Alex Lawson
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collapse of the system is the goal. They cause the crisis with cuts and then
hope to force a fire sale to private equity, the robber barons of the modern
era.
The Trump administration is lying
about Social Security. Elon Musk’s DOGE has infiltrated the Social Security
Administration (SSA). The agency’s new commissioner, Wall Street billionaire
Frank Bisignano, calls himself “a DOGE person.” His top lieutenants include
long-time Musk associates Antonio Gracias and Aram Moghaddassi.
After infiltrating Social
Security, the DOGE crew forced out thousands of civil servants, including top
leaders with decades of institutional knowledge. No problem, they thought.
We’ll replace them with 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine and an AI chatbot.
That plan is going exactly as
expected. Mistakes are being made, checks are being delayed, lines are hours
long, and field offices are being run by skeleton crews. The 1-800 number has
record wait times — if people can get past the AI chatbot and speak to a human
at all.
In the face of an outcry from the
press and the public about wait times on the phone, SSA is shifting 1,000
people from the field offices to the phone lines. These people haven’t been
trained to work the phone lines, which use a different software. And of course,
taking them out of field offices will only make the delays there worse.
Thanks to Trump and the
Republicans, Social Security’s customer service is headed for a total collapse.
Bisignano is responding by shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic — and telling
the passengers not to believe their lying eyes. Except instead of an iceberg,
Social Security is collapsing due to a torpedo launched by a Republican U-boat
that has blown a hole in it.
SSA recently sent out a press
release touting improved customer service. Anyone who has recently been to a
Social Security field office, or tried calling the 1-800 number, can tell you
that every word in that release is a lie. Bisignano knows it, too. That’s why
he pulled down data from SSA’s website tracking wait times.
For people who rely on Social
Security benefits, these delays are life and death. Republican DOGE operatives
have accidentally declared living people dead, meaning that their benefits
stop, and they can lose access to their health insurance and bank account.
These people are then stuck in a bureaucratic nightmare, frantically trying to
get overwhelmed field office workers to “revive” them.
The delays are also a disaster
for people who apply for Social Security’s disability benefits. And everything
is getting worse, not better.
That is because a collapse is the
goal. The Republicans have wrecked the system so they can rob it. They cause
the crisis with cuts and then hope to force a fire sale to private equity, the
robber barons of the modern era.
The King of the robber barons is
Musk himself. The Department of Defense recently signed a $200 million contract
to use Musk’s AI, Grok (or as it calls itself, MechaHitler). With Bisignano
constantly talking up the “benefits” of AI, we can guess that Social Security
is not far behind. If Musk and Trump get their way, a racist chatbot may soon
decide who is eligible to get their earned benefits.
To see what that collapse could
look like, we need only look at a different part of the federal government —
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Two days after the disastrous
Texas floods, Kristi Noem fired thousands of the workers who answer the
agency’s disaster assistance line. As a result, nearly two-thirds of calls went
unanswered, leaving people who had just lost everything without the help they
desperately needed.
Republican politicians hate
effective government programs, because they don’t make any money for their
paymasters on Wall Street. Since Social Security is the most popular and
effective government program, they hate it most of all — and are doing everything
they can to destroy it.
The only way to save Social
Security is to make as much noise as possible. Call your members of Congress at
202-224-3121 and demand they protect Social Security from DOGE destruction. And
tell all your family and friends to do the same.
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