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Doge's attack on social security causing 'complete, utter chaos', staff says

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In business, we usually don't disrupt systems that work and that have a large user base. So therefore, this is unprofessional and they are not listening to their user base. I can only expect disaster, unless they are stopped.

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You know the trump admin is doing this on purpose, right? They are ideologically fixated on the idea that there are vast numbers of people stealing 'their money' via disallowed social security, somehow. There's claims of finding vast numbers of fraudulent accounts via the more idiotic than usual doge, then somehow no details.

They are destroying our us govt infrastructure and bureaucracy on purpose. They are also very close to giving themselves another 6 trillion in tax cuts, focused on the wealthy. Please, this is much more than being 'unprofessional' and 'not listening to their user base'.

It's like when the Bush administration was convinced Saddam still had WMDs, and was somehow connected to 9/11.

Sure wonder if their voters will appreciate reductions in amount of income tax paid because now they have no income…

One of the big claims is that perhaps the Biden administration had a policy of issuing ssn’s to illegal immigrants. I’m not agreeing or endorsing but this is one of the issues their looking into. If Elon were trustable as an honest broker, this would be compelling to investigate.

https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ

Immigrants legal or not that are issued SSNs cannot use them to get money unless they pay into Social Security for at least 10 years and then retire, and only if they don't get deported by then. It's a non-issue that doesn't warrant further investigation.

If it was happening they would be finding them. "I'm just saying this is potentially suspicious" always has to be followed up with some facts that were discovered. Trump and Musk have been claiming huge numbers of bogus 150+ year old social security payments, those appear to not be real - any real fraud would result in criminal citations and would be widely circulated. Soc sec probably has 70 million people on the rolls, there must be some fraud, any huge org has it. But they haven't circulated any info.

Similarly, they claim they found "kids are on social security!" but it turned out to be survivor benefits or similar. They were not even aware or able to check that.

It's like the "illegal immigrants are taking us over" claims, or the Trump claim to "end the Ukraine war in 24 hours". It's apparently very powerful to make these claims of fixing hard problems in a day. You have to have some proof, some results. I see none. The world is hard, I need a leader who doesn't do silly things like tariff random islands in the ocean that have no trade with the us.

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