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— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) February 19, 2025
NEW FALSE DOGE CLAIMS?
A friend knowledgeable about govt contracting noticed some DOGE claims of money saved that are... unusual.
I'm trying to follow his explanation. I might just share DM screenshots and let you all figure it out lol.
I haven't seen these reported.
1/ pic.twitter.com/IR4CieyLfZ
the money:
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Seriously this is a
I guess Trump could pick it back up but he could do that with all of them?
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hey guess what it costs money to refactor or replace old shit or maybe Musk's catamites will do it for free for the exposure
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We'll just transfer funding from immigration ngos to do it
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Are you really brainwormed enough to think that Musk won't defund those organizations? Or do you just think that social security, our most expensive cost, should not be a little organized? Or do you simply believe ngos and nonprofits are not receiving government money?
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Social security should be abolished
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based fricked old people.
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!codecels this dumb BIPOC thinks you could rewrite all the government's shitcode for a few hundred million.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/business/lament-of-the-reagan-irs.html
https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA455620
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-27-fi-50556-story.html
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2021/10/a-60-year-old-irs-it-system-wont-finish-modernizing-until-2030/259253/
@JimieWhales love sucking peepee but you'd have too pay @JimieWhales a billy or two too frick with 70 year old COBOL.
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https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/admin.html I don't particularly care that they are using 60 year old tech, it works and its cheap. By law they are allowed to spend up to 3% on overhead, I don't understand why they are the only part of government that is underspending.
Musk either doesn't know how SSA works or doesn't care that he is posting nonsense. The SS numbers file is not a register of deaths and doesn't have anything to do with OA or DI eligibility. There are more people in it then there are citizens because anyone with work authorization has a SS number and their spouses and unmarried children <21 also has a SS number. If he has plans to improve data entry to reduce the error rate fantastic, if he has a worldwide death certificate interchange so they can accurately record deaths also fantastic.
When someone applies for OA they take a copy of the SS tax payments associated with that name, SS & DOB from the master earnings file and then copy it to the modernized claims system. They then validate that person is eligible to receive benefits and use their tax payments to calculate benefit amounts. MCS then setup payment via TD ASAP so people get their gibs.
The MCS part of the system is modern, they continuously improve it which is why admin overheads have been in steady decline since the 80's. The MEF part is also from the 60's like the numbers file. The reason for this is the need to integrate with the IRS and other agencies, modernizing beyond what they already have would be pointless spending for what is just a copy of tax data. There needs to be a very good reason to replace MEF.
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That's great why are we using a frankenstein system to manage SS, the largest part of our budget, while 150 billion is sent to ukraine?
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Whats wrong with the SS system you would like to replace?
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not run on COBOL for starters. It is hot garbage
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Dude without usaids their wouldn't be cat ladies on the internet that haven't worked a day in their life
Trans lives matter
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Tell me your predictions for the national debt level in 4 years
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But I am going to support who ever is swinging at this shit, whether it is Musk or Massie
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