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Thursday, February 20, 2025

An Open Letter To Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, and Others In Congress Who Are Freaking Out About DOGE

 An Open Letter To: 


  • Senator Elizabeth Warren

  •  Senator Chuck Schumer

  • And the other members in Congress who are freaking out because Trump is identifying questionable spending of taxpayer wealth around the world


Many of you are having fits because Trump, via DOGE, is identifying how billions of taxpayer dollars are being paid out on some very questionable projects around the world. You were silent when the money was being spent but somehow you all  now find it offensive that Trump is bringing to light where and what our tax dollars are  being spent on, a basic right that we should have since we paid for these expenses and projects.


Let’s look at some of these expenditures and find out if we have the same priorities  relative to how these taxpayer dollars are being spent:


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $20 million on a “Sesame Street production in IRAQ” then to help out Patterson High School in Baltimore where over 75% of their high school students are performing at elementary school levels in math and reading and about a third of those students are performing at no higher than second grade level in math and reading, then you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $5.5 million on “LGBT issues in  UGANDA” then to help out schools in Chicago where about 75% of Chicago Public School students could not read at grade level and 83% could not function in math at grade level, then you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $4.5 million to “combat misinformation is Kazakhstan” then to fix the reality that American kids perform far below the kids in dozens of other nations when it comes to standardized tests (as administered by The Program for International Student Assessment), then you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $3.9 million for “LGBT  causes in the western BALKANS” then to provide safe shelter for our 770,000 homeless Americans, then  you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $2,1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of LIBYAN society” then to help the 47 million Americans that are having trouble feeding themselves and their families, living in “food insecure households,” then you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $6.0 million for tourism in EGYPT then to help the over 100,000 Ameircans who overdose and die every year because they could not get medical help to help them overcome drug addiction, then you and I have  different priorities.


If you thought it waa a better idea to spend $2 million to fund sex change operations in GUATEMALA  then help the 26 million Ameircans who cannot afford health insurance for their families, then you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $7.9 million for a project that “would teach SRI LANKAN journalists how to avoid binary gendered language” then to fix the Social Security and Medicare programs that are hurtling towards financial  insolvency, then you and I have different priorities.


If you thought it was a better idea to spend $1.5 million to “rebuild the CUBAN media ecosystem,” then to provide additional funding in cities across the country suffering from skyrocketing crime rates, then you and I have different priorities.


Of course, there is no right or wrong answer, just different priorities. But apparently, I think it is better to spend billions of valuable taxpayer dollars helping out our families, neighbors and communities in need while you folks think it is a better idea to spread our limited tax dollars around the world, from Egypt to Uganda to Vietnam to Cuba and to dozens of other countries around the world on projects that seem quite inane. 


And I find your priorities despicable, shallow, and  disgusting.


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Sunday, February 16, 2025

February, 2025, Part 6, By The Numbers - The Wasteful Spending and Corruption of USAID

 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


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-part-5-by-numbers-more.html


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


— $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”


— $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”


— $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”


— $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terror group


— $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax


— $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”


— $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)


— $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda


— $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”


— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa


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 LGBT activism in  Uganda, diversity training in  Libya, 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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Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

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