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In reply to the discussion: Elon Musk Issues Major Social Security Warning [View all]Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, told Newsweek: "Social Security beneficiaries and their families have every reason to be alarmed by Elon Musk's takeover of the U.S. Department of Treasury's payment system, which is responsible for paying Social Security benefits.
"Seniors, their families, and people with disabilities most certainly cannot trust Trump and Musk with their crucial federal benefits - or their personal data. We hope that the courts will halt this effort to hijack the Treasury Department's payment system for blatantly political purposes."
Martin O'Malley, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, said at a rally outside SSA offices in Washington: "This is not about efficiency. This is about two things. This is about stealing the personal data of Americans. And it is about taking a lifetime of earned benefits, your Social Security benefits, and turning it into a bitcoin bank!"
"Seniors, their families, and people with disabilities most certainly cannot trust Trump and Musk with their crucial federal benefits - or their personal data. We hope that the courts will halt this effort to hijack the Treasury Department's payment system for blatantly political purposes."
Martin O'Malley, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, said at a rally outside SSA offices in Washington: "This is not about efficiency. This is about two things. This is about stealing the personal data of Americans. And it is about taking a lifetime of earned benefits, your Social Security benefits, and turning it into a bitcoin bank!"
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Privatizing it in a way the benefits the filthy rich was ALWAYS the MAGA/GOP plan,
B.See
Feb 2025
#30
Has anyone else been following the YouTube channel with up-to-date Social Security info by Ed Weir, PhD?
wordstroken
Feb 2025
#180
"Elders living in tents"? It would be an impossible task just to survive in tents as seniors with medical problems.
elocs
Feb 2025
#63
Musk & Trump think they are gods inasmuch as their saying something makes it true.
elocs
Feb 2025
#64
Yes, SS is called an entitlement because you are legally entitled to it!
LudwigPastorius
Feb 2025
#38
it amazes me how many people do not understand what the noun ENTITLEMENT means
Skittles
Feb 2025
#53
The Republicans have been trying to kill off the New Deal since the beginning. . . .
h2ebits
Feb 2025
#106
Richest man in the world goes after some of the poorest people in the world...Shame....
wcmagumba
Feb 2025
#2
Eloon and his Space X just bagged another $39 MILLION $$$$ GOVERNMENT contract. I call FRAUD and WASTE!!
Bengus81
Feb 2025
#124
it does get scammed. HCA/Columbia hospital system was Rick Scott's tool
yellowdogintexas
Feb 2025
#156
When I worked in a bank, we could not take a SS card as identification
yellowdogintexas
Feb 2025
#157
The wealthy thank you for paying into it your whole life. They'll take it from here.
IronLionZion
Feb 2025
#91
Not the context that Republicans put Social Security in and they spew it like religion........
Bengus81
Feb 2025
#120
I'm against anyone getting cuts, but I don't doubt there are some SS payments that are to scammers.
Silent Type
Feb 2025
#8
I'd bet a good number of MAGATs receive disability benefits in addition to SS.
Evolve Dammit
Feb 2025
#109
Oooh and I am SO sure that repubs won't mind their social security checks to stop
halobeam
Feb 2025
#16
This has been debunked several times over. The old database was written in COBOL and had a default value ...
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2025
#184
The Acting Inspector General for Social Security was one of the IGs that Trump...
LudwigPastorius
Feb 2025
#36
What does elon skum have to say about the undocumented workers who have...
GReedDiamond
Feb 2025
#59
He is signaling all those entitlement programs will be shut down completely.
LiberalLoner
Feb 2025
#60
This should scare everybody on Social Security etc. He's going to use this BS excuse when he starts cutting
Liberal In Texas
Feb 2025
#67
I guarantee if Mee Maw in BFE Arkansas stops getting her SSI and Medicare payments
Best_man23
Feb 2025
#75
I think this asshole needs to a lot of his Ketamine. I mean a real large amount.
JohnSJ
Feb 2025
#78
Where's the evidence? If there's so much fraud, he must have lots of evidence right?
IronLionZion
Feb 2025
#89
I am about to turn 60, and I seriously doubt that I will ever see a penny
GoYouPackersGo
Feb 2025
#94
Prove it by forensic accounting and not with teenage hackers or the fraud doesn't exist.
Efilroft Sul
Feb 2025
#97
This coming from the same people who got 11 out of 12 claims about USAID waste wrong
neohippie
Feb 2025
#110
I assume this is based on Musk's AI analysis of government files. That's a bigger fraud than the one he claims
Martin68
Feb 2025
#121
Lots of talk about hope today, and hope is strengthening. Nevertheless, hope without works is dead.
Magoo48
Feb 2025
#134
It IS a fraud! People collect who NEVER PAID into the system. An WHO PAYS for them. The non-rich.
Festivito
Feb 2025
#148
When he takes it all, not if, I sure hope millions of us react in a way that we cant even talk about here.
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2025
#176