Summary

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is investigating recent outages on its “My Social Security” website, which blocked millions from accessing benefits.

The crashes follow policy changes shifting retirees online and reducing phone support. Elon Musk has been monkeying with America’s retirement system, with no positive results so far.

Musk falsely claimed 40% of SSA calls are fraudulent, fueling criticism. While SSA denies permanent office closures, it admitted to downsizing certain sites.

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      Probably applies to most of the private sector, too. A startup company only dealing with “social media” can afford to have failure, at least in the early days…but adults doing adult things where “breaking things” has real consequences, including lives…not so much.

      But a whole lot of ding-a-lings think government should be run like a business, and if the stupid notion of “moving fast and breaking things” has infected a lot of the private sector, it’s going to have knock-on effects when people try to apply the notion that the President should be just like a CEO at a large multinational corporation. A lot of stupid ideas originate with trying to run government like a business and/or like a household budget.

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        I agree whole hardheadedly. Felt like my last company was like that which was funny because they were also ultra paranoid with security which seemed like a conflicting thing.

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      2 days ago

      Move fast & kill Granny before she bankrupts the US government by taking her Social Security payments /s

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        Except Social Security is not in danger of bankrupting the government. Sort of.

        See, Republicans have been raiding Social Security for petty cash for decades so that they could give rich assholes another tax break and still fund their endless wars.

        But that money needs to go back. Whenever some asshole says that Social Security is x amount short, that’s money that’s owed to the American people,

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          See, Republicans have been raiding Social Security for petty cash for decades…

          That’s a popular opinion but it’s not supported by any reputable source I can find.

          Here’s USA Today.

          Here’s Politifact.

          “Fixing” Social Security can be done pretty simple by just raising the taxable income limit. That could be done at any time but of course Congress is about as useful as wet toilet paper so nothing will happen until it’s a pants on fire emergency.

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            The fact that if you’re rich, you stop paying social security tax is insane. I hit it one year and was like why did I get a big bump in my take home? I absolutely did not need the extra cash.

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        My dad a trump lover said we should end social security altogether. Which fucking funny for someone who has never paid in.