Re: “Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Expected To Cost $500 Billion”

On Sun, 25 May 2025 19:04:52 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/25/2025 4:32 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/25/2025 9:15 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 24 May 2025 14:18:10 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 5/24/2025 9:55 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 5/22/2025 4:19 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/22/2025 3:10 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

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Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial
apocalypse
of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.

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You are not paying attention.  The just passed big ugly bill cuts
a half-trillion dollars from  medicare.  Not to mention the gutting
of medicaid, which will cause many rural hospitals to close outright.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill-
medicare-cuts/

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Not gonna happen, just wishful thinking on your part.  Three million
people a year are joining Medicare (the last of the baby boomers), 65
million or so at the moment, and one million a year are leaving.  That
is a huge voting block.  And seniors vote in the USA.
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Lynn
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There are lots of people who can be persuaded to vote against their
own interests if they are told it will hurt someone they dislike.
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The recent election is an example.
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pt

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No, the people of the USA voted the thieves out.  And for sanity.

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Well, they made a /big/ mistake. Sanity is definitely lacking.
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Or has DOGE actually referred /anyone/ for investigation of fraud?
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Has DOGE even discovered any actual fraud?
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So far, DOGE is just another Nothingburger.

 
DOGE has actually increased government expenditures with all the
lawsuits, re-hirings, etc. that their actions caused.  And if you look
at the pattern of what they _actually_ did it appears that the whole
thing was intended to get Musk's AI access to confidential government
records.

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Numbers please from a reputable source.

Numbers I don't have, but two SSA examples come to mind:

1. DOGE famously marked a very large number of records "deceased"
because of the age of SSN-holder. This may have clarified some things.
Sadly, the SSA was not sending payments to them.
Savings: $0.00 (no payments were being made)
Costs: cost of marking the records by hand or of writing the
            script to do it

2. DOGE (or DHS) marked some 3000 immigrants /who had permission to
work in this country and so were issued SSNs/ as "dead". At last
report, at least 30 of them have gone to the neared SSA office,
convinced an actual SSA employee that they are, in fact, alive, and
had their records corrected.
Savings: $0.00 (no payments were being made)
Costs: cost of marking the records by hand or of writing the
            script to do it
            cost of restoring each individual who comes in to
            the active file

The second may, or may not, result or have resulted in a lawsuit for
damages.

Note: no payments in the first case because the SSA computers were
programmed to not pay anyone over 115, and in the second case for two
reasons: these were workers, not retirees; since they are not
citizens, they would not be eligible for benefits when the retire.

But both efforts made great propaganda headlines. MAGA was proud!
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"