Planned Obsolescence

 

Malicious malfeasance dominates NGO’s.

Those of you in my age bracket can remember the days of planned obsolescence. From the auto industry to appliances, each product seemed to be designed as a ticking time-bomb, ready to cease productive function that would perpetually necessitate the product to be replaced. This allowed their business model to keep the product line moving, building more and more replacements, and delivering their companies ever increasing sales income. We spent our hard-earned money on our brand new 1975 Chevrolet Impala that likely would not surpass 60,000 miles before the engine puked or body rusted off, necessitating a trade in for a new model every year or so.

Before the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified wasteful government spending, $Billions of our hard-earned tax dollars were diverted to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for projects that “bettered” the lives of those in need. Those projects and that generosity would portray the United States as a compassionate benefactor to the world. Through USAID, Non-Governmental Agencies were allocated $Billions to support and improve the lives of Americans and the world in need. Unfortunately, just as our money was wasted on products designed to fail, this money was spread around to the benefit of leftist causes that most Americans did not support.

The four top recipients include Catholic Relief Services, which uses federal funding to enable illegal immigrants to avoid ICE prosecution, Chemonics International, which reroutes federal funding to Planned Parenthood organizations and promotes climate “solutions,” FHI 360, that funnels funding toward family planning, reproductive health, and human rights, worldwide. DAI Global, where $100 of millions were diverted away from projects in Nigeria into an account in Bethesda, MD. Just as auto manufacturers took advantage of their customers hard earned dollars, the unfettered and unaccountable allocation of federal tax dollars to these organizations have betrayed the US taxpayer.

Since funding for USAID has been interrupted, so has the fund-raising machine of the democrat party. Coincidence? Federal funds allocated by USAID to these left-wing organizations were returned to the DNC via contributions by those organizations. Understand now why the democrats are fighting so stringently to maintain federal funding to USAID? Without USAID contributing your tax dollars to NGO’s and non-profits and those tax dollars remitted back to their benefactors, the democrat party will be hard pressed to accumulate enough funding for their paid protesters, ballot harvesters, and false campaign advertising.

Tax dollars sent to Ukraine to fund the resistance to Vladamir Putin’s Russia aggression, ends up in oligarch’s pockets while other dollars were sent to Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX cryptocurrency company where they were rerouted to Act Blue, a fundraising arm of the DNC. Act Blue then uses “smurfs”, from lists of persons who made previous donations to the DNC, and makes numerous small donations in those names, that add up to $Millions, that are then funneled back to the DNC without the donor’s knowledge or permission. Quite the operation, isn’t it? Organized crime is small time compared to the money laundering engaged in by the democrat party. Yet, there are those that blindly support democrats that, in reality, turn against their constituency’s self-interests. “The career politicians in Washington have transformed a government “for and by the people” into a government for themselves and for special interests.” Tom Coburn. What a tangled web they weave!

“Extortion turns wise people into fools, and bribes corrupt the heart.” Ecclesiastes 7:7. For decades career politicians and the deep state has corrupted our government and have enriched themselves with our money. Democrats have perfected the scheme and many of our elected officials have become millionaires trading on their position while on the public dime. “Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.” Exodus 18:21.

God’s Word is wise and enduring, especially today. We must select leaders that follow the Lord and keep His statutes. We need leaders who accept and practice the morals and ethics that mirror Scripture. We need leaders that are selfless and humble, averse to dishonest gain. We need leaders that work for the betterment of their constituency. We need leaders that are true public servants, not self-serving! It is up to us to get involved, get informed, and go out and vote for leaders that are pleasing to God.

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell