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Ya know. With how much social security helps people. Im okay with a portion of my social security payments going to a couple fraudsters.
That's what I don't get. Like, yes people will take advantage of anything. Literally anything. But the absolute maximum amount that someone is able to screw out of SS is PALTRY compared to even a SINGLE BUSINESS'S unpaid taxes that the GOP seemingly cannot even perceive.
Not to mention they're already 99.999% accurate even by Musks reckoning. The cost of adding a few 9's to that would FAR outweigh the savings.
I'm tired boss
I'm overflowing with rage. Need a top off?
As am I. Want to set up a little lemonade-esk stand outside the capital? We can sell big pitchers of distilled rage. Or crystalized rage for the heavy user.
I'll take some extra rage
I think the true way forward is to lock your local communities and states down if you can. Get the good laws passed by the state, make them do the dirty shit. Though its rough cause I say second amendment but I know they want marshal law, it says it in Project 2025.
They do not seem to care about the results, only the optics. The majority of people seem to only hear fraud was found and think what a great job doggie is doing never caring or understanding that it was a fraction of a percentage.
Yeah the context needs to be given of how much was spent finding that fraud vs how much that fraud cost the system. Then ask the question, is a minuscule amount of fraud tolerable if it costs more to find and eliminate it? When they inevitably say the fraud should be snuffed out at all costs then ask why we don’t work to eliminate millionaire level tax fraud. Then they will just start ignoring you because accepting and genuinely contemplating those questions and answers will alter the hate filled world view too much.
An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000—a rate of 0.0018%
Whoo boy, I would not want to be one of those two people right now. Also Im genuinely surprised they literally found only two people
I bet you they voted for Trump
I think the term "huge scandal" has lost it meaning. How big would something have to be to be an actual scandal worth Paying attention to? A ludicrous scandal?
Add it to the pile
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a statement that "the Trump-Musk Social Security takeover has only meant more chaos and confusion for Americans."
"Every` one of DOGE's so-called 'mistakes' is a backdoor cut to people's benefits," said Warren. "There's nothing efficient about making it harder for people to access the checks they’ve earned and are owed."
On social media, Warren called the revelations in the internal administration document "a HUGE scandal."
Cool...now do something about it FFS
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