Government is indeed becoming more efficient . . . as distinct from less oppressive (and expensive). We are supposed to be grateful that the government uses the money it forces us to hand over to it (much of it automatically “withheld” from your wages so you never even get to enjoy the pleasure of writing a check to the government) more efficiently, thanks to the efforts of DOGE.
Here’s the latest example of that:
It’s styled “digital access” for Social Security – the federal alms program that millions of older Americans have been rendered dependent upon via forcing them to make “contributions” to it over the entirety of their working lives. This having to “contribute” – to the financing of other people’s alms in old age – having made it much harder to save and invest for their own needs in old age. Via this subtle and clever method, everyone – just about – is rendered dependent upon everyone else and – the important thing – dependent on the government for their alms in olde age.
Those alms are soon to become conditional – not merely on the age of the recipient.
In the name of “convenience” and “streamlining” things – i.e., in the name of making things more efficient – alms-receivers will be expected to apply for a digital dole via what is styled the “My Social Security” account. This latter being an example of Orwellian etymology on par with the styling of being forced to hand over money as a “contribution.” It is of course the federal government’s account – not yours or mine. Those terms imply both possession and something organic and voluntarily agreed-to. My car, for instance, is my car. I chose to buy it – and could have chosen not to buy it. People aren’t free to not “contribute” to Social Security – and will not be free to say no to a “My Social Security” account. Just as they weren’t free to say no to the “mask” they were expected to wear that wasn’t their “mask,” either.
It was the “mask” shoved at them by the government. By authoritarian collectivists. This term is preferable to the misleading right and left versions of the same thing.
The “My Social Security” thing is of a piece with the recently imposed internal passports – the so called REAL ID – Americans must now get and carry with them in order to be allowed to avail themselves of their former right to travel (by airplane, for now) within the United States and to be allowed to do other things which Americans once upon a time had a right to do without having to beg permission to do it or show “papers” to be allowed to do it.
“My Social Security” is likely to be optional at first – then required – like the REAL ID. It is also likely to be render alms payments conditional upon obedience, very much in the same way the issuers of these permission slips intended to use the “vaccine passports.” These went away – but REAL ID came back.
Some people will believe there’s a difference.
The additional element – as regards “My Social Security” – is that you’ll be handed out your monthly alms on the basis of your good standing with the government, established by the same kind of AI-algorithms used during “COVID” to punish wrongthinkers and to suppress the speech of anyone who dared to ask annoying questions about such things ad the difference between the case fatality rate and the infection fatality rate or about “masks” and the “safety” (and efficacy) of the drugs that were pushed on people.
REAL ID and “My Social Security” are part of the same centralized data-aggregation machine; it is a machine that will be used – very efficiently – to impose a degree of control that will make what they tried to do (and did do) during the four years of Sickness Kabuki they still insist on referring to as the “pandemic” seem as mildly annoying as an Escalade full of street cretins pulling up beside you at a red light, bobbing their heads to rap “music” as the concussions emanating from their speakers threaten to crack the glass of your car.
Particularly for the old who are dependent for their sustenance upon the alms metered out to them via Social Security.
The young – and those not too old to find another way – can just write off what isn’t “their” Social Security anymore than what they “contributed” to it over the decades was in fact that. But what of the people too old to work, who cannot just write-off their alms?
They will be easy meat for the controllers as well as something else. That being another tool they use to control the rest of us. The alms-dependent will defend the government as ferociously as “mask” enforcers defended stores. When the choice is do as you’re told or do without food (or a roof over your head) what choice do you suppose most will make?
What choice did most people make during the “pandemic”?
It’s diabolically ingenious. Let us eat each other – while those who gave us each the knives and forks slap their knees and laugh at the spectacle.
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Slightly off-topic but I thought it was somewhat good news:
https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/weekly-rundown-from-200-snakebites-to-a-potential-antivenom-16363
“Last week the Washington Post reported that RFK Jr.’s HHS will require placebo-controlled trials for all new vaccines.”
As you may suspect, certain invested parties don’t like it.
“…Many researchers emphasized that it is unethical to perform a placebo-controlled trial when a protective vaccine exists against a pathogen already.”
Why, do they not care for “The Science” now?
