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   From: hruffe@csu.edu   
      
   On 17 May 2025, Dick Polack    
   posted some news:20250517.124124.5038bc51@msgid.frell.theremailer.net:   
      
   > In  Rudy said:   
   >>   
   >> I note it's time for a refresher.   
   >>   
   >> Thank you, Chairman Mast. I appreciate your strong leadership of this   
   >> Committee, and I look forward to working alongside you to bring   
   >> needed reform to our diplomatic strategy. We certainly have a lot to   
   >> do, and this hearing is just the beginning. Accountability is coming.   
   >>   
   >> Thank you also to our witnesses today. The corruption going on behind   
   >> USAID’s doors has been a wakeup call for all Americans.   
   >>   
   >> As Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, I spent the   
   >> last two years exposing the Biden administration’s sabotage of our   
   >> border and the policies that kept America safe. I saw firsthand their   
   >> willful refusal to protect this country. Under the guise of   
   >> “foreign aid,” USAID has been an unapologetic front for a   
   >> far-left agenda. It has become self-evident these weren’t a handful   
   >> of foolish policies but rather a coordinated strategy of radical,   
   >> idiotic, and often anti-American priorities.   
   >>   
   >> Idiotic, you say? Millions to teach Moroccans how to make pottery?   
   >> The Moroccans were making pottery before we were a country!   
   >>   
   >> This entire debate today and the crocodile tears from Democrats just   
   >> goes to show what is wrong with this town. Not a single Democrat I   
   >> have heard has expressed dismay over the many examples of crazy,   
   >> wasteful spending. I don’t understand the objection to a deep dive   
   >> in how we spend our money. But perhaps it’s the fact that over the   
   >> last several weeks, a massive surge has occurred in the search for a   
   >> criminal defense attorney. That probably says it all! It’s up five   
   >> times in this city, more than any other city in the nation. I would   
   >> like to remind this Committee that President Kennedy unilaterally   
   >> created USAID through an executive order in 1961. Yet when President   
   >> Trump orders a momentary pause after winning a mandate for reform,   
   >> Democrats cry “constitutional crisis.” This is after four years   
   >> of reckless spending and unrepentant lawlessness from the Biden   
   >> administration.   
   >>   
   >> I want the American people to understand how this works in   
   >> Washington: As long as you are spending other people’s money, no   
   >> one bats an eye, but the second you want to save taxpayers’   
   >> dollars, the swamp cries “wolf” or in this case “unprecedented   
   >> constitutional crisis.” This breathless, fake outrage from the left   
   >> is utterly insane—and you know what, the American people can see   
   >> right through it.   
   >>   
   >> The generosity of Americans and the blessing of giving aid to others   
   >> has always been one of our most valuable tools for diplomacy. The   
   >> American people have a proud history of championing aid to our fellow   
   >> man, but lawless bureaucrats have poisoned that good will.   
   >>   
   >> Many USAID programs are wasteful and actively sabotage our diplomatic   
   >> relationships by forcing woke ideology on our partners. Just look at   
   >> the PEPFAR program, a beacon of hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS.   
   >> Yet, the Biden administration even weaponized this crucial program,   
   >> jeopardizing lives and undermining our relationships with African   
   >> nations. Under Administrator Powers, our message to Africa was as   
   >> explicit as it was heinous: “Abort your babies and violate your   
   >> religious convictions or we won’t grant life-saving aid.” Let me   
   >> be crystal clear to those who have been complicit in this betrayal:   
   >> firing those involved is just a start. We have a long way to go.   
   >>   
   >> And one last point; I want to correct the record on a couple of   
   >> things. First, Elon Musk and his team do not have access to personal   
   >> data. They don’t have access to your social security number. That   
   >> is a lie. However, Elon Musk does have a security clearance—a top   
   >> secret security clearance. He makes the rockets for NASA! But the   
   >> suggestion that he, somehow, can’t be trusted to dig into how   
   >> we’re spending our money is nothing but a smokescreen to hide the   
   >> corruption and the wasteful spending that has occurred there. And I   
   >> am personally offended at the left’s continued references to   
   >> nineteen and twenty-one-year-olds in there doing work. There are   
   >> nineteen-year-olds who have won the Medal of Honor defending this   
   >> country. Just because you’re nineteen, does not mean you’re some   
   >> child who can’t be trusted. It is offensive, and if you’re   
   >> nineteen-years-old out there and you’re serving this country, your   
   >> service matters and please keep serving. We thank you for that.   
   >>   
   >> https://markgreen.house.gov/2025/2/rep-green-takes-aim-at-democrats-li   
   >> es-on-usaid-during-foreign-affairs-hearing   
   >   
   > Those involved in USAID should all be executed for theft.   
      
   Somehow that just doesn't seem to be good enough.  Misuse of public funds   
   is out of control.   
      
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