Remember "Plan Steve to save Social Security"?

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There were actually two plans:

1: make SS a disability only plan, so that able bodied geezers, regardless of age, would be forced back into the workforce. The downside of this is a lot of those crusty old geezers vote, and would not like being forced back to daily endurance of the bellowings of a “JC”.

2: make SS applicants jump through hoops, like providing extensive documentation of their identity and eligibility to receive SS benefits. This has the advantage of the majority of geezers receiving full benefits, while a minority are cut off entirely. The majority would be fine with that, as it would not hurt them, and everyone excluded would be proclaimed “frauds”.

When I applied for SS, I mosied down to the SS office in Livonia, less then 10 miles from casa del Steve, with a couple pieces of documentation and sat for a brief interview. I didn’t know there was a way to do it over the phone, or maybe there wasn’t, 9 years ago.

Seems the plan under consideration is option #2: total denial of benefits to those who can’t jump through hoops.

ripped from the headlines

The changes include requiring that people seeking benefits provide proof of identity over the internet for benefit claims made over the phone. If someone is “unable to utilize the internet ID proofing, customers will be required to visit a field office to provide in-person identity documentation.”

Introducing internet verification would be a significant hardship to the 40 percent of Social Security beneficiaries who depend on the phone service. If they can’t use the internet system, they would also have to visit a physical location. Diaz’s own memo estimates that 75,000 to 85,000 people would have to visit Social Security offices under the new policy.

And, of course, closing a lot of field offices, to throw up another barrier to claiming benefits is part of the plan.

So, “denial of benefits” is the plan. See? Earning that MBA, all those years ago, pays off again. I can shift into “JC” thinking mode in an eyeblink.

Steve

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I like my plan better, kicking everyone over 80 off SS.

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Kick off everyone with an IQ less than 8. That pretty much removes all supporters of the current administration. Better yet, deport them to Florida and Texas.

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What is able bodied is very subjective. Also, why you want people to work till they drop dead? That is cruel. Do we want 65 year olds driving school bus? or handling machinery? how about a 70 year old cop?

People contributed to the social security and only at 62 they get the benefits, for most folks they would have worked 35~40 by that time.

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Easy way to resolve that “problem”. The security detail for CSM shall be solely consisted of people with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s who are “able bodied” and thus required to work. They shall all be fully armed and NOT be aided or assisted by any other person, group, or groups of any type. The staff of the White House shall also solely consist of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s who have been deemed “able bodied” and thus required to work.

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Somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s, I heard some luminary on either FNN or bubblevision say, as best I can remember “in a perfect world, you would drop dead the day you receive your last paycheck”. So, yes, the “JCs” want us to work as long as we are physically able, so they can make money off us. When we retire, we become nothing but a “burden”, and they would rather see us gone, just like the Vets who are now seeing their benefits threatened. The moment the Vets stopped carrying a rifle and fighting their made up wars, they became expendable.

Steve

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As the “JCs” do NOT collect a paycheck, they shall be deemed dead as they do NOT earn an income.

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The narrative, for the last 45 years, is the “JCs” are the center of the universe, and every effort must be made to see to their care and feeding.

The rest of us are expendable meat. I remember #43 praising some farmer that was supposedly over 90, but still rose at dawn every morning and worked his farm. The local news here ran a puff piece about a salesman at a local car dealer ship, who is well into h80s, and still works every day. I have heard the “news” tout “studies” that supposedly show that people who retire die earlier than people who keep working. The narrative is consistent: we Proles are supposed to work until we drop.

Steve

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No problem. The country can pay for gardeners to cut the grass over their graves. Remember: No paycheck = you are dead. Just applying the JC rule about when to die to the JCs. Sometimes they feel like a nut, guess what (?), they ARE.