If he really aims to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal bureucracy, there’s a lot of low hanging fruit. But Elon Musk has prioritized eliminating one of the smallest yet most effective programs: USAID.Poverty stricken people of developing nations enthusiastically welcome the food and survival assistance from US Agency for International Development. Cutting it off will only create anger. Building friendships with the people of the world, soft power, often serves our national security more effectively than expensive and wasteful hard power. On this show Skip Isaacs talks about what Musk might learn from the experience of one USAID professional, whose career demonstrates a reality of which Musk apparently knows nothing.