The Incredible Shrinking Country

NEW DATA: in November, the unemployment rate rose to the highest level since September 2021. That’s Trump’s economy.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 27, 2025

This is a truth sent from above:

“I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary,” Trump wrote in a recent online post on his social media platform Truth Social. “I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly. What I am doing is the only way to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

I had two uncles who were police officers. Which is to say, government workers. One of my aunts worked for Dallas OD, too. The Lovely Wife worked for the local school district for 20 years. I taught English at a community college for nearly 20 years. Government workers.

I have friends who were government employees. Without them, who would teach our children, collect our garbage, maintain our infrastructure, regulate our world? People from the school used to “move up” to the school administration building where my wife worked, expecting to enjoy “easy work” before they retired. They were always surprised to find they were busier, and worked harder, in those derided “bureaucratic jobs,” than when they were on the campuses.

Government workers, ya know.

According to the POTUS, they aren’t real workers doing real jobs. Except for ICE thugs and FBI agents reviewing files for Trump’s name, or DOJ lawyers still willing to try to indict the New York State AG. But the rest of them? Not real people holding real jobs, so not worth counting in labor statistics. The only people who matter are the ones employed in ways the president approves of; and who are people the president approves of.

It’s a very, very small populace who Trump wants to be President of.