At one point in the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour conversation, Lutnick also said that if Social Security “didn’t send out their checks this month,” his “mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain.”
“She’d think something got messed up, and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining,” the billionaire businessman said.
“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said. “Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”
All the comments and upvotes seem to be fraudsters. Inb4 lemmy banned in USA.
"People who live paycheck to paycheck? I don’t believe they exist. "
What are the poor landlords going to do when their entire retirement home is delinquent on rent? lol
9/11 must give you brain damage
Lutnick saw The Wire, aspired to be Stringer Bell, and still got it wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3TMVjgfBW0The Commerce secretary was also asked about the idea of a sovereign wealth fund — which Trump pitched earlier this year — and whether it could be a balance sheet for Social Security, as its trust funds are projected to be depleted in about a decade.
“We have a budget deficit of $2 trillion. So, Donald Trump wants to knock down the $2 trillion, and then he’s focused about the 36 trillion, which the Social Security is part of it,” Lutnick said this week, referring to the nation’s $36 trillion-plus debt
So invest in bitcoin apparently, because the entire social security trust is now an NFT.
I have been on disability for 13 years. My doctors and the SSA said I will never work again. I would complain about a missing SS check, but only, you know, until I couldn’t afford my medicine and died.
Dying is the point. This man wants you to die.
Oh I’m well aware. This is pretty much straight up Kill the Poor only without the satire.
Had I still lived there, I would have definitely not gone down alone if I was still on dialysis.
My complaint would definitely be quiet, and then very very loud for a brief moment again before being silent once more, is all I’ll say.
People elected on a “the government is lying to you” platform are saying that their electors trust the government…
Right, it’s not like I literally need that money to pay my rent or anything.
lol, my mom is rich. She doesn’t have fuck-you money but she’s fine, always will be.
She also micromanages everything and if her SS check didn’t hit her account it would become her all encompassing mission to find out what happened. She doesn’t scream or yell but I’ve seen her go low-key Karen before and she would be on the phone every day until it got resolved.
Who is she going to call when they close that office and fire all the staff?
Oh, cool. So my fear my husband’s ssdi is just not going to show up one day is 100 percent going to happen entirely.
Cool.
: shrieking :
I see absolutely NO Downside to taking away people’s Social Security. It’s not like a LARGE chunk of them own TONS of Guns and are Desperate to use them!
Nah. Poised with starving and losing their home, the gun owning elderly will just sit back.
Only fraudsters would blindly trust any government.
“Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”
Literally anyone who is relying on those funds because they don’t have a pension or savings will be wondering where the fuck it is when it doesn’t get deposited on time.
It’s also laughable to suggest that old people trust the government en masse; a lot of those people were anti-government back in the day and probably didn’t change much. My own parents are nearly 70, they definitely don’t trust the government.
They trust the cheques to come on time because they always have. They don’t “trust the government” in any broad sense.
You know, the people who remember the Vietnam War, Nixon’s pardon, and the Tuskegee Syphilis study. They definitely trust the government.
They don’t remember shit because of all the lead in the air up until the '80s.
They were raised by people who went through the depression. “Trust the government” with what is rightfully their money is laughable.
Yeah, my grandma was born in 1931. She’s still alive; she has pretty bad dementia now, but when I was a teenager she didn’t trust the government either.
“only Fraudsters would complain about [not receiving money which is theirs, which they’ve been paying their entire lives into, and are legally entitled to receive, because again, it’s their money].”
What a fucking joke.
Or, you know, people that haven’t received their ss checks …
