This is a pretty extreme view. Individual USAID contractors are not the scum of the earth. Most are well-meaning people who truly care about helping others, which is why they signed up to work in international development to begin with. A good portion are returned peace corps volunteers, or even immigrants to America from these developing countries. The idea that someone becomes an expert in maternal health in order to siphon off foreign aid money is kind of laughable.

That said, the industry that has formed around foreign aid is largely there because of the way the government has chosen to distribute aid money. A lot of this type of work was at one time done by the government, but the government has switched to a model where it uses the private sector to compete for technical work and because congress believes the private sector can be held accountable in a way the government can’t be. These companies are highly regulated. The amount of profit they can make is controlled by the government, and is typically only about 2-3% of the price of a contract. From that profit, they are liable to pay for any waste, fraud, or abuse if it is discovered.

The alternative some suggest would be to hand out millions of dollars to developing countries governments. Let me tell you from personal experience, most of these countries don’t have controls in place to appropriately manage this money. If we gave this money directly to developing countries, a good portion of it would end up misused. So, the government hires an American company to run projects and programs for it. Within these projects, typically all but one or two of the staff are host country nationals. That means most of the staff are locals, with just a few expats / Americans there.

Biden needs to stop appeasing Israel

Even if you’re a conservative that thinks prosecuting someone for falsifying business documents is petty, don’t you at least feel that cheating on your wife with a “whore” pornstar while she is pregnant goes against your Christian values and makes one unfit for president? If a democrat did the same, would you be complacent on the matter, Mr./Ms. Conservative?

Okay, but she was a freaking intern and he was the president. It’s an inappropriate professional relationship. You get fired for pulling something like that at most companies simply because there is a reporting relationship.

I hope it will be free to all filers. As all filers are tax payers, not just people who make under $50k a year, or whatever previous limits they had on fillable forms.

Lemmy has a much smaller user base

I have yet to buy a PS5 because there isn’t a game I want yet. Also, Sony tends to release improved consoles with lower price points and smaller footprints after a few years.

Higher education is busy doing that for themselves, retaliating against students that voice their opinions on genocide

I saw a post about how Trump was going to ban electric cars earlier today, and now this. I wonder how Elon would advise him on that.

I think it’s Ruins of Kunark

https://www.keithparkinson.com/product/ruins-of-kunark-photo-stock-print/

Buy a print to support the original artist

Recommend that you go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Always On Display and uncheck “Show Wallpaper”

This will make it so the display is mostly black when not in use. Black pixels don’t use power on OLED screens, so it will help boost your battery life.

Or, leave the wallpaper if you’d rather.

The US’ dog has rabies