Waste is the Business Model

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USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development) doles out billions in foreign aid every year. On the surface, this sounds noble—"spreading democracy," "fighting poverty," etc.

 

But zoom in and you’ll find something weird: why is Land O’Lakes, a butter company, getting $100 million in foreign aid?

 

It gets weirder.

 

Yale got money to set up police departments in Mexico. Disney was paid to distribute films to the military. Walmart received foreign aid dollars. And nobody really knows why.

 

This isn’t an accident. It’s architecture.

 

At the center of it all is a group I’d never heard of before this podcast: USGLC, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

 

Sounds boring. Bureaucratic.

 

But USGLC is a private lobbying group loaded with ex-congresspeople, executives from companies like Pepsi, Walmart, and Pfizer.

Here's the magic trick:

 

They lobby Congress for more foreign aid.

Their members sit on the advisory boards of USAID.

Then, they “advise” where the money goes.

The money ends up going… back to them.

They write the laws, steer the cash, and collect the checks.

 

It's like a Monopoly game where the same five players keep passing Go and collecting $200 while the rest of us are stuck in jail.

 

DR calls it the “infinite money hack.”

 

It’s the reason, she says, Congress refuses to stop any of this spending.

 

But here’s maybe the scariest part:

 

This isn’t corruption in the Hollywood sense. There’s no smoking gun or sinister villain stroking a cat. It’s not Lex Luthor.

 

It’s worse. It’s normal.

The people involved? They generally don’t think they’re doing anything wrong. They believe they’re saving democracy from collapse. That if we don’t export “influence,” China wins. That butter in Botswana somehow keeps Beijing at bay.

 

But there are no brakes. No accountability. Just mission creep and endless spending in the name of virtue and security.

 

And when you follow the money, it doesn’t lead to starving children being fed. It leads to nonprofits growing rich off government grants, lobbying for more grants, and giving themselves raises.

Author: James Altucher (AltucherConfidential)

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