Does anybody doubt Trump and Musk are crashing SS on purpose?

   Your post is deliberately misleading and inaccurate --- "Boilerman voted for Trump despite Trump saying he wanted to end taxes on Social Security income....which is one of the pillars that helps pay for it." --- You left out the part that President Trump wanted to end taxing "Senior recipiants" of Social Security on the Social Security funds they receive - which is "double" taxation on the funds they have already been taxed on. - - Trump Proposed Eliminating Social Security Taxes. Here's the Bill That Could Make It Happen -- President Donald Trump has promised seniors they will no longer pay taxes on Social Security - “Eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits would be an excellent step to provide financial relief to American seniors, many of whom are struggling with a cost of living that is growing much faster than their incomes,” says Shannon Benton, executive director of the Senior Citizens League, in statement published on the organization’s website. “It would also reduce double taxation, which is inherently unjust.” -- https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/what-to-know-about-the-bill-to-repeal-social-security-taxes

And firing 20% of the workers in the offices that remain. And removing 25% of the funding for administration. And reducing services such as phone and email info inquiries. 

"The republic will survive." Yes, and people will suffer and die unnecessarily. What a callous and ignorant thing to say. Fuck you, Tom! Fuck you, stupid Tom!

Ponzi scheme is a very good description of it.  

And a very good point here.....If a private pension plan ran like this the administrators would go to jail.

What is hard about understanding this?  

And the tax collected on it goes to help pay for the solvency of the fund.

When you say closing a handful of offices is going to make a difference....it wont.

When you say getting rid of the tax on SS income wont make a difference....it will.

It helps to have people who are good at math making these kinds of decisions. 

How do the liberals here suggest reducing the deficit?

Raising taxes and cutting the military budget in half, taking the cap off the earnings cap on SS, ending stock buybacks, for corporations that organize offshore to avoid taxes cut off their access to the Federal Court system.

Give the government more $ so they can keep managing it so well.  That will get us out of the deficit.  

Sabotage the government by firing its workforce - and then complain about how the government doesnt work.

Welcome to the Republican playbook for the last 40years

We had a balanced budget until Republicans decided to cut taxes for billionaires and corporations....and then defunded the IRS so they let 600 Billion in delinquent taxes go every year.    

That last part by itself would do more to fix the defict than anything DOGE is doing by a factor of 100.   And DOGE is making it worse by firing even more IRS workers when they should be hiring them.

Tom, you need to get your talking points straight.    In the next few months Republicans will be releasing their new deficit busting tax plan - and FOX news is going to tell you not to worry about the defict anymore. 

You should start preparing now  so you dont look ridiculous when it happens.

I was complaining about the Govt before this gutting began.  Too many people in government are worried about their own self-interests and getting re-elected so they don't have to get real jobs.  That's a problem.  And one that doesn't lead to them doing their jobs well.  

I don't disagree with their last four lines above though.