The current administration is preparing to destroy $9.7 million in U.S.-purchased contraceptives destined for women overseas following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs under USAID.
There is a callous meanness in this action from a “Christian In Name Only” (CINO) party and administration.
At the same time, this administration is allowing famine to sweep across Gaza as children die from hunger.
Michael Chancellor
All this while the head of the administration golfs in Scotland with taxpayers picking up the expenses, yet again. What taxpayer money is spent on this golf excursion could alleviate hunger in Gaza for at least a day and perhaps a week.
This is without doubt the most expensive administration we have ever seen. The expenses surpass even the Felon King’s last administration. He has hit the links at least 62 times since his inauguration in January with a estimated cost of $52 million in taxpayer money spent.
Yet we cannot distribute what already is stored for the needs of the world. The radical Republican abortion ban in the United States is only supported by 8% to 9% of the population. The rest of us (US) don’t.
In the impoverished nations of the world, contraceptives address two issues vital to families. First, they provide pregnancy prevention, but additionally they help with the control of AIDS and other STDs.
On a mission trip to South Africa, I visited with a couple and met their children. Refugees from the north, the parents both had contracted HIV and knew the death sentence it carried for them. They would leave behind two children. In our country, even with limited medical care, most can access some care for pregnancy and HIV. That was not true in Africa.
It is not true in Gaza. The longer the Felon King plays golf and does not act, the more children in Gaza will die.
“The longer the Felon King plays golf and does not act, the more children in Gaza will die.”
He does not know as much as he wants the world to believe, but he knows this: Children are starving in Gaza. With every stroke he takes on his golf course, children die. It may be from the Gaza famine or elsewhere of AIDS or starvation.
The lifeline that was USAID was rooted in the wealth and goodness of this nation. While we could not name the children who were kept alive by this program, we know what has hit the headlines were children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
An outcry stopped the destruction of those stored food supplies, but it has not altered the inactions of this administration or their lack of care for suffering innocents.
I guess we should not be surprised. This administration slow-walked FEMA response to the missing and survivors of the Guadalupe River floods.
Focused on dismantling a robust federal government that attempted to listen and respond to all the people in the nation, they now are focused on “waste, fraud and abuse.”
USAID apparently was wasteful because it did nothing to line the pockets of those in charge.
Long ago, presidents and people learned a well-equipped fighting force can only help so much. Most of the nations around the world did not need liberty, although their governments may be drowning in corruption like ours has slowly become.
Rather, tsunamis, earthquakes and wars left many survivors but everything was swept away, crumbled or bombed. In the aftermath, they needed food, medical assistance and hands-on people to sort through the rubble while offering food, medical care and kindness.
Now, though, this administration finds it a better investment to let the Felon King play and win at golf, while he and his minions ignore the world.
Michael Chancellor served 33 years as pastor of four Baptist churches in Texas, seven years as a mental health manager in a maximum-security Texas prison and now is a therapist in private practice in Round Rock, Texas.
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