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The Biden Administration: Normalcy Vs Competency

September 8, 2021 By Debbie Young

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Thursday, July 8, 2021, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien)

President Biden allegedly was voted into office to return normalcy to the White House. But sooner or later, writes Jason L. Riley in the WSJ, the country will start pining for a return to competency as well.

It’s not just the president who looks like a poster boy for incompetence. Biden’s VP, his cabinet, and his national security advisors/military advisors all seem to be in over their heads.

It is far from clear, worries Mr. Riley, that the Biden administration is up to the task.

The crescendo to the long, hot summer’s mess was the Biden’s cowardly, ”ill-advised and horrifically bungled withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.”

Images of the Taliban commandeering U.S. military aircraft and armored vehicles won’t soon be forgotten by Americans—or our enemies. But that’s not the only reason the president’s Real Clear Politics job-approval rating has dropped to 45% from 54% since late-May.

Time for Those 4th of July Festivities?

Mr. Biden promised that COVID would be more or less under control in time for Fourth of July celebrations.

Yet the Delta variant continues to hamper job growth, throttle travel plans and wreak havoc on the new school year while the White House argues with government regulators over when to roll out booster shots.

Yes, hourly earnings have crept up as employers offer higher wages to lure people back to work, but what good is that bigger paycheck if it’s being eaten up by higher prices? Adjusted for inflation, wages have been falling this year. Job growth in August was less than a third of what economists were expecting and the worst monthly increase since January.

Not to Worry?

Last spring, Biden’s White House also assured Americans that the influx of migrant at the southern border was “seasonal.”

“The Border Patrol made about 200,000 arrests at the southern border in July, marking the busiest month at the border in 21 years and a 12% increase over the previous month,” the Journal reported in August, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

No Screening for COVID?

Detention centers are so overwhelmed that illegal immigrants are being released into the population without being screened for Covid.

Biden’s Inhumanity toward Immigration

The situation on the border has worsened to the point where White House officials were relieved when the Supreme Court ruled against the administration last month and effectively revived a Trump-era policy that required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are being adjudicated.

Among some administration officials, “the Supreme Court’s order was quietly greeted with something other than dismay,” the New York Times reported this week. “It brought some measure of relief.” The reprieve, it is hoped, will give the administration “an opportunity to take a step back, come up with a more humane version of Mr. Trump’s policy,” and “reduce the enormous number of people arriving at the border.”

The Biden Version Johnson’s Great Society

In the next few weeks, Democrats will try to ram through (on a party line vote) the largest expansion of government since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, Mr. Riley reminds readers.

And they’ve tossed in an amnesty proposal for good measure that will do nothing to curb illegal immigration. Mr. Biden and his fellow Democrats are betting that their $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” package will compensate for the missteps voters have witnessed thus far. But the risks are considerable, and not just because it puts a progressive wish list—large tax increases, green subsidies, child tax credits, free college—ahead of the more-immediate needs of everyday people. Mr. Biden’s ambitions would seem to exceed his mandate. His party holds a slim majority in the House, where it lost seats in November 2020, and the Senate is evenly split. Bipartisan moderation would seem to be in order, not Great Society 2.0.

Increase Government Dependency

Will the Biden administration’s cradle-to-grave entitlement bonanza backfire? It will if it “increases government dependency, shrinks the size of the labor force, and hampers economic growth.”

The federal government’s enhanced unemployment benefits finally ended this week, a tacit admission by the White House that paying people not to work might be one reason why there are 8.4 million people unemployed in a labor market with 10 million job openings. Labor-force participation remains below its pre-pandemic level and some groups are struggling more than others.

Biden’s Version of Equity

This past July, the black unemployment rate fell by a full percentage point to 8.2%, which is further than it fell for whites, Hispanics or Asian-Americans. Why? Not because blacks were finding work. Rather, reports Mr. Riley,  it was the result of a quarter of a million blacks leaving the labor force, thereby reversing a previous trend.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, labor participation rates in July ticked upward for the other groups but declined for blacks. Mr. Biden likes to talk about “equity,” but that’s not what his policies are producing. Growing the welfare state is unlikely to help.

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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