Four Years, Five Fiascos: The Toll of Government Overreach

Many Americans believe the Biden administration brought four of the worst years we have encountered in the past half century, if not longer, for the nation and the American spirit. The purpose of presenting here the most damaging actions of those four years is to recall how we allowed ourselves to go off the rails for that time, and the effects wrought, so as to not repeat them or anything similar in our future.

These five failings are presented in the order of significance regarding harm to America: financial, psychological, and social effects.

1. COVID Mandates. Many books will be written to document all the mistakes made in addressing COVID, but the focus here is on specific government mandates and actions to support their positions, at the overt cost of freedom. Here we must trust in your memory all the events the government created to lead to virtual panic in the citizenry and shutdown of the economy in overreaction to a virus that primarily threatened the elderly and those with multiple co-morbidities -- an estimated 1% of the population.

Some of us were stunned at the startling overreach of government mandates, mask wearing, social distancing, vaccination, and enforcing compliance potentially with termination of employment or even arrest. Tens of millions of Americans were displaced by government shutdown orders, including massive job losses due to shuttering, relocations, and school closures.

Yet the resulting economic devastation is routinely blamed on the virus itself, instead of the government’s heavy-handed response. Hopefully, we, the citizenry, learned a number of lessons from this nightmarish experience.

2. Mass Unvetted Migration. We do not know the exact numbers, a reflection of how chaotic the inflow from an estimated one hundred countries was. Eight million migrants, according to CBP data and independent estimates, entered illegally during 2021–2024

It was a time when I decided that all I thought of democRATs was much too kind.

2 posted on 04/23/2025 5:06:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

All of that destruction, death, loss of respect for institutions of government and The Biden Crime Family and their surrogates remain free.

When Democratic leaders pretended they wanted to put Biden on their imaginary Democratic Mount Rushmore, the reason was all the additional government spending he got the Democrat Congress to pass. As Ted Kennedy said, “The answer is more money. Now, what is the question?”

Biden: Worst. President. Ever. Democrats: Worst. Political. Party. Ever.

4 posted on 04/23/2025 5:42:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (If 11 million illegals must have 'due process' to be deported - it'll bankrupt our court system.)

3. Multiple Trillion Dollar Government Spending Programs

4.The New Treatment of Crime and Justice.

5. The Biden Administration Executive Order to Focus on DEI.

5 posted on 04/23/2025 6:57:32 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )

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