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OMB freezes all disbursements / USAID shutdown / GOP begs for exceptions for their states

CFordUNC said:
Oh, there’s that’s sweet, sweet projection that we all know and love from you, Roy! Maybe try to remove the tip of Trump’s mushroom from the back of your throat long enough to read up on the classical conservatism of Eisenhower and Nixon and Reagan and Bush and McCain and Romney, and then come back like a good little boy and present a book report to the rest of the class on what you learned about how you and Donald Trump are not conservatives.

By the way, you have no idea how much satisfaction I am getting out of knowing that it strikes such a nerve with you. I don’t have very many talents or gifts in life, but I certainly have one for knowing exactly where to push buttons where stupid people are feeling their most insecure and vulnerable. Seriously, every time that little red number lights up in the upper right hand part of my screen on the homepage of the board, and I see that it is you, it feels like Christmas morning.
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Nice to know I'm living in your head. Lots of space and rent's cheap too.
 
rodoheel said:
Just because you can't count above the number of fingers on your hands doesn't mean that bigger numbers don't exist.

Again, the rest of us don't have to be limited by your intellectual, or literal, laziness. But I realize it would be a big blow to your psyche to realize you aren't the special courageous maverick you think you are.
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Yep, gotta count all those might have beens, almosts, got close, and was gonna's right? Maybe a few hanging chads there
 
Callatoroy said:
Nice to know I'm living in your head. Lots of space and rent's cheap too.
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Lololol oh come the fuck on, you can do better than that. If you are going to give me a hard on every time I see your stupid little username pop up in my notifications tab, you have got to do better than this. This is some of your weakest shit!
 
CFordUNC said:
Wait, you think that the military is having recruitment problems right now because of identity politics and not because the generation that it would be trying to recruit right now grew up watching us send young men and women overseas for two decades to get their brains scrambled and their limbs blown off, and then have them come home and find that we don’t give a fuck about them after they take off the uniform? Are you fucking insane?
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Also a shockingly low percentage of death by war aged kids are in good enough shape to enlist.
 
nycfan said:
Also a shockingly low percentage of death by war aged kids are in good enough shape to enlist.
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Yeah, that’s definitely true, too. The obesity epidemic and mental health crisis affecting enlistment-age kids is a huge problem for recruiting a fighting force.
 
USAID buys a WHOLE lot of agricultural products from US farmers.

www.dtnpf.com

What is USAID and How Does it Tie into Agriculture and USDA?

The Trump administration has frozen all international aid and at least temporarily shut down the agency. USAID buys about $2 billion a year in commodities, mainly small grains and pulse crops.
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USDA's Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC) has what it describes as a "parent/child" account relationship with USAID. The CCC provides roughly $2 billion annually to buy commodity products through the P.L. 480 "Food for Peace" program, "Food for Progress" and the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust program.

Those commodity purchases include rice, wheat, lentils and peas that are purchased with those funds.

USDA and USAID last April announced a $950 million purchase of U.S.-grown commodities for emergency food aid to 18 countries. The money was part of an agreement to use CCC funds to increase both export promotions and international food aid. In a news release at the time, USDA stated the funds were used to buy "wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans."

In the past members of Congress pressed USAID to buy more U.S. commodities for food aid rather than using funds to buy commodities produced closer to areas of famine. Senators said they liked seeing the U.S. flag on bags of rice or wheat, for instance.
 
From the charity I regularly give to:


[td]You may have seen headlines about the freeze on U.S. foreign aid. Here’s what that means for FMSC.

While FMSC does not receive government funding, many of our food distribution partners do. As they face the loss of this support, we expect a surge in requests for food. This is where your help is urgently needed.
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Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Review All Funding for NGOs​

  • President’s team has sought to overhaul US foreign aid
  • Trump says focus is on groups which ‘undermine’ US interests

“… Trump claimed that the US has “provided significant taxpayer dollars to Nongovernmental Organizations, many of which are engaged in actions that actively undermine the security, prosperity, and safety of the American people.” …”
 


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The U.S. ambassador to Mozambique, Peter H. Vrooman, has sent an urgent cable to Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that the forced withdrawal from Mozambique of all employees of the main U.S. aid agency would result in a “major vulnerability.”

The move would make it impossible, he said, for the U.S. government to properly manage $1.5 billion in aid programs, much of it delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance.

The cable, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, said the absence of experienced agency employees in Mozambique would leave in limbo 114 active funding awards and 225 more junior workers, likely local citizens, “that will all require management and supervision.”

The cable paints a picture of chaos about to descend on the U.S. diplomatic mission and vulnerable citizens of Mozambique because of the imminent departure of the experienced aid workers, many of whom are Foreign Service officers with many years or decades of service. …”
 
“… Other chiefs of missions across Africa are sending similar cables to Mr. Rubio in a rare coordinated effort, said a person with knowledge of the cables. …”
 
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