"Republicans are going after your Social Security!"
Hiltzik: Trump, the GOP and DOGE have launched their attack on Social Security. You should start worrying now
Trump promised to leave Social Security alone, but his actions speak louder than his wordswww.yahoo.com
This lie has been told literally countless times and it has NEVER been true, but it is like the sun coming up every morning in the East, it is constant and predictable and never actually changes. They want old people (who vote in large numbers) to think that "the Republicans" are after their Social Security checks (actually, direct deposits, but that's just a detail).
Americans, who collectively got an 'F' in high school civics, don't ever seem to understand that the funding for SS does not come out of income taxes or general revenues. It has its own funding stream, and while Congress has raided the SS piggy bank/trust fund, it MUST replace that money, so it is NEVER in jeopardy. When there is a budget crisis it never has anything to do with SS, and changes to SS make no difference.
The linked article points out that DOGE is looking at the SS Administration, seeing a lot of administrative fat, and plans to cut staffing - or in corporate language, "right size" it - and the writer predicts, falsely, that this will inevitably lead to people not getting their monthly direct deposits.
Apparently, the writer believes that the SS Administration, alone among the Federal government's various departments and agencies, is so tightly staffed and so efficient that even a microscopic downsizing will impact its work product.
It is a blatant, intentional lie.
Like many others that Democrats constantly repeat.
No. The media is not reporting what Musk said. You cannot blame him when he has tried to be clear that they are not getting benefits.
Did you look at your source? We know it's a lie before reading it!
And Trump spent several minutes of his speech going through each age group over 100 and how many were still active SSNs
There are many ways for Republicans to go after our Social Security benefits:"Republicans are going after your Social Security!"
Hiltzik: Trump, the GOP and DOGE have launched their attack on Social Security. You should start worrying now
Trump promised to leave Social Security alone, but his actions speak louder than his words
This lie has been told literally countless times and it has NEVER been true, but it is like the sun coming up every morning in the East, it is constant and predictable and never actually changes. They want old people (who vote in large numbers) to think that "the Republicans" are after their Social Security checks (actually, direct deposits, but that's just a detail).
Americans, who collectively got an 'F' in high school civics, don't ever seem to understand that the funding for SS does not come out of income taxes or general revenues. It has its own funding stream, and while Congress has raided the SS piggy bank/trust fund, it MUST replace that money, so it is NEVER in jeopardy. When there is a budget crisis it never has anything to do with SS, and changes to SS make no difference.
The linked article points out that DOGE is looking at the SS Administration, seeing a lot of administrative fat, and plans to cut staffing - or in corporate language, "right size" it - and the writer predicts, falsely, that this will inevitably lead to people not getting their monthly direct deposits.
Apparently, the writer believes that the SS Administration, alone among the Federal government's various departments and agencies, is so tightly staffed and so efficient that even a microscopic downsizing will impact its work product.
It is a blatant, intentional lie.
Like many others that Democrats constantly repeat.
The democrats had decades to do it the quiet way and did nothing. That leaves the noisy way.
There isn't enough to take from that group that will even balance the budget, much less pay down the debt.
No. He was pointing out the ridiculousness that the errors were made. That is waste.
You do know they can rehire those workers if the workload is too much, right?
And that is where decreased staffing will affect Americans. Decisions are made by computers with you getting no opportunity to provide actual facts.
No, you can’t
And this is the system you're insisting we can't try to improve?
Temporarily. Who says they can't thaw it?
The simplistic mind insists that one cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, nor can one adapt to changing circumstances by changing policy.
Definitely make it better
When you observe that the workload is not big enough for all the people hired to do it, you pare that group back. If you pare it back too much, you have to either bring some back or hire new people to do the work, and no one has a functioning crystal ball. Case in point, Obama had government drones spend months and $5 billion developing a web site that didn't work. How long did it take and how much did it cost for a team of nerds to fix it?
By all means do that
