B-Man Posted April 11 Posted April 11 This Is Insane David Strom April 11, 2025 I am going to leave aside any question about whether the World Health Organization is telling the truth because I have no way of knowing. There may have been a time when, in ignorance, I would have assumed that they were, but that time is long past. The WHO is run by a man who was a Minister in a government run by literal terrorists, it lied throughout COVID, and is corrupt as the day is long. But I will grant for the purposes of this article that they could be telling the truth, and still say WTF, man? Could it possibly be true that 75% of the world's countries can't have a functioning health care system without aid from the United States? Possibly. Is it, in any rational world, acceptable that 75% of the countries in the world cannot ensure that they have functioning healthcare systems without US aid? Absolutely not. That state of affairs is insane, both because it is unfair to the US taxpayers and, just as importantly, it ensures that citizens of foreign countries continue to live under the most incompetent governments conceivable. We are enabling self-destruction in the same way that family members of alcoholics or drug addicts are enabling their relatives by giving them cash to feed their habit. The WHO has “compiled feedback from more than 100 countries” to understand the impact of the aid cuts, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Thursday. {snip} Uh, yeah. If this report is accurate that is absolutely shameful. Worse, given the voting record of countries in the United Nations and what many of these countries say about us, a lot of world leaders use one hand to beg for our cash and the other to hold a knife that they use to stab us in the back. It's one thing for the United States to use foreign aid in order to help address crises and quite another for us to become the primary caregiver for the world. No country should build its health care budget based on an expectation that another would pick up the check. It is, if nothing else, irresponsible, given that services to citizens could be cut by the ascent of a new president. No doubt many will point to a story like this and blame Trump--see, you are HURTING people. I read it and wonder how any "leader" could let his country down so much. And if it is a moral imperative that Western countries subsidize every other government in the world, why don't our allies pick up the slack? They are great about trashing us for not paying the freight but walk away when asked to pick up the tab they so desperately want paid by us. It's NATO all over again. The Western Alliance! Except none of the others in the alliance really wants to contribute much. Do I wish it hadn't come to this? Yes. Would I be willing to talk about helping out during a short transition? Perhaps, depending on the conditions in each country. But 75% of all the countries can't run a health care system without foreign aid from the US? That is insane. But go back to the status quo ante? Not on your life. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/04/11/this-is-insane-n3801668
B-Man Posted July 1 Posted July 1 “Millions will die” By Bill Glahn From the U.K. Daily Mail, More than 14 million people could die as a result of Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts, a new study has found. The US President’s administration announced it had slashed 83 per cent of programmes run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) shortly after he returned to the White House for a second term. And now research published in the leading medical journal, Lancet, has predicted that 14 million people – 4.5 million of whom are children under the age of five – could die by 2030 as a result. There are something like 195 independent nations on the planet, and not a single one, other than America, is capable of helping any of the others. No one. Not a single Euro, Yen, pound, franc, peso, etc., can be freed up to prevent mass genocide on a biblical scale. The Lancet is based in the United Kingdom. They can’t help out? Not even a little? Apparently not, says the Daily Mail, After USAID was gutted, several other major donors including Germany, the UK and France followed suit in announcing plans to slash their foreign aid budgets. The Daily Mail adds, USAID had provided over 40 per cent of global humanitarian funding until Trump returned to the White House in January. America contains just over 4 percent of the world’s population and generates about 24 percent of the world’s economic output. Yet a single U.S. government agency that you hadn’t even heard of before January 2025 was providing 40 percent of global humanitarian aid and single-handedly sustaining life on earth. I guess we’re just not going to make it. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/millions-will-die.php https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14862693/14-MILLION-people-small-children-die-Trumps-foreign-aid-cuts-study.html
Roundybout Posted July 1 Posted July 1 3 minutes ago, B-Man said: “Millions will die” By Bill Glahn From the U.K. Daily Mail, More than 14 million people could die as a result of Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts, a new study has found. The US President’s administration announced it had slashed 83 per cent of programmes run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) shortly after he returned to the White House for a second term. And now research published in the leading medical journal, Lancet, has predicted that 14 million people – 4.5 million of whom are children under the age of five – could die by 2030 as a result. There are something like 195 independent nations on the planet, and not a single one, other than America, is capable of helping any of the others. No one. Not a single Euro, Yen, pound, franc, peso, etc., can be freed up to prevent mass genocide on a biblical scale. The Lancet is based in the United Kingdom. They can’t help out? Not even a little? Apparently not, says the Daily Mail, After USAID was gutted, several other major donors including Germany, the UK and France followed suit in announcing plans to slash their foreign aid budgets. The Daily Mail adds, USAID had provided over 40 per cent of global humanitarian funding until Trump returned to the White House in January. America contains just over 4 percent of the world’s population and generates about 24 percent of the world’s economic output. Yet a single U.S. government agency that you hadn’t even heard of before January 2025 was providing 40 percent of global humanitarian aid and single-handedly sustaining life on earth. I guess we’re just not going to make it. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/millions-will-die.php https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14862693/14-MILLION-people-small-children-die-Trumps-foreign-aid-cuts-study.html 14 million deaths and your response is “lol who cares” MAGA: the party of human suffering! 1
AlBUNDY4TDS Posted July 1 Posted July 1 8 minutes ago, Roundybout said: 14 million deaths and your response is “lol who cares” MAGA: the party of human suffering! They died already? Wow 1
Roundybout Posted July 1 Posted July 1 7 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said: They died already? Wow As a matter of fact they have. https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-cuts-humanitarian-children-trump-4447e210c4b5543b8ebb9a6b9e01aa53 “Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.”
AlBUNDY4TDS Posted July 1 Posted July 1 26 minutes ago, Roundybout said: As a matter of fact they have. https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-cuts-humanitarian-children-trump-4447e210c4b5543b8ebb9a6b9e01aa53 “Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.” Are we the only country on earth capable of sending aid to other countries?
B-Man Posted July 1 Posted July 1 7 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said: Are we the only country on earth capable of sending aid to other countries? Do not bother Roundy's blinders will not allow a proper response. "Maga hates brown people" is the limit of his 'thinking' . 1
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