Summary
Leland Dudek, Trump’s newly appointed Social Security Administration (SSA) chief, has reportedly ordered plans for a 50% workforce cut, potentially closing field offices and delaying benefits.
Critics, including Rep. John Larson and advocacy groups, warn this move will disrupt services for seniors and disabled Americans. Five regional SSA commissioners are resigning in protest.
The cuts align with Elon Musk’s push for AI-driven government efficiency, despite concerns over fraud prevention and accessibility.
Critics argue this is a backdoor benefit cut to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.
So if they’re gutting social security, what happens to all the money I paid in?
Are we just going to have an epidemic of elderly people working until they die/collapsing in the street?
You get nothing, and yes. Worst of both worlds!
They will just pocket it like everything else. And yes they intend us to work to death and be grateful for it.
I’m sure the dead-eyed Paul Ryan types would love that situation. He dreamt of killing such programs since he was quite young.
And I bet quite a few cons, even if harmed by this, will be happy to open wide and let the likes of fElon and Bronzo take a big dump in their mouth, as long as they thought a liberal would have to smell it. So if they have to work until they die, but they “owned the libs”, I bet some of them will still revel in it…
If I’m being honest, I don’t expect to see a penny of social security. I’m making other arrangements wherever possible
I intend to sue for everything i put in. On the grounds that them not paying me back is theft.
Social security funds itself and they have zero right to take it to give to scumbag billionaires. Its not their money.
You get that by suing you’re lodging a complaint with the same people that robbed you, right?
The judiciary is not congress.
Yacht money for the rich. They need it more than the old and disabled
Your fund…
Our fund
Conservatives will open their mouths for the piss of lies. The ones that dont or cant work will be screwed
TL;DR: you paying in now is funding paying out now.
Your contributions fund today’s recipients. When you eventually become a recipient then the contributors of that day fund you.
This is the way of all superannuation funds around the world, they rely on the current generation of workers to fund the previous generations’ retirement (or the current generations’ disabled, etc.)
It’s basically a pyramid scheme.
And it’s falling apart since less and less people get born so you will never get out what you have paid in. It’s a system designed for the Boomer generation.
General Strike starting to look awfully good…
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Amen.
It’s time to start cutting out the cancer and getting our society back. Billionaires are the cancer. Mangione had the right idea. Make them hide in bunkers and live in fear cut off from society. Billionaires are the source of all corruption and corruption is why our government is failing.
I don’t want to live in a violent society but the billionaires are the ones committing violence. Therefore we should defend ourselves
Neither do I. None of us normal people want anything more than a comfortable life. It’s these psychotic billionaires that can’t stop taking no matter the cost to humanity. They are backing us all into a corner and making this shit necessary. They are monsters.
This is a great idea. Old people never vote.
I’m not sure the qons plan on elections.
When fElon keeps talking about the need to “move fast” and Bannon talks about muzzle velocity, it’s not because the things they are doing are wanted by a majority of the country, or even most of the magamorons that voted for this shit. They feel the need to speed-run through this as fast as possible before anyone can stop them or do anything later (by voting) to reverse this shit show.
Yea, that’s what out looks like ri me too. Hopefully they don’t get away with it.
Why do you still think voting matters anymore? You’re all still in denial. It’s over.
If Trump is to be believed, there won’t be any more elections to vote in.
Then they need to pay back every fucking dime we have paid into it. It’s not their fucking money, it’s ours.
Ssa and healthcare are like our biggest spenders. Maybe this is how he’ll find “wasteful spending”.
He’s not wrong. If you program a robot to find some cure for global warming or something, it’ll probably go around killing people. This is exactly what Trump is doing.
