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Sunday, February 9, 2025

February, 2025, Part 3, By The Numbers - More Wasteful Spending and Corruption by 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 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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https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom

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https://www.amazon.com/Love-My-Country-Loathe-Government/dp/1604942789/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=love+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&qid=1607716020&sr=8-1

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.reason.com

http://www.cato.org

http://www.openthebooks.com

http://www.conventionofstates.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

June, 2024, Part 3, By The Numbers: Failed Homeless Help In Portland, Drug Cartels Laundering Money In LA, $35 TRILLION In Debt and More

On a periodic basis we do some posts that fall under the theme of “by the numbers.” Rather than trust what the American politician tells us about reality, we like to examine the real numbers and the real reality in the world to understand what is actually going on. Relying on politicians, and their cohorts in the media, to tell us what is reality is always a sucker bet. They have their own agendas and goals, usually centering around their needs and self-enrichment. So we need to look at the reality of the numbers to determine what is really going on.

Previous analyses of “by the numbers” can be accessed by entering the phrase in the search box above. We look at the numbers to truly find out how good, not likely, or bad, most likely, the American political class is doing in managing our tax dollars, protecting our freedoms, and resolving major issues that affect all of us.

1)One of the least discussed but biggest crises facing the country, a crisis that will crash our economy and squash our freedoms, is the ever growing Federal government national debt, which is quickly approaching an astonishing $35,000,000,000,000. And things are not getting any better:

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this year’s Federal budget deficit is $400 billion higher than it was estimated to be just four months ago in February.
That is a 27% increase since February.
The national debt is expected to rise from 99% of the country’s GDP to 122% of GDP by 2034, the highest it has ever been in the country’s history.
Remember, that the fast approaching $35,000,000,000,000 national debt means that every man, woman and child would have to write a check for over $100,000 to pay off the debt, an obvious impossibility.

These are the scariest numbers facing the country right now, no debate necessary. And yet, NOBODY in Washington has the guts, the brains, and the nerve to do anything about it.

2)Given the $35 trillion national debt that the Federal government has dug for itself, consider just one example of how we got to this horrendous number and really have nothing to show for it:

In 2021, early in Biden’s term, he and Congress set aside $42,500,000,000 to expand high speed internet access to every American.
Sadly and pathetically, three and a half years later the FCC commissioner, Brendan Carr, testified to Congress that exactly 0 people have been connected as a result of this program.
He also reported that 0 people will likely see the benefit of this program since plans for this effort will not be completed until 2025 at the earliest.

According to the commissioner, money from the program has been spent but not spent on the original intent of the budget authorization. Out of control spending with zero tangible benefits after 3 years.

3)One of the more outstanding features of Biden’s failed immigration policies is that he has often facetiously been tagged as Mexican Drug Cartels’ Employee of the month, having allowed the cartels free rein to bring in unprecedented amounts of illegal drugs into the country via our leaky Biden borders.

Just one example of this failure was recently reported in Los Angeles:

A 5 year investigation by Federal authorities has found a money laundering scheme involving the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel and Chinese individuals in the United States.
The 10 count indictment charged these two groups with money laundering as it related to drug trafficking sales worth more than $50 million.
24 individuals were named in the indictment.

The good news is that a drug cartel operation is out of business. The bad news is who knows how many similar types of money laundering and drug trafficking operations are still going on, littering our streets with poisonous drugs and annual drug overdose deaths of over 100,000.

4)One very sad and serious problem that the American political class has created and which has shown no ability to fix is the homelessness problem in this country. We are by far the richest country to ever exist in history and yet on any one day there are probably about 600,000 Americans living on the streets, hungry and without shelter.

And much like the city of Seattle that we recently discussed relative to homelessness, the city of Portland and it's politicians also have a pretty poor, but expensive, track record in fixing their homeless problem:

In 2023, the Portland area of Oregon spent over $530,000,000 to address their wide ranging homeless problem.
And yet, despite spending about half a billion dollars in one year on the problem, a recent analysis and report found that the number of homeless in the area increased a whopping 70%.
“The number itself was shocking,” confessed John Tapogna, a senior policy advisor at ECOnorthwest, which conducted an analysis of these figures.
According to the latest counts, it is estimated that there are about 7,500 homeless individuals in the Portland area living either in emergency shelters or on the streets.
If somehow that $530 million of taxpayer money could have magically been given directly to those 7,500 homeless folks, each one of them would have received about $71,000 EACH, an amount that would have allowed each one of those folks an income that could have afforded them living space.
Instead, 7,500 are still homeless and that $530,000,000 is nowhere to be found.

Spending $500,000,000 of taxpayer wealth and seeing the problem still grow by 70% is certainly a major failure and probably means some politically connected groups and individuals are getting quite wealthy off the taxpayers without being effective. The numbers do not lie.

Enough numbers today: failed homeless problem solving in Portland, drug cartels alive and well in Los Angeles, Biden’s high speed internet program fails, and $35,000,000,000,000 in national debt is closing fast.

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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: