Steve Rattner, the former Obama Treasury counselor who’s no stranger to economic spin, dropped a bombshell on Bloomberg’s Wall Street Week Friday: there’s no labor shortage crippling the job market, despite the chorus from Big Business and open-borders advocates claiming otherwise. Sure, Rattner admits he’d love more immigration to juice the workforce, but he shreds the narrative that America’s current shortfall is due to too few border-crossers. Instead, he points to baby boomers retiring en masse and a post-COVID work ethic shift—folks prioritizing family, health, or just opting out of the rat race. It’s a rare moment of candor from a left-leaning insider, exposing how shortage talk is often code for cheap, compliant labor rather than genuine economic distress.

This matters deeply for the 2A community because the immigration debate isn’t just about jobs—it’s a Trojan horse for gun control. Proponents of mass influxes, from Rattner’s crowd to Soros-funded NGOs, push the line that more diverse populations demand softer borders and softer laws, including curbs on firearms to protect newcomers from America’s gun culture. But if Rattner’s right and native-born Americans are simply choosing not to grind in dead-end service gigs, it undercuts the urgency for flooding the zone with low-skill migrants who statistically swell urban crime rates—think sanctuary cities like Chicago or NYC, where illegal gun trafficking thrives amid lax enforcement. The implications? A stable, self-reliant American workforce means less manufactured panic over labor gaps, freeing us to focus on real threats: how unchecked migration funnels firearms to cartels and gangs, eroding the very Second Amendment protections that keep communities safe.

For gun owners, this is a rallying cry—double down on pro-2A policies that prioritize veteran hiring incentives, trade schools, and policies encouraging work without amnesty. Rattner’s admission inadvertently bolsters the case for secure borders and self-sufficiency, reminding us that a strong, armed citizenry doesn’t need imported underclass drama to thrive. It’s economics meets liberty: when Americans work on their terms, the nanny state loses its excuse to disarm us. Stay vigilant, patriots.