February 19Feb 19 So DOGE accidentally fired the people at the USDA that were working on the bird flu response. Weapons grade incompetence.
February 19Feb 19 Just now, Bill said: So DOGE accidentally fired the people at the USDA that were working on the bird flu response. Weapons grade incompetence. And a hiring freeze that is keeping federal firefighters from being hired and trained.
February 19Feb 19 1 hour ago, Tnt4philly said: And a hiring freeze that is keeping federal firefighters from being hired and trained. Pfft, that’s an easy fix. Just turn the water on. You know. Like how they turned the water on in Northern California. Which was nowhere near the fires in Southern California. And the water was for farmers, who need it for the summer growing season when there isn’t a lot of water. I don’t understand what’s so hard to see about that brilliance.
February 19Feb 19 1 hour ago, Bill said: Pfft, that’s an easy fix. Just turn the water on. You know. Like how they turned the water on in Northern California. Which was nowhere near the fires in Southern California. And the water was for farmers, who need it for the summer growing season when there isn’t a lot of water. I don’t understand what’s so hard to see about that brilliance.
February 19Feb 19 5 hours ago, Procus said: Funny how all those outraged by DOGE in this thread have no problem with this I have no problem with that because it's clearly nonsense.
February 19Feb 19 1 hour ago, Procus said: They are hiding their tracks by testifying in court everything they are doing, on public record.
February 19Feb 19 4 minutes ago, toolg said: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html Damn, and we were so close to 2 Trillion.
February 19Feb 19 Debunked: Trump And Musk's Myth Of Social Security For Tens Of Millions Of Dead People https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-security-dead-people-trump-musk-claim_n_67b5d221e4b0319f377ebfb2
February 19Feb 19 14 hours ago, Tnt4philly said: And a hiring freeze that is keeping federal firefighters from being hired and trained. we need more forest rakers, not more firemen.
February 19Feb 19 On 2/18/2025 at 9:17 AM, DrPhilly said: I suppose you know nothing about software, right? Well, I do. The data is one thing and the software code is quite another. It may very well be the case that the software itself has exception handling for anyone above a certain age in the database. That would be a very normal thing to do in situations where the data gets old and out of hand as the alternative would be a massive and hugely costly attempt to "cleanup the data". Older legacy type software is absolutely chock full of exception handling and particularly when it comes to an old government based software stack. In other words, this discovery of funky data tells us nothing at all about actual payments. All it tells us is that there is funky data. Anyone who has any remote understanding of how these types of systems function would have been able to tell you that there will be massive issues in these old databases. Quote Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits. The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million. A July 2023 Social Security OIG report states that "almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments.” And, as of September 2015, the agency automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old. From the article linked above by @Talkingbirds Took me about 15 seconds to realize how DOGE got this one wrong. So much of this stuff is going to be debunked.
February 19Feb 19 How big of a problem is Social Security fraud? A July 2024 report from Social Security’s inspector general states that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out almost $8.6 trillion in benefits, including $71.8 billion — or less than 1% — in improper payments. Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people.
February 19Feb 19 10 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: we need more forest rakers, not more firemen. 8 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: they gonna hire maga rakers & firemen to replace the ones they fired. hey, stay in your lane, soyboy.
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