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When Musk accessed the Treasury department data, people here gaslit themselves into it making sense by saying "he needs to see where the money is being sent out
by 9283409232 2y ago
When Musk accessed the Treasury department data, people here gaslit themselves into it making sense by saying "he needs to see where the money is being sent out!" So why does he need access to social security information? On top of there being no reason for him having it, there is no oversight into what he is doing with it. My guesses are both blackmail and feeding it into his companies' AI. Perhaps for targeting if you wanna get really conspiratorial?
- silexia 2y agoRead only access would be required to find potential fraud. Everyone here has been saying the millions of database records of Social Security people potentially collecting benefits between the ages of 100-150 is just a COBOL programming deal... but what if it is not? We should check.
- 9283409232 2y agoThere is no reason to expect that he will have read-only access given that he and his team had write access to the Treasury data. Social security fraud also has to be less than .2% of spending. Is this really worth wasting time on? Doesn't sound like the Department of Government Efficiency is being very time efficient.
- vaxman 2y agoIf they catch his team copying the data, he should literally be executed. Otherwise, audit on..
- nielsbot 2y agoi don’t want him even seeing the data, sorry. audit through the normal channels. or, failing that, go after the pentagon where the real fraud (and savings) are.
- 9283409232 2y agoThey already caught his team copying Treasury data onto a private server.
- lesuorac 2y agoGood point. First we should check if you're an American because otherwise you shouldn't be able to help us check. Please post your Social Security number, Name, Mother's Madien Name, and last 4 of each of your Credit Cards.
- antonmarsh 2y ago[dead]
- nielsbot 2y agopretty sure we already had auditors. this is something else.
- Rastonbury 2y agoYeah it sure is looking like that to a non-American like me, looking for witch hunt ammo on political opponents, sure the government makes a lot of social security payment and salaries I doubt there is widespread fraud or improrietry there, worse is if you mess all that plumbing up legit social payments and salaries are going get impacted, these are things that should not done by "move fast and break things" approach. But what about other massive government procurement from corporations and overcharging?
- phendrenad2 2y agoHasn't Musk said that he found 150+ year old people receiving social security? It seems like the answer is obvious if you look for it.
- 9283409232 2y agoFirst, Musk is a liar and is often wrong or stretching the truth. You can find out about that here: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-1... Second, even if he is telling the truth, that is .000001% of the US budget. An extreme waste of time to hunt after it.
- phendrenad2 2y agoOkay now I'm confused. I just read "In 2023, Social Security was responsible for $106 billion in deficits, or 6 percent of the entire federal budget deficit".
- 9283409232 2y agoI'm talking about social security fraud specifically which is what the above post is talking about when mentioning people aged 150 claiming benefits.