Your excellent article is making me revisit RFK Jr's book The Real Anthony Fauci. The book has an extensive portion devoted to Fauci, AIDs and Africa, and relayed that you be diagnosed with or without AIDs depending on what country you were in, and those diagnostics were all vastly different from the diagnostic techniques and thresholds administered in the US. Somehow that didn't stop Fauci and apparently he shared this "success" with Dr Birx.
The American people are chided for being heartless with respects to charity, and yet we have lost trillions to causes for people we never see, nor can we ever ascertain if we made a dent in the issues that were relayed to us as requiring our wealth. It has bankrupted us.
Thanks for the praise Zee. I didn’t delve into a breakdown of the financial costs except to remark that $120 billion has been spent, but the amount on PEPFAR is bonkers when you see nothing concrete for all of it.
We’re talking about $500 million a MONTH for the last 23 years. Sure, the economic eggheaded wonks will explain that away as an accounting rounding error compared to the largesse of gov’t spending, but seriously - imagine that money spent on American communities and their needs. What it could have been used for instead of a corporate and NGO kickback program.
It’s staggering, those numbers. Washington wrote in his farewell address regarding management of budget and how you have to make sure you have what you need when times require serious action. We’ve forgotten what the word “stewardship” has meant.
Tax revolt is needed. This is going to halt like sand in the crankshaft if we’re not careful. My hopes were the tariffs would rebalance things and pay for the essentials, and we could slowly purge the rest. The System doesn’t want that.
A good analysis and summation of where we are in the world today. Way too many Americans want to 'do good' for non-Americans using other people's (tax-payers) money.
The justification for programs like PEPFAR (and many others) fall apart under any reasonable inquiry. A simple "Root Cause = Root Fix" analysis displays the failure of this 20+ year process of pharmaceutical corporate welfare under the thin veneer of altruism.
Your excellent article is making me revisit RFK Jr's book The Real Anthony Fauci. The book has an extensive portion devoted to Fauci, AIDs and Africa, and relayed that you be diagnosed with or without AIDs depending on what country you were in, and those diagnostics were all vastly different from the diagnostic techniques and thresholds administered in the US. Somehow that didn't stop Fauci and apparently he shared this "success" with Dr Birx.
The American people are chided for being heartless with respects to charity, and yet we have lost trillions to causes for people we never see, nor can we ever ascertain if we made a dent in the issues that were relayed to us as requiring our wealth. It has bankrupted us.
Thanks for the praise Zee. I didn’t delve into a breakdown of the financial costs except to remark that $120 billion has been spent, but the amount on PEPFAR is bonkers when you see nothing concrete for all of it.
We’re talking about $500 million a MONTH for the last 23 years. Sure, the economic eggheaded wonks will explain that away as an accounting rounding error compared to the largesse of gov’t spending, but seriously - imagine that money spent on American communities and their needs. What it could have been used for instead of a corporate and NGO kickback program.
That’s what infuriates me the most.
It’s staggering, those numbers. Washington wrote in his farewell address regarding management of budget and how you have to make sure you have what you need when times require serious action. We’ve forgotten what the word “stewardship” has meant.
Tax revolt is needed. This is going to halt like sand in the crankshaft if we’re not careful. My hopes were the tariffs would rebalance things and pay for the essentials, and we could slowly purge the rest. The System doesn’t want that.
We went to foreign lands and gave them the blessing of spoiled rich kid syndrome.
A good analysis and summation of where we are in the world today. Way too many Americans want to 'do good' for non-Americans using other people's (tax-payers) money.
The justification for programs like PEPFAR (and many others) fall apart under any reasonable inquiry. A simple "Root Cause = Root Fix" analysis displays the failure of this 20+ year process of pharmaceutical corporate welfare under the thin veneer of altruism.