Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Elon Musk Issues Major Social Security Warning [View all]Initech
(108,782 posts)118. He's the fucking fraud! Get this POS maniac out of our government now!
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
Recommendations
2 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
184 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
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