Musk: Kiss Your Social Security Goodbye, Grandma!

[3NUMBAS]

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[3NUMBAS]

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[jas007]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

My SS direct deposit to a US account came in much later than it ever had before. I'm not stressed as it did come in. But I'm wondering if this is a widespread thing and related to the Musk big ball boys? 

Just later in the day, or later in the month?  If it's just late during the day, blame your bank. I can't imagine anything else. 

[SiSePuede419]

Social Security to Move Comms to Musk’s X After DOGE Cuts

 

Musk just needs a few more little baby steps in his pretend bomber jacket before all the SS money flows through X's servers because something something something.

 

[SiSePuede419]

The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers

 

If Trump can just "declare" someone dead and strip them of their entire future, can he get away with doing it to me or you?

 

Maybe it's just another mistake, they will say. 

 

Good luck on getting the Trump administration to correct it.

 

[WDSmart]

Social Security retirement funds are meant for retired people, a.k.a. those who are no longer working. I hope Trump, or someone in his government, decides that people who live outside the USA should not receive SS benefits. 
And, I'm totally against trying to colonize Mars. We're destroying the Earth and should not be allowed to spread our species to another planet.

[jvs]

40 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Social Security retirement funds are meant for retired people, a.k.a. those who are no longer working. I hope Trump, or someone in his government, decides that people who live outside the USA should not receive SS benefits. 
And, I'm totally against trying to colonize Mars. We're destroying the Earth and should not be allowed to spread our species to another planet.

I have heard rumors about that but not sure if it is true or not.

That may just turn a few diehards MM's against trump,specially the ones on AN.

[ThreeCardMonte]

On 3/11/2025 at 6:26 PM, SiSePuede419 said:

Elon Musk Targets Social Security and Benefits for Cuts, Claiming Widespread Fraud

 

Called it. ✅

 

Trump said he wouldn't touch Social Security Medicare or Medicaid.

 

"Technically true"

 

HIs African Chainsaw Massacre Moron will cut it. 😳

 

You see, in the twisted ketamine warped mind of a Billionaire who wears t-shirts to cabinet meetings...

 

Grandma is  "waste", "fraud" and "abuse".

 

She's collecting SS, but not doing any work.

 

That old "fraud" is probably just sitting around the house all day doing 17 different drugs.

 

What a "waste" of resources.

 

Did Grandma even thank Musk for the wonderful things he's doing?

 

What an ungrateful "abuse" of government resources.

 

That money should be going into Musk's pockets.

 

Get out of Elon's way, Granny.

 

And get your old, feeble hands off Musk's money.😃

 

MARS OR BUST

 

Speculation and guessing is all the left has anymore since losing the election in a landslide.

 

Throw in lies for good measure.

[ThreeCardMonte]

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[ThreeCardMonte]

54 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Social Security retirement funds are meant for retired people, a.k.a. those who are no longer working. I hope Trump, or someone in his government, decides that people who live outside the USA should not receive SS benefits. 
And, I'm totally against trying to colonize Mars. We're destroying the Earth and should not be allowed to spread our species to another planet.

If they paid into SS and followed the guidelines their working career they should receive it regardless where they currently live.

 

This applies to USC and LPR.

 

Illegal aliens is a big no.  

[jvs]

12 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Speculation and guessing is all the left has anymore since losing the election in a landslide.

 

Throw in lies for good measure.

What landslide was that again?

Show the numbers please.

[ThreeCardMonte]

7 minutes ago, jvs said:

What landslide was that again?

Show the numbers please.

All over the internet.  Search and you shall find.

 

Don’t be a lazy lefty.

[impulse]

19 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

If they paid into SS and followed the guidelines their working career they should receive it regardless where they currently live.

 

This applies to USC and LPR.

 

Illegal aliens is a big no.  

 

And if grandma is a Civil War widow, that's a no, too.

 

[ThreeCardMonte]

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

And if grandma is a Civil War widow, that's a no, too.

