministry offering a stockpile of medicine, and local doctors and nurses joining in. If it had been a government effort I can only shake my head at the costs involved.
I am running about a 11:1 ratio on dollars spent towards charity versus personal expenses this year, and live very simply, so any dollar not taxed from me is an extra dollar for charitable work. With a decent effort by Americans we can dramatically improve charitable work over what government aid was doing (actually this is already typical but it can be scaled up with less government plundering going on.)
I call him George Stuffin’ Envelopes.
Halifax is a lovely town to relocate UN headquarters. Or Reykjavik.
Can confirm. And yes. Little Marco has become a hitman.
A welcome surprise.
Stephanopoulos
The biggest
WEASEL
in LEGION MEDIA.
“After all these years Stephanopoulos is still just the sniveling little worm who was Clintons character assassin”
And don’t forget, virtually EVERY PERSON that Stephanopoulos knows was funded by USAID. How he keeps his job ASTOUNDS me...as I simply turn him off whenever I see him, and I don’t know why ANY conservative would even agree to be interviewed by him, given the sickening hack he was during Clinton’s days.
George Stuffinenvelopes sits on a stack of telephone books. Lick and stick, lick and stick all the livelong day.
Quite the opposite in fact...US dollars fund all kinds of horrific things.
stephy is a back bencher, rubio is an all star. No competition here.
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This is all well and good; but I have to ask “Why America is providing Foreign Aid, when it can not balance its budget?
We are borrowing money to give to charity!
Halifax is a lovely town to relocate UN headquarters. Or Reykjavik.
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Nah. Iceland, OK. Not Reykjavik, though. Someplace on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and wait for the volcano to go up.
George Stephanopoulos the Joe Biden of news everything is one sided LEFT no exceptions.
He was the one I was worried about the most and he turned out to be one of the best. I have learned to trust President Trump. If he makes a mistake, he fixes it as soon as he knows.
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