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In reply to the discussion: A Secret Plan to Close Social Security's Offices and Outsource Its Work [View all]bullsnarfle
(254 posts)46. I do not have a computer.
I cannot afford one. I do not have a land-line phone either, or a fancy smart-phone, just an old-timey clamshell with a basement-rate plan. So what am I supposed to do? And there are a lot of folks in my same boat around here.
And spare me that "go to the library" crud. Thanks to the crappy economy the hours were drastically cut at all branches (the ones they did not just close outright). You wait forever behind a dozen or more other people waiting to get on, then you get timed out after a few minutes on-line and have to sign back into the queue and wait all over again.
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A Secret Plan to Close Social Security's Offices and Outsource Its Work [View all]
eridani
Jun 2014
OP
Is this a draft for a bill? Or is there a bill number to call my representative about?
freshwest
Jun 2014
#16
Just like I didn't think courtesy was new, I don't know if incompetence is new, either.
merrily
Jun 2014
#51
Don't think it's a secret plan. I signed petitions and wrote letters to my
sinkingfeeling
Jun 2014
#19