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Chapter 1: How is Social Security being targeted?
With Donald Trump and Elon Musk's wrecking ball to our federal government, let me ask you this question. If you were to call the Social Security Administration to try to get a disability application processed, how long do you think it will take? Well, our friend Sandy Botchum, she's an incredible photographer and investigative journalist, tried.
The answer may or may not surprise you, but let me get to the punchline. It's 200 to 230 days. So when they say, oh, we're not going to touch Social Security, they already have. Previously, the wait times were about 28 minutes in 2024, now 200 to 230 days. Listen for yourself.
Chapter 2: What are the current wait times for Social Security applications?
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just so you can take a look at the prior processing times over here. You can see right here in seconds, the prior processing times, but this should not come as a shock. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are indeed targeting social security. This is top of their mind.
We know that the Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce, laying off more than 7,000 people, shutting down offices, big Social Security offices in red states, in places like Alabama, have been shut down. The physical office locations have. Elon Musk went on the Joe Rogan podcast and said that Social Security is one big, massive Ponzi scheme.
In other words, calling the whole thing a fraud. And then Donald Trump at the joint address to Congress last night said that he and Elon Musk have found probable fraud in Social Security. That's his language. And I want you to take note that Elon Musk, by calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, is already calling the whole thing a fraud. Do you see what they're doing here?
So here's Donald Trump from the State of the Union saying they found fraud in the Social Security Administration. Play this clip.
identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the social security program for our seniors and that our seniors and people that we love rely on believe it or not government well if you found it then where are the arrests where are the doge arrests where are the people with all of this fraud you claim you're finding which would be a crime where is it
The answer is that they're making this up to gut Social Security. As we posted, when's this post? October 29th, 2024 on the Midas Touch account. We were trying to warn everybody. Elon Musk admits that his plan and Trump's plan will be to collapse the U.S. economy, says it's necessary for everyday Americans to experience temporary hardship.
And as the anonymous account posted yesterday, they literally told you they were going to crash the economy. And now they are doing it. I'll show you right here. This was Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he says, you could hear for yourself, he calls Social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme of all times. Here, play this clip.
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Chapter 3: What did Elon Musk say about Social Security?
I mean, the government's one big permit scheme, if you ask me.
Yeah, well, you can tell me better than anybody.
Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. Right, explain that. Oh, so, well, people pay into Social Security and the money goes out of Social Security immediately. But the obligation for Social Security is your entire retirement career. So you're paying, like if you look at the future obligations of Social Security, it far exceeds the tax revenue. Far.
Have you ever looked at the debt clock? Yes. Okay. There's our present-day debt, but then there's our future obligations. So when you look at the future obligations of Social Security, the actual national debt is like double what people think it is because of the future obligations. So basically people are living way longer than expected. And there are fewer babies being born.
So you have more people who are retired and get that live for a long time and get retirement payments. So the future obligation. So however bad the financial situation is right now for the federal government, it will be much worse in the future.
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Chapter 4: What was Donald Trump's response to Social Security fraud claims?
Now, rewinding as well, Donald Trump was asked during the first cabinet meeting that he held that Elon Musk was in attendance, can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be touched? And you can hear what his answer is right here.
I think we should get it back.
Mr. President, the spending bill that passed last night aims to cut $2 trillion. The President Right. The Press Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security will not be touched?
The President Yeah, I mean, I have said it so many times, you shouldn't be asking me that question. Okay? This will not be read my lips. It won't be read my lips anymore. We're not going to touch it. Now, we are going to look for fraud. I'm sure you're okay with that, like people that shouldn't be on, people that are illegal aliens and others, criminals in many cases.
And that's with Social Security. We have a lot of people. You see that immediately when you see people that are 200 years old that are being sent checks for Social Security. Some of them are actually being sent checks, so we're tracing that down, and I have a feeling that Pam is gonna do a very good job with that, but you have a lot of fraud.
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Here's Maga Mike Johnson from the past weekend where he said, Elon Musk's team has their algorithms crawling, this is his language, crawling through the social security to find fraud waste and abuse. I don't know, how about a 230-day wait time to get your disability application processed? Maybe that's fraud, waste, and abuse. But what do I know? Here, play this clip.
You say there won't be any cuts to entitlements. But on Friday, Elon Musk, who President Trump has, of course, put in charge of making cuts all across the government, called Social Security, quote, the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. Mr. Speaker, is that a sign that Social Security is Elon Musk's next target?
No. Well, I've met with Elon about this multiple times. We meet late into the night in his office and we've looked at that. What he's finding with his algorithms crawling through the data of Social Security system is enormous amounts of fraud, waste and abuse.
So it's a target.
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