Tucker Carlson spoke with Mike Benz, exposing USAID not as the noble humanitarian organization it purports to be. That’s their sideline.
Is it a Humanitarian organization? Benz compared it to a Milton Friedman analogy:
Milton Friedman gives this example about the pencil. … He talks about it in the context of libertarian economic theory. He says, look at this pencil. And he, you know, holds up a pencil and it’s got a lead tip and graphite and gum. And he goes, No. No single person in the world can make this pencil. The gum comes from trees in Malaysia and the lead comes from, you know, some mine in Africa. The graphite comes from graphite miners in South America. And it’s the magic of the market that makes it possible. You know, everyone is doing it for their own self-interest and economic gain. But it creates this magical web of cooperation where everyone profits. And that’s how we get cheap pencils in the U.S.
I think what we’re about to walk into on the flip side of that is that people have been lied to in this country where they thought that they’d been sold, that this was humanitarian aid, and cosigned it. And.
If Layer One Doesn’t Work, Layer Two Is Next
And let me come back to this point about the pencil because maybe that will disappear a little bit later in the story. And I’ll just sort of hint at it now, but. Right now, the people who are trying to defend US aid are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They want to defend it on humanitarian grounds, and then they get totally deluged with all the ways that it has gone wrong and all the horrible things that it’s funding.
So then, they turn to layer two. This is sort of like Lindsey Graham defending our operations in Ukraine when it was, you know, we need to do this for democracy, democracy. And then we say, okay, well, you canceled elections. You know, there are all these non-democratic things that are happening. And he goes, okay, okay, Layer two of my defense is there’s $14 trillion worth of natural resources under the soil. […]
Mike Benz: “USAID is effectively a rent-a-riot operation. That raises questions about the Black Lives Matter protests.”
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(19:41)… pic.twitter.com/KPWsfyQPDL— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 8, 2025
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