Summary
Trump’s move to defund USAID is causing unintended consequences for American farmers and businesses.
The Washington Post reports that USAID purchases billions in U.S. agricultural products, with American farms supplying 41% of its food aid.
The funding freeze has already halted $340 million in food shipments, leaving tons of wheat stranded in Houston.
Experts warn this decision directly harms American jobs and businesses, as much of USAID’s aid is administered through U.S.-based organizations employing American workers.
Gosh that all sounds ghastly. So big city liberals pay bookoo bucks in property taxes, show up to PTA meetings, school district meetings, talk about what they pay, kids get better educated, become liberals mostly, grow up, repeat; meanwhile, rural kids get little more than dirt to learn with, worse education, pity allowance from big city liberals working their magic in congress, getting them some money from the department of education, at least something more, but it’s not enough, so they grow up poorly educated, become wide open to the sophistry and propaganda of the far right, and now they get picked clean off the countryside, ushered into a voting booth, they vote for a fascist who now moves to eliminate the department of education thus further threatening the quality of their education and what little extra money they get. Am I getting that right? I’m green party so I just find this all very disorienting.
I don’t think it’s ghastly that everyone pays into making sure the bottom floor of schooling exists…
It’s a shame it’s been distorted, though, with Reich Wingers and Libertarians trying to make public education a for profit insitution…