WHO must cut budget by 20% after US withdrawal.
WHO must cut budget by 20% after US withdrawal.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed cutting its budget by a fifth. This comes after its largest contributor, the US, decided to withdraw.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed cutting its budget by a fifth. This comes after its largest contributor, the US, decided to withdraw. The organisation must now reduce its tasks and staff, it said.
I can hear the echoes of people saying “why should I care about US politics?”
This is one example. The biggest problems we face as humanity can only be solved with a global effort.
We should get to the point of being knowledgeable about the WHOs function, current financial support and reasons thereof, and what we can do to support its functions. Focusing on what another country does or does not, even if related to a common resource it's a waste of time at best.
I'm afraid of what the result will be in the global opinion when America's soft power diminishes.
If the only existing side remaining is that of a bully, then that's what everyone will see.
Isolation is the only result of this.
The free wolrd will have to take steps towards a new balance with the absence of the USA
It just seems too obvious to me that this is the intentional sabotage by the Trump administration on behalf of at least Russia. None of this makes sense whatsoever. Not even if you're a stock market businessman who doesn't care about allies.
It literally only makes sense in the purview of relative strength gain of Russia; maybe China too.
No one trusts Russia either so Trump has put America in the same pig pen as Russia to wallow in.
People will die. Literally increasing morbidity AND mortality on purpose. WTaF?!?!
The american elite managed to convince ordinary americans that evil foreigners are to blame for all their problems. This is something you notice if you follow US media.
They are just whining about how China, Europe, Mexico, Canada, the World Health Organization has been super unfair to them. Even Africa is blamed !
It's complete non-sense.
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Lack of healthcare : Barack Obama tried a small improvement with his Affordable Healthcare Act. He faced unprecedented hatred. People accused him of being "radical communist". He had to beg Congress members to pass the bill.
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Drugs : One criminal family, the Sacklers, bribed doctors and dentists to overprescribe oxicotyn. The FDA didn't act until it was too late. The result was an unprecedented opioid crisis that quickly turned into a heroin crisis. Prosecutors refuse to prosecute the Sackler family.
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Bad infrastructure : George W. Bush spent $1 trillion dollar on the Irak war. Okay. What exactly did he get in return...? Are americans better off? Are Irakis better off? Contractors just swallowed the cash. China used their money to build a world class high speed train network.
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Gun violence : Well, they sell guns like candies. Any 18 year old psycho can easily purchase a gun and shoot up the local school or movie theater.
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Lack of affordable housing : American zoning rules prevent high density housing from being built. Look at San Francisco or LA. Individual houses but people are struggling to get a roof over their head.
Their problems are all caused by americans.
But unfortunately, many of them now think the rest of the world is to blame.
The american elite managed to convince ordinary americans that evil foreigners are to blame for all their problems.
No they didn't. Millions of Americans already believed this and were waiting only for permission to externalize it.
As an American, fuck America.
Average voter: both sides have issues
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I was going to ask why the US was contributing 20% of the WHO budget, but it looks like the US produces about 25% of the world's total GDP.
So, who must cut their budget? Don't keep us in suspense!
Well good thing the US doesn't exist in the... world...
