by John Bernard, ©2025
(Feb. 4, 2025) — What has been uncovered of late is just a sample of the funding directives of USAID funds. Now, we can argue about the value of these things or we can ask why America is expected to fund these arguable things for foreign governments. These items are so outrageous that it encourages the question of motivation. Are we trying to insinuate a particular culture-forming ideology, promoted by the Far Left into foreign societies, or is this money finding its way back to unscrupulous people and entities here?
Regardless of the reason, no organization with its 10,000 entitled federal employees has ANY right to demand the average American fund their salaries and benefit packages or their cockeyed international social engineering scheme – period!
To this end was DOGE established: to scrutinize agencies, their ledgers and their use of taxpayers’ forcibly extracted “contributions” to see if those dollars are being properly used.
It’s important to remind people that the US Constitution does in no way afford any element of Government protected Rights. However it vociferously declares the limits of government, its politicians, employees, agency heads, etc. The only Immutable Rights acknowledged in the Constitution are Individual Rights which it also tasks Government to protect: Americans’ Rights, not Serbian, Egyptian or Syrian!!
Any Politician complaining about seeking to streamline government should also be audited!
SF
John Bernard
“It’s important to remind people that the US Constitution does in no way afford any element of Government protected Rights. “
The statement itself is correct but you failed to mention that government gave itself protected rights through legislating from the bench. Judges gave government the shield of immunity by adopting the King’s law from England and implementing it here. The Constitution does not mention immunity for States or State officials but again the courts legislate from the bench. Lawyers and judges run America, not We the People and the fraud will only get better hidden over time. As soon as Trump, Elon and DOGE are out, the corruption will be right back in. Not my prediction but rather a forgone conclusion.
As far as I am concerned, DOGE has already achieved legendary status. The stories about how hard these people are working puts everyone else to shame. The ultimate honey badger.
That said, I have to believe that not everything in USAID is corrupt and woke. Nutrition programs, literacy programs, these should be OK. It is not OK when you can see the woke propaganda folded in. So, I suspect there is some sorting out to do.
Then there are the other accounts: 1) USAID was used to secretly divert funds to the Wuhan Laboratory. As one person noted, this alone should cancel out any good work they have done., and 2) There is a claim of some twisted plot where the Department of Defense was going to somehow use USAID money to influence the outcome of an election then use other proceeds to fund terrorists. Something had to get lost in the translation there.
Great article and this is my favorite sentence:
Any Politician complaining about seeking to streamline government should also be audited!