The Biden regime did a staggering amount of economic damage to American families. They printed $13 trillion in new federal spending during the pandemic, while flooding the country with hordes of migrants, driving up the cost of living overnight. You might think it would take decades to reverse that damage. But what if President Trump has come up with a simple solution that was right in front of us all along?
Because of Joe Biden and previous leaders like Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, a majority of Americans are now in the lower class, whether they realize it or not. The middle class has all but vanished.
According to a depressing stat released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, Americans lost almost 25% of their purchasing power during the four years that Donald Trump was out of office. If you were making $100,000 in January of 2020, you’d have to be making $124,353 today to enjoy the same purchasing power.
A household making $50,000 a year was still considered part of the middle class in 2020. Today, a household making $60,500 a year is part of the lower class.
That’s an astonishing reduction in the quality of life for Americans. It’s enough to make your delicate auntie cuss a blue streak.
So, how can President Trump reverse this?
He’s already doing it in places like California, Colorado, and other sanctuary states.
People thought I was joking a few days ago when I wrote about how much the traffic has improved in Southern California. Now everyone’s talking about it.
Here’s a map of rush hour traffic in the Los Angeles area on Monday night:
Dear Lord. Monday evening rush hour… it’s just gone. https://t.co/PlV8XtU0BX pic.twitter.com/ICDA1Ow9a4
— joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) (@JoshuaSteinman) July 8, 2025
That’s normally a sea of red during rush hour traffic, signifying clogged freeways across all of LA County. There are a lot of things that Governor Hair-gel Newsom and other leaders have screwed up in California. The crime and drugs are terrible. However, the number one quality-of-life issue that everyone complains about is the traffic.
It’s like hell on earth. A person living in Santa Clarita who commutes to LA for work is stuck in traffic for an hour and 40 minutes both ways. And that’s only a 35-mile drive!
Even though only a fraction of the illegal aliens living in the LA area have been removed as of yet, the flow of traffic in LA County is now spectacular. A Santa Clarita-to-LA commute is now taking people about 34 minutes, instead of 1 hour and 40 minutes.
So, I decided to crunch some numbers to see how much that is improving the lives of Americans. I used a Toyota Camry to establish a baseline for the figures below, since that’s the most popular gas-powered car in LA County. Plus, I used today’s current LA gas price average of $4.56 a gallon.
A commuter from Santa Clarita to LA is now saving 1 hour and 6 minutes on their commute in both directions. That adds up to 11 freed-up hours of time per week, 44 hours per month, or 550 hours in a 50-week work-year. Imagine how much your stress levels would plummet tomorrow if you woke up and suddenly had an extra 11 hours every week.
In a Toyota Camry, you’d be saving $28.25 a week in fuel costs, which is $122 a month or about $1,469 over the course of a year (assuming gas prices don’t budge).
What if a person used those extra hours to work an extra job? Even a part-time job at California’s minimum wage of $15 an hour would make a massive difference in a person’s life. The new wages combined with the fuel savings would amount to an automatic $10,049 increase in annual income.
If you had a side gig that paid $40 an hour for those 11 hours when you’re not stressed out and fantasizing about committing road rage, that would be an annual pay increase of $24,349. That’s the entire gap that Americans making $100K lost over four years of Joe Biden in office.
And even though most of the immigration raids are being conducted in sanctuary cities like LA and Denver, housing prices across the country will plummet as a result. Imagine a year from now when the people who fled California for other states decide to move back here, because housing is affordable again. That will lower housing costs in non-sanctuary states.
Imagine what this will do for trucking and shipping. If a truck driver has to haul a load from the Port of Los Angeles, he’ll be able to get out of LA County and on his way in 90 minutes, instead of 4 to 6 hours. The ripple effects throughout the economy are going to be amazing!
And it’s all happening overnight in Southern California and Denver. Friends in Boise, Idaho, told me this weekend that traffic is better up there as well, thanks to the ICE raids.
Keep it up, President Trump!