Why DOGE is deliberately breaking programs that work

We have to talk about the real goal. With a lot of these Doge cuts and knee capping programs laying people off, what’s the real point of all of this? And it’s the P word privatization, if you are confused as to how you will improve the care that veterans get from the VA by eliminating 83,000 jobs if you’re saying, wait a second inefficiency, I understand. But will veterans have longer wait times or shorter wait times if we get rid of 83,000 people from the VA, the reason that they are doing it is because the worse they can make the program, the better able to justify privatizing it. That the case they will be better the case they will be able to make to say, we should privatize this. Bernie Sanders has been talking about how this also applies to Social Security. They’ve tried it before with the Postal Service. This really is the goal, and it’s critically important to understand one of the ways that the right loves to try to push privatization is to make a public service dysfunctional so that then they can say this thing sucks. Why don’t we privatize it? Put billions of dollars in the pockets of the financial industry people with no risk whatsoever. Maybe the the trust fund would make money if invested in the stock market. Maybe it wouldn’t. We wouldn’t. We don’t care. And so to understand that, you really have to back up when they talk about cutting waste, fraud and abuse from Social Security, understand that they haven’t actually identified any fraud whatsoever so far. When they say there are people in the system who are 150 years old, 200 years old, 300 years old, whether someone is in the system and whether they are receiving benefits are two very different things. Now we’ve looked into detail at the claims that they’re receiving benefits, and so far, zero evidence has been presented. I’m not saying it’s impossible that a check might be going to someone who would be 170 years old if they were alive, but ordinarily, that check wouldn’t be cashed, even if it was being sent to people, and there’s no evidence so far that that’s going on. So then you go to the idea of fixing the fraud, waste and abuse by cutting half of Social Security’s workforce. But what would that do? That would mean longer wait times. It would mean delayed checks. It would mean total chaos for the retirees. It would be chaos for disabled Americans, anybody who relies on Social Security benefits, but that’s the point of the plan. You and I might say, Oh, you cut Social Security’s workforce. It’ll worsen the program that’s bad. The musks of the world say, Oh, it’ll worsen the program that’s good. And this is straight out of the right wing playbook, which is underfund public services until they can’t function properly, wait for the public to become come frustrated. I’m not getting my check from Social Security because they cut half the workforce. And at that point you come in, you say, hey, you know what? You’re right. This isn’t working. We have a better idea than the government running it. Let’s privatize it, in swoop the corporations and make a whole bunch of money. Public Schools. Is another area where this is a an approach the post office. Remember, around the 2020, election COVID mail in ballots. Louis DeJoy, the idea was, let’s slow it down and make it suck, and then we can go, hey, you know what? We don’t really need this post office. Let’s go to D, H, L, let’s go to fedex. Let’s go to UPS and Social Security is the next target. Why would Elon want to do this? Because billionaires like musk and his right wing friends want the money in the stock market, not in a program that guarantees that seniors can retire with dignity and who will manage all of that money, the very Wall Street firms owned by the billionaire buddies of Trump and musk. Trump floated this in 2020 it got backlash, so he hasn’t said much about it since. He kind of dodges. He go, no, no, no, we’re not going to get we’re not going to cut benefits. But of course, you can de facto cut benefits by kneecapping the workforce and delaying checks and payments going out. So now in comes Elon Musk, who spent much of the last year cozying up to Trump, dumping 250 million into his campaign, and Elon is mirroring those exact same talking points. So there’s no doubt that any large organization has inefficiency and waste, whether it has fraud, you’ve got approved, but certainly, any large organization has an efficiency and waste, whether they are a government organization or a private industry. You think Tesla doesn’t have inefficiency and waste all of these large organizations do, finding it and eliminating it makes a lot of sense. Cutting 83,000 jobs from the VA or 50%

Of the workforce from Social Security. That is not the way that you make them operate more efficiently. That is about gutting, with regard to social security, one of the most popular and successful government programs in history, so that the billionaires will get even richer. I’m against it. I.