Steve's barking getting a round peg into a square hole

I'm barking at one of my favorite topics again. Think Tanks!
I've read some stuff from The Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and The Manhattan Institute.
Their findings are audit reports. I just happen to know a little about audits and every one that I've reads are incomplete at best at worst the're out and out frauds.They seem to have the conclusion first, then they try to find facts that justify their conclusions, or even worse make up the facts. You don't have to know much about auditing to know that these reports are garbage and many of the facts are suspect.
There are two problems with political economic think tanks, they have to justify there findings by those who pay them and those in the media who take their findings as fact are too lazy to do their own research.
Because of my readings of conservative think tanks I take all think tanks with a ton of salt.