The Trump-Muskrat plot to kill Social Security

[red dog 1]

Robert Reich
December 9, 2024


Elon Musk has revealed the truth about what he plans to do with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): Gut Social Security and Medicare.

Musk retweeted a series of posts by Utah's Republican Senator Mike Lee, who dubbed Social Security "deceptive" and called for it's dismantling.
"Interesting thread," Musk added.

On Thursday, Musk and his "DOGE" co-chair, Vivek Ramaswamy, went to Capital Hill to discuss their plans.
Republican lawmakers immediately announced that "everything is on the table,' including cutting Social Security and Medicare.

During the campaign, Musk said his goal was to cut $2 trillion -- or about 30 percent -- of the entire federal budget.

There's no way to do this without cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Social Security alone accounts for almost a quarter of the total federal budget.

Ramaswamy has been even more explicit about their plan, saying in a CNBC interview that "there are hundreds of billions of dollars of savings to extract" from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

More:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-muskrat-plot-to-kill-social

[sunflowerseed]

1. Guess he wants a target on his back to!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. ""there are hundreds of billions of dollars of savings to extract""

yeah, extract the money from recipients in the form of cuts to benefits and payouts, higher deductibles and co-pays, passing the shortfall along to Medicare Advantage companies who can deal with the unpopular detail of informing the public, ending Original Medicare, taxing SS more, raising retirement age. Eloon and Vivek are vulture capitalist hatchet men.

[Cha]

3. These Assholes can Fuck OFF.. Retired Americans

Who live on their SS will not STAND for This.

Magas live on SS, too... if those who voted for this Shit didn't believe it then they will If it Happens.

I know how this sounds... But those Fuckers Will Not take Away our SS.

[Mike 03]

4. So the MAGA cult will go along with this without a peep?

Will they swallow hard, stiffen the upper lip and allow this to happen because it will hurt so many of the people they really don't like? Will they end up sharing their salaries with their grandparents, helping them make rent and food? I'm expected to believe the dumbass Trump supporters and their families don't rely significantly on these lifelines?

[B.See]

5. Social Security isn't all they want to KILL.

[Snarkoleptic]

6. George Carlin saw this coming long ago-

[red dog 1]

9. Carlin's grim warning has come true.

[jeffreyi]

7. Something something about "style."

[La Coliniere]

8. I think their plan will unleash the leopard

that will eat the face of MAGAts. Unfortunately it will harm so many others who did not vote for this insanity. Billionaires making decisions that will harm so many is intolerable. Will people rise up and demand they halt their cruel plans? Guess we’ll see.

[CousinIT]

10. However Social Security doesn't add to the debt & is 100% PAID FOR.

So saying cutting it will reduce the deficits or the budget is pure bullshit. It won’t. Social Security is NOT part of the General Fund. It’s separate. What this is, is a propaganda campaign designed by billionaire robber barons to convince Americans that Social Security MUST be cut.

IT’s A LIE.

The robber barons who to STEAL OUR RETIREMENT INSURANCE that we paid for all our lives. Without any factual justification to do it. They just want their hands on OUR money.

And NOBODY is calling them out on it. Least of all, the damn Democrats. And certainly not the billionaire-owned fucking media, all of which is owned by the same kind of greedy-ass billionaires that just don’t want to pay their share of the employer/employee dedicated FICA tax that funds it.

[a kennedy]

11. and this really isn't of importance.....but, why the hell did Elone have one of his what, 14 kids on his shoulders

when going to that meeting on Capital Hill?? I mean what the absolute fawk…..