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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I voted for Kamala and I think what Musk is doing is illegal, traitorous, evil, etc etc. But we also have to have a serious talk about the future of social security and Medicare in this country. As it is it is simply not sustainable.

100% agreed. Our current deficit spending habit is unsustainable. We need to solve it through some combination of tax revenue increases, spending cuts (including cuts to Social Security, the military, and Medicare, which are the biggest expenses), and inflation.

I hate Trump and the way in which he is going about all of this, but I do appreciate that the conversation has at least been started, for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I am concerned that the fact that this purported concern comes from the Trump administration will lead voters to dismiss it as the rantings of a crazed lunatic instead of an actual problem in need of being solved.

Ultimately, this is (or should be) the responsibility of Congress to solve, not the president.

You sound reasonable, but they are not. They want to take over and make the rest of us poor.

They are following a plan from Curtis Yarvin.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552

Do you realize (and acknowledge) that you guys had the past 4 years to do something about it, if you wanted things done a certain or different way? Nobody was stopping you. In fact, you would have had a lot of support from across the aisle to do some cost cutting. But instead, you guys just wanted to spend more and more that we just don’t have to spend, and let in millions and millions of people who we just can’t afford to support. At this point, Trump is in charge and like some other PPs, I really don’t care too much how he does the cuts as long as he does them. Someone is always going to be upset. But DC government workers already hate Trump so I guess their personal feelings aren’t being factored in here.

I am so disappointed in the Dem party for not doing what Trump is and bypassing a dysfunctional Congress. There is real waste in government and it would be much better for everyone if the party with a moral compass found it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I voted for Kamala and I think what Musk is doing is illegal, traitorous, evil, etc etc. But we also have to have a serious talk about the future of social security and Medicare in this country. As it is it is simply not sustainable.

100% agreed. Our current deficit spending habit is unsustainable. We need to solve it through some combination of tax revenue increases, spending cuts (including cuts to Social Security, the military, and Medicare, which are the biggest expenses), and inflation.

I hate Trump and the way in which he is going about all of this, but I do appreciate that the conversation has at least been started, for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I am concerned that the fact that this purported concern comes from the Trump administration will lead voters to dismiss it as the rantings of a crazed lunatic instead of an actual problem in need of being solved.

Ultimately, this is (or should be) the responsibility of Congress to solve, not the president.

You sound reasonable, but they are not. They want to take over and make the rest of us poor.

They are following a plan from Curtis Yarvin.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552

Do you realize (and acknowledge) that you guys had the past 4 years to do something about it, if you wanted things done a certain or different way? Nobody was stopping you. In fact, you would have had a lot of support from across the aisle to do some cost cutting. But instead, you guys just wanted to spend more and more that we just don’t have to spend, and let in millions and millions of people who we just can’t afford to support. At this point, Trump is in charge and like some other PPs, I really don’t care too much how he does the cuts as long as he does them. Someone is always going to be upset. But DC government workers already hate Trump so I guess their personal feelings aren’t being factored in here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I voted for Kamala and I think what Musk is doing is illegal, traitorous, evil, etc etc. But we also have to have a serious talk about the future of social security and Medicare in this country. As it is it is simply not sustainable.

100% agreed. Our current deficit spending habit is unsustainable. We need to solve it through some combination of tax revenue increases, spending cuts (including cuts to Social Security, the military, and Medicare, which are the biggest expenses), and inflation.

I hate Trump and the way in which he is going about all of this, but I do appreciate that the conversation has at least been started, for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I am concerned that the fact that this purported concern comes from the Trump administration will lead voters to dismiss it as the rantings of a crazed lunatic instead of an actual problem in need of being solved.

Ultimately, this is (or should be) the responsibility of Congress to solve, not the president.

You sound reasonable, but they are not. They want to take over and make the rest of us poor.

They are following a plan from Curtis Yarvin.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552

Do you realize (and acknowledge) that you guys had the past 4 years to do something about it, if you wanted things done a certain or different way? Nobody was stopping you. In fact, you would have had a lot of support from across the aisle to do some cost cutting. But instead, you guys just wanted to spend more and more that we just don’t have to spend, and let in millions and millions of people who we just can’t afford to support. At this point, Trump is in charge and like some other PPs, I really don’t care too much how he does the cuts as long as he does them. Someone is always going to be upset. But DC government workers already hate Trump so I guess their personal feelings aren’t being factored in here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In his own words...

I half wish this happens so MAGA finally understands what's going on and starts pushing back.

If he's going after the fraud, that's perfectly legit.

Anonymous wrote:In his own words...

I half wish this happens so MAGA finally understands what's going on and starts pushing back.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Musk is coming after entitlements now


Good. Stop sponging off of others, grow up and make your own way in life. Show some frickin pride in yourselves

How is SS entitlement? We literally pay into it over many, many years?

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Anonymous wrote:Fraud investigations go on ALL THE TIME and you cannot tell me Elon and his people have the skills to spend a couple of weeks scrolling through databases and identifying overpayments.

I know a couple of people who were disabled but then were able to find work they could do. Because you are allowed some earnings, it can take time before SS catches up. At that point any overpayments have to be paid back.
I know a couple and a single adult whose benefits were partly retirement and partly SSI. The couple was WRONGLY taken off benefits because SS determined their pandemic stimulus payment was excess assets, when if fact you could hang on to that money up to 12 months. The single adult mistakenly thought the asset limit was $3000 and a year of SSI benefits were declared as overpayments and are deducted from his benefit amount.

Serious fraud is a law enforcement matter that is prosecuted in federal courts.

When people like you chime in, it really shows a backwards and old mentality.

No one is scrolling through anything. No one is reading the budget ledgers.

Everything is being done using tech and specifically AI. It is mind blowing tech and doesn’t require a CPA or forensic accountant degree to find fraud.

The whole system needs an overhaul.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I voted for Kamala and I think what Musk is doing is illegal, traitorous, evil, etc etc. But we also have to have a serious talk about the future of social security and Medicare in this country. As it is it is simply not sustainable.

100% agreed. Our current deficit spending habit is unsustainable. We need to solve it through some combination of tax revenue increases, spending cuts (including cuts to Social Security, the military, and Medicare, which are the biggest expenses), and inflation.

I hate Trump and the way in which he is going about all of this, but I do appreciate that the conversation has at least been started, for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I am concerned that the fact that this purported concern comes from the Trump administration will lead voters to dismiss it as the rantings of a crazed lunatic instead of an actual problem in need of being solved.

Ultimately, this is (or should be) the responsibility of Congress to solve, not the president.

You sound reasonable, but they are not. They want to take over and make the rest of us poor.

They are following a plan from Curtis Yarvin.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In his own words...

I half wish this happens so MAGA finally understands what's going on and starts pushing back.

If he's going after the fraud, that's perfectly legit.

There is not wide scale fraud. He is the fing fraud. Get it through your skull.

And you know this from your own detailed examination of the data? Hardly. Why not wait and see, or is it too tempting to be reduced to hysterics in advance, just in case?

What's the point of a wait and see approach when we already know:

-He's misrepresented items from USAID - i.e. misrepresented things that were actually funded from the State Dept
-He retweeted a fake video with false information about USAID paying millions to celebrities
-He cherry picks and misrepresents small percentage budget items, claims "lots of fraud" but always fails to put all the expenditures out there which is anti-transparency rather than actual transparency, by definition

He gets players from China to play a video game for him (and lies about it) so that he can claim he's the best player in the world. If he can't even tell the truth about that, what won't he lie about?

Elon is a loser. I'm beginning to think he's a talented con man.