Mindless Joe’s Labor Market? THE WORST IS YET TO COME!

RESTORING AMERICA

Things are bad for Joe Biden’s labor market, but the worst is yet to come

JANUARY 08, 2022 12:00 AM BY WASHINGTON EXAMINER

If you thought the first year of the Biden economy was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet.

The December jobs numbers that the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Jan. 7 were the worst of the year so far and the worst of Joe Biden’s presidency. With only 199,000 net jobs created, the 2021 economy truly went out with a whimper, not a bang.

Fully 3.1 million workers found themselves without work in December because their employers had closed or lost business due to pandemic restrictions. And it is unclear so far how many workers lost jobs because of choices employers made in anticipation of Biden’s vaccine mandate taking effect.

To make matters even worse, the data that went into the December report were gathered before the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus had stricken the country. Between omicron and its associated damaging economic restrictions and lockdowns, things are likely to get much worse in January.

Biden took office last January with the easiest job perhaps of any president in history. He inherited newly approved vaccines to deal with COVID, plus a full-blown recovery already well in progress from one of the most sudden and acute economic disasters in the nation’s history. There was a V-shaped recovery going on. All Biden had to do was sit back and avoid interfering — just watch the job creation and take credit.

Instead, he meddled. He began his presidency by putting his boot on the neck of the gas and oil industries and approving a massive inflationary spending measure. More recently, he has imposed crushing pandemic-related measures that have harmed workers — especially parents who have nowhere to put their children when malingering teachers unions refuse to work. Now, Biden is trying to shovel even more inflationary spending out the door, despite the current alarming levels of inflation.

Is it any wonder, then, that Biden’s popularity is hitting all-time lows as the new year begins? Is it any wonder that his party is now so afraid of losing power that Senate Democrats are contemplating a massive power grab that could eventually lead to the undoing of all the modern social legislation that forms the core of their political beliefs?

There is a reason Democrats want to remove the last systemic checks and balances against the autocratic, almost totalitarian imposition of their far-left agenda. They fear losing power because they know now they have already done everything necessary in order to deserve the loss.