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What's the plan there? Will people not be able to ask/get questions answered about their social security? Will people be able to get their benefits? Will it only be done online (with a large portion of people that don't have a computer)?
Steve
Mostly Harmless
SSA was understaffed before DOGE. They are reaching critical mass now.
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I honestly don’t know. Can’t get any questions answered because there’s nobody at the Social Security office anymore. Fortunately (and I say that with a deep sadness and a burning hate in my heart) I’ll be going back to work at the airport in a month or two to feed my family. Strictly out of necessity. I do not want, and never expected, to go back to work for any reason.
So help me God, if I have to deal with a certain red cap wearing, problem manchild tourist with an attitude, things will get frisky.
I went to the store today for a loaf of bread. Expected to pay eleven bucks for it. (For a loaf of fricken bread) It was twelve ninety nine. Maybe the price will go down in the next six months. Sure, right after it starts raining C-notes and pussy.
I don’t mean to be crass, but I dedicated my life to help people, to serve and protect.
I don’t know if it was worth it anymore. That saddens me to my core.
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Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
I heard that, like many state office..... except for the corp IT office that is taking over my department, they have so many IT people they are tripping over one another
If you are faced with two roads:
1. One completely unfamiliar, leading possibly to paradise or perhaps to nothing at all, and
2. the other one familiar, filled with landscapes and people you know, with a clear destination visible at the end.
Which one would you choose?
If it were me, I would probably choose the familiar road. After all, the unknown path is too risky. Since I can already obtain everything I want on the familiar road, why take the risk?
But I wonder what would happen if I chose the other road instead.
1. One completely unfamiliar, leading possibly to paradise or perhaps to nothing at all, and
2. the other one familiar, filled with landscapes and people you know, with a clear destination visible at the end.
Which one would you choose?
If it were me, I would probably choose the familiar road. After all, the unknown path is too risky. Since I can already obtain everything I want on the familiar road, why take the risk?
But I wonder what would happen if I chose the other road instead.
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The road less traveled....
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
The Road not taken - Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
I had some ups and downs but doing well....I just turned 82 on April 3rd......
Here is an example.The road less traveled....
Road 1: You have worked for a compony for 9 and half years, If you work just 6 more months, you will earn your pension right. Even if you may quite your job 6 months later, you will still get your pension check during your retirement age.
Road 2: Someone just establishes a new company and offer you a CEO position with 75,000 shares of company stock (haven't got on the market yet). The job is to develop a "WYSIWYG desktop UI" (Bill Gate's new Window system hasn't been developed yet). You don't know you will have the ability to handle that new job. Also, if you are successful in the future, any knowledge that you may bring into that new company, your old company will sue you for the rest of your life. If you fail, nobody will even care.
Which road will you choose?
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Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
glad to hear you're doing well, and happy late birthday.....
Steve
Mostly Harmless
It’s going to impact people who are poor, very old, and/or disabled. I used to think cruelty was the point, but I don’t think the folks in power have any regard at all for anyone who isn’t enriching them, including the people who voted for them. Red states will be disproportionately, negatively impacted by their greed, though it will certainly make life harder for everyone.
Happy belated birthday.
Steve
Mostly Harmless
This is an interesting poem. One of my favorites. It’s often interpreted as suggesting that he made the “right” choice, but it doesn’t really say that. I think the poem is melancholy. It doesn’t celebrate the decision. It’s more that he had to make a decision one way or the other. And in the end, he says with a sigh, that his decision made all the difference. As every important life decision does.
I interpret it as being about the finality of decision making, and living without regret. That’s just my take.
I'm aware of who it will negatively impact. I just don't understand what the logic is behind it - why the gov't is closing them and why people are supporting it. Is it really just to save .1% of the budget, or is there some benefit to not having them that I'm missing? And what alternatives are they offering for people having issues with their social security, to speak with someone?
This feels like another instance that's happened at least 3 times in the last 2 months, where they shut down offices, reopened them when they realized they were needed and begged workers to come back.
Buka, I kind of feel the same way my friend. I have dedicated the past 20 years to serve and protect. Serving both my country and community. The level of disrespect I have seen from both the general public and the upper government towards federal workers and veterans is appalling. It makes me wonder why I bothered to put myself in such dangerous situations. I am proud of what I have done but I am quite ashamed and sad for the country. The division and hate, the political madness. That isn't why we served. Now I see thousands of veterans being fired from federal employment and workers unions being abolished. It's all very disheartening and makes me think of all the guys who gave so much for a country that doesn't care and forgets so quickly.
HighKick
Master Black Belt
Thank you for your service Sir. Sincerely.
Why is eliminating unnecessary jobs, whether they are in the federal or private sector a bad thing? We are experiencing some of the same things that occurred during the previous person term of leadership (trying hard not to make this a political comment). Running the government like a business. Being a business owner, maybe I understand this more than some, but when you look at Our countries deficit, it is no wonder there will be some measures viewed painful by some. It has some 24 years since we had a balanced budget so, trying to right the ship in four years is a Tall order.
As for the union comment, can you expand on this? I am not aware of any unions being abolished.
I am old enough to understand your viewpoint about caring.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Working for a state is not a whole lot different...
I lost faith in the federal government and its care for veterans in 2011 when my father's Parkinsons got to the point he needed to go to a nursing home. He spent 22 years in teh navy, been in 2 wars, used as an experiment during nuke testing. and when it came tine for him to go into a nursing home they VA and the federal goivernment did nothing, offered nothing and gave no support.
Similar thing this past year with my mother who is now in a nursing home, she was Navy for 6 years during the Korean war, and she is also getting nothing. Heck we are even having trouble with medicaid who wants proof of when a bank account, that she never had, was closed.
I lost faith in the federal government and its care for veterans in 2011 when my father's Parkinsons got to the point he needed to go to a nursing home. He spent 22 years in teh navy, been in 2 wars, used as an experiment during nuke testing. and when it came tine for him to go into a nursing home they VA and the federal goivernment did nothing, offered nothing and gave no support.
Similar thing this past year with my mother who is now in a nursing home, she was Navy for 6 years during the Korean war, and she is also getting nothing. Heck we are even having trouble with medicaid who wants proof of when a bank account, that she never had, was closed.
