Anonymous wrote:Now Johnson is repeating Elon's claim that most SS payments are fraudulent. Big cuts are coming, but they're just going to claim they were actually "fraud."

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Anonymous wrote:Now Johnson is repeating Elon's claim that most SS payments are fraudulent. Big cuts are coming, but they're just going to claim they were actually "fraud."

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My guess it they will start a "freeze" social security disability payments while they conduct a "review" to determine which ones are "fraud." That would be in line with how they've done the USAID and NIH cuts. They will go after SSDI first because that's not as politically popular.

My guess is that Congress will pass a bill to make SS payroll contributions voluntary, under the guise of worker freedom. Like with any insurance program, younger workers will choose to opt out, leaving a progressively worse annual shortfall. As the SS insurance pool shrinks, they will gradually reduce benefits until the whole thing simply collapses. That way Republicans can claim that they didn’t kill SS, but it was simply an unstable Ponzi scheme.

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Anonymous wrote:Now Johnson is repeating Elon's claim that most SS payments are fraudulent. Big cuts are coming, but they're just going to claim they were actually "fraud."

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My guess it they will start a "freeze" social security disability payments while they conduct a "review" to determine which ones are "fraud." That would be in line with how they've done the USAID and NIH cuts. They will go after SSDI first because that's not as politically popular.

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Anonymous wrote:Now Johnson is repeating Elon's claim that most SS payments are fraudulent. Big cuts are coming, but they're just going to claim they were actually "fraud."

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My guess it they will start a "freeze" social security disability payments while they conduct a "review" to determine which ones are "fraud." That would be in line with how they've done the USAID and NIH cuts. They will go after SSDI first because that's not as politically popular.

SSDI is retirement for a huge percentage of blue collar workers. It's going to become real popular pretty quickly once it stops

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Anonymous wrote:Now Johnson is repeating Elon's claim that most SS payments are fraudulent. Big cuts are coming, but they're just going to claim they were actually "fraud."

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My guess it they will start a "freeze" social security disability payments while they conduct a "review" to determine which ones are "fraud." That would be in line with how they've done the USAID and NIH cuts. They will go after SSDI first because that's not as politically popular.

Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

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Anonymous wrote:All the MAGA in my mother’s old person community are now worried.

They didn’t think it through. They didn’t realize who they were voting for- thought it was for crime reduction and stop inflation…

Not utter destruction of democracy and burning the constitution ….

I don’t see how anyone could have watched Jan6 and not see this happening….good lord

You mean utter destruction of bureaucracy, not democracy.

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Bureaucracy, i.e., the civil service, the rules & regulations, the monitored processes, is one of the pillars of a functioning democracy. Without what you derisively call “bureaucracy” we’ll have a corrupt banana republic-type of government, spoils system corrupting the government, a bunch of sycophants and cronies exploiting government for the benefit of a few, unrestrained contractors fleecing the public monies.

Yes, your gubmint bureaucracy sure had those unrestrained contractors and NGOs in check.

Your view of reality is to be generous....surreal.

Anonymous wrote:Now Johnson is repeating Elon's claim that most SS payments are fraudulent. Big cuts are coming, but they're just going to claim they were actually "fraud."

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Anonymous wrote:I don't blame them for not knowing COBOL. Most software engineers don't.

I do blame them for accepting clearly absurd returns uncritically and using them as a propaganda win.

They deliberately misled. They knew the values were a coding issue.

These statements are just to get the Republican base ruled up, so they will be ok when they're social security payments are also cut.

I'm not sure they'll feel that way when they can't eat and free food distribution is no longer available either.

Hunger is a painful way to die.

It really is. When my great grandfather could no longer work (pre social security) he just walked into the river and drowned himself rather than take food away from his grandbabies.

That's where Republicans want us to be right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't blame them for not knowing COBOL. Most software engineers don't.

I do blame them for accepting clearly absurd returns uncritically and using them as a propaganda win.

They deliberately misled. They knew the values were a coding issue.

These statements are just to get the Republican base ruled up, so they will be ok when they're social security payments are also cut.

I'm not sure they'll feel that way when they can't eat and free food distribution is no longer available either.

Hunger is a painful way to die.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't blame them for not knowing COBOL. Most software engineers don't.

I do blame them for accepting clearly absurd returns uncritically and using them as a propaganda win.

They deliberately misled. They knew the values were a coding issue.

These statements are just to get the Republican base ruled up, so they will be ok when they're social security payments are also cut.