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Seeking recommendations for 5 families doing a senior high school spring break for our boys. Looking for tropical location. I've been tasked with finding an option that is different from the current options which are all-inclusive resorts in either Cancun, Punta Cana, or Jamaica. There are no plans to leave the resort, so to me, the current options aren't much different from each other. For each family, all in (flights, all-inclusive, etc), the cost will range from about $5K to $8K per family, depending on what room option each family chooses and how many family members each family brings.

What I'd like to know is if anyone could recommend a different option where we pool our money together and get a much better experience for the same price- $30-40K. Everyone likes the idea of "all-inclusive" and having access to a casino. That being said, last time I checked, a casino will take anyones money, not just those people staying on resort.

MUST HAVES:
- tropical beach location
- access to casino
- 18 and over drinking age
- somewhat easy travel access via flights (Costa Rica could be too long of a travel day)

Another thing that would be nice is to have other tourists of like mind as these high school senior boys, as the trip is designed around them. SO going completely remote from the world probably isn't something they want.

If anyone knows of a great experience, let me know. Maybe our current options are the best options, but just didn't want to book any of those while missing out on something we hadn't even thought of. Thanks.

(And please don't tell me how spoiled these little brats are- trust me, I know. The one and only spring break I went on- high school or college- was when I was at Penn State and we went to FL..... on a bus).

Why the so quick autopsy?

The ruling class of Europe receiving a bracing dose of truth this morning from our Vice President...and didn't like it at all: How dare he talk to us that way?

Basically Vance's message was that Europe's most dangerous enemy is not Russia but rather the continent's own leaders whose corrupt ideology has attacked the fundamental freedoms and democratic values of the people they govern:

In the fall standings we are third behind leader N Carolina and Stanford.

We Are the only football blue blood in the top five.

With European countries?
Says he wants an army.
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People are already freaking out.

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which is a great indicator of how far they lean into progressive/democrat policies

I am a bit fearful of this guy. But health is a MAJOR problem in the USA. Gotta be done no matter the short term costs.

The Insanity In Washington​

How do these people sleep at night?? They are just plain insane, and they seemingly don't care that they are making utter fools of themselves.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/21/the-insanity-in-washington/

• New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer on Wednesday said – from the Senate floor – “At a time when incidents in the air and on the runways in and our airports seem to be increasing, why would we cut the very people meant to prevent them? Simple. Donald Trump and DOGE are doing it like they’re doing so much else, so they can help their billionaire buddies with another tax break.” This is so insane on its face that it needs no comment from us.
  
• Rep. Robert Garcia, California Democrat, said, in reference to the Department of Government Efficiency that is eating away at the fourth, unelected but controlled by Democrats branch of government that the American people want “us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.”
  
• Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas believes American voters are “callous & selfish” and a trifle too satanic for their support of DOGE’s work.
  
• California Democrat Rep. Swalwell claims that “no president has had more planes crash in their first month in office than Donald Trump,” which might be true but there’s no reason to check because Swalwell’s comment is nonsensical. He should be embarrassed. In fact, as CNN just reported, “there was a record low number of airplane accidents nationwide” last month.
  
• Margaret Brennan, a “journalist” at CBS and therefore a Democratic Party operative, apparently believes “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide” by the Nazis. Surely nuttier things have been said on national television by network-paid political hacks, but it would be hard to find a better example of lunacy in the media. And, yes, CBS is the network that edited a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris last fall to help make her appear lucid and promoted the criminalization of censorship.
  
• The same job description can be applied to Anne Applebaum, who, writing in the Atlantic, said “suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.” That’s right: When federal employees’ work product is being audited and their positions are determined to be unnecessary, they’re living under the boot of an invader. She believes that federal workers have been “under instructions to respect the rule of law, venerate the Constitution, maintain political neutrality, and uphold lawful policy changes whether they come from Republican or Democratic administrations” – and that they actually did those things.
  
• The Democrats’ communications department, known by some as the legacy media, has also implied that higher egg prices are Trump’s fault, with blanket coverage of an issue it largely ignored while prices were rising during the Biden years. “No Democrat has offered a coherent explanation of how anything Trump has done in the first month of his administration has had any effect on the price of eggs,” our friend Steven Hayward writes at Power Line. “In short, this is one of the dumbest and most contemptible political attacks of all time.” Which is what we’ve come to expect from a confederacy of the unhinged that has lost its ability to reason.
  
• The Democrats elected a child to be their party’s vice chair. David Hogg might be 24-years-old, but he has the temperament of a toddler who has been told “no.” It’s hard not to picture him wearing one of those little boy suits that have shorts rather than trousers. While he is a successful – and shameless – self-promoter, he brings nothing but deranged, puerile anger. Which is probably why he was elected to that post.
  
• And then there are the incessant chants, caterwauling and braying from the left that seems unable, and probably even unwilling, to stop its descent into madness.

Donald Trump signed an EO to establish a SWF for the USA - the Saudis have one.

Sovereign wealth fund​

A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), or sovereign investment fund, is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as private equity funds or hedge funds. Sovereign wealth funds invest globally. Most SWFs are funded by revenues from commodity exports or from foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank.

Some sovereign wealth funds may be held by a central bank, which accumulates the funds in the course of its management of a nation's banking system; this type of fund is usually of major economic and fiscal importance. Other sovereign wealth funds are simply the state savings that are invested by various entities for investment return, and that may not have a significant role in fiscal management.

The accumulated funds may have their origin in, or may represent, foreign currency deposits, gold, special drawing rights (SDRs) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserve positions held by central banks and monetary authorities, along with other national assets such as pension investments, oil funds, or other industrial and financial holdings. These are assets of the sovereign nations that are typically held in domestic and different reserve currencies (such as the dollar, euro, pound, and yen). Such investment management entities may be set up as official investment companies, state pension funds, or sovereign funds, among others.

There have been attempts to distinguish funds held by sovereign entities from foreign-exchange reserves held by central banks. Sovereign wealth funds can be characterized as maximizing long-term return, with foreign exchange reserves serving short-term "currency stabilization", and liquidity management. Many central banks in recent years possess reserves massively in excess of needs for liquidity or foreign exchange management. Moreover, it is widely believed most have diversified hugely into assets other than short-term, highly liquid monetary ones, though almost no data is publicly available to back up this assertion.