Hi. I'm an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail

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20. "We had to destroy the system in order to 'save' it....."

Isn't that how it goes? They're not really trying to save the SSA system programming in any usable form. They want it burned to the ground so they can put it in private hands (their own).

SSA probably employs hundreds of computer experts who would now have to go through probably years of re-training on programs they already knew backward and forward. Meanwhile, when things don't work correctly, or new things need to be added, who would be able to fix it? The DOGE boys? The guy who has already worked for a criminal hackers ring? Tell me how that's gonna work.

This is MY livelihood they're playing these games with--mine and tens of millions of other peoples'. I would survive, one way or another, but millions won't.