Ellis Wyatt said:
Do you think the #resistance has disappeared? They just fired the director on Monday for being insubordinate.
Why do you seem to be ok with the government stealing from us? You're not even pretending to be moderately concerned.
I'm not okay with the government stealing from us or with people stealing from the government.
If DOGE has found evidence that SS is being paid out to dead people, great! Turn that info over to the FBI to investigate and DoJ to prosecute. All for that!!
If DOGE has found evidence that funds authorized by Congress have been illegally diverted, that needs to be investigated and prosecuted. I'm all for that! Won't hear a single complaint from me about that.
What I am raising questions about (and you evidently view as me being "okay with money being stolen"), is the way the "evidence" of alleged fraud is being disseminated to the public and characterized as something it is not.
The "evidence" in this thread just happens to be a prime example of that.
A chart showing number of SSN from a government database grouped by date of birth entered into the database is not evidence of anything without knowing a ton more information like: (1) was anything paid to these people after their death, (2) how is this data used? Is this an active database that is used to send out SS checks or is this just a database used to track SSNs that have been issued?, (3) is there some other means of validating the data being used by the Fed gov (I.e is there an "active" vs "inactive" field, (4) is there some explanation for why birthdate field may be inaccurate ….questions like that.
Instead Elon just tweets the chart and makes a comment about vampires receiving SS benefits which seems to me to be pretty misleading and makes me question the motives with all of this.
I obviously care about this precisely because I am NOT okay with government money being stolen so I am interested in the finding and have tried to research several of the claims made by the DOGE team (or others citing DOGE team data) but usually end up pretty disappointed.
- Claims that Chelsea Clinton stole $83 million from US government - looked into it and $83 million was the gross receipts for Clinton Foundation (which received a total of $17k from Federal Govt and about $300k from other non profits that either received some government funds - generally less than 1% of their gross receipts or received funds from other non-profits up the chain). All of that is drop in the bucket compared to what FedGov has paid out to Tesla/Space X.
- claims that $50 mil went to Hamas for condoms that they used to make bombs. Turns out that $50 mil went to "Gaza" in Mozambique (Africa) for AIDS treatment and prevention.
- claims that Biden paid Reuters $9mil to provide fake news. Turns out it was Trump's 2018 Dept of Defense that paid a subsidiary of the Reuters family that provides information services related to a simulated cyber attack to help DoD combat threats from "social engineering attacks."
And now these claims the 200 year olds are receiving SS checks which are not at all supported by the evidence provided.
Sorry for not just taking whatever Musk or Trump says as fact and instead trying to figure out what they are basing their claims on.