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In reply to the discussion: Elon Musk Issues Major Social Security Warning [View all]A HERETIC I AM
(24,747 posts)7. There's a five sided building across the river...
Where you should start, you fucking dumbass
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Has anyone else been following the YouTube channel with up-to-date Social Security info by Ed Weir, PhD?
wordstroken
Feb 13
#180
"Elders living in tents"? It would be an impossible task just to survive in tents as seniors with medical problems.
elocs
Feb 12
#63
The Republicans have been trying to kill off the New Deal since the beginning. . . .
h2ebits
Feb 12
#106
Richest man in the world goes after some of the poorest people in the world...Shame....
wcmagumba
Feb 12
#2
Eloon and his Space X just bagged another $39 MILLION $$$$ GOVERNMENT contract. I call FRAUD and WASTE!!
Bengus81
Feb 12
#124
it does get scammed. HCA/Columbia hospital system was Rick Scott's tool
yellowdogintexas
Feb 12
#156
The wealthy thank you for paying into it your whole life. They'll take it from here.
IronLionZion
Feb 12
#91
Not the context that Republicans put Social Security in and they spew it like religion........
Bengus81
Feb 12
#120
I'm against anyone getting cuts, but I don't doubt there are some SS payments that are to scammers.
Silent Type
Feb 12
#8
I'd bet a good number of MAGATs receive disability benefits in addition to SS.
Evolve Dammit
Feb 12
#109
Oooh and I am SO sure that repubs won't mind their social security checks to stop
halobeam
Feb 12
#16
This has been debunked several times over. The old database was written in COBOL and had a default value ...
eppur_se_muova
Feb 18
#184
The Acting Inspector General for Social Security was one of the IGs that Trump...
LudwigPastorius
Feb 12
#36
He is signaling all those entitlement programs will be shut down completely.
LiberalLoner
Feb 12
#60
This should scare everybody on Social Security etc. He's going to use this BS excuse when he starts cutting
Liberal In Texas
Feb 12
#67
I guarantee if Mee Maw in BFE Arkansas stops getting her SSI and Medicare payments
Best_man23
Feb 12
#75
Where's the evidence? If there's so much fraud, he must have lots of evidence right?
IronLionZion
Feb 12
#89
Prove it by forensic accounting and not with teenage hackers or the fraud doesn't exist.
Efilroft Sul
Feb 12
#97
This coming from the same people who got 11 out of 12 claims about USAID waste wrong
neohippie
Feb 12
#110
I assume this is based on Musk's AI analysis of government files. That's a bigger fraud than the one he claims
Martin68
Feb 12
#121
Lots of talk about hope today, and hope is strengthening. Nevertheless, hope without works is dead.
Magoo48
Feb 12
#134
It IS a fraud! People collect who NEVER PAID into the system. An WHO PAYS for them. The non-rich.
Festivito
Feb 12
#148
When he takes it all, not if, I sure hope millions of us react in a way that we cant even talk about here.
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 12
#176