The found a way to strengthen Social Security

[buynholdisdead]

So if you just declare everyone over 80 dead that helps strengthen Social Security right? What a mess.

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

[jerryab2]

@buynholdisdead

So if you just declare everyone over 80 dead that helps strengthen Social Security right?

New President quicker than expected–especially by him.
LOL !!!

[SuisseBear]

„Move Fast and Break Things“ - it worked for Tesla and Twitter, what could possibly go wrong?

[steve203]

@buynholdisdead

So if you just declare everyone over 80 dead that helps strengthen Social Security right? What a mess.

My grandfather was a retired Teamster. He lived to be over 96. Every few years, the pension fund would send him a letter to make sure he was still alive. He would sign off on the form and mail it back. The money kept flowing until he died in 94.

Steve

[JLC]

@buynholdisdead

So if you just declare everyone over 80 dead

I’m sure we can easily start with those over 120.

Database Lists 12 Million People Older Than 120 Eligible for Social Security:...

I still find it funny the outrage over auditing the government.

[bjurasz]

@JLC

I still find it funny the outrage over auditing the government.

That is not the outrage. The outrage is that what is going on is NOT an audit.

[MataroPete]

@JLC

I’m sure we can easily start with those over 120.

Database Lists 12 Million People Older Than 120 Eligible for Social Security: Musk | NTD

We could and should, if this were true. Fortunately, it is not.

It is not true that more than 12 million people in the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) database of eligible benefit recipients are listed as being over the age of 120. The issue stems from the SSA’s old COBOL system, which lacks a proper date type, causing entries with missing or incomplete birthdates to default to a reference point more than 150 years ago, and not that these individuals are actually over 120.

Few, if any, are outraged over auditing the government, but if it is done by an unofficial agency with no oversight itself that is obviously biased or ignorant (or both), then the auditing needs to be re-evaluated.

Pete

[jerryab2]

@MataroPete

if it is done by an unofficial agency with no oversight itself

Fire whoever ordered an audit by an unauthorized group who do not know what they are doing–except committing fraud. Send them all to Gitmo. They can audit their cells…

[buynholdisdead]

@JLC

I still find it funny the outrage over auditing the government.

I find it amusing that you don’t mind people breaking the law.

[ptheland]

@JLC

I still find it funny the outrage over auditing the government.

The outrage isn’t over auditing the government. It’s over literally firing the auditors and replacing them with a bunch of wet behind the ears kids who have no idea what they are doing other than following the orders of a non-elected fool.

—Peter

[AlphaWolf]

@MataroPete

The issue stems from the SSA’s old COBOL system, which lacks a proper date type, causing entries with missing or incomplete birthdates to default to a reference point more than 150 years ago, and not that these individuals are actually over 120.

I’m shocked that you would try to obfuscate this issue by trying to interject factual data.

Shame on you.

[MataroPete]

@AlphaWolf

I’m shocked that you would try to obfuscate this issue by trying to interject factual data.

I will now diminish and go into the West.

Pete

[Hawkwin]

@JLC

I’m sure we can easily start with those over 120.

Good grief, really? That article is from February 17th. Did you stop a moment to think it might have been debunked by now?

Two days later:

Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks,...

Two days after that:

How many people over 100 receive Social Security benefits?
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/people-over-100-social-security/

A week later:

150-Year-Olds Aren’t Getting Social Security – Here’s a Better Task for DOGE...

[JLC]

@bjurasz

The outrage is that what is going on is NOT an audit.

I don’t think it is supposed to be an audit like what a CPA or the IRS would do to you or your business. This is looking for waste and potential fraud. If you can’t look at what they have pointed out and are not upset, don’t know what to tell you.

[jerryab2]

@JLC

looking for waste and potential fraud.

DOGE is the definition of waste and real fraud (not potential).

[bjurasz]

@JLC

I don’t think it is supposed to be an audit like what a CPA or the IRS would do to you or your business. This is looking for waste and potential fraud. If you can’t look at what they have pointed out and are not upset, don’t know what to tell you.

If you don’t realize that looking for waste and fraud is what an audit does then I don’t know what to tell you. What I can tell you is 20-something script kiddies poking around databases is not how you identify waste and fraud.

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

[PucksFool]

Here’s the link to the Wired story without the paywall.
http://archive.today/2025.03.19-151041/https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/

[dividends20]

@bjurasz

20-something script kiddies

Einstein was 26 when he wrote Theory of Relativity
Gates was 20 when he founded Microsoft
Zuckerberg was 19 when he founded Facebook

Old and tired people are just that. Old and tired.

[bjurasz]

Einstein understood physics. Gates and Zuck understood computers. These script kiddies don’t even understand COBOL, let alone knowing nothing about auditing.

Try again. And try reading that arcticle.

[dividends20]

These kiddies are rooting out the rotten and corrupt. No mercy.