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Foreign tourists? How about a million children dying so American billionaires can enjoy tax cuts?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyd505vzlwo

Non sequitur.

Those kids are not in America’s economic self interest. Just moral. (Our culture hasn’t values honour for a while.)

The American people, through their elected representatives in Congress, decided saving those kids' lives are in our moral interest. Then Elon Musk decided it isn't.

They did not. Had they, Congress would’ve done something, given it can legislate and owns the budget. Americans have widely voted for people who actually represent them - craven, shortsighted and mean - to go to Congress.

Congress has allocated budget to USAID. Elon Musk decided not to spend it.

But they are in America's economic self interest. These programs are for soft power as much as they are for humanitarian value. Contrary to what those people believe, China is more than willing to compete for goodwill in the developing world, and if we thought US efforts could be hamfisted and come with a dragon seed sometimes, well we're in for some nasty surprises.

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