Rep. Brian Mast grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken and confronted him on several issues, one being the wasted money sent abroad.
Blinken’s very arrogant and doesn’t care.
Mast said that 30% of American paychecks are going to taxes, “and a good percentage of that is going to the Taliban or other programs abroad. And this is something that we all need to think about, and we will be thinking about deeply for the next two years.
“There’s a joke that’s made often out there about kids going to college to learn basket weaving, and what a joke that would be. But the United States right now is literally sending tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban, 14.9 million to be exact, to teach Afghans how to do carpet weaving. Let’s think about that.
“We are giving $280 million to the United Nations to do cash transfers for food in Afghanistan. Yet, we’re not sending an ear of corn from Iowa, a sack of potatoes from Idaho, or a cucumber or an orange from Florida, and that discounts the fact that there’s no American tonnage going through our ports to send those things out of here. It’s just cash transfers, another line item. These are directly from sea guard reports.
“$75 million to teach Afghan women to be farmers. I don’t believe that we spend $30 million in the United States of America to teach women to be farmers…”
Afghans already weave beautiful rugs. They hardly need anyone to teach them. It’s another waste of money with no accountability, which is why we’re bankrupt.
When people realize how bad it is, it might be too late.
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Straight up money laundering and grift. No one in their right mind can justify this. Hey! let’s teach these people to weave, you know, the thing they’ve been dong for thousands of years…Oh, oh, I know, how about millions to teach people who have lived on islands for hundreds of years or near coast lines, wait for it, how to fish!!! January can’t come soon enough and lay waste to all this crap.
There have been many wonderful aid projects in the third world, but almost everyone of those was worked by non-government funded charities.
When I was young (50’s) we thought of governmental graft as a third world problem, ow we think of congress and the executive branch of the USA government. Disgusting! and note that the current Democrats seem to be the worst in history. Kamala even stole from her own campaign donars and very rich people like Oprah ad Beyonce joined he in the stealing as well as lying to the American people.
This has been going on for decades or longer. Uncle Sam has tits all over. Thanks to congressmen. Thieves. The one requirement to be a politician is stupidity. Prostitutes are their superiors.
Blame goes to our congress. We all know this is BS. Some way for grifters to get rich. This is so egregious. They send OUR money to who knows where. Bastards, thieves.