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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