Summary
Staff at the Social Security Administration (SSA) warn the agency is in “complete, utter chaos” due to drastic budget cuts, office closures, and job losses led by Elon Musk.
Plans to cut 7,000 jobs and centralize operations have disrupted services, with website outages and record backlogs.
Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek backs DOGE’s changes, despite union opposition and legal pushback. Critics say Musk is pushing misinformation to justify dismantling SSA.
With staffing at 50-year lows, experts fear a “death spiral” and potential collapse in service delivery.
The problem is that many Trump-supporting seniors have been told for all of their adult lives by Conservative media that government is corrupt and wasteful. So when the checks stop coming, they won’t blame their team for it, they will ask Trump to double down on the cuts until everything is fixed. They take it as axiomatic that everything wrong with government is due to bloat and waste, and good luck convincing them otherwise.
Maybe, but on 4/5 protests yesterday I saw something interesting.
Typically it is younger people, minorities that are oppressed.
This time majority were white people, vets, seniors (many on walkers or wheelchairs). Actually there was a very small number of minorities. As I understand it is because of ICE and threat of being locked up in prison in El Salvador (not criticizing, this is all understandable as being darker skinned places a target on you for corrupted law enforcement)
Though this gives me hope that actually a large number of seniors actually understand who is responsible.
I dunno. Fucking with trans people, black people, women is cool. Destroying the economy in general is cool. Eradicating education and free lunches is cool. Cozying up to foreign states that are clearly fascist is cool. Sexually assaulting women is cool.
But fucking with old, white people’s money is most certainly not cool. It’s surprising how quickly a mind is changed when it is finally their turn to suffer. This isn’t something many seniors can live without, literally. They rely on social security as their only income source. If social security fails, the Republicans will kill a significant portion of their own voter base.
Dead people don’t vote.
Well, if the qons think their elections are at risk because they killed so many of their own base, they’ll find a way.
No, when the checks stop coming Conservative media will say “This is all part of Trump’s Master Plan, the woke corruption runs deep and it will take a while to fully root it all out”, and their voters will buy it (but nothing else, since they all are running out of money)…
Good thing Fox news is on cable something that won’t be able to afford without those checks. So I hope they al fucking strave to death. Sick of these old fucks getting in the way and stopping progress. Because of their short sited racist views.
It’s not just Fox anymore, though. If anything, the hardcore ones have migrated off of Fox onto other, more extreme platforms.
Yea it’s oan newsmax, right wing grifters
Like Facebook, which boomers are addicted to and lap up every bit of misinformation years after telling their kids “not to believe everything they read on the internet”
They can excuse racism, but they draw the line on welfare
Thank you, Britta.
I’m not giving them any sympathy. They voted for it.
I already expected that I won’t get Social Security as a Millennial because of these fucks. They simply added everyone else to that list.
My mom still refuses to believe they’ll end social security as they’ve “been saying that for 30+ years”, but I guess she’ll learn that Musk doesn’t give a shit.
Not only that job prospects for some fields are piss poor or extremely difficult to get into it
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Not in this scenario. They’ll play both sides.
Yeah exactly. Good luck convincing them this wasn’t some “joe and the ho” plot that they so easily ate when russia spent billions on social media telling that the dems were coming for their money so they could put Krasnov in power to destabilize the west.