WIRED: DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

[Ford_Prefect]

122. Yes but the HOW it is broken means Musk steals more money while it runs into the ground.

It is the pretense of "fixing something" which they have mythologized as broken in order to get rid of it. They have said the same thing about DOE for decades, so that they now can justify ending it. Along with the EPA they see them as Icons of the New Deal and the Great Society eras when government was expanded expressly to care for ordinary citizens, allegedly at the expense of the wealthy elites. When FDR first announced the New Deal the entitled rich trashed it as wasted money spent on lower class people who did not deserve to be helped by a government they saw themselves as owning.

The entitled elite see the world as belonging to them by right of conquest because they own most of the resources, most of the property, most of the political parties, and control nearly all the money.