DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

[Earl]

Ever since its creation, right wing wonks and the corporate powers have hated the very idea of working people having some control over their own lives. And they called FDR a "traitor to his class" for creating the New Deal.

If these jackasses had their way and SocSec was privatized during the G.W. Bush era, a whole lotta folk would have been royally screwed during the Walt Street Crisis and the like.

Only crazy people do the exact same thing hoping for a different outcome.

What is "Walt Street,...does Walter have a street named after him?

He does "have a whole lot of money."

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Who told you this? And ask yourself why someone would regress the programming for a national system to something that is seriously outdated, thus becoming even more susceptible to hacking. And of course, you know that SocSec record of payments since its creation is exemplary, right?

Rather than fucking with and up SSA's systems, why aren't they focusing on the IRS's? After all, *they* have been defrauded out of billions via bogus income tax returns that sent refunds to scammers.

Answer: They want to mess up social security so it can be privatized.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

What is "Walt Street,...does Walter have a street named after him?

He does "have a whole lot of money."

Your obsession with Walt and Jarod is both touching and amusing. Is this what you imagine doing with them? lol

 

[Taichiliberal]

What is "Walt Street,...does Walter have a street named after him?

He does "have a whole lot of money."

That's it Earl? A typo? Care to respond to the context of the post, or are you too much of an intellectual coward to deal with reality?

 

[Taichiliberal]

Rather than fucking with and up SSA's systems, why aren't they focusing on the IRS's? After all, *they* have been defrauded out of billions via bogus income tax returns that sent refunds to scammers.

Answer: They want to mess up social security so it can be privatized.

And remember, the GOP is essentially eliminating the federal watch dogs that catch rich folk cheating on their taxes and such.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

www.wired.com

What could possibly go wrong?

Other then benefits not going out to 65 million seniors because DOGE didn't properly vet their code.

Musk can't even get X to stay online because they are making silly mistakes with coding.

Yet, you trust a teetering, antiquated set of programs running on COBOL, or some other first generation programming language, that is unsupported outside the government because the rest of the world has moved on. I can't say what Musk's approach to a new set of programs is, but the ones in use were designed by committee and like every government specific piece of software I've ever had the displeasure of using is, the SSA's programming has to be anal and pedantic in design and cumbersome in use.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

And remember, the GOP is essentially eliminating the federal watch dogs that catch rich folk cheating on their taxes and such.

Exactly. They are also creating a hostile work environment across all govt. departments as well. Say the wrong thing and find yourself suddenly expendable. Who's going to have the guts to report a crooked manager, a suspicion of embezzlement or other fraud, or ppl being paid who don't do their assigned tasks?

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Yet, you trust a teetering, antiquated set of programs running on COBOL, or some other first generation programming language, that is unsupported outside the government because the rest of the world has moved on. I can't say what Musk's approach to a new set of programs is, but the ones in use were designed by committee and like every government specific piece of software I've ever had the displeasure of using is, the SSA's programming has to be anal and pedantic in design and cumbersome in use.

Many systems in private industry still run COBOL.