He makes a great point, actually one I already made on another thread, missing one factor - illegal immigration.
In January 2020 the number of employed in the US was 158.8 million. In November of 2023 it was 161.8 million. So there are 3 million more people with jobs than before the pandemic. But in this time period at least 8 million illegal immigrants entered the country. If they all got jobs, then the legal population must have 5 million fewer jobs than 4 years ago. If none of them got jobs, then the legal population has 3 million more jobs but we have 8 million people who can only survive by having their food, their shelter, their health care, their education, their clothing, and everything they consume provided for them by the legal population through taxes and government subsidy payments to the illegal immigrants. No one is sending these people money from their home countries. They send money back to their home countries, and support themselves off our welfare state.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-employment.htm
Here’s another way to look at it. Those Americans who have worked hard and are employed, can see what is going on around them. We are wasting money on ugly wind farms, and their power prices are going up. They see homeless on the streets on Fentanyl or “tranq” every day. The FBI decides to “change the reporting system” for crimes so that 30 percent of the cities don’t report using the new system, so we don’t have the clear data showing the rising post-BLM crime, which the media calls the post-pandemic crime. The media compares 2023 to 2022 and gloats that crime is down a little, but never reports the increase from 2019 to 2022. Tbey see the illegal immigrants who are gang members or who were released from Venezuelan prisons and mental wards specifically so they could enter the US. I saw a woman literally taking a crap on Third Avenue and 77th street, the Upper East Side. No one cares about the fake “unemployment rate” cooked up by government bureaucrats who have lied about everything to protect their power structure, for example by hiding crime statistics like 1950’s Communists in the USSR, when you can see the decay everywhere. The Federal budget deficit is 1,700 times the entire expenditures of the Federal government 100 years ago (under Coolidge the budget was $1 billion).