Umm ... DOGE Claims Many 150+ Year Olds Getting SS Checks

[c186282]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14406439/doge-social-security-fraud-dead-people-vampires.html

DOGE finds millions of instances of social security fraud in
database including a 360-year-old and 'vampires'

. . .

Sorry, not true - just LOOKS that way.

The IRS still operates heavily on ancient
COBOL-programmed computers. Nothing wrong
with COBOL or even old computers that still
work but old 'fixes' for data problems have
persisted too. Didn't seem so relevant in
the 1950s/60s ... but now they stand out.

Bad/missing birthday - the system tends to
default to an 1870s date. Had to put SOMETHING
in the data field after all ...

Until the early 1900s, a lot of people had NO
official proof of birth/birthdays. Such info
was generally recorded in The Olde Family Bible,
and thus was assumed to be Truth sworn before God.

On NewsNation, Cuomo exposed this issue, and
why it makes it LOOK like so many vampires
are getting SS. Actually, I guess previously
wage-earning vampires WOULD qualify ...

OK, COBOL is a ridiculously-wordy computer
language where they imagined they were making
the programs read 'like normal language'. Nope.
Google it.

However those arrow-tie crew-cut Dilberts of the
era were DAMNED GOOD programmers. If you can
do COBOL there are still lucrative careers
out there for you, keeping a huge volume of
that old code running - biz/banks/medical/govt,
it's EVERYWHERE and too expensive to do over.
If it Just Works you DON'T throw it away.

In any case ... DOGE/Musk really should have looked
into this before issuing the errant claim. There's
PLENTY of Real Waste in the deep state, no need
to INVENT any.

[super70s]

Post by c186282
In any case ... DOGE/Musk really should have looked
into this before issuing the errant claim.

He shoots first and asks questions later and never issues a retraction
when he's wrong. Now every Trumpkin in the country believes there are
150-year-olds getting SocSec checks.

Post by c186282
There's PLENTY of Real Waste in the deep state, no need
to INVENT any.

But he's only going to find it when it benefits blue states. His own
government contracts and all the red state pork aren't going to be
scrutinized and slashed.

Still don't be surprised if he turns a lot of red states purple and
purple states blue if these mass firings hold up. You think Virginia
for example with all those federal employees is going to be in the mood
to elect another Republican anytime soon?

[c186282]

Post by super70s

   In any case ... DOGE/Musk really should have looked
   into this before issuing the errant claim.

He shoots first and asks questions later and never issues a retraction
when he's wrong. Now every Trumpkin in the country believes there are
150-year-olds getting SocSec checks.

Gee, SOME of us have 3-digit IQs :-)

Post by super70s

 There's PLENTY of Real Waste in the deep state, no need
 to INVENT any.

But he's only going to find it when it benefits blue states. His own
government contracts and all the red state pork aren't going to be
scrutinized and slashed.

We shall see. There's some politics in this - including
the need to create 'shock & awe' by moving so quickly.

Also blue states maybe get MORE pork ?

Post by super70s
Still don't be surprised if he turns a lot of red states purple and
purple states blue if these mass firings hold up. You think Virginia for
example with all those federal employees is going to be in the mood to
elect another Republican anytime soon?

Again, we're not even a month into this administration.
We'll have to wait and see how it plays out. In six or
eight months we'll have a better picture.

But, even this early, a LITTLE more accuracy would be
nice. As said, there's plenty of REAL waste/theft so
nobody has to make up anything.

Ok ok ... the MSM will make up stuff - like the armored
Tesla contract - and forget to mention it was JOE who
signed off on it LAST year ......

Still not sure why they'd want armored EVs ... maybe
Joe was trying to buy-off Elon ? Alas $400 mil is
barely pocket-change for Musk .....