Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, who headed the agency during the Biden administration, urged people to start saving money now because benefits could be interrupted in the next one to three months. He told CNBC that changes DOGE is making to the agency have already caused IT system outages, which he predicted will become more frequent until there is a “system collapse.”
The federal government has never failed to deliver Social Security payments on time, but a former commissioner warned that could happen soon as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency makes changes and cuts staff.
Martin O’Malley, who led the agency during the Biden administration, told CNBC on Saturday that cuts have already led to IT outages, which he predicted will become more frequent and last longer each time until there’s a total failure.
My fellow Americans, we cool with Musk directly stealing the fund we’ve been paying into our whole adult lives? Just checking.
No, but it’s going to take a lot to stop it at this point.
I mean, just like a handful of gun food should do the trick
I’m thinking we need to bring a lot. Like NOW.
One day of boycotts on the 28th wasn’t even close to enough.
It needs to be a near total economic blackout except for stocking up on staple foods combined with a General Strike. We don’t just need Depression Era recipes, we need depression era recipes aimed at cooking and feeding hundreds at once.
Look, violence is coming anyway but we don’t need to demand the violence first. We can make great headway with non-violence and that gives us time to organize and prepare and have people ready to stand watch and protect when the violence comes.
50501 is doing state capitol protests again tomorrow I believe, and there’s a Ukraine protest at the House office building in DC, and there’s a No Kings protest tomorrow at I think the Capitol ahead of his address to congress. There’s a lot going on, but none of them are big enough and not enough people know about them.
A. That one day was not all that is on the plan. 2. You can’t get people to do a general strike with out starting from somewhere. See point A. C. Time organize, prepare, etc.
Yeah… Some of the solutions start easier (someone just shoots musk and his lackeys dead) but bring high chaos.
More stable solutions I don’t even know what they’d look like.
10 million people occupying the streets of every street in every city in the country for days, weeks, months, until the entire economy collapses. It is actually the least chaotic and least violent way out of this mess.
Typically that would never happen, but if DOGE manages to really destroy social security payments, I would be willing to bet that of the 67 million recipients who can no longer afford food - some would be happy to camp in the nearby street for some of that yummy food that they have there… More plausible now that the weather in the US is starting to warm up now.