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Island of Broken Math: Why Alcatraz Makes Zero Fiscal Sense A Policy Analysis Introduction: The Rock Is Back — Whether You Like It or Not Imagine spending $2 billion to house fewer than 300 inmates on a crumbling, salt-corroded island with no running water, no functioning sewage system, and no operational heating — where every…
The smell of taxpayer robbery isn’t even being masked anymore. HUD Secretary Scott Turner just dropped a political flashbang: over $5.8 billion in questionable Biden-era rental assistance payments — and not to struggling citizens, mind you. We’re talking thousands of potential non-citizens and more than 30,000 deceased “tenants.” Because apparently, in Bidenomics, the phrase “affordable…
Executive Summary The debate over federal funding for PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) represents a fundamental question about the proper role of government in media. While public broadcasting advocates paint dire scenarios of widespread station closures and diminished rural access to news, the reality suggests that discontinuing federal funding would…
A Cloaked Government Clubhouse Stuffed with Bureaucratic Greed Washington, D.C., March 19, 2025—Nestled in the shadows of the federal bureaucracy, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)—a little-known agency no one’s ever heard of—has morphed into a shameless, taxpayer-funded country club for lazy bureaucrats, as revealed in Flopping Aces’ scathing March 2025 exposé. Ostensibly created…
Recent revelations concerning the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have sparked significant debate over the agency’s stewardship of taxpayer money. This analysis will examine the newly revealed information, argue that it demonstrates a clear disregard for fiscal responsibility, and conclude that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under Elon Musk’s leadership, is justified in…
Why the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) should be sold to a private company: 1. Financial Solvency: The USPS has been operating at a financial loss for years, with reported deficits in the billions. A private company, driven by the need for profitability, would be incentivized to streamline operations, cut costs, and innovate in ways that…
Conservative Brief: WH Claims Biden, Harris Have ‘One Of The Most Successful’ Admins Despite 2024 Loss The White House said in a statement that the Biden-Harris administration is among the most successful in history, just weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris was soundly defeated by President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election. President Biden and…
Picture our expansive U.S. government as a giant, content pig, lounging in its bureaucratic slop, utterly unconcerned with anything beyond its own comfort. Much like pigs that find solace in their mud, our government has nestled into a morass of inefficiency, redundancy, and self-serving policies, seemingly oblivious to the needs and frustrations of the American…
An intriguing statistic highlighting a significant shortcoming in public education is the stark contrast between spending and performance in reading proficiency. In New York, despite spending nearly $30,000 per student, only 33% of students achieved reading proficiency last year. Conversely, Florida, which spends just over $10,000 per student, saw over 80% of its students proficient…
DOGE will clean out more than just the government. Vivek Ramaswamy says the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), which he’s working on in partnership with Elon Musk, will be able to cut government contracting costs substantially, fire useless employees, and identify entire government agencies that can be dumped. If DOGE works, there’ll be no…