According to the BLS household survey, the number of people employed by government saw its biggest monthly increase ever in September (excluding the reopening of the economy in the summer of 2020), leaping 785,000 to a new record high of 22 million workers.

But a government worker can only be employed by taking tax money paid from a private sector worker. This means we are mostly shifting jobs from the private sector to the public sector. At the margin, this rise in government bureaucracy makes the nation LESS productive and LESS prosperous. This is particularly unwise that most of the additional government employment is paid for by massive borrowing.