 

Musk got rid of them along with the Spanish American war, Phillippine Insurrection and WW1 Doughboy “widows.

[impulse]

1 minute ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Musk got rid of them along with the Spanish American war, Phillippine Insurrection and WW1 Doughboy “widows.

 

I'm appalled that it took a Big Balls to address such obvious database issues.  Even if very few of them actually got benefits, how do you forecast future needs if the data is that fooked?

 

[jvs]

10 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

All over the internet.  Search and you shall find.

 

Don’t be a lazy lefty.

I know the numbers,far from a landslide.

Do you know the numbers? or are you typically maga and hardly know how to read?

 

[ThreeCardMonte]

19 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I'm appalled that it took a Big Balls to address such obvious database issues.  Even if very few of them actually got benefits, how do you forecast future needs if the data is that fooked?

 

DOGE will find them as no one else ever bothered to look.

[ThreeCardMonte]

6 minutes ago, jvs said:

I know the numbers,far from a landslide.

Do you know the numbers? or are you typically maga and hardly know how to read?

 

If you know the numbers, why ask?

 

You already know it was a landslide.

 

You must be bored today.

[sqwakvfr]

10 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

DODGE will find them as no one else ever bothered to look.

DODGE used to make cars.  DOGE. 

[ThreeCardMonte]

1 minute ago, sqwakvfr said:

DODGE used to make cars.  DOGE. 

Correct.  Auto correct can be a pain.

 

 

[WDSmart]

1 hour ago, WDSmart said:

Social Security retirement funds are meant for retired people, a.k.a. those who are no longer working. I hope Trump, or someone in his government, decides that people who live outside the USA should not receive SS benefits. 
And, I'm totally against trying to colonize Mars. We're destroying the Earth and should not be allowed to spread our species to another planet.

I meant I hope Trump will NOT decide that people who live outside the USA should not receive benefits.

[WDSmart]

1 hour ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

If they paid into SS and followed the guidelines their working career they should receive it regardless where they currently live.

 

This applies to USC and LPR.

 

Illegal aliens is a big no.  

Yes, and I mistyped my original post. I hope Trump does NOT decide people who live outside the USA should not receive their SS benefits. 

[ThreeCardMonte]

2 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Yes, and I mistyped my original post. I hope Trump does NOT decide people who live outside the USA should not receive their SS benefits. 

Highly doubtful he would do that.

 

 

[gamb00ler]

On 3/11/2025 at 9:12 PM, TedG said:

https://manhattan.institute/article/problems-with-eliminating-the-social-security-tax-cap

That article contains a lot of nonsense.  They lump the Treasury together with the SS trust fund balance so that they can declare that the SS trust fund balance is not an asset.

 

Quoting from that article:

Put another way, investing an initial Social Security surplus in Treasury bonds creates an asset for Social Security and an equal liability for the Treasury. Since both borrower and lender are part of the same federal government, the net effect on overall federal finances is to cancel each other out.

 

This statement is correct.  But, the US Treasury and the SS trust funds are completely separate entities and there is absolutely no reason to lump them together.  They have no source of funding in common and they have no source of expense in common.  Yes.. .they are both part of the US government but otherwise totally unrelated except for strictly a lender:borrower relationship.  The same relationship that exists between the US Treasury and any other entity that buys Treasury bills.

 

Counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth is the equivalent of raiding one’s own retirement savings to go on vacation, writing yourself an IOU to repay your retirement fund later, and then treating that IOU as new net wealth to offset the cost of the vacation.

 

This statement is where the article goes completely off the rails.  It is deliberately misleading.  Nobody with an ounce of brain would be "counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth".  As correctly stated in the article earlier those bonds are an asset held by the owner (SS trust funds) but are a liability for the Treasury.  This is the exactly the case for every single Treasury bill sold.

 

The article is meant to confuse the uneducated MAGA voters.

