If you have been listening to the legacy media (the lyin’ left-wingers) this week, you’d think the latest jobs report was a dire representation of the state of the United States with Americans on the precipice of a jobs apocolypse. Spoiler report: they’re lying.

This isn’t a jobs collapse or an economic meltdown. It’s a deliberate shrinking of the federal machine, which the press is treating like a fatal emergency – because for them, the party of permanent bureaucracy, it is.

Let’s start with the headline number everyone’s pretending is terrifying: unemployment ticked up from 4.4%in September to 4.6% in November. That’s not a meltdown. It’s .2%. Historically speaking, it’s still a low unemployment environment – hardly breadlines and soup kitchens.

But here’s the part the media buries under layers of “Trump chaos” framing: hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed, bought out, or flat-out cut as part of the administration’s aggressive rollback of the federal payroll. There were DOGE audits, agency consolidations, buyouts, etc. This wasn’t an oopsie. It was POLICY. You don’t shrink government without some people clearing out their desks.

Bill O’Reilly laid it out bluntly on his No Spin News podcast: the economy itself isn’t bad. And what’s happening is structural trimming, not private-sector decay. When Washington stops hiring itself endlessly, unemployment numbers temporarily wobble.

And while the press wrung its hands, analysts quietly admitted something inconvenient: they expected around 40,000 new jobs – and got about 60,000 instead. That’s outperforming expectations, not missing them. Funny how that detail didn’t lead the evening news.

So why the spin? Because getting rid of waste in the government (including the workers) doesn’t get clicks – and doesn’t fit their anti-Trump narrative. The media is all about targeting Trump for being the cause of one disaster after another. That’s their “job.”

Bottom line: this jobs report doesn’t signal collapse. It signals a government finally going on a diet – and the media screaming like someone took away their favorite snack.