Re: “Trump’s USAID cuts cripple American response to Myanmar earthquake” (March 31, Nation & World):
As politicians and pundits have fun the “financial savings” from dismantling our nation’s international help constructions, know that they’re celebrating the deaths of infants, kids, ladies and men around the globe. In my travels as a theological lecturer with the Presbyterian Church by way of areas together with Sudan, South Sudan and Ethiopia, I witnessed mass poverty and struggling.
The annual prices of complete U.S. international assist have been lower than 1% of the federal funds, but that cash goes thus far and infrequently helps the one entry to necessities like well being care. Will these politicians go observe maternal well being to cease girls from dying in childbirth? Will they create child formulation to moms who can not get the energy they should present milk for his or her newborns?
Cruelty as coverage is morally fallacious and counterproductive. These cuts assist nobody. I refuse to imagine that that is who we’re as People, as human beings. I urge Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to do every part they’ll to renew international help. Extra importantly, I hope all of us will bear witness to the hurt our policymakers could cause and discover a manner again to caring for the stranger.
The Rev. Debbie Blane, Issaquah
