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Joinfortmill

(17,139 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:45 AM Feb 4

Murphy at USAID: Trump and Musk Are Shuttering Agencies to Turn Government Over to Billionaires



'Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Monday joined a press conference in front of the shuttered United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to raise the alarm about how President Trump’s decision - at the behest of Elon Musk - to illegally shut down the agency will have disastrous impacts on national security while strengthening China and Russia.'

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Murphy at USAID: Trump and Musk Are Shuttering Agencies to Turn Government Over to Billionaires (Original Post) Joinfortmill Feb 4 OP
The golden age (if it ever truly existed) of Noblesse Oblige and Benevolent Despotism is long gone. sop Feb 4 #1
Occasionally fret that once agencies are dismantled, a fresh version of some of them allegorical oracle Feb 4 #2
Thatcherism would be benign compared to what these billionaires want. sop Feb 4 #3

sop

(12,432 posts)
1. The golden age (if it ever truly existed) of Noblesse Oblige and Benevolent Despotism is long gone.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:09 AM
Feb 4

For the last few decades these Laissez Faire billionaires were barely held in check by (increasingly less) regulated capitalism. Now Musk and his ilk want to usher in an era of Elite Economic Sociopathy.

allegorical oracle

(3,965 posts)
2. Occasionally fret that once agencies are dismantled, a fresh version of some of them
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:13 AM
Feb 4

may reappear in a privatized form...sort've "Thatcherized".

sop

(12,432 posts)
3. Thatcherism would be benign compared to what these billionaires want.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:32 AM
Feb 4

Not only would Musk and his billionaire friends privatize all government functions, they would ban any form of organized labor and do away with collective bargaining. The billionaire class wants Americans working 120-hour work weeks, to be more productive and further increase their already obscene wealth.

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