Social security website crashes as DOGE-linked disruption at the agency continues
Social security website crashes as DOGE-linked disruption at the agency continues
Elon Musk's organization has been monkeying with America's retirement system, with no positive results so far.
Summary
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is investigating recent outages on its “My Social Security” website, which blocked millions from accessing benefits.
The crashes follow policy changes shifting retirees online and reducing phone support. Elon Musk has been monkeying with America's retirement system, with no positive results so far.
Musk falsely claimed 40% of SSA calls are fraudulent, fueling criticism. While SSA denies permanent office closures, it admitted to downsizing certain sites.
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Many things in government do not do well with move fast and break things attitudes.
Move fast & kill Granny before she bankrupts the US government by taking her Social Security payments /s
Except Social Security is not in danger of bankrupting the government. Sort of.
See, Republicans have been raiding Social Security for petty cash for decades so that they could give rich assholes another tax break and still fund their endless wars.
But that money needs to go back. Whenever some asshole says that Social Security is x amount short, that's money that's owed to the American people,
Absolutely yes & equally scrap the cap on income towards social security taxes
Probably applies to most of the private sector, too. A startup company only dealing with "social media" can afford to have failure, at least in the early days...but adults doing adult things where "breaking things" has real consequences, including lives....not so much.
But a whole lot of ding-a-lings think government should be run like a business, and if the stupid notion of "moving fast and breaking things" has infected a lot of the private sector, it's going to have knock-on effects when people try to apply the notion that the President should be just like a CEO at a large multinational corporation. A lot of stupid ideas originate with trying to run government like a business and/or like a household budget.
I agree whole hardheadedly. Felt like my last company was like that which was funny because they were also ultra paranoid with security which seemed like a conflicting thing.