[TedG]

15 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

That article contains a lot of nonsense.  They lump the Treasury together with the SS trust fund balance so that they can declare that the SS trust fund balance is not an asset.

 

Quoting from that article:

Put another way, investing an initial Social Security surplus in Treasury bonds creates an asset for Social Security and an equal liability for the Treasury. Since both borrower and lender are part of the same federal government, the net effect on overall federal finances is to cancel each other out.

 

This statement is correct.  But, the US Treasury and the SS trust funds are completely separate entities and there is absolutely no reason to lump them together.  They have no source of funding in common and they have no source of expense in common.  Yes.. .they are both part of the US government but otherwise totally unrelated except for strictly a lender:borrower relationship.  The same relationship that exists between the US Treasury and any other entity that buys Treasury bills.

 

Counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth is the equivalent of raiding one’s own retirement savings to go on vacation, writing yourself an IOU to repay your retirement fund later, and then treating that IOU as new net wealth to offset the cost of the vacation.

 

This statement is where the article goes completely off the rails.  It is deliberately misleading.  Nobody with an ounce of brain would be "counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth".  As correctly stated in the article earlier those bonds are an asset held by the owner (SS trust funds) but are a liability for the Treasury.  This is the exactly the case for every single Treasury bill sold.

 

The article is meant to confuse the uneducated MAGA voters.

 

You keep in beating a dead house for some reason.    I’ve proved the Dept of SS has run a deficit since 2010.  You are the only person who says that is not the case.  

 

[TedG]

17 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

 

 

This statement is where the article goes completely off the rails.  It is deliberately misleading.  Nobody with an ounce of brain would be "counting those Treasury bonds as net wealth".  As correctly stated in the article earlier those bonds are an asset held by the owner (SS trust funds) but are a liability for the Treasury.  This is the exactly the case for every single Treasury bill sold.

 

The article is meant to confuse the uneducated MAGA voters.

 

The treasury bonds are an OUI from the government to the government.  

[gamb00ler]

20 minutes ago, TedG said:

 

The treasury bonds are an OUI from the government to the government.  

Can you explain why you think that is a dire situation?  EVERY Treasury bill is an IOU !!!!

Thousands of Americans are holding those IOU's.  Shirley that must be incestuous!

 

By the way, what does IOU stand for.... quick now... don't ask google!

 

I hope you don't consider that a brilliant deduction... LOL

 

[TedG]

1 minute ago, gamb00ler said:

I hope you don't consider that a brilliant deduction... LOL

 

Where does the money come from to honor these bonds?

[Quentin Zen]

3 hours ago, WDSmart said:

Social Security retirement funds are meant for retired people, a.k.a. those who are no longer working. I hope Trump, or someone in his government, decides that people who live outside the USA should not receive SS benefits. 

anyone who is outside of America cannot possibly be retired or working, so I agree.  You can only retire or work in America if you are an American.  Once I met a guy in Thailand who was 90 and told me he was retired and no longer working, I showed him your post and now he realizes that's impossible.  Back to America and into the mines!!!! 

[gamb00ler]

35 minutes ago, TedG said:

 

You keep in beating a dead house for some reason.    I’ve proved the Dept of SS has run a deficit since 2010.  You are the only person who says that is not the case.  

 

You continually refer to the SS trust funds as being in deficit since 2010 because your favorite partisan publication says so.  If you wish to refer to the retirement benefit trust fund only .... do not call it the Dept. of SS.  Its proper name is OASI.

 

The official historical revenue/expenses of OASI are given here:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a1.html

 

Apparently, I'm not 'the only person' who thinks the fund did not start declining in 2010 but did in 2021. 

 

You will see that in 2011 and 2012 significant funds from the Federal government general revenue stream were given to OASI.  That happened because of special tax credits given as part of the recovery from the financial collapse from 2007 to 2009.  The FICA taxes were temporarily refunded as a tax credit by the Feds.  The Federal government did not want to make the OASI suffer from their decision to give tax payers a boost during the recovery.