“…Many researchers emphasized that it is unethical to perform a placebo-controlled trial when a protective vaccine exists against a pathogen already“
Yet, it wasn’t unethical to mandate a EUA vaccine (ie experimental).
Funny how that Science works.
Morning, BID!
My attitude toward risk – in general – is that it cannot be eliminated, only to some extent and in some cases reduced. The question then becomes – what is the risk vs. the reward? A good example here is the risk that attends driving a car without air bags – which I judge to be slight for someone who is a skilled and alert driver – vs. the reward of not paying much more for a car with air bags and not having a car that will be totaled in a relatively minor wreck because the bags deployed and the cost to replace the car’s dashboard/steering wheel is disproportionately high. These are of course subjective evaluations and that is why such risk-reward decisions are properly the individual’s rather than something to be imposed upon the individual by a collective.
Hey Burn It,
I think they will find it problematic if there is hardened proof that their transfection systems are found to dangerous and ineffective. And there was nothing ethical or sane about a world-wide roll-out of an experimental injection with only a few months of questionable testing, let alone mandating it for so many.
Your car may still be ‘your car’, Eric, but is your house truly ‘your house’?
Try not to pay the property tax to find out, eh?
We all know how the answer to this question.
But if you look around the world, all those politicians somehow seem to have a very, very similar program, regardless of whether they are nominally ‘center-right’ or ‘center-left’ or whatever. Just like with ‘Covid’…It must be a co-incidence, right?
Spain has just introduced a requirement that anyone wanting to withdraw 3,000 euro (a little over $3,000) or more from his/her bank account must first apply to their version of the IRS to obtain a ‘permit’. An explanation may be required as to where the funds in your bank account have come from and the permit may be withheld without explanation.
Without this permit, the bank will not be allowed to release your money.
Fines for non-compliance start at 600 euro and go up to 150,000 euro, depending on ‘the severity of the violation’.
Expect something similar to come to a country near you soon. Because, you know, there is a need to ‘combat money laundering and criminal activities’. Just like the Canadian truckers found out during the ‘pandemic’.
As far as social security is concerned, well there’s a precedent there, too.
In Australia a similar program, which started back after WW II, was later terminated by the government and the tax money it held spent on other, ‘more important’ things. An unfunded, pay-as-you-go (by currently working taxpayers) system was brought in instead, which is now means-tested, so if you work hard all your life and, as a couple, have accumulated assets over about $700K (apart from your house), you get nothing in retirement, despite all the tax you had to pay to the system over your working life. And you get to pay still more tax on the earnings the investments supporting you may earn.
Variations on this theme can be found elsewhere, too. And the European pay-as-you-go systems are almost all effectively bankrupt – especially now, when their social security systems are expected to pay benefits to untold numbers of ‘doctors and engineers’ from Africa and the Middle East.
The government is your friend!
But then again, the people keep voting for more of it, too.
I know, John.. I know. Depressing, isn’t it?
I decided a long time ago to accept that all the “contributions” I have made to SS are gone. I do not rely on SS for my retirement income (I plan to work until I croak because I enjoy my work). When I am old enough to collect alms I will do so and use them to pay my property taxes and other taxes. The government can pay itself, in other words.
I made up my mind several years ago that when/if I get to “official” retirement age (which is now 67, BTW) I won’t be taking Social Security. SS is a welfare scheme plain and simple; none of us actually have an SS savings account with our contributions contained in it, as many seem to believe. It’s basically the government skimming money from current workers and passing it onto current retirees. That’s legalized theft, and if anyone receives SS they’re basically feeding off the wages of men and women whose families could use that money. As Eric pointed out, not only has SS made the country entirely dependent on government in its old age, it has also turned Americans into criminal accomplices.
Any government is basically legalized theft personified.
But I, for one, applaud your stand.
Pity it is not likely many people will do the same.
But then again, the government makes it hard, by taxing, inflating the currency and regulating, to save enough for an independent retirement.
Which of course is the whole point – dependent people are obedient people.
However, that leaves The Feds with more money to spend on other things. You don’t really believe a principled stand to not accept government funds will reduce the spending, do you? I say bleed the bastards dry as fast as we can and encourage the collapse. (Then again, at 86, I do suspect I will collapse before the government does, so maybe I am just wishing bad things on my kids…..?)
