Nicholas Enrich: Reading with a Filter


When you read, do you check for the veracity of the report based on one or two pivotal nouns which highlight the story?  This morning - an article which caught my attention:

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/18/trump-administration-usaid-doge-cuts

In 2003,  Nicholas Enrich was an aid worker in Kenya.  This might translate to cheap labor and expendable.   The key word which I examined from the article was "expert".  What, exactly, did it denote? Was it academic or merely the expertise which evolves with longevity and loyalty in the work place?

Mr. Enrich now lives in Washington, D.C.  He is not recognized as an "expert" outside of his service within a bloated agency which needed the dead cow's belly popped open so the gas could escape.  USAID has been used as a carrot-stick amenable to U.S. policy endeavors abroad.  The better carrot is "trade for aid". This model, actually brings trickle down economics into domestic workforce industries.

Mr. Enrich is self-taught.  On the job training taught. But he does not have a wall covered with diplomas.  He most likely has a few in-house acquired certifications and awards.  Diseases such as tuberculosis and AIDS require the expertise of epidemiologists, immunologists, endocrinologists... ya know' - all of the "ists" class which interface with primary care physicians when health deteriorates in chronic or more rapid sequence.

When the bureaucrats interface with the medical community the problems have already been defined. But the bureaucrats also control the pot of gold and the distribution regarding the logistics, the supply chain and the work force on the ground. The aid workers who now work in Kenya and who have not made it to Washington, D.C. are now without employment.  Nicholas Enrich has slim options.  Unless, of course, he enters the corridors of another bloated federal agency.

Apart from the very real story of a future trajectory of suffering from lack of medical aid (Isn't that the chronic nature of just one chronic problem in Africa?) is the future story of potential jobs which will await Kenyans.  Not in Washington, D.C.  But within the soil of their native land.  This can be a happy ending.

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