I watch CBS Sunday mornings every week. One segment on April 20th was Ted Coppel’s view on reducing USAID spending. His report had three main issues, all of which showed neglect, indifference, or other submission.
Koppel interviewed a British politician named David Miliband. Koppel said:
He has been like that for the last 12 years [Miliband] He is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. IRC for humanitarian assistance for the world’s most vulnerable people. So far, Miliband says the cuts have affected around 40% of international programs.
More than a heartfelt scene about poor people in poor countries who no longer get treatment for their illness.
I wondered three things and Coppel refused to answer them.
First of all, what percentage of the billions of USAID spending was listed in the program? I think that’s the advantage of a small percan, but I’d like to know. Maybe we could cut something really bad from USAID and leave these program submarines worthwhile.
The above is something I doubt as numbers for Americans who are independent of my political views.
This was the beginning of the segment:
And White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt offered the harmony, telling reporters on February 3, “I mean Don, who knows you, but as an American taxpayer, I don’t want to go head over to this crap.”
Leavitt and Trump have legitimate concerns. It brings me to the second question I liked to ask wou wou wean.
Second question: How much rot and waste does USAID have?
My third question is what I want to answer. Because I think it’s wrong to force people’s money to help people in other countries to do so, even if money is good.
The question is this: Are there private organizations that take voluntary donations and use them for such programs? If things aren’t, I’m shocked. I turned to my wife and said, “If there was such a program, if they did a good job, I would give to a small number of sunken dollars.” That way, we could earn the benefits of USAID without corruption, waste, and forcing people to take away money.
If Coppel’s main concern was poor children in Africa, he would have looked into this. Inserted, it was missed as another free to beat Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Of course, I assume there is an agency in Coppel. Maybe he didn’t. If so, my criticism is against the producers of the segment.
PS: A plausible candidate to give money to the aforementioned International Rescue Committee. That looks promising. I’ll look into it. Why doesn’t Coppel mention its audience as an option? It would have taken about five seconds.
PPS: Checked IRC Form 990 in 2021. It gives compensation for submarines for major people. David Miliband went just over $1 million from the IRC that year. I might be worth it. But that makes me nervous.
