So they can privatize it and make the oligarchs a lot richer? Nutlicker gave away the plan when he said his 95 year-old parent of a Billionaire wouldn't miss a SS check and that anybody that couldn't do without missing a month of their SS check is a fraudster.
Originally posted by: Mark
So they can privatize it and make the oligarchs a lot richer? Nutlicker gave away the plan when he said his 95 year-old parent of a Billionaire wouldn't miss a SS check and that anybody that couldn't do without missing a month of their SS check is a fraudster.
"The Sky is Falling..."!
Originally posted by: David Miller
"The Sky is Falling..."!
It will be falling for you when you are leaving for Vegas and you find out your social security check wasn't deposited into your account as expected.
Originally posted by: Mark
It will be falling for you when you are leaving for Vegas and you find out your social security check wasn't deposited into your account as expected.
" It is raining cats and dogs "
They wont let people prove their identity over the phone like they have for 50 years....now you have to go into your local SS office in person and do it. One problem - they are also closing down a shitload of SS offices.
So nevermind elderly grandma with her walker has to go in person to the office.....but her office is closed. So she has to go another hour down the road to one that isnt. And since all the other grandmas had to go to that same office there is a huge line. And since DOGE fired half the workers at that office - the line is even more huge.
There are alot of adjectives you can use to describe that change. "Efficient" is not one of them. Thats the oppositte of efficient. The silver lining is that its going to hurt Red Republican Rural districts alot more than blue cities. So at least MAGA gets to feel the pain of their vote.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
They wont let people prove their identity over the phone like they have for 50 years....now you have to go into your local SS office in person and do it. One problem - they are also closing down a shitload of SS offices.
So nevermind elderly grandma with her walker has to go in person to the office.....but her office is closed. So she has to go another hour down the road to one that isnt. And since all the other grandmas had to go to that same office there is a huge line. And since DOGE fired half the workers at that office - the line is even more huge.
There are alot of adjectives you can use to describe that change. "Efficient" is not one of them. Thats the oppositte of efficient. The silver lining is that its going to hurt Red Republican Rural districts alot more than blue cities. So at least MAGA gets to feel the pain of their vote.
Yeah, it's one thing when the nearest open office is a couple of miles away; it's another when it's 85 miles away in Clusterfork, Nebraska. I'm astounded that the people who benefit most from government services are aleays on the side of the idiots who yell GUMMINT AM BAD as they wave their beer cans at the TV screen.
Originally posted by: David Miller
" It is raining cats and dogs "
God, Millerscum is stupid.
Lets break this down. Estimates are that extra 85,000 extra people will have to go to SS offices annually. There are almost 1,500 offices or 30 per state. Divide 85,000by 52 weeks and then by 5 days you get an additional 326 people looking to come in on a daily basis, or less than 1 person per day per office.
The Republic will survive.
Introducing internet verification would be a significant hardship to the 40 percent of Social Security beneficiaries who depend on the phone service. If they can’t use the internet system, they would also have to visit a physical location. Diaz’s own memo estimates that 75,000 to 85,000 people would have to visit Social Security offices under the new policy.
Originally posted by: Mark
So they can privatize it and make the oligarchs a lot richer? Nutlicker gave away the plan when he said his 95 year-old parent of a Billionaire wouldn't miss a SS check and that anybody that couldn't do without missing a month of their SS check is a fraudster.
SS is a messy Ponzi scheme. Had government not pilfered the money along the way, retirees would be paid 100% more per month. Eventually Ponzi schemes run dry. Did a Democrats or Republicans start this mess? Once whoever started this caused Americans to lose combined trillions.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
SS is a messy Ponzi scheme. Had government not pilfered the money along the way, retirees would be paid 100% more per month. Eventually Ponzi schemes run dry. Did a Democrats or Republicans start this mess? Once whoever started this caused Americans to lose combined trillions.
FDR signed it into law. Historically, the SS coffers have been raided and pilfered time after time by both parties, though. Nobody's innocent regarding the state of this government service/ provision..all have contributed over time.
