SSA employee to me re: 50% staff reduction: "Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed."
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They count on people dying before they decide.
They have to pay retroactive benefits.
died trying to sort my father’s SS:Understaffed and poorly trained personnel making our grief worse!
I'm approved to start benefits next month, with the first check landing in April.
I wonder if they'll wreak enough havoc to mess that up?
"These are mass murderers and they must be removed from power immediately before more people die"
And anywhere near a 50% cut would be far worse than the bad scenarios I was warning against.
"Damnit, Elon, you've done it again!"
but it is *necessary*! for there to be any hope of fixing this, they have to be unpopular, and the more unpopular they are the better the odds
slashing Social Security will do an awful lot to get those marches going
but they don't and they're not and we gotta work with what we have
Two or three years of being destitute while needing medical care...
Disruption at all cost!
We're going to have to rise up, and it may get ugly.
All media belong to the Klan now, they’re gonna tell them everything is Obama’s fault and MAGA will run with it
Sometimes America does heinous things without a foreign boogeyman behind it all
Why haven’t they cited how these cuts would affect agency performance?
Oligarchs want all the power and don’t care who gets hurt or killed. Evangelicals want to hasten the Rapture or least have a theocracy until Armageddon. They are a formidable team for destruction and they’re willing to let Trump play the dictator… for now.
https://www.project2025.observer/
In 2015, median wait time for a SSA decision was 839 days due to a spike in apps after the 2008 crisis. SSA had a lot more staff then; would likely see 5+ year wait times if this cut occurs.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-641r
Somehow.
And making sure she is paid timely and can get the last payment the bank returned in error? Or help the mom diagnosed with stage 4 cancer have everything needed for
FUCK REPUBLICANS.
They know their actions will kill people. Lots and lots of people.
That is a feature. Not a bug.
Oh, that’s right. Because they know they’re killing us.
He has a plan for us
Some senator said
This is not accidental; Musk is just a tool.
f😒cker are the ones hooked up to the poisoned Kool-Aid intravenously.
Their racism and bigotry, as well as their need to "own the libs", is that toxic.
What is the end goal is a mystery. Make us more Capitalist? Open us up to a hostile takeover?
Evil is the plan and pain is the goal. The reason does not matter in the end.
https://bsky.app/profile/plannedtheride.bsky.social/post/3lirizzvj2s2s
Bad memories of that one.
This is awful in so many ways.
https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3lj4g6jtf6c2b