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Rhiannon12866

(258,903 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:10 AM Aug 2025

Fmr. Social Security boss: Trump & DOGE created 'greatest theft of personal data in U.S. history' - The Last Word - MSNBC



Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class action in American history." - 08/28/2025.
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Fmr. Social Security boss: Trump & DOGE created 'greatest theft of personal data in U.S. history' - The Last Word - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 OP
How Do We Ever Become Whole Again? MrWowWow Aug 2025 #1
I cannot imagine how much that would cost - to issue a new number to every man, woman and child in the U.S. Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 #2
Cost schmost! ReRe Aug 2025 #3
And do we trust these clowns to do it and not screw it up? yellow dahlia Aug 2025 #4

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
1. How Do We Ever Become Whole Again?
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:06 AM
Aug 2025

If and unless each of us is issued a new Social Security Number. Would that fix things? Really?

Rhiannon12866

(258,903 posts)
2. I cannot imagine how much that would cost - to issue a new number to every man, woman and child in the U.S.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:14 AM
Aug 2025

Not to mention the mass inconvenience. Most people know their number by heart, talk about confusion!

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
3. Cost schmost!
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 04:13 AM
Aug 2025

If they can print money without abandon, they can damn sure print Social Security cards. Just do it!

yellow dahlia

(6,488 posts)
4. And do we trust these clowns to do it and not screw it up?
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:48 PM
Aug 2025

I don't.

I am wonked out on this story. I think it is one of the most important stories out there. I also shared this clip in an OP that I wrote earlier. Is that okay or redundancy?

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