Just like that! Overnight! Pain, hunger, fear and death in Africa. Why? Trump and Musk funding cuts.
Friends take care of friends. Supposedly so. The U.S. has for years with many countries. Certain African ones a perfect example. Everywhere we helped, we made made friends for the U.S. We performed goods acts requiring tons of money to help those in need. Desperate need. Simple things like ventilators for babies and HIV medication for those who would die without.
It was doing God’s will God’s way.
Trump and Musk disagreed. From their perspective, it is groups and countries taking advantage of the U.S. So with the swipe of a pen funding to the desperately needy was cut off.
In Africa, soup kitchens can no longer feed the hungry. Required medical cures are not available to keep mothers and fathers and their children alive. Life is valuable. People are valuable. The U.S. abandoned them swiftly and without warning. Nothing to be proud of.
Millions of lives have been placed at risk.
American funded programs literally died overnight.
Makes me wonder if Trump and Musk have any medications they must take daily to avoid serious illness or death to themselves. I take 15 pills a day. They are one of the reasons I am still alive at 89. One was prescribed because of my heart surgeries. I have been told it must be religiously taken everyday. If I were to go without, my life expectancy would be no more than three weeks.
How many Africans now have similar problems?
Thousands of “stop work orders” went out to employers and contractors for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Washington’s main vehicle for global aid. The directive cease and desist!
USAID is simply the world’s biggest such donor. Provides food, health care and clean water for millions.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is the one primarily responsible for what is happening. Trump a mere step behind for permitting him to do what is being done. Musk who has so much has taken away the little so many have had. Sufficient however to keep those millions healthy and alive. Many will die in short order. Very short order. Many, in days.
Musk is proud he is doing USAID in. He boasted on monday that USAID is a “radical left political pay off” and “a criminal organization.” Musk further said it was “time for it to die.”
How did he come to know so much in so little time? He is full of shit. It is nothing more than part of Trump’s “cut, cut, cut” program. They care not for the poor and needy? Screw ’em!
Strangely, USAID has been one of the few Washington programs that annually receives bipartisan support.
In Sudan alone, 8 million face immediate starvation. Let Donald and Elon go a few days without food and see how they feel.
The adverse consequences of failed funding is immediate. In addition to millions dying because of lack of food, numerous will suffer and die from failure to receive HIV medication. Others will meet swift deaths for numerous other reasons. Like babies removed immediately from needed ventilators.
USAID has been in force since George W. Bush. The reason why it already has saved millions of lives. Without the program, it is estimated some 20 million will die forthwith.
In Kenya, a mother of 3 could only get a 30 day supply of life saving pills. Normally she received them 90 at a time. She asked, “If I die, who will take care of my children?”
She rolled the 30 day supply of pills in her hand and said, “I have another month of life.”
Trump claims his goal is to make America great again. What a joke! His every recent move has made America weaker.
Sixty percent of Canada’s crude oil is shipped to the U.S. annually. Canadians are no fools. They know they must cover their asses. If the threatened tariff war Trump promised occurs in 30 days, Canada is reported to already be making preparations to ship its crude oil to Asian nations. Such will cause havoc for the U.S. companies who buy Canadian crude oil on a regular basis.
Thank you, Donald.
Chicken Asian flu now infecting cows in Nevada. Strange, but is occurring. What next?
The egg problem is affecting more than super market purchases. Waffle House has had to raise the price of their meals because of increased egg costs.
Syracuse, my Syracuse! The bad basketball season continues. Second year in a row.
Syracuse’s most recent loss was to Duke. Duke defeated Syracuse 83-54. Worthy of mention is Duke is ranked #2 in the country. Nevertheless, Syracuse is playing horribly. Again, second season in a row. This one worse than the last. Will Jim Boeheim glory days ever return?
Syracuse needs better coaching. I said before Autry got the #1 coaching job that he should not have it. He has proved me correct thus far.
Apparently, Syracuse needs to recruit better players also. One college basketball analyst said Syracuse is not putting enough money into the program to attract better players.
The disgrace of it all. ALL referring to college sports generally. Paying players top dollars to change schools will be the death knell for college sports.
What is happening in Key West?
Water quality monitoring is in the news. Water quality a common everyday problem. Key West water is horrible! Taste wise the worst! I have not drunk faucet water in years. I buy tons of bottled water. Twenty four bottles at a time. Ever wonder why Publix has so much water for sale and displays it big time? It’s a seller!
In all my Key West years, I have never seen the water improve. Key West government fails its citizens in this regard.
The Key West City Commission held two votes on the subject of water quality monitoring tuesday. Shameful the issue remains a problem. We deserve better.
The recent snow accumulation in North Florida a wonder. A first for many.
Robert and Ally are at Florida State in Tallahassee. Both enjoyed the snow. Several inches of it. A first for both.
Robert made a snowman. Both slid down hills on I don’t know what. Neither had appropriate clothes. Got soaking wet. Both want the snow to fall again! Loved it!
The snow record was 9.8 inches. Fell in Milton in northern Florida.
The new Square Grouper Restaurant is going over well. Accepted by most who have attended. Can’t wait to try it out. Loved the one at Summerland Key.
Thirteen Key West High School students will be in Cooperstown, N.Y. for a week in June to participate in a baseball tournament.
I grew up and practiced law in Utica, N.Y. Forty miles from Cooperstown. Visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame became a regular thing. Watching the annual induction ceremonies also. Part of our Upstate New York life.
Cooperstown a wonderful community. A perfect vacation spot for adults and families alike. Quiet and picturesque. Different from Key West. Each has its own attractions. Cooperstown not a place where visitors bar hop. Nothing wrong with bar hopping. I did my share in Key West. To each his own at a particular time.
I close with last night. One of the most enjoyable experienced by me since my heat attack and multiple heart surgeries a year ago. I have become somewhat of a recluse. Last night was only the third time in the past year I was out to dinner at a fine dining establishment with good friends. Fred Klein and Reilly McDonald. The last time I had dinner with these two gentlemen was two years ago.
I had a ball! Enjoyed myself immensely! Thank them both for getting me out.
Both men interesting. Fred a retired New York City labor lawyer. In his low 80s. Reilly in his mid 60s and still working. Reilly has the job of jobs. He is into professional horse racing. Among other things, buys, raises and sells thoroughbreds.
A great evening! The company was what made it perfect. The meal at La Te Da added to the evening. I enjoyed the crispy duck! Crispy to perfection!
Enjoy your day!