The list of ridiculous things supported by our taxpayer money seems to be never-ending. In the past few years alone, the government spent $1.7 billion to maintain empty federal buildings, $2.3 million on a study injecting puppies with cocaine, $1 billion for “racial justice” in farming, and $140 million in COVID-19 relief funds to construct an 800-room luxury hotel.
Now you can add $12 million for teaching gender studies in Iraq, along with lessons on how to fight climate change, to that list. No, I’m not kidding.Over the weekend, The Washington Free Beacon reported that the State Department posted a grant solicitation on its website last month “offering three universities in Iraq up to $4 million each to develop programs to help fight climate change and advance gender equity.” In total, up to $12 million will be going towards this grant.Seriously, the U.S.
Politicians have a responsibility to internalize the fact they are spending other peoples’ money every time they vote to fund something. It is not their own money, and therefore they do not get to be careless with it. But, beyond the fiscal effect of the program, which is admittedly not earth-shattering, there is also the question of what the point of a grant like this is in the first place. Is the goal to export American culture to the Middle East? If so, what indications do we have that this is even possible? After all, in many ways, Middle Eastern culture is so foundationally different from American culture that the two are like water and oil. They simply don’t mix, and one will not change the other.
Either way, if you know about a university in Iraq eager to teach gender studies and climate change reduction techniques, be sure it gets its applications in before June 15 for the opportunity to receive up to $4 million in sweet American taxpayer money. Time is running out!
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