On the evening news 2/7/25 Margaret Brenner:
“Because of the USAID shutdown there are THOUSANDS of Tons of food sitting in warehouses that are unable to be delivered, People are starving!”
Seems to me that if the food is already there, and is already paid for, that the governments of the peoples and countries that are the recipients of said food could muster up enough labor to deliver it rather than let it sit in a warehouse…
Of course, this presumes the statement is true, and that the people are actually on the verge of starvation or that the government’s care about their citizens. And that after only 3 days the people have begin to starve….
Either way, if the food is in the warehouse and the expected recipients can’t be bothered to find a way to distribute it, then they really need to rethink their priorities….
As far as I can remember, and I am pushing 6 decades, the same countries have been receiving the largesse of the United States….Thing never seem to improve there. Are we really helping?
Is this a good use of the taxes paid by the US citizens? Or is it simply a way for some people to receive kickbacks from the suppliers of the grain and the companies that transport and store it?