The richest man in the world boasts the destruction of the United States Agency for International Development, which will save the lives of the poorest children in the world and say that it put it “wooden chips”
According to my calculations, Elon Musk probably has net assets more than the value of the poorest billions of people on Earth. Just since the election of Donald Trump, Musk’s personal net fortune has increased much more than the whole annual budget USAID, which in any case represents less than 1 percent of the federal budget. It is heartless for the merciful billionaire, such as Musk and President Trump, to cut off children from medicine, but as President John F. Kennedy emphasized when he proposed to create an agency in 1961, it is also myopic.
Kennedy noted that he noted that “the catastrophic and long -term point of view would be more expensive.”
Maybe that’s why she has Russia praised Trump’s move.
Unlike Kennedy, Trump’s administration Copheng is coexistent, ignorance and nearsightedness, and this combination seems to be particularly evident in his attack on American humanitarian aid.
One person has already died of bird flu in the United States and is growing concerns about the pandemic – yet Trump’s suspension of foreign aid interrupted the supervision of bird flu in 49 countries, According to the Global Council for HealthA non -profit organization based on the US.
Do you remember the American panic over Ebola’s focus in West Africa in 2014? (Trump was especially hysterically Then.
As this happens, another Ebola outbreak has just been reported in Uganda, with 234 contacts to be found. USAID would normally help suppress it – but now Trump and Musk eliminated it from the commission.
Another hemorrhagic fever called Marburg Virus, erupted In Tanzania last month. Auxiliary workers are in a hurry to detain the virus, but Trump again made the United States Awol, so the world left a little more vulnerable.
Publication: In 2012, USAID created some games for India and Africa based on the book that my wife and I wrote: “Half of the sky.” pregnancy.
I saw USAid working all over the world, and it’s a mixed picture. It is fair to complain that USAID is infinitely bureaucratic and that too much help goes to the so -called American suppliers Beltway Bandit, rather than the needy people abroad.
Yet there is no basis for the White House mythology that USAID is an enclave of awakened waste, reflects in Trump’s claim that he spent about “$ 100 million on condoms on Hamas” (doubled his previous claim to $ 50 million).
Hmm. Male condoms cost the US government 3.3 cents, so it would be three billion condoms. In my calculation, for Hamas to use enough condoms per year, every warrior would have to have sex 325 times a day, every day.
This could erase Hamas as a combat force more effectively than Israeli bombing.
In any case actual amount We seem to be $ 100 million but $ 0.
Trump’s policies are as ruthless as his rhetoric. I would welcome some restructuring USAID, but this is not restructuring, but demolition – blow to our values and interests.
Musk settled USAid as “criminal organization“In fact, many of its employees risked their lives in the best tradition of public service. The USAID MEMORIAL WALL The Honors 99 people killed at work in places like Sudan, Haiti, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.
Over the years I have seen real improvements in the USAid. His partnership of public and private sector deal with lead poisoningannounced last year, was a model of American leadership. And so from my ways, that’s what USAID meant to me:
I saw women and girls with Maternity fistulaTerrible injury to birth, get an operation of $ 600 that returns their lives – and that’s something USAID supports.
I have seen men humiliate ivory and grotesquely enlarged scrotums, sometimes require the wheel to support their organs when they walk. And the USAid fought with this disease and made it less common.
I saw the children die of malaria (a I had malaria) And I have seen that USAID has helped to make the main progress against illness over the last two decades.
I saw South Africa devastated AIDS. And then President George W. Bush orientation program AIDS, called Pepfar and partially implemented through USAID, has transformed the landscape. I saw the coffin manufacturers in Lesoth and Malawi Grumble that their business collapsed because much less people were dying. Pepfar has So far saved 26 million lives. (In the coming months I will see if I can calculate how many lives are lost with Trump’s cuts to help.)
I have seen the suffering of communities where middle -aged people normally blind trachoma, river blindness or cataract – and transformation when USAID helps prevent such blindness.
Trump mocked that USAid “operated radical madness”. Is radical madness to try to save children’s lives? Support literacy for girls? Fight blindness?
If it wakes up, what evangelical Christians An international mission of justiceWhich with the support of USAid has done an excellent work fighting with sex trading in Cambodia and the Philippines? Do Trump believe that the rescue of children from rape is a radical mad cause?
Trump’s movements have uncertain legality, not least because USAID founded Congress, but the results are undeniable. All over the world, children are missing health care and food because of an attack on the agency that Kennedy founded to follow our values and protect our interests.
For billionaires in the White House it may look like a game. But for anyone with heart, it is the life of children and our own safety and what develops is disgusting.
