Elon Musk called Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme.” To be clear: the Muskrat & Trump want to make it harder for you to get what you paid into. 72 MILLION Americans are about to feel this. Social Security is under attack. Medicare and Medicaid are next in line… - ThreadSky

oliviaoftroye.com • 94 days ago

Elon Musk called Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme.” To be clear: the Muskrat & Trump want to make it harder for you to get what you paid into. 72 MILLION Americans are about to feel this. Social Security is under attack. Medicare and Medicaid are next in line…

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grandmer9x.bsky.social•94 days ago

It’s time to take back our country!

probably-rob.bsky.social•82 days ago

“We need to run government like a business!”

Yeah, cut costs by giving your customers crappier service

donotcave.bsky.social•94 days ago

Just had a 68 year old co-worker cancel her retirement in June. She said if they take her SS she would have to sell her house and move in with her kids. SS was a savings account for us that have been working for the past 40 years. People are scared.

jab35.bsky.social•94 days ago

My heart aches for this horror. Ignorance and cruelty have caused this country to move from an imperfect union of democracy to a heartless and selfish autocracy.

ngrippel.com•93 days ago

Americans need to wake up to the fact that their federal government is now a Putin-supporting, protector of only Trump supporting techno-nazi/Christian Nationalist/alt-right billionaires & minions. Everyone else is not only on their own, but may be targets for Trump retribution.

resist77.bsky.social•94 days ago

Most of us pay more in social security than taxes. It’s not optional. If you owe, social security comes after it. We can’t go ask payroll to stop sending it to the federal government.

This is your money they are stealing right before your eyes.

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•94 days ago

Only self-employed individuals might pay more in income taxes, however, you don't get them back. You will get back the amount you pay into social security.

No, they are NOT stealing your money.

nereus9.bsky.social•94 days ago

Next up?

In the name of fraud prevention and efficiency, all SS beneficiaries must travel to Mar-a-Lago with their birth certificate to claim their payment.

And say: "Thank you President Trump for this. I will worship you forever."

llp26.bsky.social•84 days ago

Wouldn’t be a bit surprised. 😜

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•94 days ago

That's a good one!

overit1971.bsky.social•86 days ago

@maddow.msnbc.com

kw-kw.bsky.social•94 days ago

Does logging on to https://www.ssa.gov give the the Social Security Administration permission to access "any information that is on or from my computer or other device,"? WTF!? This is different than their previous Terms of Service!

llp26.bsky.social•84 days ago

Wow!! Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

kw-kw.bsky.social•94 days ago

Logon terms: I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the SSA has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others.

leftyfarmer.bsky.social•94 days ago

Whoa

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•94 days ago

I don't leave any information on my device. It's all stored on portable storage devices.

kw-kw.bsky.social•94 days ago

It looks like it's saying any information on your computer or phone or iPad or other tablet.

dainamidd.bsky.social•94 days ago

I noticed this a few days ago. These are new terms and I expect part of the plan to force people to login digitally to get paid. How do we get attention to this issue?

zeebranation.bsky.social•83 days ago

What in absolute hacker hell?

bluesioux1.bsky.social•94 days ago

How can they get rid of something that you paid into?? It's not their money, it's yours!! Fkn thieves....

flinthaven.bsky.social•86 days ago

Thanks to the NRA, the populace is heavily armed. This will not end well.

sophiesophia.bsky.social•82 days ago

You are correct

carpe-snarkum.bsky.social•89 days ago

red-foremans-foot.bsky.social•94 days ago

And at this point I stop ranting on the other groups that helped get Trump elected and go after my own demographic (old and white). Great job fucknuggets! You screwed yourselves.

splitatoms119.bsky.social•94 days ago

If it’s a Ponzi scheme then we should be able to sue and get all the money STOLEN from our paychecks.

oliviaoftroye.com•94 days ago

🎯

realdiceprophet.bsky.social•73 days ago

Elon Musk is a Ponzi scheme.

fanofwalt.bsky.social•94 days ago

In a lump sum. Plus interest, for the decades-long loan to the government.

mvonehr.bsky.social•94 days ago

Noooooo!

v-ron.bsky.social•94 days ago

And then military disability & military retiree pensions. Followed by state worker disability & pensions.

Work 20-30 yrs of ur life & retire w/ a little financial stability... trump will VOID that deal. Because he THINKS u don't deserve it.

Bet on it.

huntoon23.bsky.social•84 days ago

He thinks you are a loser and deserve to be poor.

mrsbuttfire.bsky.social•94 days ago

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

It IS an entitlement and that is a GOOD THING. In the context of federal budget policy, the word "entitlement" is synonymous with "mandatory." MUST BE PAID. Not subject to the annual discretionary appropriations process. WE ARE ENTITLED BY LAW.

