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Social Security payments could suffer interruption soon as DOGE causes ‘system collapse' (fortune.com)

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Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, who headed the agency during the Biden administration, urged people to start saving money now because benefits could be interrupted in the next one to three months. He told CNBC that changes DOGE is making to the agency have already caused IT system outages, which he predicted will become more frequent until there is a “system collapse.”

The federal government has never failed to deliver Social Security payments on time, but a former commissioner warned that could happen soon as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency makes changes and cuts staff.

Martin O’Malley, who led the agency during the Biden administration, told CNBC on Saturday that cuts have already led to IT outages, which he predicted will become more frequent and last longer each time until there’s a total failure.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

10 million people occupying the streets of every street in every city in the country for days, weeks, months, until the entire economy collapses. It is actually the least chaotic and least violent way out of this mess.

Typically that would never happen, but if DOGE manages to really destroy social security payments, I would be willing to bet that of the 67 million recipients who can no longer afford food - some would be happy to camp in the nearby street for some of that yummy food that they have there... More plausible now that the weather in the US is starting to warm up now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I just feel like there's a lot of "You hate every piece of capitalism, but you won't connect the dots to see they're all coming from the same source." It won't be enough to restore social security payments if we still have billionaires just walking around, or we keep this broken two-party system that also empowers less populated areas. Just to name two issues off the top of my head.

We need larger, structural, changes.

But I guess everything starts somewhere.