Tell us what you know about charity, economic development, soft power, and trade deals.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
The headcount at the independent federal agency prior to DOGE’s onslaught was 48, and the average employee salary was $131,000 each year, according to Musk’s department.
‘The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue federal grants ($60million budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee),’ DOGE posted to its X account on Tuesday ahead of Trump’s Address to the Joint Congress.
The agency was created by Congress in 1969 to issue grants to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for ‘localized community-led development,’ according to its now defunct website.
Yeah, fuck that. That’s not where our money should go. Deserved to be shut down for sure.
TheBeege@lemmy.world 6 days ago
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
How much do u know and what r u doing about it?
TheBeege@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ah, you have no answer. I’m not surprised. Thanks for validating my stereotype. A part of me was hoping you were better
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
glad I could help
aaron@infosec.pub 6 days ago
/u/Donald_Musk is completely oblivious to the privileges printing the world’s reserve currency has bought to the US, and the obligations the US has in order to maintain the dollar’s position.
Where on Earth does the US think it is going to find the money to pay its debts going forward if it isn’t printing the money everybody else is using to buy oil?
Musk and Trump are speed-running the US’s collapse. They are simply nowhere near intelligent or experienced enough to maintain the US’s position of dominance. It is kind of fascinating to watch it play out, kind of horrifying, kind of banal.
Ultimately the American people voted for this. None of the people really destroying the US hid what they were going to do. Chaotic times ahead because if Trump has a plan it appears to be to try and bully his way to global dominance. He couldn’t even manage the taliban.
On a personal level I can say that I take almost zero pleasure in seeing the predictions I and many other people dismissed as ‘doomers’ have made over the past fifteen years (in my case, others longer). I won’t be replying to any messages from previous acquaintances that say ‘hey you were right’.
Let’s see how long it takes for the US to resemble a country like Brazil. The shanty towns are already being formed.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Guess we’ll see
aaron@infosec.pub 6 days ago
There isn’t anything to see.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
So then nothing to worry about, right?!
gregs_gumption@lemm.ee 6 days ago
🤡
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Where should our money go?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To the billionaires pockets of course! - the donaldmusk sycophant
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Plenty of problems in the US can be helped by that money
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Yes, but conservatives are not trying to solve problems. The agencies they are dismantling are there to solve problems. Where’s that money going to go?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Billionaires’ pockets.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Like?
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
u don’t think us has any problems?
Nofearfrontier@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Swasticuck on parade
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
k
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Again demonstrating your complete lack of empathy, and promoting the lack of soft power in the US. Congrats. You played yourself lol
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I didn’t write the article and I’m doin doing those things
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No shit you didn’t write it. But you’re sharing it, so yes you are doing those things.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
No shit you didn’t write it.
Glad you finally understand. Have you written the publisher and give them your oh-so-important thoughts on the article?
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
So it was shared on much much larger platforms than Lemmy. You gonna yell at them to?
Just because I post a link, doesn’t mean people have to read it.
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Keep getting played by billionaires you fucking idiot.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
k