Summary
Trump’s move to defund USAID is causing unintended consequences for American farmers and businesses.
The Washington Post reports that USAID purchases billions in U.S. agricultural products, with American farms supplying 41% of its food aid.
The funding freeze has already halted $340 million in food shipments, leaving tons of wheat stranded in Houston.
Experts warn this decision directly harms American jobs and businesses, as much of USAID’s aid is administered through U.S.-based organizations employing American workers.
Almost like they don’t know what the purpose of government is…
The purpose of government is to funnel taxpayer money into the hands of the rich, and to enforce laws against the poor, duh.
The purpose of the government is to ensure nobody can say “woke” stuff, apparently.
And almost like they don’t realize that large portions of the US economy is highly dependent on the US’s interventionalist stance.
It’s like every fucking kid learns in history class. The biggest beneficiary of the US Marshall plan was the US - the US is constantly making international decisions that drive more business to the US… those decisions usually start as deficits driving aide abroad and then form strong economic and diplomatic bonds that benefit everyone.
Trump is torpedoing the US’s relationships abroad and by doing so the US economy.
China can pick it up. :/
Britain had to fuck up and destabilize a shitload of countries to build its empire. China is being handed it’s global dominance on a silver platter due to the fact that the US several other Western nations are too far up their own white supremacist libertarian assholes to actually fix shit.
I mean Milei in Argentina is such an unmitigated disaster it isn’t funny, but they praise him like he is somehow uplifting the country when now 7 out of 10 Argentinian children are living in poverty.