One of Musk’s cronies is now in a position to possibly halt Social Security, tax refunds, and more!
{Begin rant.} I cannot believe this but I have to! Tom Krause has been promoted to Financial Assistant Secretary of the Treasury department. And yea, he’s one of Elon‘s, or is it tRump’s, billionaires. He’s in a position to stop a whole bunch of things that are enshrined by law. That doesn’t seem to matter. There’s a whole lot of people who will be F*CKED if he does that. What in the hell are we supposed to do without them? Become homeless? Have to beg on the street? Have to turn to illegal methods of getting money? I can’t live without my SS. It pays my bills. My husband can’t afford to pay for the household. And this asshole can mess us all up!
From Raw Story: The Musk ally now has control over the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which disburses more than $5 trillion in annual payments for Social Security, Medicare, tax refunds and thousands of other programs and agencies – all of which Musk demanded on social media should be unilaterally halted as illegal. Excuse me? EXCUSE ME??!!!! This man has no qualifications to hold this sort of position (except he’s a billionaire, heh) and he drove out 35-year veteran David Lebryk, all because of Muskrat’s bullsh*t. We are entitled to what we worked so long to have. Illegal? What huh? E-yawn doesn’t have to work another day in his life but there are those of us who depend on the system, which, yes, is *legally* put in place. And with the Mango Mandarin owning the Supreme Court, we are even more screwed. Republican majority in Congress. We have nowhere to turn. If we’re lucky, lower courts will be able to put a stop to this … but probably not.
The variables for continuing to get what we have rightfully earned are very, very limited now. I don’t want to see the law(s) overturned. I don’t want to think about how many people will become homeless. I don’t want to think about how President Muskrat will continue to re-mold our country in his image. Hell, I don’t even know what that image *looks like*. All I know is he’s wrecking things left, right, up, down and center. I do know all of us have to worry and be paranoid because we don’t know if we’re going to get our checks this month, and the next, and the next …
All the people in our government don’t have to worry about their next check. They don’t have to worry about their next meal, or keeping the lights on or the heat on, or having a roof over their heads. Well, folks, let’s see you worry about YOUR bills and then maybe, just maybe, you’ll start to understand what it’s like. Of course they won’t, but I can dream for a very few moments.
So, yea, worried and paranoid. Will I get my check? Will we get our tax refunds? Will we be evicted for non-payment? How can I, how can WE, live? We have no ranking in the government. These assholes are trying to take over the US and our lives. E-yawn really is trying to become the President with the Confused Carrot as a figurehead. That’s worse than the Orangutan, and I never thought I’d be able to say that. Again, I don’t *want* to say that but it very well may be coming true. Can we get these people out of our government? Too many people taking over positions that they don’t know and they don’t belong in. We have to slap back, somehow, some way. But how? That’s really the question, isn’t it. No power for us, no wealth. How *do* we get it back? {End rant.}
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The good news? They have slaughtered children for profit with the 400 million guns on the street, radicalizing morons to shoot innocents at church, schools, the grocery store, the mall, on the street, in court, at weddings, at family gatherings, at graduations, bullets killing children as they play, at home, and so on. What’s the good news you ask? The 400 million guns. A gun can kill a republican,(nazi), just as easy as a child. Put everyone over 62, living on social security, on the street, denying them life saving meds, and so on…well…unintended consequences may jump up and bite them on the ass. After all, we have less time above ground anyway. Hamas didn’t come into existence for no reason. Radicalization comes about through oppression. If we aren’t living it…then I’d like these smart apologists make the argument this is even close to a moral government, and if it isn’t, then should we be the nice Germans who were too afraid to fight back, only to find themselves wearing a nazi armband? We aren’t there yet…the key word is yet. Let the whining begin I’m advocating violence. They aren’t advocating…they ARE KILLING US DAILY IN AMERICA FOR MONEY AND POWER. I’m a realist who has studied history…no tyrants EVER gave up power voluntarily. EVER. You’d think we won the American Revolution, the Civil War, WW1, and WW2 by just showing the bastards how wrong they were. My five uncles, who were in WW2, didn’t mention all it took was a good moral argument. I was under the impression some son of a bitch had to pick up a gun.I guess I’ve read the wrong books, and my traumatized uncles were just kidding. Nevermind America…go back to phucking sleep. Let’s get to the important stuff…like the Super Bowl. Sure…stop all government money EXCEPT to give more to themselves…the rich. Let the rest of us “eat cake”, as the French Queen said to the starving peasants. She finished her thought with her head in a basket. Unintended consequences. A brush pile is harmless until a spark burns down the Pacific Palisades. Then the rich celebrities, running for their lives, learn money won’t save you when the shit REALLY hits the fan. Let the whining begin…but but but.
