Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "MentisWave"
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@firstnamelastname9237 "it does have a solution. They just refuse to use it."
But meanwhile this other solution can do a lot to help. Condoms are cheap, at least for rich countries.
"it's NOT small, especially given it's not the only wasteful spending"
I disagree about it being wasteful and, like I said earlier, US foreign aid is only something like 0.2% of GDP. That's not a lot on the scale of a national budget and has very little to do with the amount of national debt.
"it's doing zero good basically"
Really? What are you basing that claim on? Like I said earlier, it's unclear to me if this spending on condoms is real even in Gaza, Mozambique, but it stands to reason that a very cheap remedy like condoms could help in a region with 10% HIV prevalence.
"If that was the entirety of foreign aid, maybe I wouldn't care."
Well, maybe I wouldn't care so much if it was just one program like this being cut. But it seems there's a more wholesale cutting going not which is quite bad. They seemed intent on cutting also far, far more effective programs like PEPFAR. That cut was apparently at least partially cancelled but the program has probably still suffered. PEPFAR has likely saved millions of lives (not hyperbole).
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