Comment by wat10000

Comment by wat10000 10 months ago

5 replies

> overhead and ideological reprogramming

I despair at the thought process that crams these two things together.

2.5% overhead would be really good. Most charities don’t come close.

“Ideological reprogramming,” whatever that actually means, would be completely different.

jpcom 10 months ago

It looks like USAID had 4B of the 40B budget actually reach endpoint users, which would make the overhead closer to 90% [1], not 97.5% like I originally estimated.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67b7a0c4-bf48-8011-9997-41b350dd0b...

  • wwtw 10 months ago

    Reading this gpt answer: > In fiscal year 2022, nearly 90% of USAID's expenditures were allocated to international contracting partners

    How are you figuring that none of that is reaching endpoint users? E.g. I imagine the International Red Cross could be such a partner.

  • wat10000 10 months ago

    Seriously? Not even your own linked conversation supports this assertion, even though you tried to lead it there.

jpcom 10 months ago

It's called the US Agency for International Development. Everyone seems to think "AID" is a word here. It is not, it is an acronym.

  • wat10000 10 months ago

    OK, I'm aware, not sure what that has to do with anything here.