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re: Wired magazine - no, there are no 150 year olds getting Social Security
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:00 am to Eurocat
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:00 am to Eurocat
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y Sam KosmasUpdated February 14, 2025 12:58pm
Elon Musk claims there are 150-year-olds on Social Security
Musk, who has been given significant flexibility by President Trump to reduce government spending through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spoke at a press conference on Tuesday.
Musk makes claims about Social Security
"If money is spent badly. If your taxpayer dollars are not spent in a sensible and frugal manner, then that's not okay. Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely on the things that matter to the people," Musk said.
"It’s just common sense. It's not Draconian or radical. I think it's really just saying let's look at each of the expenditures and say, is this actually in the best interest of the people, and if it is, it's approved, if it's not, we should think about it," he added.
"There's crazy things, like, just a cursory examination of Social Security and we've got people in there that are about 150 years old," Musk said. "Now, do you know anyone that's 150? I don't. OK. They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records, they're missing out."
"So, you know, that's the case where, like, I think they're probably dead is my guess, or they should be very famous. One of the two," he added.
Can you read? You just posted evidence proving WIRED and you wrong as he certainly didnt say what you claim he said. Here is what his tweet says:
"According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!"
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Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:01 am to Eurocat
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Wired magazine
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:02 am to Topwater Trout
quote:
I don't think Musk said there ARE 150 yr olds getting paid SS
Hell, Eurocat provided the quote for us and didn't even realize it:
quote:
"There's crazy things, like, just a cursory examination of Social Security and we've got people in there that are about 150 years old," Musk said. "Now, do you know anyone that's 150? I don't. OK. They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records, they're missing out."
"So, you know, that's the case where, like, I think they're probably dead is my guess, or they should be very famous. One of the two," he added.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:02 am to Eurocat
quote:
since September 2015 the agency has automatically stopped benefit payments when anyone reaches the age of 115.
Well that makes me feel so much better
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:02 am to UncleFestersLegs
Is SS budgeting based on the number of participants? If so, even those not receiving a check can bloat the budget. It’s just another pool of money to siphon off of, or worse.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:02 am to Eurocat
Elon said that there would be mistakes, that they would be corrected.
This plan is to move fast and break things.
Waste and fraud will fall out. What is legitimate will be restored.
It's the only way to do it in less than 2 years.
This plan is to move fast and break things.
Waste and fraud will fall out. What is legitimate will be restored.
It's the only way to do it in less than 2 years.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:03 am to Eurocat
Ahhh, someone let WIRED AuDiT OuR GoVeRnMent! ThEy ArE noT ElecTeD!
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:03 am to TigerCoon
quote:it exists. I went thru this also. Our problem was many of our comparisons only used a two digit year but we only spent a few months changing them all to four and testing.
. I would be shocked if date data with no century exists anywhere in their systems.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:07 am to GoCrazyAuburn
I didn't read the article...I just know how the left takes things and makes them "facts".
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:09 am to Eurocat
quote:
Wired magazine - no, there are no 150 year olds getting Social Security
There is still a problem if there are 150 year old's with active SSN's, even if they are not receiving a monthly check (voting).
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:11 am to Eurocat
I don't read 'WIRED'. WIred has proven over the years to be a mouthpiece for Democrats. Up is down, left is right.
I don't need to read it to know the article is BS.
This is the world the leftist media made, enjoy it.
I don't need to read it to know the article is BS.
This is the world the leftist media made, enjoy it.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:11 am to UncleFestersLegs
if you were coding pre the late 90s, you might have done year comparisons without century.
Adding century to logic everywhere was part of the year 2000 upgrades every large entity went through. Feds spent millions upon millions on this. I know. My former company had massive contracts to help with it.
I want to believe that century exists everywhere in the data, and any tools that DOGE would use would use would not leave century off of a data comparison.
Like I said, it's POSSIBLE.
Adding century to logic everywhere was part of the year 2000 upgrades every large entity went through. Feds spent millions upon millions on this. I know. My former company had massive contracts to help with it.
I want to believe that century exists everywhere in the data, and any tools that DOGE would use would use would not leave century off of a data comparison.
Like I said, it's POSSIBLE.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:17 am to TigerCoon
quote:
f you were coding pre the late 90s, you might have done year comparisons without century.
I was
quote:yep that's what I mentioned going through above
Adding century to logic everywhere was part of the year 2000
quote:given that the distribution of all the age ranges seems pretty close, it's pretty fair to say it's accurate and there are some weird outliers once you cross 150-200 years ago
I want to believe that century exists everywhere in the data, and any tools that DOGE would use would use would not leave century off of a data comparison
ETA: Sorry I misread your first post. I thought you were saying that you believed the date data exists when you actually meant 4 digit year data. Yes it does and as you pointed out, it's been 4 digit everywhere for 25 years
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 10:22 am
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:20 am to Eurocat
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Musk could also have simply looked up the SSA’s own website, which explains
This ignorant statement is exactly why we're not gonna let people like you be in charge of anything, ever again.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:20 am to Eurocat
A unique entity is an unique entity regardless of storage and language used to sift it. Just the fact that there are massive numbers of non-unique SSNs indicates serious issues that need to be addressed.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:26 am to Eurocat
quote:
May 20, 1875
Since we're getting technical, those people are 149, not 150.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:26 am to UncleFestersLegs
I get everything you're saying. i have been around since the VSAM days, too. I remember 2 byte "year" storage and logic, COBOL and otherwise. I sweated blood in the late 90s on this. Made a lot of bank on it. This was headline news stuff, remember? Folks were terrified the world would come crashing down over it.
It would blow my mind if Social Security Admin missed century on DOB anywhere, but shite happens.
It would blow my mind if Social Security Admin missed century on DOB anywhere, but shite happens.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 10:28 am
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:28 am to Eurocat
Yes because nobody is committing fraud of our systems
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:29 am to Topwater Trout
quote:
I didn't read the article...I just know how the left takes things and makes them "facts".
All the damn time
Posted on 2/18/25 at 10:31 am to Eurocat
It’s gotten so common now many people don’t even notice but when the media feels the need to prove an impossibility like “no fraud is being committed in the government and here’s why” then that is a sure sign you are being fed propaganda.
Back in the good ole days it would have been the media that was running stories like the ones being disclosed by DOGE, now they are the ones running cover.
Hey OP thanks for reminding us how shitty our media is.
Back in the good ole days it would have been the media that was running stories like the ones being disclosed by DOGE, now they are the ones running cover.
Hey OP thanks for reminding us how shitty our media is.
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