Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down

[hotsun]

Government workers stopped going to work the last couple years. Its been getting worse for a while now. The effects of cleaning house and starting from scratch wont be seen for maybe another year

[LiamB80]

3 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Don't read because facts hurt.

Because i know they're from a hard left leaning media outlet that has no facts only feelings. All of these numbers can easily be manipulated to fool simpletons unable to think outside the box and take everything in the news as gospel.

[hotsun]

1 minute ago, LiamB80 said:

Because i know they're from a hard left leaning media outlet that has no facts only feelings. All of these numbers can easily be manipulated to fool simpletons unable to think outside the box and take everything in the news as gospel.

Im assuming everyone here lives in thailand and speculates what they see online. Ive got boots on the ground here the last six years, the leftists here are afraid to acknowledge me due to that 

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Just now, hotsun said:

Government workers stopped going to work the last couple years. Its been getting worse for a while now. The effects of cleaning house and starting from scratch wont be seen for maybe another year

They stopped going to the office. That didn't mean that they stopped working any more than it meant people in the private sector stopped working. And social security workers who worked the phones certainly don't need to come to the office. The year is 2025. Workers don't need access to the file cabinet anymore.

 

 

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Just now, hotsun said:

Im assuming everyone here lives in thailand and speculates what they see online. Ive got boots on the ground here the last six years, the leftists here are afraid to acknowledge me due to that 

Get over yourself.

[hotsun]

Just now, placeholder said:

They stopped going to the office. That didn't mean that they stopped working any more than it meant people in the private sector stopped working. And social security workers who worked the phones certainly don't need to come to the office. The year is 2025. Workers don't need access to the file cabinet anymore.

 

 

The difference between going to a government building five years ago compared to now would make you a republican. If you are even american

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2 minutes ago, hotsun said:

The difference between going to a government building five years ago compared to now would make you a republican. If you are even american

One way to tell someone's got nothing is that they offer unverifiable evidence. Another is when they question someone else's nationality. You've got nothing. Twice.

[stevenl]

9 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Because i know they're from a hard left leaning media outlet that has no facts only feelings. All of these numbers can easily be manipulated to fool simpletons unable to think outside the box and take everything in the news as gospel.

Sure mate, breitbart knows all 

[Hawaiian]

15 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Because i know they're from a hard left leaning media outlet that has no facts only feelings. All of these numbers can easily be manipulated to fool simpletons unable to think outside the box and take everything in the news as gospel.

Would you be satisfied if they were facts and statistics from government websites?  What about right-leaning media outlets?

 

[LiamB80]

2 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Would you be satisfied if they were facts and statistics from government websites?  What about right-leaning media outlets?

I like to read left and right leaning news. They both have agendas instead of pure facts. The truth is usually in the middle. Government statistics especially the last four years can be thrown out the window.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Here's an interesting article from the NYT:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-santi-ruiz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.Pob1.Zd_pFCQNs83j&smid=url-share

 

Before the MAGAs erupt over the source, I'd suggest a read first.

[Callmeishmael]

This is exactly what I said in the last social security thread.  Trump/Musk don't need to shut down Social Security, they just need to cut the personnel until the whole department fails. 

 

If they start demanding "in-person verification" by going into a SS office every year there will be a lot of unhappy posters here!

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3 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

I like to read left and right leaning news. They both have agendas instead of pure facts. The truth is usually in the middle. Government statistics especially the last four years can be thrown out the window.

Really?

 

[cdemundo]

The original post mentions events that might well be explained by increased volume as people panic over the threat to SS that Musk represents.

He said possibly the biggest fraud in history but so far I don't think any significant fraud has been uncovered.

Sadly going to the SSA website won't really give any information that could reassure one.

[Hawaiian]

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5 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

I like to read left and right leaning news. They both have agendas instead of pure facts. The truth is usually in the middle. Government statistics especially the last four years can be thrown out the window.

Every day 10,000 Americans turn 65.  Cutting staff is definitely going to reduce the quality of service. 

Only brilliant people, not simpletons, can figure out where the middle is.

[Callmeishmael]

6 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Here's an interesting article from the NYT:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-santi-ruiz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.Pob1.Zd_pFCQNs83j&smid=url-share

 

Before the MAGAs erupt over the source, I'd suggest a read first.

That's a very interesting discussion with a thoughtful conservative.  One quote really stood out for me:

 

if you want to cut Social Security, if you want to tell people you’re cutting Medicare and Medicaid, you have to start with the other stuff that doesn’t seem as close to home, with the stuff that’s, you know, the comic books in Peru about wokeness or whatever. You have to cut that stuff out first, and you have to hold up the bloody head before you have popular interest and willingness to go with you to the stuff that touches their families.

[LiamB80]

7 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Really?

 

Yeah really, try to think on your own instead of being told what to think. I see this with older people that grew up watching the 6'O clock news everyday. They can't fathom that the tv or the government would lie to them.

