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Thursday, February 13, 2025

February, 2025, Part 5, By The Numbers - More Wasteful Spending By USAID and Transgender Monkeys, and Mice Cost Us $10 MIllion

 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 have already spent the  three previous  posts to show the ridiculous expenditures USAID has spread around the world while millions and millions of Americans suffer hardships. Those posts 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


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-part-3-by-numbers-more.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-part-4-by-numbers-more.html


But the list of wasteful spending keeps getting longer and longer, beyond what we identified in the above posts:


1)USAID was supposed to be used for so-called “soft diplomacy” around the world, i.e. do good deeds for hunger, disease, etc. to make the United States look good. Unfortunately, that apparently wasn't the case in at least one instance where USAID funds ended up being used domestically:


  • USAID gave a $24.7 million grant to the George Soros-funded Tides Center.

  • The Tides Center then gave $12.6 million to the domestic Black Lives Matter movement.

  • In a bit of irony, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation then sued the Tides Center for withholding $33 million from the Foundation.The Tides Center has about $1l4 BILLION in assets and yet USAID thought it would be a good idea to violate its charter and purpose for living, foreign aid, to give this billion dollar organization millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.


2) Congresswoman Nancy Mace is a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. While not a direct waste of USAID funds, she also recently identified some really disgusting and wasteful government spending:


  • In the name of DEI, “diversity, equity and inclusion,” Mace announced that over $10 million of taxpayer money was spent on bizarre experiments which attempted to create transgender monkeys, mice, and rats.

  • Specifically: “Late last year the White Coat Waste Project exposed that more than $10 million dollars in taxpayer funds were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys. These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country.”

  • Congresswoman Mace was not done: “For example, the Biden-Harris Administration spent $2.5 million taxpayer dollars to study the fertility of transgender mice.”


Americans are homeless, hungry and dying from drug addiction and the Federal government is wasting millions of dollars and torturing animals for these ridiculously stupid and useless purposes.


3)We have previously discussed the insanity of sending $20 million to Iraq to sponsor a Sesame Street show in that country. Pretty stupid, right, given how tens of millions of Americans are suffering. And yet that suffering does not matter to senator Chris Coons: “It’s a show that helps teach values, helps teach public health, helps prevent kids from dying from dysentery and disease and helps push values like collaboration, peacefulness, and cooperation in a society where the alternative is ISIS [the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham], extremism, and terrorism.”


Millions of American kids are homeless and hungry but it is more important in his mind to put on a Sesame Street show in Iraq. Pathetic priorities.


4)Hamas is one of the worst terrorist groups in the world, dedicated to wiping out the state of Israel and the millions of Jewish folks that live in israel. Apparently, that hostility towards a Middle East ally means nothing when it came to taxpayer money distributed by USAID:


  • USAID gave a designated terror group, the Hamas Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, $100,000.

  • Six days before Hamas attacked Israel, an action that killed 1,200 Israeli civilians and resulted in hundreds being kidnapped by Hamas, USAID gave $900,000 to a terror charity in Gaza involved with the son of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh.


Funding terrorists with American taxpayer wealth doesn't get much more stupid than that.


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 Middle East terror groups, studying transgender mice, 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 are 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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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

January, 2024, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: More Bad Priorities In California, More Corruption In Washington, and A Secretary of Defense That Endangered Us All

  Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of operating any level of government in this country. 


Even their best efforts are almost always inefficient and ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.


1)Let me see  if  I got this right:


  • There is a war going on in Gaza.

  • There is a war going on in the Ukraine.

  • Every day, U.S. naval forces are engaged in battle in the Red Sea.

  • U.S. service personnel have recently been attacked multiple times in Iraq.

  • China is likely planning to attack Taiwan.

  • North  Korea is actively improving the range and  accuracy of its missile weapons.

  • Iran is actively getting closer everyday to becoming a nuclear weapons owner.

  • Turkish air force jets recently bombed two  different countries.


And in the  midst of this dangerous world,  Biden's Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, decides  this is a good time to have major  surgery for cancer, undergoing general anesthesia and he:


  • Does not tell his boss, the  Commander in Chief, that he will be incapacitated for a while or where he will be.

  • Does not tell his second in command, who is out of the country on vacation,  that he will be incapacitated for a while or where he will be.

  • Does not tell the National Security Council that he will be  incapacitated for a while or where he will be.

  • Does not formally or informally cede his responsibilities to anyone in the Pentagon while he is incapacitated for a while.

  • He and his staff lie about his whereabouts for days, saying he is working from home, while he is incapacitated for a while.


In  summary, the person responsible for the safety and defense of U.S. service people around the world, the person who would be critical to deciding whether to launch nuclear weapons in defense of the country, the person who is responsible for protecting the homeland goes off the grid, goes AWOL, and tells no one what is going on for days on end. A dereliction of duty of the highest degree and , in my humble opinion, just another act of incompetence by the most incompetent Presidential administration in my lifetime.


2)We have often  discussed the reality that a number of states, e.g. California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, have a very good chance of soon entering a financial death spiral that will drive the state government’s in one or more of these states into bankruptcy. Our theory is based on the following  realities:


  • These states already place a very heavy tax burden on their in-state residents and businesses.

