Colbey Decker

The credential cartel is choking the life out of this country. While career bureaucrats with advanced degrees and zero skin in the game collect pensions for protecting waste, fraud, and failure, actual operators who have built, fixed, and delivered in the private sector get sneered at for not having the right piece of paper. Michael Gleason’s extensive real-world experience is exactly the kind of subject-matter expertise that actually matters—competence proven by results, not by tuition and networking. You do not need a college degree to know how broken systems work, how incentives destroy value, or how to cut through the sludge. The people who do know it are the ones who have lived it outside the bubble. Government has become a closed loop of people who have never had to make a payroll, ship a product, or answer to customers. That is why it keeps failing at basic competence while growing in size and cost. DOGE’s entire point was to smash that loop. Hiring people like Gleason who bring private-sector judgment into places like HHS’s policy shop is not a scandal; it is the bare minimum required to start fixing agencies that treat taxpayers like an endless funding source and results as optional. We need far more of them—operators, builders, and problem-solvers who measure success by outcomes instead of process and headcount. The alternative is more of the same: entrenched insiders protecting their turf while the rest of the country pays the price in inefficiency, unaccountability, and institutional rot. Private-sector expertise is not a threat to good government. It is the only realistic way to force the bureaucracy to serve the public instead of itself. This kind of disingenuous hit piece is exactly why the public has lost confidence in corporate legacy media.

🚨 UNMASKED: Green Bay Area Public Schools waitlisted Colbey Decker’s son 405 days for reading help while the district’s School Success plan prioritized additional resources for Black, Hispanic, and Native American students. Governor Tony Evers: “We made a commitment… to work on equity.” Race-based prioritization should NEVER determine which Americans get literacy support in taxpayer-funded schools. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has challenged the policy, and the U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into the case… the case has been pending for about TWO YEARS. Civil rights enforcement is law enforcement. Enforce the law.