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‘"We worked our entire life," one panicked retiree declared at Huizenga's most recent town hall, held via teleconference. "But we can’t get any help because we can’t get through to anybody." The former teacher was featured in an Associated Press report from the weekend detailing how angry and frightened Social Security recipients are storming town halls, begging their congressional representatives to stop Musk's misnamed DOGE from taking away their benefits. Donald Trump won this part of the state with over 60% of the vote, but now voters are begging their Republican representative to save them from the consequences of their electoral choices.
As the New York Times reported Monday, Musk's DOGE "has taken its chain saw to the agency’s operations," trying to institute mass layoffs and office closures, which "could create gaping holes in the agency’s infrastructure, destabilizing the program." There have even been efforts to destroy the phone service that allows beneficiaries to call the Social Security Administration for help. On Monday, Popular Info released a leaked memo from Trump's management to Social Security workers, detailing how the administration is well aware that the planned cuts will dramatically increase "demand for office appointments" — even as Musk is shutting down offices, making those appointments even harder to secure. The result, according to Trump's own appointees, will be "service disruption," and "delayed processing" of payments to retirees.
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Musk frames retired people in parasitical terms, not seeing them as those who have paid their dues and have earned their reward. In light of that, when he speaks of "waste" in Social Security, he's hinting at this broader view that retired people are inherently illegitimate. While he couches language like "vampire" and "fraud" in false claims that he's talking about illegal payments, the accumulated impact of his rhetoric is to demonize elderly people as a useless burden on society. When the end goal is "efficiency," it's easy to get to this view that retired people are an "inefficiency" and "redundancy" that should no longer be funded.
The ugly attitude towards elderly people is an inevitable result of the profoundly anti-human views and ideology of Musk and his compatriots in the tech billionaire world. Tech journalist Kara Swisher, who has covered Musk for decades now, explained to the New York Times that the billionaire views himself as "the person who matters the most," and that "everybody else is an N.P.C. — a nonplayer character," which is video game slang for preprogrammed characters in a video game.’
www.salon.com
And it not just retired Americans, Trump and Musk demonstrate their contempt and disregard for disabled Americans and minor children.
As the New York Times reported Monday, Musk's DOGE "has taken its chain saw to the agency’s operations," trying to institute mass layoffs and office closures, which "could create gaping holes in the agency’s infrastructure, destabilizing the program." There have even been efforts to destroy the phone service that allows beneficiaries to call the Social Security Administration for help. On Monday, Popular Info released a leaked memo from Trump's management to Social Security workers, detailing how the administration is well aware that the planned cuts will dramatically increase "demand for office appointments" — even as Musk is shutting down offices, making those appointments even harder to secure. The result, according to Trump's own appointees, will be "service disruption," and "delayed processing" of payments to retirees.
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Musk frames retired people in parasitical terms, not seeing them as those who have paid their dues and have earned their reward. In light of that, when he speaks of "waste" in Social Security, he's hinting at this broader view that retired people are inherently illegitimate. While he couches language like "vampire" and "fraud" in false claims that he's talking about illegal payments, the accumulated impact of his rhetoric is to demonize elderly people as a useless burden on society. When the end goal is "efficiency," it's easy to get to this view that retired people are an "inefficiency" and "redundancy" that should no longer be funded.
The ugly attitude towards elderly people is an inevitable result of the profoundly anti-human views and ideology of Musk and his compatriots in the tech billionaire world. Tech journalist Kara Swisher, who has covered Musk for decades now, explained to the New York Times that the billionaire views himself as "the person who matters the most," and that "everybody else is an N.P.C. — a nonplayer character," which is video game slang for preprogrammed characters in a video game.’
"Vampires": Musk's war on Social Security is fueled by Republicans' vi
Terms like "fraud," "scam," and "definitely dead" are how the DOGE leader demonizes elderly people
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And it not just retired Americans, Trump and Musk demonstrate their contempt and disregard for disabled Americans and minor children.
