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14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds
- TurkishPoptart 1y agoBill Gates could single-handedly fund USAID and still half $70B remaining. Can private philanthropy not step in here to cover the gap?
- hulitu 1y ago[flagged]
- bdcravens 1y agoConsidering the following actual headlines by The Onion, I think that's less clear who's who these days: "Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be" (https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/ https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he...) "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668/ https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation...)
- MattGrommes 1y agoI assume this means you've looked over the study referenced and have examples of data you disagree with? Or did you just hear on Fox News that "USAID == bad" and have nothing substantive to contribute?
- gibusen 1y agoThey are probably pointing out similarities in the grammatical structure of the title and that of Onion articles, lol. On a completely unrelated note, how often are you invited to parties?
- morwanger 1y ago[dead]
- FilosofumRex 1y agoCorrected version should read: "14M people could die in 5 years due to USA-ID cuts, AND LACK OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' CARING, study finds". USA-ID was not preventing deaths so much as it was funding the Western Elites' preferences over local priorities.
- more_corn 1y agoWhat the fuck is this even supposed to mean?
- misterhill 1y agoMy best guess is that it means if red state Americans start dieing of malaria they will go to hell since even a tiny amount of dispensation bought by humanists was not selfish enough for them.
- Hojojo 1y agoIt means helping people is imperialism and imperialism is bad, so actually it's a good thing these people are starving. At least now they can finally pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Or something, I don't know. I don't understand these people.
- FilosofumRex 1y agoWhy don't you look it up... why'd there be so much opposition to USA-ID in Africa, India, Brazil and South East Asian countries if it was preventing 14M deaths. I believe the technical jargon for it is "soft power" - bribing locals to do what you can't force them to do, militarily.
- triceratops 1y agoIs there "so much opposition" actually? No one is ever forced to take money.
- FilosofumRex 1y ago
- more_corn 1y agoGood ol Elmo. Caused more unnecessary deaths than any richest man in history.
- newcommiedeal 1y ago[flagged]
- tracker1 1y agoMost of the USAID spending that was cut should be funded by charity contributions. I'm just not a fan of foreign spending using taxpayer funding at all. There's plenty of room for charity in the world, and less bureaucracy in the middle.
- foxyv 1y agoMy therapist had a saying I like to repeat. "Shoulds" are a lie we tell ourselves. There really should be enough private charities to keep every man woman and child fed and healthy. There are not. I imagine that this is in large part due to the greed of small men and women who own 90% or more of our economy.
- danudey 1y agoThe US government used USAID to buy soft power around the world to spread influence; private charity contributions don't do that, and doing things on a larger scale and at a higher level leads to economies of scale that small-scale charity contributions can't ever reach.
- Mars008 1y ago[flagged]
- 1659447091 1y ago> I'm just not a fan of foreign spending using taxpayer funding at all. If only things were that simple. The US spent billions of dollars for food from US Farmers. Ask them about their lost billions for sorghum, corn, beans, soybeans, rice, vegetable oil and other crops that they could sell to the US government in bulk. Not just the farmers, but also the small town USA communities that benefit from the farms. Or the US AID funded innovation labs that "was providing market access to U.S. farmers [...] not just in trade negotiations but also in indirect ways by creating a populace that is not starving so they have extra income to buy poultry, for example, which in turn expands the global market for soybean-based feeds.”[0] Here is a site[1] that attempts to piece together a "reconstruction of USAID's agricultural connections across America" "following the removal of the official USAID website, which contained comprehensive data on agricultural partnerships" from archived reports and other public sources. [0] https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling-what-it-means-farmers-and-ag-research https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling... [1] https://www.usaidstopwork.com/agricultural-impact https://www.usaidstopwork.com/agricultural-impact
- NaOH 1y agoActual study: Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... >Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- theendisney 1y agoI see the strangest interview with an african farmer one time. He argued the manipulation of his country is so sophisticated that even the people excuting it dont understand it. He showed his rice and pointed out that it was gray, had rocks in it and wasnt uniform in shape. I would like to sell it but they are handing out free rice, perfect White uniform. There is no competing with this. Its a con but no one understands. If they sincrely wanted to give aid they should give me a bag of fertilizer. I would have more rice, i could sell it and next season i would be alle to buy it myself. Problem solved
- tempera 1y ago[dead]