I suppose we can take the term “compassionate conservative” and throw it in the trash.
The administration canceled almost 50 United Nations Population Fund projects worth more than $370 million, including programs to address maternal deaths and gender-based violence in Egypt, Nigeria and several other member nations around the world.
In early February, the nonprofit Alight received waivers for its programs supporting refugees in war-torn Sudan, Somalia and South Sudan. On Wednesday, they were all terminated.
Alight runs six centers for extremely malnourished children in Sudan, where the organization treats babies and infants so sick that they will die within hours without ongoing care. The centers cost about $120,000 a month to operate. Alight is trying to fundraise to keep them open, knowing that the day they close their doors, children will die, CEO Jocelyn Wyatt told ProPublica.
In the meantime, they have been forced to close other lifesaving programs. In Somalia, around 700 malnourished children visited Alight clinics every day for weight check-ins and to pick up special food. Thirteen health clinics and a mobile unit served around 1,200 patients a day. On Thursday, all of those clinics closed, Wyatt said.
Alight also shuttered 33 primary health clinics in Sudan and stopped providing water to three refugee camps that house people displaced by decades of war. Alight had kept all those programs running these past five weeks, even though the organization hasn’t received any payments since Trump took office.
You see…here’s the big difference between us. You spend YOUR OWN money on what YOU BELIEVE is right in supporting your beliefs. This is tax payer money. It’s for serving this nation…PERIOD. It’s feeeeeeeeeelings like yours that allow these corrupt, DC politicians to bankrupt this nation that’s now over 36 trillion in debt.
America first will morph into giving billionaires more help, support and latitude to do as they please, as they fuel our entire society.
We already have the ridiculous idea that Musks wealth makes it impossible for him to be corrupt or want to do anything nefarious that benefits him or his businesses
Why don’t you support your own self getting off of your ass and generate tax revenue plus your own revenue to support your feeeeeelings? Is that asking too much of you? Oh yeah…never mind…it was a rhetorical question.
I make a decent living and pay many taxes, I understand those taxes help maintain a stable economy and society. I just think the ultra rich should pay more. Progressive taxation is the best way to accomplish that.
“Decent” doesn’t financially support all of the things you keep posting. We the people are broke. We don’t have the money. NOW…swallow some truth for a change.
I support the welfare of all of the children. If we can spend nearly a trillion dollars on defense…we can help to feed the children here and abroad. You know the Do onto others thing.
Because they’re not intellectual at all. Look how they say “we” like the Popular Vote of America didn’t tell them to ■■■■ off a couple of months ago. Look at how they say “we” so they don’t have to do anything meaningful.
I said “personal wealth”. How much pain do you suffer for others and the causes you claim verbally to support. Actions speak louder than words and your words just showed…little to NOTHING. Get another job…and give those earnings to the causes you believe in. That’s actions. Are you willing to make that level of a commitment or are you just reveling off your mouth on a course to bankrupt this country?
Yes, I pay taxes on my personal income, not wealth, although that is a good idea. Maybe that would help to lower our debt. 5% tax on all wealth over 10 million dollars? Including the value on one’s stock portfolio?
I am willing to pay a share though taxation. I would proudly pay the wealth tax I suggest, as that means I am making serious money!
You’re a big mouth but unwilling to make the personal sacrifices necessary to support your "V"irtuous words. That’s why this country is in a bad economic postion.
“The top 1 percent of taxpayers (AGI of $663,164 and above) paid the highest average income tax rate of 26.1 percent—seven times the rate faced by the bottom half of taxpayers.”
As a society, we can choose to feed hungry children, which would mean the ultra wealthy pay a bit more in taxes. We do that by our representative government. The current government were voted in by people who seem to ok with letting the children here and abroad starve and not get needed medical care.
