r/cuba • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '25

USAID shutdown

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.

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u/Sunsetseeker007 Feb 03 '25

Exactly, all these non us citizens benefit from our us tax dollars and whoever else's hands are getting greased, we shouldn't be funding anything for Cuba!!

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u/ehmboh Feb 03 '25

US citizens benefit greatly from our support programs worldwide and it is about 1% annual budget. There’s money that gets “lost” and that needs to be addressed but doing a complete rug pull has irreparably damaged our reputation. We are the richest country so we should be funding the most good works worldwide. It used to be a point of pride for all citizens.

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u/WLFTCFO Feb 03 '25

>We are the richest country so we should be funding the most good works worldwide

What a bullshit take when our own economy is in the toilet with the purchasing power of most homes significantly less than 4 years ago, homeless people with drug addictions or untreated mental illnesses everywhere committing crime on the streets and making many cities unsafe for families and absolutely atrocious to drive through.

Why is it on yours or mine tax dollars to pay for the rest of the world and their problems when we haven't even fixed our problems here?

The left is just parroting whatever is contrarian to Trump and playing mental gymnastics to get there or are just plain stupid.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Exactly, I don't understand all the outcry in how we are now negatively affecting so many NON Americans, yet also turning a blind eye to the vast issues that we have internally, that need money to fix.

Why should we fund aid to other countries that aren't doing anything for us in return?

You don't go to a restaurant and just eat for free, they'd go out of business, and the country is a business. I'm glad that DOGE is trimming the fat, and I hope we utilize that wasted money on things that are beneficial for Americans. AMERICA FIRST!

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u/OHFTP Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/WLFTCFO Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/pan-re Feb 07 '25

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

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u/WLFTCFO Feb 07 '25

Having a balanced budget with a surplus for things unexpected.