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

The word is even in the statute: "...shall be entitled to an old-age insurance benefit..."

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section402&num=0&edition=prelim

mrsbuttfire.bsky.social•82 days ago

Well, good for the legal jargon, but the way the DOGE bros et al mean it is per the Webster’s definition, i.e. “the feeling or belief that one is deserving of certain privileges or special treatment.”

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

Let's look at the Congressional Budget Office glossary:

entitlement: A legal obligation of the federal government to make payments to a person, group of people, business, unit of government, or similar entity that meets the eligibility criteria set in law and for which the budget

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

Spending for entitlement programs is controlled through those programs’ eligibility criteria and benefit or payment rules. The best-known entitlements are the government’s major benefit programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

See mandatory spending.authority is not provided in advance in an appropriation act.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-2016/reports/42904-CBOGlossary.pdf

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

If it goes to court, the legal "jargon" as you put it is what matters.

Plus you missed the other two definitions from Webster's:

1b. b
: a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

3 : a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group
also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entitlement

mrsbuttfire.bsky.social•82 days ago

No, I saw the alt definitions. And you and I both know they’re acting in bad faith, not in the interest of taxpayers.

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

They are acting in bad faith in every possible way but their BS is literally rhetoric, no different from the rhetoric of the fascists in the party formerly known as the GOP. It has no legal bearing on anything and highly unlikely to prevail in a court of law.

debbiecvinette.bsky.social•94 days ago

And we are living in fear, not knowing day to day what atrocity is next.

pinktweets.bsky.social•82 days ago

sybilg.bsky.social•94 days ago

I’ve heard the Democrats say this for a long time especially in the last elections. That they were going after your social security. Did Americans listen?

hulkling-she-her.bsky.social•94 days ago

musk is soo used to taking taxpayer dollars he’s now raking in their retirement savings 😂😂😂

gregglade.bsky.social•86 days ago

"State and Local Governments Can Step In" is not a satisfactory part of the solution. This will increase costs to all taxpayers and will help meet one Trump goal - not paying some of the costs at the federal level.

pjmacwriter.bsky.social•94 days ago

They want it to fail and then claim the solution is to privatize.

lenday.bsky.social•94 days ago

Maybe. Just maybe. This will be the "red line" for sane Americans?

kimfogle.bsky.social•94 days ago

I agree with all of this. In addition, I fear that violence will break out in Social Security offices harming both the SSA employees and those waiting to apply for their benefits.

durendalx.bsky.social•94 days ago

Answer to Elon Dusk https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGvhazQuq7X/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

robinthedesert.bsky.social•94 days ago

They are pushing hard to get Luigi-eed. Theft of social security just might do it.

ravenna321.bsky.social•94 days ago

Doomscrolling this morning I'm wondering when the GOPS in Congress will reach a tipping point, their fealty to Trump vs. their chances of getting reelected

yougoahead.bsky.social•94 days ago

They made sure they are getting re-elected. It's called 30 years of gerrymandering.

gdp.bsky.social•86 days ago

At this point they're gambling on there being no more elections.

johnbgilman.bsky.social•94 days ago

We do have to admit that with his nose-diving, ludicrously over-valued Tesla, utterly incompetent Space-X & his monkey brain chip incubator, Elon Musk is the 21st Century's most foremost expert in Ponzi schemes...

purpleprince89.bsky.social•94 days ago

If anything happens to SS I want ever single DIME that I paid into it back! 😡

bethcokid.bsky.social•94 days ago

Me too! IT’S OUR DAMN MONEY!! F Musk, Trump and MAGATS!!!

puestoloco.bsky.social•84 days ago

Just say it simply: #HandsOff MY Social Security nest egg! It's MY money!

Google ― "No, the Social Security Trust Fund is NOT subsidized by the government."

armadillo1.bsky.social•94 days ago

Muskrat and tRump should have their asses handed to them.

grunteledboomer.bsky.social•84 days ago

😡💩😡

bluecollarblue.bsky.social•94 days ago

They want to push us into the stock market which, can be a real, live Ponzi scheme! Let us not forget Bernie Madoff! Promoting 401k only over pension and/or Social Security is crazy. You should only put money you can afford to lose into the stock market. Another way to steal our money!

bluecollarblue.bsky.social•73 days ago

See? The lunacy of the last few days is why dumping pensions for 401ks is ill advised. Allow pensions to be more flexible, able to go with you if you change jobs. Having the value of everyone’s life savings in a 401k yo-yo on the whims of a con-man? Unacceptable!

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