It’s amazing how the left invented and now believe the myth that Elon Musk reneged on his promise to end world hunger. It always leaves out that he said “it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.”
▪️He was calling the World Food Program’s (WFP’s) bluff, while responding to a tweet pointing out that the WFP already raised $8.4B in 2020 yet didn’t solve hunger! He literally says if the WFP could show how $6B would end hunger he’d sell Tesla stock and do it.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1454809318356750337?s=20&t=HS0-NSrVF8EwW80k_Xgpag
▪️Musk highlighted what should be obvious, that $6B given to the UN wouldn’t solve world hunger. The US alone gives $11B to the UN every year. Michael Shellenberger wrote a piece at the time showing it was hopelessly naive to believe $6B would help 42M starving people.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/13/elon-musk-is-right-world-hunger-cant-be-solved-with-6-billion/
▪️The most obvious reason UN food aid doesn’t solve hunger is that it gets stolen, usually by local warlords/govts to buy arms. Starving people are almost exclusively found in war zones or areas with hostile political turmoil. How would the UN get food to those in Afghanistan or Yemen?! This is why Musk asked for open source accounting.
▪️Notice that there is never a similar objection to something like the student loan forgiveness plan, which will likely cost well over $500B. This could supposedly solve world hunger 100 times over according to the same logic, but the “logic” is only reserved for ammunition against billionaires.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
