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Elon Musk Axed Social Security! Checks Missing & Claims Denied! w/ Alex Lawson (Original Post) Be The Light Sunday OP
A summary, please. PoindexterOglethorpe Sunday #1
? Be The Light Sunday #2
Another fear mongering episode related to Social Security. SWBTATTReg Sunday #3
As SWBTATTReg said. PoindexterOglethorpe Sunday #4
I had no clue Hartman was a bad news source Be The Light Sunday #5
Just read his insistance that SS is going away, PoindexterOglethorpe Sunday #6

SWBTATTReg

(25,064 posts)
3. Another fear mongering episode related to Social Security.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:13 PM
Sunday

The guy is already claiming that muskrat and his doge thugs has smashed SS. I don't see any evidence of this at all, and if there were, the outrage would be enormous, far more than what there is now. There is already some pushback on the part of tRUMP/muskrat thugs to do everything that they wanted to, they've had to retreat somewhat, so this article is an article just for clickbait, and most of the SS events have already transpired, w/ the vast majority of us getting our SS checks.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,594 posts)
4. As SWBTATTReg said.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 04:46 PM
Sunday

Aside from multiple daily threads here asking if others have received their SS yet, there is zero suspending or cancelling of SS. So please stop posting this crap.

I used to like Tom Hartman, but he's hardly a reliable source these days.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,594 posts)
6. Just read his insistance that SS is going away,
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:18 PM
Sunday

immediately! Right now!

Okay, so today is only March 30, and so who knows what will happen April 1. But I'm guessing all the SS deposits will go out as always, and there will be mumbling about the May checks not arriving. But really?

Do none of those in charge have an elderly mother or grandmother who depends on SS? I'm guessing they are all hearing from those mothers and grandmothers, who are carefully explaining that, unlike Musk's mother-in-law, they really, seriously, could NOT get along without the SS.

I am apparently the only person in North America who always understood that SS was only intended to make up about a third of our retirement income, and so I saved diligently when I was working. I know, saving some money rather than spending every penny and then going into debt, is a novel concept.

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