THE BIDEN YEARS IN FOUR TABLES (MAYBE MORE THAN FOUR)

The Reason For DOGE And Elon Musk.

The political progressive/left/far left/socialist element of the United States — well supported by the legacy media — are screaming as loudly as they can that the sky is, indeed, falling and so is America because the Nazi Oligarchs Trump and the unelected Musk are preying on impoverished immigrants and poor Americans by stealing from them so that they can enrich themselves.

Having spewed that mouthful of a perfectly fine sentence — what’s goin’ on in the USA? Why is the left SO angry? The real answer is: Because someone told them to be. Somebody told them that their stuff was being taken from them by Conservatives. And there is the grand lie. The actual thieves have been their heroes: Obama, Pelosi, Clinton & Clinton, but most of all Joe “Auto Pen” Biden and who ever has been medicating him and pulling the levers of government behind the current. And here is how I know this.

Tabler 1. Non-farm Federal Employees January 2020 - January 2025

That’s right Joe Biden and his string pullers added 500,000 jobs to the federal payroll . That is a greater than 26% increase in just 4 years. Why? Because there is no better way to create democrat voters than to give them something; a lifetime job with high pay and benefits is a great place to start.

The average salary of a government employee is $136,000/year. That means that Biden’s 500,000 employees are costing us $68,000,000,000/year.

One can argue that the reason for the huge increase in federal employment in just 4 years is because of need. But ask yourselves this: When have you ever wished that there were more federal employees because your needs were not being met (think IRS)? EVEN when I was federal employee I thought that there were too many of us.

Maybe there was YUGE increase in manufacturing sector jobs driving demand for more federal employees. I know, it’s a hard thing to imagine. And you’re right because it didn’t happen.

Table 2. Manufacturing Employment — The Biden Years

All-in-all the Biden economic plan added only 108,000 manufacturing jobs (0.84% increase) in those same four years.

Table 3. Non-farm Employment — the Biden Years

A mere 4.83% increase over four years. There you have it - a greater than 26% increase in federal employment and less than 5% combined from every other industry sector. Maybe there was another reason that all those federal employees were added. Maybe we acquired more people.

We know that to be true. We just don’t know how true because not everyone he arrived in the U.S. between 2020 and 2025 lets us know that they were here. The estimates of illegal immigrants are all over the place ranging from 5,000,000 to 13,000,000. But there is one set of numbers that gives us a rough idea of a minimum number of immigrants who have owned up to being here and here it is?

Table 4. New Non-citizen SSNs Issued — the Biden Years

And the previous four years? Just 1.5 million.

Table 5. New non-citizen SSNs Issued — the Trump Years

Let’s pretend that those 4,195,028 new SSN recipient parlayed their gift of a SSN into a mere $60,000/year. How does $251,701,680,000 sound? What if it’s $100,000,000 each? It’s more than a half trillion dollars EACH YEAR. In just 10 years that’s $5T.

Let’s spend just a few seconds talking about the National Debt. Here it is from then end of 2016 to the end of 2024.

• Dec 31, 2016: $19.98 trillion

• Dec 31, 2017: $20.24 trillion

• Dec 31, 2018: $21.97 trillion

• Dec 31, 2019: $23.20 trillion

• Dec 31, 2020: $27.75 trillion (pandemic spike)

• Dec 31, 2021: $29.62 trillion

• Dec 31, 2022: $31.42 trillion

• Dec 31, 2023: $34.00 trillion

• Dec 31, 2024: $36.22 trillion

Just because I can I’m going to ignore the CARES Act contribution aka the “pandemic spike”. The average Debt/year from 2016 to 2019 is $21.35 T. For the years 2021- 2024 that average nation debt increased to $32.87 T — $11 T more in just a few short years.

Once more I will insist that every libertarian in the room repeat after me: “Just saying ‘No’ to every budget resolution will not EVER solve this problem.” Which brings me to another cliche: “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.”

Be part of the solution.

Donald J. Trump, POTUS 47 - like him or not - is THE ONLY PERSON out there with a plan to solve this mess. Unless someone has an alternative plan that can be discussed — dismiss them and go about your day praying that President Trump is successful.

Union, Kentucky

9 April 2025