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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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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
So, when Social Security gets gutted, we’re all getting the money we put in back, right? …right?!
Yes, of course! As long as you make at least $100M a year, all investments will be returned as tax breaks.
Musk has been spouting how Social Security is a scam and how tariffs will make up for it. Basically, kiss your social security pension away and just hope a substitute pops up - although it will likely be in the form of "get a check if you don't criticize us" now. DOGE is an excuse to Big Data everything from every department and process it through AI, including knowing your political association.
Hilarious.
“Social security is a scam” = “I’m taking your retirement money for myself”
“Tariffs will make up for it” = “As a bonus fuck you, 20% tax on everything you need to survive”
The American Prospect, which first reported earlier this week that Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek was weighing staff cuts of up to 50%
Congratulations protest non voters, this is what you voted for.
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.
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...
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.