DOGE continues its assault on Social Security. I question the logic of 20-somethings trying to figure out how to make a system more efficient for old folks. Or grasping the concept of fixed-income living. How it keeps us off the streets. Or how we kept up our end of the bargain paying into a system our country promised would return benefits to us when we needed it.
Regardless, tearing it all down and making it unworkable can definitely be done by the young. We know because we are watching it happen.
The anti-fraud campaign at Social Security seems a long-standing obsession by Musk, whose takeover of Twitter — as well as his argument to exit the deal to buy it — was premised on a similar quest to root out fraudulent bots that masqueraded as real human beings on the service.
Not true then. No idea if it’s true now because he won’t tell us.
But he’s more than happy to present false information as true. Even when refuted by his own team.
While Musk was publicly complaining about Ponzi schemes and 150 year olds getting benefits etc. the DOGE team he masterminds already knew many of his claims about Social Security fraud were overstated, distorted or baseless, according to a declaration filed in federal court.
The continued false assertions about dead people receiving benefits are only the latest example of Musk, Trump and their allies exaggerating or even fabricating allegations of fraud to justify their ongoing efforts to dramatically slash government staff and services.
And still we hear the constant refrain…”The burden is on DOGE to accurately show, where is all the fraud? They haven’t done that.”
At this point shutting down the government sounds way better than watching it being gutted. Might as well put it out of its misery.
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