Onihikage @ Onihikage @piefed.social Posts 0Comments 1Joined 1 mo. ago
Another factor is this: Where do the physical goods come from that USAID sends? Answer: US businesses. The food? US farmers. Weapons? US contractors. Medical supplies? US suppliers. All the money "given" to foreign countries by USAID is actually given to Americans, buying their goods in order to give them to foreign countries. It's a huge economic boon that flew under the radar all this time. By destroying this program, Musk and Trump are gleefully destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Americans, if not millions after their efforts collapse the food supply and possibly the US dollar if they try hard enough.
That's not even getting into things like USAID providing medical supplies to developing nations dealing with communicable yet curable diseases like Tuberculosis. Destroying these diseases in the developing world helps protect Americans. To walk back that work is absurdly shortsighted.