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A 99.7% accuracy rate gutted for profit? Efficiency isn't the goal; it's exploitation.
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I now think of it as MOE - Ministry of Efficiency, in the 1984 sense.
Big Brother would be proud.
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I work with two people that are within a year of retiring and they are absolutely ecstatic that Trump was doing this to Social Security, as well I work with people that are in their early 20s that are exactly the same happy that this is happening and thinking that they will all become super wealthy.
My redneck trailer cock American family has absolutely nothing saved for retirement, but they think that social security tax took all of their money and gave it to people who are cheating the system pretending to be disabled
I hear the same bs too. I work with a few hardcore Mormons who say the same thing, its bizarre.
did you ask them if they were making 400k+ year? because thats the only group above 400k that will benefit from all these tax cuts.
No I didn’t bring that up, I actually barely talk to anybody I work with anymore. I just listen and laugh to myself.
this is the way
It's weird how these people seemingly learned nothing from history. I remember hearing from baby boomers (as a Gen Xer) that they would not get to collect Social Security by the time they retired, since the Silent Generation/Greatest Generation were going to use it all up, that it wasn't funded, it was a pyramid scheme, etc...and they just want "their" money so they could gamble on the stock market with it instead. Naturally, I heard a lot of Gen X pick up and parrot a lot of this same bullshit narrative, with probably even MORE zeal since there were a whole lot more baby boomers than there were Gen X. Turns out Gen Y was quite large, but that didn't stop people from repeating this, even if it was pointed out that any kind of "problem" was easily fixed if you lifted the cap on SS.
Rinse, repeat....and it's the exact same shit. Now apparently fucking Gen Z is saying it too. You just know that eventually the anti-intellectual dipshits will get their way in making everything awful. It's a whole lot easier to break stuff than to build it...
Employer and employee both have to pay 6.2%, wanna bet they eliminate the employers portion?
Wanna bet my salary doesn't go up 6.2% when they do that?
An excuse for them to lower it by 7%
like alot of sketchy companies, employers will just eliminate some of thier employees even more to give them selves more money, and just squeeze out the skeleton crew for alot tech, biotech, and health
Aaah first I really thought, well, there it is, they began the killing. I'm glad that's not what happened
I don't know, maybe that's what we need to wake tf up some boomers
It's weird to me how much some people have internalized the politics of austerity this quickly.
The economy was humming under Biden. There was no emergency, no indicator that we have to "tighten our belts".
Then Bronzo enters the office and fElon with his MOE (Ministry of Efficiency) and all they want to do is cut everything. Even in the MOE Cinematic Universe....how do they possibly justify any of this shit? They plan on cutting taxes at the same time, so it's not about balancing anything.
What's worse, is that I now seeing lots of people on the left saying that government is bloated and should be cut, but done with precision. WTAF?
This is a great way to create jobs for the SS recipients. /s