Every day brings a new scary change by the Trump/Musk, or should I say the Musk/Trump, administration. The latest is that our Social Security system is about to crash, despite campaign pledges and assurances to “save Social Security” by candidate Donald Trump. Based on statements on Rachael Maddow on MSNBC on March 2 by former head of the Social Security Administration Martin O’Malley, DOGE is gutting the Social Security Administration so it will be unable to pay benefits to current beneficiaries within 60 to 90 days. On Substack’s Carry Water and Chop Wood, DOGE staffers are making changes in the Administration that will disable the system and make it unable to send Social Security checks to individual beneficiaries. What this means is that the majority of American retirees who rely on Social Security as their primary source of income will be without any income to live despite paying into the Social Security Trust Fund for their entire working lives. Do we want to be the first generation that invalidates the promise of old age financial security put in place by Franklin Roosevelt in the New Deal and leave most retirees in penury? And where do the billions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund go if not used for benefits?
There is no hue and cry about this massive redistribution of wealth from retirees and current employees paying into the trust fund to some undisclosed source and leaving retirees no income to live on. If this sounds seriously wrong to you, sound the alarm. Write, call or e-mail your Congressman and Senators representing the locale where you vote. For Oak Parkers that means Rep. Danny Davis and Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin. There is no time to delay.
Frank Vozak
Oak Park