  • These heavy tax burdens have started to drive residents and businesses  out of the states in order to keep more of their hard earned wealth and not pass it onto the state politicians that continually waste these tax dollars.

  • As residents and businesses leave the state, the state government tax base and resulting tax revenue shrinks,

  • Rather than reduce state government spending to align with the reduced tax revenue, the state politicians raise taxes which  drives more residents and businesses out of the state which further reduces the tax base and resulting in  more tax shortfalls.

  • As the tax base continues to  shrink, government  services (police,  fire,  EMT,  education) are reduced and taxes are raised all of which  drives more people out  of the state and the financial death spiral is in place.


And the states mentioned above are seeing this scenario unfold as residents and businesses are fleeing to greener pastures and the tax shortfall and state government debt balloons. And some folks in California are taking a rather drastic step to break out  of this death spiral:


  • An organization has been formed in  California whose purpose is to carve out a piece of the state and create a new state called “New California.”

  • The organization recently held a rally in the state capital where it proclaimed: “Sacramento, CA will be the location for reading of the New California State Statehood Proclamation. In celebration of the 6th anniversary of New California Declaring Independence from the state of California the Affirmation, Declaration of Independence AND Statehood Proclamation will be read on the California state capital steps.”

  • The organization laments the loss of freedom, the corrupted elections processes, the flood of illegal immigrants into the state and the taxpayer resources spent to accommodate them, and the higher and higher crime rates in the state’s cities.


So these folks have taken a slightly different view of a failed and oppressive set of government and political class actions. Rather than leave their respective states, like  millions have  already done,  they just want to stay in place but remove themselves from the current state political structure. Different approach, same desire: freedom from an inept.costly, and oppressive political  class.


3)We used to talk a lot about New York Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. At the beginning of her time in Congress, or ignorance regarding  simple life concepts was quite amusing:


  • Despite having graduated with honors from a Boston university with a degree in business//economics, she had not the foggiest idea how the unemployment rate was calculated,  something she should have learned early in her high school economic class.

  • She once tweeted out a video of herself where she said that the U.S.  government consisted of three branches: the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives, completely forgetting about the Supreme Court.

  • When Amazon was seriously considering putting a major white collar facility in her Congressional  district, a move that would have made her district very, very wealthy, her ignorance on tax breaks and taxation resulted in Amazon going elsewhere with their facility plans and economic power.


Over time though, her ignorance on so many topics got boring and a waste of time. But she was back in the news recently and not in a good way:


  • A former top aide of the Congresswoman has allegedly swiped some money from donor funds from his political action committee (PAC) for his own personal use.

  • At one time, Corbin Trent was Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director.

  • After leaving that job, he established his own PAC called No Excuses whose main thrust was to kill a Senate filibuster.

  • He then paid himself $140,000 out of the PAC funds for “consulting” while spending only $14,000 on radio ads to support his filibuster objective.

  • Thus, he paid  himself ten times what he spent on his PAC’s  mission.


Now this is not to say that the Congresswoman is at fault in any way. But it is a good example of how corrupt Washington has become when a former top Congressional aide can so easily garner a pretty hefty paycheck for themselves without doing a whole lot to get it.


4)Back to California and its overreaching and inept political class. But before going into their latest antic, consider a few realities that California politicians should be focusing in:


  • Residents and businesses are fleeing the  state and taking their tax dollars with them.

  • Crime across the state is at a crisis level.

  • Homelessness across the state is at a crisis level.

  • The state is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars in unfunded future financial liabilities.

  • State cities are faced with the very unhealthy reality of public defecation, urination, and drug usage.

  • The state’s public schools continue to fail at educating the kids in the state.


A  lot of very nasty problems that need drastic and focused attention. Unfortunately, the state politicians are working on stupid priorities as we see below:


  • Under the guise of “safeguarding” kids, the state political class is working on legislation to forbid kids under 12 years old from playing tackle football in schools or private football leagues.

  • The supporters of the legislation claim that this legislation will  protect lives  and highlight the availability of alternative sports for kids.

  • Two problems with these justifications for the legislation: first, in 2021, there were four football-related youth deaths NATIONALLY and those four were all high school  players, not youth football players so nationally it  is not a big problem.

  • The second problem with their assumptions is that it should not be their priority to direct kids to alternative sports, given the major problems facing the state.

  • Opponents of this nonsense point out that of the 89,000 kids that played tackle football in the state last year there were only 20 that may have had a concussion and one of the 89,000 kids died from  playing football.


Just a stupid waste of time and  resources for a non-problem. And let’s not forget the hypocrisy of the situation: California allows for kids to undergo transgender medical procedures, operations and hormone treatments, to change their sex without parents’ approval.  So the state political class allows for kids to undergo radical sex change operations, the long term health consequences of which are unknown, but does not want them playing football for their own health.


The football decision should be a parent and  family decision and the state politicians should be focused on issues that affect millions and millions of state residents: high taxes, failing schools, homelessness, high crime,  etc. Bad, bad priorities.


That will do it for today’s political class insanity: more corruption in Washington, more bad  priorities in California, and a Secretary of Defense that endangered us all.


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https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom



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