Summary
Bill Gates is lobbying the Trump administration and Congress to maintain U.S. global health funding, warning that his foundation cannot cover shortfalls.
Trump has cut over 80% of USAID contracts, freezing billions for programs like malaria prevention and HIV treatment.
Gates met with officials to stress the impact on groups like Gavi and the Global Fund, which receive over $1.3 billion in U.S. aid.
He also urged continued support for WHO and polio eradication. The White House has yet to respond to funding concerns.
Conservatives love the concept that private charities should be the ones who provide, “hand outs” (e.g. free food) and things like health care to those who can’t afford it. Except they always conveniently neglect the fact that all the charities in the world combined are but a fraction of a percent of government spending on similar things.
Furthermore, charities cannot hope to match the efficiency of governments providing the same services. Even the most inefficient government agencies have overhead far lower than the best-run charities.
Governments don’t have to solicit for donations. They aren’t beholden to the market or bad economic times. They can pool bureaucratic resources across multiple programs and take advantage of economies of scale that the biggest charities could only dream of.
The truth is that if you actually want to help the most desperate people of the world, government programs are the most efficient and effective way to do so.
But governments give money to everyone, not just the white ‘deserving Christian poor’. And in the end, that’s what they care about more: making sure the aid only goes to people they approve of. If it’s fewer people all the better, because suffering is godly or something like that.
Good, Q is finally ending the nefarious 5G microchip implant plan of the Deep State. Now many diseases can finally stop spreading, and JFK Jr. will rise and join his cousin to Make America [and the World] Healthy Again.
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wtf, are they really expecting one guy to make up for the governments abandoned commitments? Why don’t they put that Nazi toady right on it?