I had an epiphany many years ago that “Death is Gods gift to save you from the 3rd generation.”. But do I have an obligation to try to save them from themselves? As far as I can see, like Custer, they have it coming.
You want a real eye opener, go visit your local Social Security office. It and the parking lot will be filled with everything but actual American taxpayers. Here in Central WA it’s the new neighbors from south of the border, apparently getting those anchor babies signed up. DMV here the same thing, WA hands out licenses to “them”.
Don’t feel alone, friend.
It is exactly the same in Europe and the UK.
And London is now basically Western Islamabad.
Started to comment but stopped as has become a hot topic. Back during the Great Depression starting up Social Security was a good thing.
Today,,, well I am adjusting to doing less every day as I get older and older. (It never stops). Everyday worse. Since it’s age related there is nothing that CAN be done. And besides,,,, After four years of the Plandemic would you trust them injecting you with ???? Some States allow Doctor assisted suicide and they’re requiring less and less. In inflation adjusted dollars I ‘contributed my fair share, believe you me. There is already talk about refusing medical service over the age of 75.
Wishing homelessness, illness and starvation on a group of innocents mostly trying to make it to a deathbed is not good. Karma can be a bitch sometimes.
“ refusing medical service over the age of 75”
Oh I can imagine that’s on its way! It’s disgusting. The neighbor is 82, out everyday yard work, veggie garden, he just put in about 150 ft of a two rail decorative fence. Deny him care just cause some young out of shape government goons think that’s the ticket for cost savings?
About 35 years ago my mom got a shoulder joint replacement at age 75. She lived another 19 years pain free. I remember Obammy “ well, at some point you should just take a pain pill”. The Left are disgusting examples of “human”.
‘apply for a digital dole via what is styled the “My Social Security” account’ — eric
Probably it was Microsoft Windows that introduced file folders annoyingly named ‘My Documents,’ ‘My Pictures,’ ‘My Disturbing Fantasies’ [okay, I made that one up] and so on to the masses.
If those files are in your computer, who else are they gonna belong to? DUH! I find this terminology both cloying and infantile. Likely it derived from the treacly mush young Billy Gates read as a child: My Weekly Reader.
Even then, little Billy was disinclined to share his toys or his reading material with the likes of me. It’s MY Weekly Reader, he’d screech, clutching it in his fat little fingers.
Now the bureaucratic cretins who run Social Security are going to shove more of this sappy schmaltz down our throats. They can lick My Bleeding Ass.
Yes using the word my to describe for example having “my coffee”. So cringe.
“If those files are in your computer, who else are they gonna belong to?”
If you are running any ‘modern’ version of Windows (10 & 11), those folders, and everything else on that machine, of course belong to Microsoft. MS can also install and uninstall anything they feel like, without your consent.
If you want full ownership over your computer, use Linux or FreeBSD.
And even though it is “My Social Security”, unless I provide a picture of myself I can’t use “my” account name and “my” password. First I must smile for the camera and scan my Real ID to see it it is really me.
“When you sign in to your personal my Social Security account using your username and password, you’re now required to have an account with Login.gov or ID.me.”
The IRS started this about a year ago so online activity also required your mug shot and “papers”.
At least we know any site protected by the government is at least secure as video conferences about bombing Houthis.
The noose tightens.
SS is my sole source of income, but I would gather myself up and vote for anyone who intended to abolish it.
I’m old, in near constant pain, and near deaf. I just wish to be left alone, rather than compelled to jump through any “new and improved” hoops.
“the so called REAL ID – Americans must now get and carry with them in order to be allowed to avail themselves of their former right to travel (by airplane, for now) within the United States” EP
Again this is where which state you choose to live in matters.
I was not forced to get a Real ID. I do not have a real ID.
Sure, but now, to get on an airplane, you need to carry a passport or some other kind of ID that the feds accept. It sucks.
Don’t! If People did that back when they started this crap after they brought down the towers we wouldn’t be having this discussion!
Exactly Ken
The sheeple are so well trained and compliant.
Carrying a passports not really a big deal. What gets me is people accepting an ID with a yellow star on it. [Hope mentioning that doesn’t make me anti-semitic.]
We didn’t fly anywhere for five years after TSA was instituted. Didn’t make a damn bit of difference, then or now. If I’d have limited myself to only going by car, I would have missed out on some really nice parts of the planet.