Y’know, Scott, you should really write for this site. I feel uneducated whenever I read one of your bloody damn amazing comments. Thank you.
They need to be worried about that. Too many Maga’s are retired. There are things they won’t touch because to do so would hit his base.
Regarding the data – that’s a done deal in all it’s aspects. Codes are being put into the different systems that will also cause issues. What are BHO/Biden/Bush/Clinton doing behind the scenes – if anythinhg? USAID gone. Probably to never be seen again. Dept. of Ed? FBI names, at least blocked for a couple days. CIA – retire or be shown the door. Treasury information gone.
Putin is having wet dreams every single night now. Our country, as we knew it, is over. It’s a done deal and no matter how hard we fight, or how loud we get, it’s over. I’m 73 and will NOT see the America I hoped to see. It will now always be different. Will we have a resistance? I hope so and I will be a part of it – but it will not be the America we even had under Biden – in our lifetimes. Get used to it.
Elon is a nazi. Anyone that posts here want to argue otherwise? Question: what good has any nazi brought to the world? Next question: what has ever stopped them other than a bullet? Waiting…waiting…waiting…
Now that you mention it…it would be weird to be in an armed resistance along with a disillusioned former Maga member. And I think I’m pissed…ha.
Weird but good. Right now I can’t imagine being next to MAGA, except for a couple members of my family, but for something like this? Oof. Yea.
I am a decade younger than you and I agree with everything you said. I don’t *want* to get used to it but I *have* NO choice. Ouch.
Question: how many people on Social Security are named Luigi?
Okay, that’s an interesting question and I see what you mean. The answer is, we don’t know. Ugh.
I hope, for the sake of everyone who depends on this money it gets blocked.
A$$hole Musk says they’re illegal payments. How the frack did he come up with that?
Federal tax returns are money we have overpaid during the year from our wages.
It’s bad enough they don’t pay us interest on it, but to hold it up?
Social Security is also our money, deducted from each paycheck so we have something later in life when retired or otherwise unable to work.
I am with you Susan. This is beyond bull$hit.
This is why I’m paranoid *and* pissed. E-yawn probably hasn’t put a single penny into any of these he’s calling illegal so uh huh WHERE did he get that bright idea? It’s such a POS. I hope MAGA comes after DonOld when their benefits get cut. And of course, I hope they find a judge who’s horrified enough by this that he says oh hell yes block that b*tch. Well, I hope they can do it before he kills everything. He and the Confused Carrot swore up and down they wouldn’t cut social services like SS and Medicare. At least that lasted 2 weeks, right? (I really do think this would piss off MAGA to no end and that’s a big group to eff with.) That’s MY money, assholes.Bugger off. Stil;l beyond bullsh*t.
Felon Musk is a dumb motherfucker who is gonna get his illegal ass shot. I feel sorry for his family because he will use them as a shield.
Dave, he’s got lots of shields then: he has 12 kids by 3 women, so that’s 15 right there. But I like to think that he’ll be far from them when an angry citizen of this once-great nation comes looking for him.
Cane or no cane I will be in that group going after him. I fail to see what his appeal with to THREE women and TWELVE kids (!!!!!!!!!!) I just want to smack that smirk off his face. There still probably isn’t enough of him, after going around the families, for everyone. I will not hurt his families. But then, I have morals. He obviously doesn’t.
You might want to freeze your credit with all three bureaus – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Unless you are in the process of applying for a loan like a mortgage, there’s little down side, anf it can easily be unfrozen when the need passes. And you can opt out of new credit dard offers there also.
I am75,my husband, retired military with 23 years in, 68. We bought a house. We depend on his pension and Social.Security to survive. If we lose SS,,we won’t be living in our car because we still.have 5 months of payment left. we will be dead,,and our cats will be in a no-kill.shelter.
THAT is what Soon and Fat Danny want.