Earlier I mentioned a The Hill article on inflation, and how most of Biden’s people, and Biden himself, have little to no experience in the private sector. And now we learn specifics
An explosive new analysis published by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity reveals that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has very few business-oriented officials in the administration and that the vast majority of people handling economic policy for the United States government under Biden have no business experience whatsoever.
The 15-page report, authored by economist Steve Moore and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity‘s executive director Jon Decker, was provided to Breitbart News exclusively ahead of its public release. The headline of the report is: “Not Ready for Prime Time Players: Majority of Biden Appointees have Zero Years of Business Experience.” The report analyzes the backgrounds of the “top 68 officials in the Biden administration, starting with the president himself, and including cabinet members, regulatory officials, and White House advisers.”
In the executive summary, the authors detail some key findings in the report. First and foremost, 62 percent of Biden’s top political appointees and staffers “who deal with economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance have virtually no business experience.”
What’s more, only one out of eight Biden officials has what the authors deem “extensive business experience,” and the average level of business experience across the Biden administration is about 2.4 years. The median years of business experience among Biden’s top appointees is zero, since so few have any experience in the private sector, and the “vast majority of the Biden economic/commerce team members are professional politicians, lawyers, community organizers, lobbyists, or government employees.”
These people do not really understand how an economy or business runs. They’ve never run a business, never had to make payroll, never had to deal with real world issues. They don’t understand supply chains, suppliers, profit-margins, etc and so on. Look at Biden: he briefly worked as an attorney before being elected to the US Senate and taking office in January 1973. He has no idea. For him, and all these other folks, it’s only knowledge of government, completely divorced from the real world.
In fairness, this describes a goodly chunk of those in Congress. AOC worked as a bartender, but, really, was just a worker. What does she know about business? How many other Democrats and Republicans in Congress have little experience, or, it’s been decades since they actually worked in the private sector? Virginia Fox (R-NC) is a great representative, but, besides owning a landscape nursery business, she has no real experience in the private sector. How can the Legislative and Executive Branches respond to economic issues when they do not have experience?
“What is the takeaway from these findings? Surely we want our political class to have a diversity of backgrounds,” the authors write. “We want lawyers, grassroots activists, those with political and policy experience, scientists, health experts, and academics with required specialties. But we also want people who have experience running large operations with hundreds and thousands of employees and who understand logistics. We want people who know how to cut costs, manage logistics, increase productivity, meet payroll, and make a profit (or in the case of the government, avoid large losses). We need people at the top rungs of government who have experience dealing with large-scale crises (as we experienced during COVID), and also at least some familiarity with the everyday struggles that businesses have with the government.”
The Trump admin had way, way more experience in the private sector, and, here’s a point, dealing with people in a business environment, rather than simply as voters.
But it seems, the report authors note, that Biden’s focus on making “diversity” a major hiring “goal of its administration,” the U.S. government is now falling short when it comes to actually having people who know what they are doing with the economy in charge of economic policy. The authors note that “the one area that is sorely missing in this diversity goal is in attracting talented and experienced men and women from the field of small business, commerce, and finance.”
There’s basically a permanent political class in the nation, people making decisions and policy who haven’t put in the work to know the reality. Government is their business, and they think very differently from those in the private sector.
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