It’s only elections where having to produce ID is racist.
I thought I should set up a mySocial Security account for when I turn 65 and it would not authorize my identity. I have all the ids including real. The app instructed told me to call the 800 # for SS. So I did and let’s just say my first taste of dealing with the SSA gave me new found sympathy for elderly people. I think SS is a form of elder abuse. The person who called me back after 3 hours flat out behaved like a bully. It was a real eye opener into how power corrupts. There is no accountability for these employees they know they can’t get fired no matter what they do so they are free to victimize people with no consequence’s. And the job attracts those type of individuals. Rich people can just ignore SS. But normal people’s lives depend on Medicare and SS. Getting a bit philosophical I believe this dependency is dangerous for people. Most of success navigating life’s challenges is manifesting your destiny. You need to believe you have the power to control your life. That way when somethng bad happens you can oull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a solution. The best part of being an adult is the gaining independence and freedom. When we create a situation where at a certain age adults suddenly go from having full control of their lives to relying on a federal government agency for survival we are creating victims. And no matter how civilized a society is victims get victimized. I have not been on Medicare yet but when I had a chance to contemplate for the first time what that will really means to me as an individual I found myself wondering if it is better to simply live a healthy lifestyle and sidestep Medicare and private pay. Even though that would be expensive. Because my gut tells me to stay far away from these monsters they will crush you.
Any time you are dependent on government your power is reduced and when you lose power over yourself bad things manifest.
“I found myself wondering if it is better to simply live a healthy lifestyle and sidestep Medicare and private pay. Even though that would be expensive. Because my gut tells me to stay far away from these monsters they will crush you.”
I think you are correct.
After 2020 it should be obvious to anyone with eyes to see that the medical establishment does not have your health or best interest as a concern of their.
Command and control compliance is their business model.
It took 8 months, many calls, two congressional intervention requests to get my wife’s SS monthly underpayment corrected. At least the local SS gal, thick accent somewhat English speaker, was polite but the straight jacket system they operate under is mind blowing. Answer one of her questions a certain way well that’s now more forms to fill out and another two month delay.
Shurb proposed letting people redirect a portion of their Social Security “contributions” to a set of government-sanctioned “investment” accounts at the beginning of the second term, but this concept was resoundingly rejected by The Swamp on the basis that it would unfairly empower and enrich a small group of Wall Street mutual fund players connected to the Federal Government.
Like Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street.
Regardless of Shrub’s handlers’ motivations — really, do you think he came up with that idea on his own? — debating the plan would have opened the door to the possibility of privatizing at least part of the “trust fund” away from simply being used like general revenue.
I’m a firm believer in small and inefficient government.
The online only notice might well leave your Social Security account easier to hack as older people do expect to get something in the mail when changes are made. One of the biggest problem with Social Security is not just all the scams that GovCo and criminals has done with it but that the number of workers supporting it is now a small fraction of what it was when it stated out around 90 years ago or so.
Perhaps it’s time to look into what Brazil did when they retired their state pension plan and returned the money to the people with the proviso that it went into a retirement account.
Passports or Passport cards can still be used as an alternative to Real ID.
I use a Passport Card as ID to fly, but I get funny looks sometimes from the TSA goons.
They always give a lot more scrutiny to the card than my state-issued drivers license Real ID since it is a deviation from the way most people behave.
I don’t want to risk losing a drivers license to the chaos of security kabuki at the beginning of the trip.
If you have ever flown private you realize how much of a Kabuki this really is. There is no TSA to fly private. You do need to provide your drivers license info before the flight but thats it. When you show up at the airport you just give them your name and from that point on you are pretty much fawned over and treated like a ….what is that feeling oh yes a (gasp!). Customer!
Remember what that felt like? It’s amazing, refreshing life affirming.
My grandson takes flight lessons. While waiting in the lobby of the FBO (Fixed-Base Operator, is a private facility) a group of four showed up with snacks and carryon luggage. Guy at the desk “Hi ….. family!” “Hi yourself, great day to fly!”. Humm. Yep, in about 10 minutes I see a small jet land, then it rolls up and stops right outside the lobby. Family walks on out to the jet, hop in and off they go within mere minutes. No gate, no parking hassle, no kabuki security check, no molesting. Wow.