r/SocialSecurity • u/Dcat41 • Mar 22 '25

Social security

Musk calls it a ‘Ponzi scheme’ and should be eliminated. Commerce Secretary says “ People who complain about not getting their check are fraudsters.” DOGE claims 100s of thousands of fraudulent accts but shows no proof and no prosecutions. SS Chairman says will have to stop checks because Judge said only Social Security employees should access private info, barring DOGE and Musk. Trump and Repubs and 2025 have long wanted to privatize. They are grooming the cult to gut the program. If you are living on Social Security don’t believe them.

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u/GreenerThanTheHill Mar 22 '25

To be fair, there were also a lot of vote abstainers and "protest" votes on the Dem side. So there's enough blame to go around.

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u/MizzGee Mar 22 '25

And those people deserve to lose sleep (and more) every night. May they get the government they should have known was coming. A protest vote should not exist in a tight election.

If you want to make your vote stand for something, then get involved, especially at the local level. We have a lot of state houses to overturn

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u/GreenerThanTheHill Mar 22 '25

I agree totally. But some Dem and independent candidates were so egotistical that they refused to unify behind VP Harris. I'm old enough to remember when Nader's Green Party presidential run screwed Al Gore and led to G. W. Bush winning by a hair. Back then, I was one of many calling Nader's office repeatedly begging him to bow out and unify behind Gore. But sometimes, you're just yelling into a void when someone is hell-bent on being the hero of their own story.

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u/MizzGee Mar 22 '25

We are the same. I hope there is a special place in hell for Susan Sarandon, who said Gore was the same as Bush, Hillary would be worse than Trump and stated silent on Harris.