There is weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from the usual leftist media idiots about the State Department cutting 1,300 employees who held duplicative or useless jobs at our expense. But when you look at some interesting statistics for context, suddenly the number seems too small instead of too large.
Considering how the Biden administration went on a federal hiring spree to cover up its horrible job numbers, it should be obvious that many of the people being fired in government under Donald Trump would only enable reduction of the numbers a little bit back to what they were before that spree. Not to mention the fact that we are $37 trillion in debt, and simply cannot afford the vast and bloated federal bureaucracy that we have.
But the fact remains that Joe Biden isn’t the only president to hire lots of new federal employees (that’s been going on for a while), although he did put numerous Americans in the private sector out of jobs, which didn’t seem to bother the leftist media at all.
First of all, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York dug up some statistics on how the State Department grew by over 20,000 employees in a little under two decades. With 57,340 total department employees in 2007 and 80,214 in 2024, it’s obvious the department expanded significantly — and considering how disastrous both our domestic and international situations were in 2024, I think it is safe to say the increase in employees did not ensure more efficiency or effectiveness.
So that supposedly “devastating” cut of 1,300 enforced by Marco Rubio’s team Friday was merely a small slice off the top of an unwieldy and ever expanding agency.
On his very first day in office, Joe Biden — or his handlers — shut down the Keystone Pipeline. That alone killed somewhere between 1,000 and 11,000 jobs. In 2021, the New York Post reported about the continuing impact of Biden‘s horrible climate regulations:
In New Mexico alone, potentially 62,000 jobs and $1 billion in revenue will be lost in the first year after Biden signed his mandate, according to a recent economic impact study by the American Petroleum Institute.
In Sept. 2024, the House Ways and Means Committee reported that small businesses were particularly suffering under Biden. In the previous year alone, small businesses had been forced to cut more than 43,000 jobs, even as the Biden administration was hiring 24,000 new federal workers. While the economy was crashing and growth stagnating, even more of our money which we didn’t have was being spent on trying to hide how truly devastating Democrat policies are for the job market.
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Not only were most of the supposed “added” jobs for government workers, but even those jobs in the private sector which were being added under Biden were not going to Americans, they were all going to immigrants, including illegal aliens. Big businesses were taking advantage of cheap illegal alien labor, while Democrats in the government put Americans out of work.
This is the context the leftists screaming and wailing about the fired State Department workers don’t want you to know. Democrats couldn’t care less about people losing real jobs, they just hate it when government bureaucracy is reduced even by a very small amount. For Marxist Democrats, bureaucracy is a sacred thing, an oligarchical elite that is not supposed to be accountable to anyone, least of all the citizens whose lives it ruins.
