Trump's Plan to Destroy Social Security EXPOSED!

Social Security is under attack by Donald Trump and his Billionaire buddies who want to gut it so the morbidly rich can make even more obscene amounts of money.

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Donald Trump just told us that he's going to destroy Social Security in order to privatize it. It's like the old, you know, the old Vietnamese line: "We had to destroy that village to save it." Well, now we've got to destroy Social Security to save it.

During the State of the Union address, he talked about how many people over 100 years old are getting benefits, how many over 200, how many over 300. These are all lies or wild exaggerations, but the point was to say—just like they do with voting, by the way—"Oh, there's voter fraud out there, so let's make it harder to vote." Now it's, "Oh, there's Social Security fraud out there, so let's make it harder for people to get Social Security."

This is an old strategy that Republicans have used forever. This is just the first time they've had the guts to actually do it right out in front of the public. I mean, we've seen these "death by a thousand paper cuts" efforts ever since the Reagan administration.

The staffing at the Social Security Administration—on a staff-per-payee basis, a staff-per-budget basis, or even in absolute numbers—is lower now than it has been in 50 years. Every time there's a Republican in the White House and their budget gets passed, it includes cuts to Social Security Administration staffing.

So far, Social Security has been able to sort of keep up, although it now takes an average of 183 days to process a Social Security disability claim. They're saying that soon, it's going to be between two and four years.

And here's how bad it is. Keep in mind: Leland Dudek, the guy in charge of Social Security, was just a low-level dweeb in the agency. He fed some information to Elon Musk and his people about where he thought fraud or waste might be found. It was probably about those 200- and 300-year-old people who don’t exist. These were programming errors, nothing to do with fraud, waste, or abuse.

But Dudek passed the information along to Elon Musk, and they used it to attack Social Security. So they made him the director of the entire agency. He was a low-level employee, and now he’s running the place.

What’s he doing? He just laid off a bunch of employees—12% of the 57,000 workers at Social Security.

And what’s the result? This is from The Washington Post, published last night:

“The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees...”

I would add, we’re only 25 days into the month.

“...blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging into their online accounts because the servers were overloaded. Field office managers have resorted to answering phones at the front desk as receptionists because so many employees have been pushed out. The agency no longer has a system to monitor customer experience because that office was eliminated as part of the cost-cutting efforts led by Elon Musk. The agency is engulfed in crisis, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials.”

[Fiawordweaver]

Thank you always for your input. Since I am 72, and not only did I not vote for trump, I find his cruelty above and beyond. So you can imagined what I refrain from writing about this despicable nepo baby.

[JamesRichardWiley]

Massive homelessness and suffering at the hands of these ruthless oligarchs. Whoever voted for these criminals is fully responsible.

[dl]

Why does one person (Musk) have more power than literally millions of retirees?

[ToddBeach-ynns]

This manipulation has got to be illegal

[lauraschouweiler-syos]

Trump needs to be walked out of the White house and into prison!

[waynestewart]

We. Got. To. Stop. Him. Now I mean. Now now. Now.

[raymondlacy]

You Pay Into SSA, SSI. It comes out your check! GIVE BACK OUR MONEY!!!

[littlejack]

Please seniors, try to not let this government induced amxiety make you ill. That would be playing into their plan. I am 78 and not the best health... But damned, I will fight the snake like an eagle!

[monica]

I am 70 and this is killing me. I think they want me dead

[otherworldly]

Trump said he wouldn't touch Social Security, and people still voted for him. What a bunch of Fools

[kfh]

I'm 65 years old and have been on SSDI for almost 7 years now. It's my only source of income and my conditions have only worsened. I'm very worried 😟
I imagine there will be plenty of lawsuits.

[jamesharvey]

Let's have a vote of no confidence and impeachment of Trump.

[tsmit]

If Trump wants to end social security. I worked for the past 28 years. I want all my money back that I paid into social security.

[karasuthedreamer]

I’m a 27 year old disabled adult who’s currently dependent on social security. My far right parents are in complete denial that I’m at a risk of losing my benefits.

Edit: I’m also in a state where the Medicaid waiver is on the legislative chopping block. I’m dependent on that as well

[DouradaBambina]

Tyrants don’t have happy endings. This shall pass!

[CindyBlue-jb]

I can't survive without soc sec. If it's gone, I'll lose my home.

[larryklawiter]

They’ve been waiting to do this for 80 years-destroy the social safety net of FDR and LBJ, that provides health care for, and keeps the elderly out of poverty.

[CaptainCamellot]

Private companies used to offer retirement plans for their employees, but when the companies went oankrupt, employees lost their retirement funds. That's what the Republicans will do to social security.

[inesflores]

They know that social security check is good for people. Not only is for seniors, but everyone old young and disability. If you are working . you are paying into social security .

[klauskarbaumer]

The pain has to be felt by millions before the majority of the population wakes up, especially in the rural areas.