The Department of Bad Ideas

The Department of Bad Ideas: Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane to recall how well our government takes care of us.

The fog of trillions: How Americans lost sight of their own sacrifice

The fog of trillions: How Americans lost sight of their own sacrifice: Every dollar spent by the government was first earned by a citizen, and every act of redistribution is a moral decision, not a mechanical one.

Illegals vs. the Deserving American Poor

Illegals vs. the Deserving American Poor: Opportunity costs are a reality that might be willfully ignored, but that doesn’t make them any less real.

US Debt Climbs to $38T While Democrats Look to Spend More

 

Hey Hey Ho Ho – The UN has Got to Go!

Hey Hey Ho Ho – The UN has Got to Go!: President Donald Trump’s blunt assessment of the United Nations in his Sept. 23 address wasn’t just another form of political theater. It served as a reality check for an institution that has long sacrificed its purpose and mission for pretenses and spectacle, and Americans, for the most part, have noticed this.

Putting Patients In Charge, Not In Line To Die

Putting Patients In Charge, Not In Line To Die: The problem with Medicaid isn’t a lack of funding; it’s an overwhelming bureaucracy that sucks up all the money before ever getting to patient care.

More Democrat policies that contributed to the cost-of-living crisis

More Democrat policies that contributed to the cost-of-living crisis: Benjamin Franklin was wrong: there are THREE things certain in life. Death, taxes, and the love affair that Democrats have with government spending.

AI Can Replace Nonessential Government Personnel

AI Can Replace Nonessential Government Personnel: Properly programmed, AI can serve a noble purpose by cheaply replacing redundant employees throughout virtually all government agencies. 

NPR and PBS get slashed, but not hard enough

NPR and PBS get slashed, but not hard enough: There are several reasons why NPR and PBS needed to be defunded.  First is the question of political bias.  In NPR’s newsroom, for example, there are 87 registered Democrats and not a single registered Republican.  Even if we charitably assume that the folks in NPR’s newsroom do their best to suppress their bias, we can’t expect that their political preferences will not play at least some role in how they report on the news.

Public money, private luxury: NPR, from its progressive palace, cries poverty

Public money, private luxury: NPR, from its progressive palace, cries poverty: From a full-service fresh sushi bar to progressive artworks, the NPR people seem to be doing just fine on the taxpayers’ backs.

Defund NPR Now!

This is Katherine Maher, a Democratic Party activist and the CEO of NPR, which is partially funded by your tax dollars. She reportedly receives somewhere between $500,000 and $800,000 in compensation each year. Do you need a better reason to end taxpayer subsidies to this left-wing propaganda outlet?

So Much For Cutting Government Waste

 

Elon Tried to Tame the Beast

 

Energy Heresy: Why America Must Exit the Green Delusion

Energy Heresy: Why America Must Exit the Green Delusion: America cannot run on radical energy orthodoxy that produces less power and more power failures. Under President Trump, it doesn’t have to — and it won’t.

The Department of Education Fails Students and You Pay For It (Again)

“Hiding In Plain Sight” - Musk EXPOSES Social Security Scandal Involving MILLIONS Of Migrants

The USAID Demolition Derby

The USAID Demolition Derby Last week, DOGE dismantled USAID demolition derby style. A lot of dubious government funding was finally facing public scrutiny, but often the story seemed to be “look what we discovered” when much of the information has been online for years.

Fired bureaucrats prove how parasitic they are and make moves to run for office

Fired bureaucrats prove how parasitic they are and make moves to run for office: If you thought that Elon Musk and DOGE slashing and burning their way through the federal agencies would mean that the taxpayer was finally rid of parasitic bureaucrats offering nothing to the American people, then think again.

Trump is sick of government patronage

Trump is sick of government patronage: It has been estimated that of the 2.3 million federal employees, spread across dozens of agencies, only 54% regularly work in the office.  The president has deemed this unacceptable and has offered government employees a very generous buy-out package to quit their jobs.  For others, he has instituted reduction-in-force mandates to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.

Can Trump Do What Reagan Couldn’t, and End the Department of Education Con Job?

Can Trump Do What Reagan Couldn’t, and End the Department of Education Con Job?: Consider that, since 1980, $3.6 trillion were confiscated from American taxpayers and deployed by the agency, and the outcome is that roughly 30% of American eighth graders can read at grade level.  Only 26% of American high school students are proficient at mathematics.