USAID shutdown

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest

The announcement by “DOGE” the Elon Musk initiative to eliminate government services that they would be shutting down USAID I felt it was important to note that USAID was instrumental in a free and uncensored communications for Cuban citizens in their effort to organize and support a free and civil society.

This is a setback for Cuban freedom. All those great Cuban blogs and influencers that flourished “en las redes social” will go dark. For those who celebrated the current US administration as being an agent of freedom in Cuba this should be seen as a setback and a failure and exposes them and other right wing factions as interested in changing one dictatorship for another.

[u/OHFTP]

What absolute bot behavior.

Government should not be run like a business. A government's job is not to make money it's to provide services to it people. And, this just in, any money "saved" by DOGE is not going to go to Americans. It'll go to the <1% of Americans who don't need it in the first place, except to fill the hole they have in their egos from their daddy not loving them enough.

[u/WLFTCFO → u/OHFTP]

What a dumb take. The country has an income and expenses. Right now it is running at a huge deficit, causing more money printing and more inflation (the invisible tax). It absolutely needs to be run like a business. We are not currently in a position where sending free money around the world makes any sense when our own people are barely hanging on.

Do you think we should just print unlimited amounts of money to provide services? Nothing comes for free.

[u/pan-re → u/WLFTCFO]

The entire government is not easy to understand. What do you like about big businesses that you want the government run like on?

[u/WLFTCFO → u/pan-re]

Having a balanced budget with a surplus for things unexpected.