In the middle of a health and financial crisis that is crushing the economy and millions of American lives, the U.S. government is dedicating a mind-boggling $19 million to help Africa deal with a grasshopper issue. Known as locusts, the short-horned grasshoppers are reportedly invading the East African nations of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, qualifying the taxpayer allocation as “humanitarian assistance” that will reduce the size of the swarms and have a positive impact on affected communities throughout the Horn of Africa. At least that is what federal officials are saying during these most difficult times at home. The money is flowing through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the massive conglomerate with a $40 billion budget that annually doles out monstrous sums to foreign causes, including a multitude of leftist groups around the globe. “The current outbreak of desert locusts is the worst to hit East Africa in decades: billions of pests are infesting the region and devastating vegetation and livestock pastures,” according to a recently issued USAID statement announcing the latest multi-million-dollar allocation. “The new funding will finance ground-based and aerial operations to detect and control locusts across the region. These programs are critical to mitigating a potentially larger impact on people’s ability to earn a living and provide food for their families in the future.”

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