Tell people that the federal government spends $7 trillion a year and much of it is a complete waste, and people shrug. Tell them that USAID spent $47,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia, and there’s outrage. Which is why Musk and company publicize such expenditures. From William F. Marshall at amgreatness.com:
Trump and Musk’s government efficiency push exposes USAID’s absurd spending, fueling public outrage and strengthening their case for sweeping federal reform.
The American people have rightly been appalled at the outrageous expenditures Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been exposing at USAID, which not only demonstrates the striking wastefulness of our government but also an ingenious public relations strategy by the Trump administration.
When Americans learn that their tax dollars are going to fund egregious projects around the world, it lays a foundation for the public relations framework needed by the Trump administration to bring American public opinion along on the necessary journey of restructuring the government. It makes people’s blood boil. And it sets the tone for the effectiveness, and need for, the entire Trump efficiency program, even though the spending in absolute monetary terms on these insane USAID projects is fairly minor compared to the overall $6.9 trillion federal budget.
Let’s consider some of the USAID expenditures recently revealed:
- $70,000 for the production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
- $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
- $2,000,000 for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
- $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
- Hundreds of millions to support “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
- $40,000,000 to fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which gifted the world with the COVID virus
The creators of Monty Python could not have made this stuff up, although they came close in their “It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them!” sketch. It still makes me laugh. But that’s why Donald Trump and Elon Musk are highlighting these absurd expenditures. They are so ridiculous that they almost defy belief, and they serve to supercharge American anger and righteous indignation.
Wiping it all out is by any means necessary is a feature to the CPUSA (D) wing of the big UNI club that we aren’t in?
No Year Zero workers utopia without a wipeout.
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