Re: This chart about federal borrowing should freak you out
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2025 6:51 am
To be fair, Biden's deportation numbers were higher because it counted a lot of people being turned away at the US-Mexico border. And now most people are afraid to go there so those numbers are a lot lower.
On the other side of it, because this Administration is operationally incompetent it is unlikely that they will actually ever reach the Biden Administration numbers. And if they do it will be through brute force and ripping the rule of law apart -- largely because they don't know how to run the machine and think that just throwing incompetent people and our money at it will make it run better, or even at all.
It won't.
At some point, adding more incompetent people to an organization starts to decrease productivity, not increase it. And you are more likely to hit that point if you are trying to add a lot of people rapidly.
On the other side of it, because this Administration is operationally incompetent it is unlikely that they will actually ever reach the Biden Administration numbers. And if they do it will be through brute force and ripping the rule of law apart -- largely because they don't know how to run the machine and think that just throwing incompetent people and our money at it will make it run better, or even at all.
It won't.
At some point, adding more incompetent people to an organization starts to decrease productivity, not increase it. And you are more likely to hit that point if you are trying to add a lot of people rapidly.