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DancingInAshes's avatar

As an FYI about how it gets channeled back via NGOs, here is how it works.

NGO gets federal contract to build something in Africa, like wells or small solar installations.

This is now part of a program. A bunch of staff in a beautiful office in the D.C. suburbs or Manhattan get assigned to the program.

Funds meant for building wells in Botswana are now paying for the square footage of office space where the staff work, the salaries of the mostly white, mostly liberal female employees, and assorted travel expenses.

Manhattan and D.C. office space and salaries and elite human capital (Lol, it’s a bunch of upper-middle-class and upper-class talentless white girls with political connections) are expensive, so very little of the money makes it to Botswana.

Once it’s in Botswana a portion ends up in the pockets of bureaucrats, most ends up In the pockets of contractor companies that are actually subsidiaries of offshore firms owned by wealthy donors or the spouses or children of powerful D.C. officials.

Maybe 5% ends up digging any wells. The NGO gals will take a safari over to Botswana for photo ops at one of the few newly built wells and use that as proof that their organization exists for any other reason than subsidizing untalented Democrats and RINOs with taxpayer money.

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Vet nor's avatar

And THEN, when the overly complex well mechanical systems breakdown, there is no one who can fix it, with no parts available. So the village is back again with no water and a constant reminder of the swindle perpetrated on them by the elites in the West.

Yes, a GREAT way to push American 'soft power'. Isn't that the excuse they use for funding all these 'projects'?

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DancingInAshes's avatar

Well said

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Pnoldguy's avatar

This is a perfect description of how the ENTIRE government of America works. Every agency, every department. DOGE is showing us the corruption but nothing will be done about it. It is the classic too big to fail.

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DancingInAshes's avatar

It’s like a large cancerous growth surrounding a small amount of healthy tissue and slowly strangling it.

It needs to be removed, not placated or nibbled at.

Step 1 would be to severely downsize or eliminate any federal agency that’s duplicating the efforts of state level agencies, like the Department of Education or HHS.

The additional bureaucratic layer costs a mountain of money and not only does it not add value to the citizens, it actively subtracts value.

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geraldsd's avatar

I pray you are wrong and that we cut the head off of this vicious snake.

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Debra Darnofall's avatar

🤮

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Peter Greenr's avatar

The scary thing is what would have happened in the 2024 elections if they had a decent candidate. I still think there are a lot of Americans who don’t get it and will they ever?

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NewWave's avatar

A lot of Americans have been hypnotized and mesmerized growing much too fascinated by bright shiny objects. The illusion of a healthy USA? They too busy buying into materialism. The globalist wants us to be dumbstruck as it promises easier manipulation. Americans better wake up from the hypnosis before the cabal burns the USA into just another third world pissant country

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RL's avatar

No they never will. 😢😢😢

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Bryan L.'s avatar

I doubt it.

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Southern Gentleman's avatar

The democrat party has been the largest money laundering and racketeering operation in world history.

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Fred Richmond's avatar

Correct on every point. The Democrat party is a deadly cancer on America. As with biological cancer, it requires aggressive actions to defeat it.

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NewWave's avatar

The Democratic Party is in essence a ponzi scheme and a massive money laundering system as you’ve said. They’ve stolen billions from taxpayers and have accomplished nothing for the USA except making themselves millionaires. These thieves make the Italian mafia look like cub scouts.

We have no infrastructure improvements, lack of morals and civility, crimes and drugs, illegals from everywhere in the world and all of this can be traced back specifically to the democrats

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TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

And did it all without breaking any laws. The mafia never had it so good.

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Enzo's avatar

Obama may be gone, but the people that put him in power are still around… and powerful. The devil's best lie is that he doesn't really exist.

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Gbo's avatar

🎯

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Harry's avatar

Much like the Liberal Party in Canada.

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Peter Greenr's avatar

I sure hope they lose the elections. Scary to think it is even projected to be close.

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Harald Gormsson's avatar

What could anyone expect from a political party that has been morally and intellectually bankrupt for decades? Their ideas and policies are bad and their governance skills are pathetic to nonexistent. Everything they touch turns to 💩

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Mary Runstadler's avatar

One of the most telling examples of a failure of the Democratic Party is when former President Barack Obama lectured Black men about supporting Kamala Harris for their President. It landed like a dead fart! His time is over and his legacy is gone.

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Anon E. Mousse's avatar

Is that why Hakeem Jeffries later implored his party members to fart harder?

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Mary Runstadler's avatar

LOL!

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Brandy's avatar

I swear to you I have come to this exact conclusion. The only people voting for them outside of stakeholders are the people they've convinced to believe they are popular.

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mvlbob's avatar

Dem party tactics and techniques parallel/replicate those practiced by leaders of the former Soviet Union and various gov'ts in Asia. Congress was under the control of the party for most of the years post WW2 -- I'm glad all of it has come acropper.

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kathy's avatar

Absolutely right. There is no end the the Democrats' schemes to (1) steal tax dollars for themselves, and (2) Control everything.

That's called Totalitarian State.

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Paul Brett's avatar

And Great Is The Fall Thereof the Pretender to the Throne on a fake ID

The Deep State Swamp Rat in chief. 💨

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David Ziffer's avatar

There is a method to the Democrats' madness: Every Democrat policy is designed to build the party’s voting coalition. The Democrat dream: perpetual division and a White minority. "There's nothing crazy about the Democrats' agenda": https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/theres-nothing-crazy-about-the-democrats

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Anon E. Mousse's avatar

Thievery and intimidation tactics were the lifeblood of the big Democrat/big government era. It is my hope that this era is drawing to a close and that its multiple errors will not impoverish us further.

Seeing will be believing. It is impossible to ignore the cultivation of stupidity that has supported robbing people blind, whether that stupidity is grounded in illiteracy or in substances, including electronic substances.

It is also impossible to ignore that the nation permitted so much destruction to occur without uttering a peep. Even urban conflagration was excused.

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RL's avatar

About time, however, I’ll believe it when I see it. 🤷‍♀️

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