Link: https://www.rawstory.com/musk-social-security-2671292507/
"Staffing cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Social Security Administration could lead to more than 73 million retirees facing delayed payments or worse and a "system collapse" according to a former commissioner.
With senior officials at the agency being dumped by Donald Trump's administration as part of its government purge, and the department temporarily being headed by a former analyst with no management experience, CNN is reporting that ex-commissioner Martin O’Malley is raising red flags that it could all fall apart within 90 days."
Social Security was, for very good reason, the crown jewel of FDR's 'New Deal' program that helped to pull America out of 'The Great Depression' that had been inflicted on the country by the reckless greed and avarice of bankers, Wall Street manipulators, and the uncaring, lazy wealth hoarders. Post-war, the New Deal helped propel America to a world economic super-power.
Make no mistake that Social Security since it's inception 89 and a half years ago, has been and is today a literal lifeline for millions of Americans across the entire country, regardless of political persuasion.
And what exactly do Ma and Pa MAGA think is going to occur when the lifeline that keeps a struggling elderly American couple, or disabled American veteran, or an indigent American, regardless of whether they live in a city or remote rural area, is taken away in a heartbeat, which is literally what Elmo and his posse of prepubescent geek squad cyber trolls are suggesting they do? Seriously what the fuck do these people think is going to happen when that occurs?
Ponder this for a moment. More than 70 million Americans are receiving some form of Social Security benefit today. Now, just for the sake of argument, it will be acknowledged that there is probably some areas of the program that might be tweaked to save taxpayers money and make the agency more efficient, but that is NOT what Elmo and the Boys are interested in doing here. Not in the least. No, they are there to take a flamethrower to the entire program, just like Drumpf did this past week in issuing an executive order to begin shutting down the US Department of Education.
These fucking people are power and wealth hungry nihilists. They are not "fixers" of anything and never have been. They are not "experts" in any field other than grifting and defrauding.
And now the alliance of sleazy, Silicon Valley, immigrant billionaires who pooled their vast wealth and purchased themselves the most corrupt POTUS in the history of this country, and a morally bankrupt cabal of MAGA Republicans have painted a bullseye on the backs of those 70 million, Social Security recipient Americans.
And you know what kills me about this more than anything? These fucking Republicans have been chipping away and chipping away, little by little over the decades at Social Security and other federal benefits programs, in order to facilitate the transfer of ever more wealth to themselves and their billionaire benefactors. It is no secret that it has been one of the conservative right's filthy wet dreams to dismantle the entirety of FDR's 'New Deal' program and it's most successful program ever, Social Security, and burn it all to ashes.
Yet, and here is the part that slays me - has anyone ever seen a well thought out, fair social safety-net plan put forth publicly by any Republican lawmaker, anywhere as to how they are going to handle the tsunami of tens of millions of Americans suddenly facing life and death survival decisions because the one lifeline they had sustaining them was cruelly and suddenly jerked out from beneath them? I have never seen any such plan. Anywhere.
This is no joke folks. Y'all had better wake up to what is happening before it's too late. Sadly, I fear the point of no return may already have been passed, not that the Nazi-saluting, carpetbagging, South African immigrant billionaire has sunk his poisoned talons into the Social Security Administration.
---TFG