Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, who headed the agency during the Biden administration, urged people to start saving money now because benefits could be interrupted in the next one to three months. He told CNBC that changes DOGE is making to the agency have already caused IT system outages, which he predicted will become more frequent until there is a “system collapse.”
The federal government has never failed to deliver Social Security payments on time, but a former commissioner warned that could happen soon as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency makes changes and cuts staff.
Martin O’Malley, who led the agency during the Biden administration, told CNBC on Saturday that cuts have already led to IT outages, which he predicted will become more frequent and last longer each time until there’s a total failure.
Reducing SSA staff by 87%? That’s not efficiency; that’s sabotage. Valid concerns but leans heavily on speculative language.
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Crash this plane with no survivors! I’m down to see my country in flames. Nothing else will change our course, nothing. I have my own plans, been rock bottom poor, so has my wife. Good luck to the rest of you fat fucks whining about video game prices.
If anyone still thinks there’s hope, you’re flat wrong. There’s no turning this train wreck. It’s called a “train wreck” because it keeps going and going on inertia and can’t be stopped. We’re on the bad side of history, and that’s all it is, history. If you don’t believe that, can’t see it, you’re either an idealistic fool or your history teachers failed you. Either way, you’re ignorant.
FFS, my neighbors on Nextdoor.com tore me a new asshole for suggesting NOAA was going down. FLORIDA NEIGHBORS. And tonight they’re posting about dangerous weather inbound. Because NOAA said so.
My fellow Americans, we cool with Musk directly stealing the fund we’ve been paying into our whole adult lives? Just checking.
No, but it’s going to take a lot to stop it at this point.
I’m thinking we need to bring a lot. Like NOW.
One day of boycotts on the 28th wasn’t even close to enough.
It needs to be a near total economic blackout except for stocking up on staple foods combined with a General Strike. We don’t just need Depression Era recipes, we need depression era recipes aimed at cooking and feeding hundreds at once. It’s going to take that level of commitment of mutual aid teams cooking for their community all day every day.
Look, violence is coming anyway but we don’t need to demand the violence first. We can make great headway with non-violence and that gives us time to organize and prepare and have people ready to stand watch and protect when the violence comes.
50501 is doing state capitol protests again tomorrow I believe, and there’s a Ukraine protest at the House office building in DC, and there’s a No Kings protest tomorrow at I think the Capitol ahead of his address to congress. There’s a lot going on, but none of them are big enough and not enough people know about them.
A. That one day was not all that is on the plan. 2. You can’t get people to do a general strike with out starting from somewhere. See point A. C. Time organize, prepare, etc.
Yeah… Some of the solutions start easier (someone just shoots musk and his lackeys dead) but bring high chaos.
More stable solutions I don’t even know what they’d look like.
10 million people occupying the streets of every street in every city in the country for days, weeks, months, until the entire economy collapses. It is actually the least chaotic and least violent way out of this mess.
Typically that would never happen, but if DOGE manages to really destroy social security payments, I would be willing to bet that of the 67 million recipients who can no longer afford food - some would be happy to camp in the nearby street for some of that yummy food that they have there… More plausible now that the weather in the US is starting to warm up now.
I just feel like there’s a lot of “You hate every piece of capitalism, but you won’t connect the dots to see they’re all coming from the same source.” It won’t be enough to restore social security payments if we still have billionaires just walking around, or we keep this broken two-party system that also empowers less populated areas. Just to name two issues off the top of my head.
We need larger, structural, changes.
But I guess everything starts somewhere.
I mean, just like a handful of gun food should do the trick
I still do not understand why an outside “agency” is allowed to make changes to anything. Does anyone remember when Trump first took office and everyone kept saying Musk would just be making recommendations?
Also, those of us that receive disability payments from social security are not allowed to save money, or we risk losing the payments altogether.
They are not allowed but, the only democrat fighting it is an 83 year old senator from Vermont.
meanwhile all the living democratic presidents have zero to say.
The dems used to have balls. Now the only new generation party member that has any balls is a women named AOC.
Doesnt help any of us that the democratic party’s geriatric make-a-wish foundation leadership is actively trying to make the party more right leaning to win back the donors they lost after pushing kamala because they think she was “too left”
Surely, it couldn’t have been their attempt to court and fellate the conservatives that caused this problem. Citizens won’t contribute to or vote a party they feel is acting against their interests, and corporate donors don’t need to waste money on a party incapable of winning anything other than a participation trophy.
Naw. To them, it’s nothing like that. Trump won (by less votes than last time), so that’s clearly what the public wants. More bigotry! More oligarchy! More tech-bro-crats!
Incompetent bootlickers.
Also, those of us that receive disability payments from social security are not allowed to save money, or we risk losing the payments altogether.
The fact that they’re forced to spend down every penny they have every month is so fucking needlessly cruel and stupid!
Shit I have to borrow money on the regular, it’s not enough in the first place. Saving is definitely worth a try if you’re able, but there is so much I already had to spend on and now I’m also preparing and organizing. Its hard :(
Please, oh please, fail to deposit my parents’ social security payment. I want to see the look on my dad’s face when he complains about it and then I ask him “so, is America great again yet?”
I think ultimately the plan is like this:
- Fire most front line workers at field offices.
- Replace human workers with chat bots. If the chat bot can’t fix your issue, getting a hold of a human will require a multi-hour hold on the phone.
- Announce a new ‘fraud screening’ tool, also built on buggy AI.
- The shit AI will miraculously find tens of millions of ‘fraudulent’ social security beneficiaries.
- Anyone wrongly thrown off the social security rolls will in theory be able to appeal and correct the error, but with no field offices, this will be nearly impossible to do so. Think 24 hold times.
- Millions of people wrongly thrown off social security for ‘fraud’ will simply not bother going through the process. If most do, another round of bogus AI screenings can just kick them off again, requiring them to go through the appeal process all over again.
Essentially, imagine the worst practices of the health insurance industry. Imagine all the bullshit hurdles they deliberately put in place to prevent people from getting the care they are legally entitled to. In theory any wrong denial of care can be appealed. In practice, insurance companies simply wear people down. The Social Security office will be redesigned to work the same way. The most determined of individuals may still get their benefits here and there, but millions will be stripped of their benefits permanently after they fail to navigate the labyrinth.
eFfIcIeNcY
FINY?
I used to work for a health insurance company in the appeals dept. I would find obvious payment errors and route the appeal off to another dept. for correction; and it would just sit there. Eventually, my boss started putting pressure on me to close out the appeal even though the error hadn’t been fixed because the open appeals were making our numbers look bad. I didn’t do this, so one day I was just reassigned. The appeals processing assignment was handed off to one of my coworkers who had no problem just closing them out whether they had been resolved or not.
Unfortunately this is what it will take for many.
Yee-haw!!! (Glad they have done this only two or three months in)
LOL!! Could? SSA is decimated. The boomers payouts are fucked.This sucks but is the most hilarious part of this fascist takeover
LMFAO, the biggest supporters are getting hurt the most and they just keep cheering WTF is this world?
never underestimate the sunk cost fallacy, especially when it comes to any “public” embarrassment
Good, because it’s the only way these fucking Boomers will understand what the fuck they did and insist that it stop!
