Musk's Cuts to Social Security Has Already Unleashed Chaos On America…

This is how they do it—because they are heartless and gutless and they believe everyone in America is an idiot. From The Washington Post:

The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts because the servers were overloaded. In the field, office managers have resorted to answering phones at the front desk as receptionists because so many employees have been pushed out. But the agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience with these services, because that office was eliminated as part of the cost-cutting efforts led by Elon Musk.

And the phones keep ringing. And ringing.

The federal agency that delivers $1.5 trillion a year in earned benefits to 73 million retired workers, their survivors and poor and disabled Americans is engulfed in crisis — further undermining its ability to provide reliable and quick service to vulnerable customers, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials, customers and others who interact with Social Security.

Heartless, because the Porcelain Man doesn't care about any carbon-based life form except himself, and he's probably working on that, too. Gutless. because they wouldn't dare come for Social Security in a frontal assault. (George W. Bush tried that, and his 2004 mandate vanished overnight.) So they weaken it from within, day after day, cut after cut, until they can claim that the system is broken and they can push it over so it shatters. The finest social-welfare program in the country's history, as transformative a public policy victory as any other, and it is being crippled unto death by a South African blow-in with enough money to buy the future so he can trash it.

Leland Dudek — the accidental leader elevated to acting commissioner after he fed data to Musk’s team behind his bosses’ backs — has issued rapid-fire policy changes that have created chaos for front-line staff. Under pressure from the secretive Musk team, Dudek has pushed out dozens of officials with years of expertise in running Social Security’s complex benefit and information technology systems. Others have left in disgust.

He sounds like a swell fella. There is nobody in this administration worthy of the trust you'd give to a Gaboon viper. And that includes the guy at the top.

Alarmed lawmakers are straining to answer questions from angry constituents in their districts. Calls have flooded into congressional offices. The AARP announced on Monday that more than 2,000 retirees per week have called the organization since early February — double the usual number — with concerns about whether benefits they paid for during their working careers will continue. Social Security is the primary source of income for about 40 percent of older Americans. Trump has said repeatedly that the administration “won’t touch” Social Security, a promise that aides say applies to benefit levels that can only be adjusted by Congress. But in just six weeks, the cuts to staffing and offices have already taken a toll on access to benefits, officials and advocates say.

"Trump Has Said Repeatedly" may be the singularly worthless phrase in the English language.

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