On a periodic basis we review the wasteful government spending via a continuing theme of “By The Numbers.” We review how poorly taxpayer wealth is being spent and wasted on stupid programs and projects and also how many government programs are being ripped off of billions and billions of dollars by fraud and criminal enterprises. Today is just another sad chapter on how politicians and government bureaucrats are pretty inept when it comes to safeguarding taxpayer dollars.
We have a really disgusting set of numbers today for you but before we get to them consider some of these very distressing numbers affecting many American citizens:
There are currently about 770,000 homeless Americans in the country today.
Well over 100,000 Americans will die this year from a drug overdose because they could not get the drug addiction treatment they needed.
13.5% of Americans or about 47 million people are living in so-called “food insecure households,” households where it is often a challenge to feed their families because of unemployment and inflation.
Of that 47 million, about 14 million of them are American kids.
About 26 million Americans are not covered by any health insurance policy.
Yes, there are a lot of Americans in dire need of help. And as we have pointed out many times in this blog, the American political class would rather spend our taxpayer dollars on stupid projects, both here and around the world, than help these Americans in need.
Part of Trump’s assumed mandate in his election victory was to clean up the wasteful spending in Washington and the massive corruption that comes with it. In just two weeks he has identified billions and billions of dollars that have been wasted by a single government agency, USAID. This agency has spread billions of dollars around the world on stupid projects while millions and millions of Americans suffer from a variety of problems as listed above. Most of these projects have been useless and have been poorly or never audited for the integrity of the money being spent.
We started documenting the wasteful spending in our previous post. That post and the disgusting reality that came with it can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-by-numbers-part-2.html
But the list of wasteful spending keeps getting longer and longer, beyond what we identified in the above post:
$45 million for D.E.I. scholarships in Burma.
$2.5 million for electric cars in Vietnam.
$3 million for girls centered climate action in Brazil.
$125 million to racialize public health.
$280,000 for diverse birdwatchers.
$1.5 million for D.E.I. in Serbia.
$70,000 for a D.E.I. musical in Ireland.
$47,000 for a trans opera in Colombia.
$2.0 million for sex changes in Guatemala.
$6.0 million for tourism in Egypt.
So as we often ask: what is more important, helping Americans in need by providing food, shelter, and medical care or spending taxpayer wealth on electric cars in Vietnam, D.E.I. programs around the world, etc.? If you think that USAID expenditures around the world are more important, then you and I have very different priorities.
But the insanity of USAID corruption seems to go on and on: Consider the following video where a gentleman spent a lot of time documenting even more stupid waste of money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEaT08ysjT4
Of course, Washington politicians do not set out an objective to “see how much money we can waste today.” I would bet a lot of money that many of these stupid expenditures are tied back to politicians, either to their family members, their political supporters, or even themselves and the enrichment via tax dollars that come with these ties. Now the projects may eventually spend some of the money allocated on the purposes that are described but before that happens a lot of hands are greased, a lot of pockets and bank accounts are stuffed, and a lot of politicians reelection campaigns get enriched.
In other words, USAID, and probably many other government programs, is nothing more than a money laundering scheme to ensure that current politicians get themselves and their campaign coffers enriched. As time passes and hundreds of billions of misspent dollars continue to be identified, pay close attention to the Washington politicians that protest the loudest about Trump's efforts to root out corruption and wasteful spending. Those that protest the loudest are probably the ones most likely to have profited the most from these inane programs.
Meanwhile, Americans continue to go hungry, homeless and in need of medical attention. What are your priorities?
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If you agree that we need to deseat every member of Congress for their lack of success and accomplishment, then please consider going to the following petition link to help the cause:
https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
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