Back in the day when I worked for a huge company they matched donations to a few private aid companies, and I remember looking up how much of the donated money actually went to helping people in need. It was low. Very low. Really, anything below 70% seems low to me. I do not give those companies anymore. This, though, is insane
Rubio Despairs Just 12 Cents of Every Dollar from USAID Reached the Needy
Secretary of State Marco Rubio struck out at what he calls the U.S. “foreign aid industrial complex” during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, despairing at the inability of USAID to deliver funds where they are needed most.
Rubio directly targeted the organization, adding the time has come for root-and-branch change.
“At USAID, 12 cents of every dollar was reaching the recipient. That means that in order for us to get aid to somebody, we had to spend all this other money supporting this foreign aid industrial complex,” Rubio said.
“We’re going to find more efficient ways to deliver aid to people directly. It’s going to be directed by our regional bureaus. It’s going to sponsor programs that make a difference. And it’s going to be part of a holistic approach to our foreign policy.”
I thought the grift would be low, but, 12%? Look at what happens: government money is given to an NGO or group to Do Something. They take their cut, and farm the job out to one or more other entities. Who take their cut. And possibly farm it out again. And then they have their overhead and such, beyond taking their slush cut. And then maybe the warlords and politicians in the foreign countries take their cut. 12%
Imagine what the US could do with all that allocated money for USAID and pretty much every other agency if it was spent wisely, if it wasn’t treated as a slush fund.
Same thing. Entities taking their cut.
No need to keep justifying the cuts, Teach. You’ve won, bigly!! USAID is dead!
Musk and Doge have balanced the budget for The People, haven’t they? LOL.
Little Marco said: “We’re going to find more efficient ways to deliver aid to people directly.”
LOL.
I assume you’re snide LOL’s indicate you don’t care about theft and corruption. That figures since as long as there’s a Democrat there’s gonna be theft and corruption.
“At least five people are dead in St. Louis after CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell, who uses they/them pronouns, failed to activate the city’s tornado sirens, one of her only jobs as commissioner. She is now on paid leave.”
Kye?,
Your Great White Father just accepted a “Flying Palace” from the Qataris. He will take it with him if he ever leaves office. Foreigners are investing billions into his “crypto companies”. In exchange for permitting Trump Inc to build Trump resorts in Riyadh, Damascus, UAE and Qatar “Fat Donnie Mob Boss” gave American business to the countries.
Mr Musk’s billions in business deals with the U.S. are not longer being regulated!!
This is corruption like America has never seen before!!
So? We all know you don’t actually care about corruption since you voted for the vegetable, Joe “10% For The Big Guy” Biden early and often, so why not drop the pretense?
Mission accomplished. USAID was never about helping the poor. That is just the excuse they use today to open the federal treasury. As created, the purpose of USAID was to influence foreign nations, by paying them off. Modern democrats learned that no one was tracking federal money after it left the treasury since they knew much of it was going into the pockets of dictators, so they just started pocketing some themselves. That is how government corruption works. I used to believe our government agencies and politicians were a model for the rest of the world. Now I see they are just a higher class of corruptions.
You just can’t count on a white person like Sarah Russell to save Black people in north St Louis.
Commissioner Russell was at an offsite meeting and notified the StL Fire Department to activate the warning. It didn’t happen. The massive mile wide tornado cut a long swath through north St Louis leaving mass destruction (some 5,000 structures damaged).
BTW, Mr Dana, how did KY handle that same batch of violent storms? 19 killed? Yeah, that… Did you visit the nearby sites of damage to help?
Anyway, St Louis’ new mayor, Cara Spencer, is kicking ass and taking names!!
Looks like Sara Russell is Rimjob’s type.
Note how ED capitalizes “Black” while leaving “white” uncapitalized.
Just one of the more insidious ways in which the left expresses their obscene racial hatred toward White people.
Especially when they themselves are White.
You’d think the left would take their self-loathing to its logical end and 86 themselves (like they tried to do to 47 and failed spectacularly) but alas…
Us AID budget represented 00.3% of the federal budget
There are 2 million federal workers, 5000 work for AID.
Much of the budget goes to buy American goods, food medicines educational material vehicles for local organizations to use.
FULL DISCLOSURE ABOUT USAID!!
In 1993 my older sister was hired by AID to go to Cambodia to teach law. The following year funding was stopped (GOP had control of Congress) My sister loved Cambodia and decided to start her own law school (as people often do) renting unused classroom space and offering low tuition with courses taught by unpaid lawyers working for NGOs and banks.as teachers Around 2003? Her school was absorbed by the Royal University of Phnom Penn.
she is chair of the department. Essential all of the lawyers educated in Cambodia are her graduates.
You can Google her Marnie Ryan Cambodia law
Tell your sis, thanks!!