Summary
The White House scrambled to clarify comments from Elon Musk suggesting cuts to Social Security and Medicare, insisting no such plans exist.
Musk, speaking on Fox Business, criticized entitlement spending, sparking viral backlash. Trump’s administration defended Musk and attacked journalist Jake Sherman for misrepresenting his remarks.
Officials cited reports on fraud and waste but claimed benefits would remain intact. Elon Musk has repeatedly criticized Social Security, labeling it a “Ponzi scheme.”
Critics fear Trump could use fraud reduction efforts as a pretext for cuts despite his assurances otherwise.
Dammit, Daily Beast, these are not “entitlements”. They are programs Americans were forced to pay into with the guarantee that they would receive proportional benefits.
Pretty sure that is the literal definition of a government entitlement, I know the profligates have smeared the term for the last 40 years and all but this is one of their stupider ones.
Doesn’t that just mean that we’re entitled to, or owed a return, on that money?
Is it just an issue with connotation of that word? Or is it actually not an entitlement?
Exactly. If they cut Social Security, I’m signing a class action lawsuit against the federal government for every penny I’ve put in.
Entitlement is literally the term for social security and Medicare because those who’ve paid into them their whole lives are 100% entitled to receive payments from those programs.
Gotta keep the right wing framing!
yeah and ugh. but tbh we see this wording even from outlets surprisingly far to the left. (of a depressingly right-shifted so-called center, but anyway.)
Using the original meaning of a word and not chasing off on the euphemism treadmill is hardly shifting to the right.
My republican parents are like “no way he’ll cut social security” Man I hate this
Did you ask them what they would do if he did?
I asked my maga father that, the only answer he could come with is the “Trump promised he wouldn’t touch it”. These people are pathetically brainwashed into believing that Trump is looking out for their interests and not his own self indulgent bullshit.
We’re not taking away your Social Security benefit. We’re upgrading it to a huge Trumpcial Muskurity benefit. We’re going to cut loose all the freeloaders and give hard-working Americans a one-time payment of $5,000.
They’re gonna invest your SS money into memecoins
Oh, God. That’s exactly what they’re going to do, isn’t it? And everyone on benefits is going to cheer for it imagining themselves as the newly rich.
Says won’t do it, does it anyway. Do you think the idiots will learn?
Nope!
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not enough organized socialists for that.
if people arent up to date with their political theory and history, always assume its gonna be for the worse.
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It can always get much much worse
its gonna get worse before it gets worse. -some dog
join your favorite leftist org. they are probably already trying to do stuff with what they have, and the more the merrier.
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Them being read up on political theory and history wouldn’t have done jack shit.
them being read up on political theory and history would have at least avoided a trump situation.
it doesnt represent the revolution in and of itself, but its the very basic thing that will point people to the right direction. instead of aimlessly blaming immigrants or stupidly telling people to just vote harder.
We Gotta pay for those trillions in tax rebates for billionaires and corporations. How else are they going to buy what’s left of America after they purposely crash the economy. Americans will be tapped out at that point but the working class in Greenland and Canada still has assets so we’ll invade them so the oligarchs can steal their working classes wealth too.
His followers don’t care. They still believe there are 150 year olds on the parole. No proof needed for these “people”. They don’t care about reality.
I wonder who is manipulating whom here…is Trump really in control of Musk? Or is the dog walking the man here?
I mean… they’re going to do it anyway.
Yeah, they are just slightly concerned about him openly saying it.
Musk = POS Nazi wannabe!
Wannabe?
And of course Elmo has no idea what a ponzi scheme really is…
I need to keep that Samuel L Jackson clip on hand for when I hear retirees that voted for little d saying they didn’t vote for this.
YES YOU DID!
OK but then pay me back so I can put it into my IRA and retire ten years sooner.