[cdemundo]

1 minute ago, Callmeishmael said:

That's a very interesting discussion with a thoughtful conservative.  One quote really stood out for me:

 

if you want to cut Social Security, if you want to tell people you’re cutting Medicare and Medicaid, you have to start with the other stuff that doesn’t seem as close to home, with the stuff that’s, you know, the comic books in Peru about wokeness or whatever. You have to cut that stuff out first, and you have to hold up the bloody head before you have popular interest and willingness to go with you to the stuff that touches their families.

You have to go to the sacred cow of "defense spending".

Hegseth has been crowing about starting to do that but he is cutting HR programs and leaving the weapons R&D bucks untouched.

Even, announcing a new fighter development project when Musk has announced that manned fighters are obsolete.

Weapons R&D are the big dollar projects.

When he starts to audit them I'll start to believe.

[stupidfarang]

1 hour ago, LiamB80 said:

DOGE hasn't even been given full access to Social Security, it's tied up in courts right now. They're fighting tooth and nail to stop DOGE from full access. The left knows what they'll find. I didn't read the article from Yahoo either. They haven't been relevant for 25 years. Makes me think you're not American to post a link to yahoo. 

Yet Yahoo is american owned and still in business. Posting a link to yahoo makes you think the person is not american? How crazy is that logic. Mind you these days many people would be embarssed to say they are american. 

[stevenl]

59 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Instead of quoting all these articles I'm not going to read. Try to come up with something original to say on your own.

 

27 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

I like to read left and right leaning news. They both have agendas instead of pure facts. The truth is usually in the middle. Government statistics especially the last four years can be thrown out the window.

Sure you like to read left and right 

 Except when it's left with facts.

[LiamB80]

This thread has really struck a nerve with some people. Makes me wonder what are they so afraid of ? DOGE finding out they're living in Thailand on Social Security disability, double dipping, claiming benefits they didn't earn, dead family members still getting paid SS ? After reading through the comments I'm even more certain that a thorough audit of Social Security is needed. The reactions are a dead giveaway they're scared to death of what Elon will find. 

[jas007]

People over 100 receiving Social Security?  

 

When they used to pay benefits with green checks, it was easy enough to verify whether anyone cashed a treasury check.  It might take a few months for a response from Treasury, but eventually, if someone cashed a Social Security check, they'd provide a copy of the front and the back to the check.  The money could be traced.  

 

Now that most payments are made electronically, I'm sure it's even easier to verify where the money went, and if it was received by anyone.

 

So, all this argument about whether millions of people are being paid benefits on the accounts of people that are likely dead should be cleared up before too long.  Either someone got the money, or no one got the money.  

[JAG]

1 hour ago, LiamB80 said:

There's people over 140yo collecting SS

It rather occurs to me that attempting to commit fraud by claiming to be 140, ( funny but it was 150 last week!) is a spectacularly silly thing to try, and a remarkably easy fraud to detect.

[jvs]

12 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

This thread has really struck a nerve with some people. Makes me wonder what are they so afraid of ? DOGE finding out they're living in Thailand on Social Security disability, double dipping, claiming benefits they didn't earn, dead family members still getting paid SS ? After reading through the comments I'm even more certain that a thorough audit of Social Security is needed. The reactions are a dead giveaway they're scared to death of what Elon will find. 

Still going on about dead people collecting SS even after people tried to explain it on here and after it has been debunked by many people.

That my friends,is typically MAGA!

 

 

[LiamB80]

Just now, jvs said:

Still going on about dead people collecting SS even after people tried to explain it on here and after it has been debunked by many people.

That my friends,is typically MAGA!

 

 

Then surely you won't mind if we take a look then, if there's nothing to hide. 

[jvs]

8 minutes ago, jas007 said:

People over 100 receiving Social Security?  

 

When they used to pay benefits with green checks, it was easy enough to verify whether anyone cashed a treasury check.  It might take a few months for a response from Treasury, but eventually, if someone cashed a Social Security check, they'd provide a copy of the front and the back to the check.  The money could be traced.  

 

Now that most payments are made electronically, I'm sure it's even easier to verify where the money went, and if it was received by anyone.

 

So, all this argument about whether millions of people are being paid benefits on the accounts of people that are likely dead should be cleared up before too long.  Either someone got the money, or no one got the money.  

It has been cleared up already,a few times over.

It was Elon who thought he found something massive and he jumped on it before verifying it.

Proved he was wrong.

[jvs]

3 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Then surely you won't mind if we take a look then, if there's nothing to hide. 

Taking a look at fraud?I am all for it but the way it is done makes no sense to me at all!

Don't you agree there are better options?

Who is we?You and Elon?

 

[Dan O]

1 hour ago, LiamB80 said:

Actually that's incorrect. There's people over 140yo collecting SS, illegal aliens collecting social security disability, also legit social security numbers used by companies that employ illegal aliens to try and fool E-verify. A top to bottom audit is needed. It's pretty simple, you either support DOGE or you support corruption. 

Hahahaha.  Can you post your source for this disinformation? 

[Dan O]

1 hour ago, hotsun said:

Back in 2023 i asked why the service was so bad in the social security building, the security guard simply whispered to me, “its the illegals”

Really, you expect people to believe this?

[jvs]

Just now, Dan O said:

Hahahaha.  Can you post your source for this disinformation? 

Please do not wait for that link,because there is none .

At least on containing the true facts i mean.